Fear, Sorrow, and Disease Recede beneath the Rhythm of Dharma
Uttara Kanda, Doha 20ख
Doha 20ख · Movement 2 of 2
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Within Rama's kingdom, people walk the path of the Vedas while remaining devoted to the duties proper to their own station and stage of life. The realm is not pictured as a crowd without distinction, but as a vast order in which each life moves faithfully within dharma.
That faithfulness bears the quiet fruit of continual well-being. Work, worship, household, study, renunciation, and service enter a common rhythm beneath Rama's rule.
Fear does not wait at the edge of the day. Sorrow does not occupy the inner chambers. Disease does not torment the body. The Doha offers no campaign by which these afflictions were hunted down. It shows a kingdom so aligned that suffering has lost the conditions in which it spreads. Rama's sovereignty becomes visible as coherence, every path held within a sacred order whose fruit is peace.
Where every life moves in the rhythm of dharma, fear, sorrow, and disease find no broken measure in which to enter.
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बरनाश्रम निज निज धरम बनिरत बेद पथ लोग। चलहिं सदा पावहिं सुखहि नहिं भय सोक न रोग।।20।।
In Rama's kingdom, all people followed their sacred duties, each according to their nature and stage of life. They walked the path of the Vedas and found happiness always. No fear troubled them, no sorrow afflicted them, no disease tormented them. This is Rama Rajya: where dharma brings peace, where following one's truth brings joy.