Rama Gives His Own Abode to the Demon Called a Vessel of Impurity
Lanka Kanda, Doha 71
Doha 71 · Movement 3 of 3
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Kumbhakarna has been called the lowest of demons, a vessel filled with impurity. His appetite was vast, his violence terrible, and his final path bound to the brother whose wrong he clearly understood.
Yet Rama grants him his own abode. Death at the Lord's hand and the radiance entering the Lord's face complete what a moment of remembrance began before battle.
Shiva turns to Girija and asks what must be said of human beings who still do not worship Shri Rama. If compassion can receive even Kumbhakarna through the crooked road of enmity, loyalty, and death, no accumulated darkness can honestly claim that refuge is too distant. The tragedy is not impurity itself. It is hearing of such mercy and refusing to turn toward it.
Rama opens his own abode to Kumbhakarna, leaving no sinner the excuse that mercy has no room.
Read the passage from the Manas
निसिचर अधम मलाकर ताहि दीन्ह निज धाम। गिरिजा ते नर मंदमति जे न भजहिं श्रीराम।।71।।
To that vilest of demons, that vessel of impurity, the Lord granted His own supreme abode. O Girija, how foolish are those mortals who do not worship Shri Rama!