Garuda Flies to Vaikuntha with Raghuvira Held in His Heart
Uttara Kanda, Doha 126क
Doha 126क · Movement 2 of 2
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Garuda bows his head at Bhushundi's feet with love. The wise bird who arrived troubled now rises from the blue mountain, his vast wings opening above the banyan assembly.
He turns toward Vaikuntha, but he does not leave the teaching behind. Raghuvira is held within his heart as he flies, and the sky itself seems to become a continuation of the sacred conversation. Below him, the crow's hermitage returns to its ancient rhythm of remembrance.
Shiva brings the scene back to Parvati. No gain equals the company of saints, he tells Girija, and even that meeting does not arise without Hari's grace. The Vedas and Puranas sing the same truth. Garuda's journey proves it in living form: divine favor led a bewildered celestial across teachers and worlds until he sat before an unlikely saint. Satsanga did not merely answer a question. It placed Rama within the traveler's heart and transformed his return into pilgrimage.
Garuda departs from the saint's tree, carrying a Vaikuntha within his breast before he reaches Vaikuntha above.
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तासु चरन सिरु नाइ करि प्रेम सहित मतिधीर। गयउ गरुड़ बैकुंठ तब हृदयँ राखि रघुबीर।।125(क)।। गिरिजा संत समागम सम न लाभ कछु आन। बिनु हरि कृपा न होइ सो गावहिं बेद पुरान।।125(ख)।।
Bowing his head at those feet with love, the wise Garuda departed. He went to Vaikuntha, holding Raghuvira in his heart. Girija, there is no gain equal to the company of saints. Without Hari's grace, this cannot come to be; so sing the Vedas and Puranas.