Raghunatha's Mystery Opens Only beneath the Light of Grace
Uttara Kanda, Doha 117
Doha 117 · Movement 2 of 2
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A stillness gathers around Bhushundi's words. The relation between knowledge and devotion cannot be seized in haste. It is a mystery belonging to Raghunatha, finer than the distinctions the intellect can arrange and brighter than any doctrine held without grace.
When Raghupati reveals it, delusion loses even the hidden roads of dream. The heart no longer moves between competing paths as though one must diminish the other. It recognizes the current of the Lord's compassion flowing beneath both.
Bhushundi now invites Garuda farther inward. Another distinction remains, not to awaken rivalry, but to produce unbroken love for Rama's feet. The king of birds inclines his great head. Around them, the assembly waits upon a teaching that cannot be hurried. Every leaf above the blue mountain seems suspended between knowledge's clear flame and devotion's unfailing jewel, while grace alone prepares the eye capable of beholding their secret.
The mystery does not yield to a grasping mind; it flowers where Raghupati grants the sight to love.
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यह रहस्य रघुनाथ कर बेगि न जानइ कोइ। जो जानइ रघुपति कृपाँ सपनेहुँ मोह न होइ।।116(क)।। औरउ ग्यान भगति कर भेद सुनहु सुप्रबीन। जो सुनि होइ राम पद प्रीति सदा अबिछीन।।116(ख)।।
This mystery of Raghunatha none can quickly comprehend. Who knows it by Raghupati's grace shall never be deluded, even in dreams. Now hear, O wise one, the further distinction between knowledge and devotion, hearing which brings constant, unbroken love for Rama's feet.