Rama Gives Hanuman the Unwavering Vision of Exclusive Devotion
Kishkindha Kanda, Doha 3
Doha 3 · Movement 2 of 2
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Rama defines the one whose refuge is undivided. The understanding never turns away from a simple recognition: I am the servant. This is not a passing role adopted during worship, but the steady identity from which the devotee beholds the world.
Everything moving and unmoving is the form of the Lord. Forest, mountain, stranger, friend, animal, god, and every hidden life belong to the body of the one master, Bhagavan.
The vision never abandons the servant and master relation. Hanuman remains the servant while beholding the whole as his master's form. Exclusive devotion therefore makes every creature and every object a place in which the form of Bhagavan is to be remembered.
I am the servant, says Hanuman's wisdom, and the whole universe is the form of my Lord.
Read the passage from the Manas
सो अनन्य जाकें असि मति न टरइ हनुमंत। मैं सेवक सचराचर रूप स्वामि भगवंत।।3।।
O Hanuman, truly devoted is the one whose understanding never wavers: 'I am the servant, and all this world of moving and still creation is the form of my Lord, the Supreme.'