The Story That Sweeps Away Kali's Stain
Bala Kanda, Doha 141
Doha 141 · Movement 2 of 2
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Yajnavalkya turns to Bharadvaja and promises to tell the account in full. The listener is asked for his whole heart, not a divided attention that remains half occupied by the movement of the outer world.
Ram Katha approaches like a clear current sweeping through the age of Kali. The stain gathered from confusion, harshness, forgetfulness, and fractured dharma loosens beneath its passage. What it cleanses is not left empty, for auspiciousness rises in the space made clear.
The story is supremely beautiful because truth arrives through living form. Lineage, longing, birth, exile, love, battle, and return will carry the teaching that argument alone could not hold.
The current of Ram Katha enters the dark age and leaves auspiciousness in its wake.
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सो मैं तुम्ह सन कहउँ सबु सुनु मुनीस मन लाई।। राम कथा कलि मल हरनि मंगल करनि सुहाइ।।141।।
That tale I shall now tell you in full; listen with your whole heart, O lord of sages. The story of Ram sweeps away the stain of Kali Yuga, bestows auspiciousness, and is supremely beautiful.