Narada Arrives with Veena in Hand and an Ever-New Song
Uttara Kanda, Doha 50
Doha 50 · Movement 2 of 2
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While Rama rests among brothers and servants beneath the cool shade, Narada appears. The divine sage carries his veena in his hands, bringing celestial music into the intimate grove.
He begins to sing Rama's beautiful glory. The subject has been praised across worlds, yet the song does not feel repeated or exhausted.
Rama's fame is always new. Each telling reveals another color because the infinite cannot be consumed by familiarity. Narada's fingers return to strings they have touched countless times, but devotion hears a first song again. The grove becomes another assembly, not summoned by royal command but formed wherever praise meets the presence it celebrates.
Narada touches the veena, and Rama's ancient glory enters the grove with the freshness of a song never heard before.
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तेहिं अवसर मुनि नारद आए करतल बीन। गावन लगे राम कल कीरति सदा नबीन।।50।।
At that moment Narada Muni arrived, veena in hand. He began to sing Rama's beautiful glory, glory that is ever new.