राम
Abhanga 306The Nature of God

God's Protecting Love

English Translation · I.P. 306

YOU need not hand a babe to his mother, she is drawn to him by her own nature. Why have I begun to be troubled ? He to whom I belong from the womb will set my burden on his head. The mother unbidden offers her child sweetmeats; she takes no pleasure in eating them herself. When he is busy playing, she searches for him and puts him to her breast. She feels his pain herself, she grows as restless as corn that is parching in a dish. Tuka says, She forgets herself, she suffers no blow to touch him. GOD’S PROTECTING LOVE

Tr. J. Nelson Fraser & K.B. Marathe (1909)

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