Verse 20

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The cow that has lost its calf· Verses 20–24

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She left all of it, which even the wives of Indra would have wanted most; and her face changed a little, in her pain at the parting from her son. Her husband gone out to the forest, in pain at the loss of her child, though she knew what is real she became like a cow that has lost its calf and is full of tenderness for it. Meditating on that same god who was her child, on Kapila, on Hari, in no long time, dear one, she came to want nothing at all in a house like that. Meditating on the form of the Bhagavan that her son had told her was the range of meditation, its face at rest, holding it in thought whole and then part by part;

by a yoga that was devotion flowing, by a detachment grown strong in her, by a knowledge born of practice rightly joined, which has Brahman for its ground;