Rama's Name Becomes Medicine for the Three Great Afflictions
Uttara Kanda, Doha 125
Doha 125 · Movement 2 of 2
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Bhushundi's final blessing passes over the assembly. May compassionate Rama remain favorable to speaker and listener alike. His Name is bhava-bheshaj, the medicine for the ancient disease of worldly becoming.
Three great afflictions gather like dark fires around embodied life: suffering arising within oneself, suffering brought by other beings, and suffering descending through forces beyond command. The Name moves among them as a healing presence able to reach every source.
Garuda listens, watching Bhushundi's love for Rama's feet shine through the benediction. The last root of doubt is gone. When he begins to answer, his voice carries neither argument nor uncertainty, only affection. The dialogue that opened with confusion now stands at the threshold of gratitude. Nothing in the outer grove has changed: the banyan spreads its branches, wise birds remain gathered, and the lake reflects the mountain sky. Yet the king of birds who arrived burdened by paradox now speaks from a heart made clear by Rama-katha.
The Name enters every chamber of suffering, and Garuda's doubt leaves without a shadow.
Read the passage from the Manas
जासु नाम भव भेषज हरन घोर त्रय सूल। सो कृपालु मोहि तो पर सदा रहउ अनुकूल।।124(क)।। सुनि भुसुंडि के बचन सुभ देखि राम पद नेह। बोलेउ प्रेम सहित गिरा गरुड़ बिगत संदेह।।124(ख)।।
May that compassionate Lord, whose Name is the medicine for the disease of worldly existence and who removes the three terrible afflictions, remain ever favorable to me and to you. Hearing Bhushundi's auspicious words and seeing his love for Rama's feet, Garuda spoke with love and in a voice free from doubt.