Brahma's Eyes Cannot Finish Drinking the Ocean of Rama's Beauty
Lanka Kanda, Doha 111
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Brahma completes the humble hymn while love continues to thrill through his body. The creator has named incarnation and transcendence, bow and Brahman, cosmic knowledge and the need for devotion.
Then speech gives way to sight. His eyes remain fixed upon Rama, the ocean of beauty standing with Sita after the restoration of the worlds.
They cannot be satisfied. An ocean cannot be exhausted through looking, and the desire born from beauty increases through every glimpse. Brahma's hymn therefore ends where the vanaras' hearing ended earlier: in holy insufficiency. The companions could not hear enough of Rama's words, and the creator cannot see enough of Rama's form. Knowledge has reached its prayer, prayer has reached vision, and vision discovers that eternity would still be too brief for the eyes to finish receiving the Lord before them.
Brahma's praise reaches silence, but his eyes continue the hymn upon the shore of Rama's inexhaustible beauty.
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बिनय कीन्हि चतुरानन प्रेम पुलक अति गात। सोभासिंधु बिलोकत लोचन नहीं अघात।।111।।
Brahma offered humble prayers, his body thrilling with love's rapture. Gazing upon that ocean of beauty, his eyes knew no satisfaction.