Motif
beloved's presence as heaven, absence as hell
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A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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hindu
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The Ramayan of Valmiki Canto XVIII. The Sentence. / Canto XXII. Lakshman Calmed. / Canto XXVIII. The Dangers Of The Wood. / Canto XXX. The Triumph Of Love.; lines 14418-14504 confidence: high
She promises not to burden Rama and says: "With thee is heaven, where’er the spot; / Each place is hell where thou art not."
The speaker explicitly says that with Rama is heaven wherever the place, and without him each place is hell.
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