Know Me as Beginningless Brahman and Love My Feet with Body, Speech, and Mind
Uttara Kanda, Doha 86क
Doha 86क · Movement 2 of 2
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Rama declares that delusions born of maya will no longer touch Bhushundi. The crow will know him as Brahman, beginningless and unborn, beyond attributes yet the treasury of every virtue.
The revelation does not end in abstraction. Devotees are always dear to me, Rama says. Therefore let body, speech, and mind become unwavering love for my feet.
Formless truth and embodied devotion stand within one command. To know Rama as attributeless Brahman is not to turn away from his feet, voice, childhood, or name. Knowledge releases love from mistaken limitation, while love gives knowledge warmth, direction, and continuous life. Bhushundi receives a realization spacious enough to include both: the Lord beyond qualities and the beloved child toward whom every faculty can bow.
The beginningless Brahman asks to be loved through hands, words, thought, and the whole embodied life of a crow.
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माया संभव भ्रम सब अब न ब्यापिहहिं तोहि। जानेसु ब्रह्म अनादि अज अगुन गुनाकर मोहि।।85(क)।। मोहि भगत प्रिय संतत अस बिचारि सुनु काग। कायँ बचन मन मम पद करेसु अचल अनुराग।।85(ख)।।
All bhrama (delusions) born of Maya shall no longer affect you. You shall know Me as Brahman: beginningless, unborn, beyond gunas (attributes), yet the repository of all virtues. Devotees are ever dear to Me. Knowing this, listen, O crow: With kaya (body), vachana (speech), and mana (mind), develop achala anuraga (unwavering love) for My feet.