Only Supreme Bliss Knows the Happiness of a Heart Free from Mine
Uttara Kanda, Doha 46
Doha 46 · Movement 2 of 2
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The devotee rests in Rama's gathered qualities and names. Attention returns again and again to the inexhaustible glory carried by remembrance and praise.
Possessiveness, pride, and delusion have gone. The small enclosure built from mine and me opens, leaving happiness no longer dependent upon possession, reputation, or a protected self-image.
Who can know the joy of such a person? Rama answers that only the mass of supreme bliss knows it. The knower and the happiness are no longer easily separated. When the contracted claims of ego fall away, the bliss revealed is recognized by bliss itself. Devotion has led quietly to the threshold where lover, knowing, and joy rest inside the one fullness.
When mine, pride, and delusion fall silent, supreme bliss recognizes its own radiance in the devotee's heart.
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मम गुन ग्राम नाम रत गत ममता मद मोह। ता कर सुख सोइ जानइ परानंद संदोह।।46।।
One who is devoted to My names and glories, free from possessiveness, pride, and delusion; only that soul knows such bliss who is himself the mass of supreme joy (paraanand sandoh).