Joy Continues to Rise through Ayodhya
Bala Kanda, Doha 359
Doha 359 · Movement 2 of 2
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Days pass beneath sacred joy and celebration. The wedding procession has ended, yet its happiness does not weaken into memory or retreat behind the palace walls.
Ayodhya overflows with bliss that grows greater and still greater. Each morning seems to discover another form of the blessing already received.
The doha refuses closure as diminution. Ram's homecoming becomes a continuing condition of the city, renewed through sight, story, worship, kinship, and song. Divine joy is not a finite treasure consumed by celebration. The more hearts participate in it, the more abundantly it appears.
In Ram's city, bliss does not spend itself with time but rises fuller from day to day.
Read the passage from the Manas
मंगल मोद उछाह नित जाहिं दिवस एहि भाँति। उमगी अवध अनंद भरि अधिक अधिक अधिकाति।।359।।
With sacred joy and celebration, the days passed in this blessed way. Ayodhya overflowed, brimming with bliss, growing ever greater, ever greater, ever more.