Is Bhushundi beyond Time through Knowledge, Yoga, or Another Grace?
Uttara Kanda, Doha 95
Doha 95 · Movement 2 of 2
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Garuda asks directly why fierce Kala cannot touch Bhushundi. Is the crow protected through the power of knowledge, the strength of yoga, or a cause the king of birds has not yet understood?
He also remembers what happened upon arrival. The moment he entered Bhushundi's ashrama, delusion and confusion fled before any answer had been spoken.
What makes this place itself an antidote? Garuda asks the compassionate sage to tell everything with love. The questions move from Bhushundi's personal immortality to the atmosphere surrounding him, as though teacher and dwelling share one field of grace. The blue mountain, the lake, the four trees, the assembly of ancient birds, and the ceaseless Rama-katha are no longer only scenery. They are evidence that a life wholly given to the Lord can transform even the space in which it abides.
Garuda asks what power has made a crow untouched by Time and a mountain capable of dissolving doubt before a word is spoken.
Read the passage from the Manas
तुम्हहि न ब्यापत काल अति कराल कारन कवन। मोहि सो कहहु कृपाल ग्यान प्रभाव कि जोग बल।।94(क)।। प्रभु तव आश्रम आएँ मोर मोह भ्रम भाग। कारन कवन सो नाथ सब कहहु सहित अनुराग।।94(ख)।।
Why does Kala, so terribly fierce, not touch you? Tell me, O compassionate one. Is it the power of jnana, or the strength of yoga? Lord, when I came to your ashram, my delusion and confusion fled at once. What is the cause of this, O Nath? Tell me everything with love.