Mandodari Completes the Cosmic Form and Begs Ravana to Preserve Their Marriage
Lanka Kanda, Doha 16
Doha 16 · Movement 2 of 2
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Mandodari carries the universal form inward. Shiva stands as cosmic ego, Brahma as intellect, the moon as mind, and the great principle as consciousness. All that moves and does not move belongs within Bhagavan's form.
That immeasurable Lord now abides visibly as Rama in human appearance. The prince Ravana dismisses is not a fragment separated from divinity, but the cosmic person made near enough to meet, serve, or oppose.
Reflect upon this, lord of my life, Mandodari pleads. Release enmity with the Lord and place love at Raghuvira's feet. Her theology returns at once to trembling human love. She asks Ravana to recognize the universal Rama so that her own married blessing will not perish upon the battlefield.
After revealing the cosmos within Rama, Mandodari asks only that her husband's living hand remain in hers.
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अहंकार सिव बुद्धि अज मन ससि चित्त महान। मनुज बास सचराचर रुप राम भगवान।।15(क)।। अस बिचारि सुनु प्रानपति प्रभु सन बयरु बिहाइ। प्रीति करहु रघुबीर पद मम अहिवात न जाइ।।15(ख)।।
Shiva is his ego, Brahma his intellect, the moon his mind, and Vishnu his consciousness. That Bhagavan whose form encompasses all that moves and does not move has taken birth as Rama in human form. Reflect on this, O lord of my life, and abandon your enmity with the Lord. Cherish devotion to Raghuvira's feet, so that my married bliss may not perish.