No Age Equals Kali for the One Who Trusts the Power of Rama's Praise
Uttara Kanda, Doha 104
Doha 104 · Movement 2 of 2
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If faith is present, no other age equals Kali. By singing the stainless qualities of Rama, a person crosses becoming without laborious means.
Among the four feet of dharma, charity becomes especially powerful in this age. A gift offered by whatever honest means brings welfare, allowing compassion to act even where other disciplines have weakened.
The same Kali Yuga that magnifies hypocrisy also magnifies the fruit of simple sincerity. Song and giving require no throne of learning, long life, wealth, ritual office, or mastery of subtle practice. The voice can remember Rama, and the hand can release what it possesses for another's good. Faith transforms two ordinary capacities into vehicles of crossing. The age of reduced means becomes, through grace, the age in which the essential means are nearest.
In Kali, a faithful song and an open hand can accomplish what former ages sought through vast disciplines.
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कलिजुग सम जुग आन नहिं जौं नर कर बिस्वास। गाइ राम गुन गन बिमलँ भव तर बिनहिं प्रयास।।103(क)।। प्रगट चारि पद धर्म के कलिल महुँ एक प्रधान। जेन केन बिधि दीन्हें दान करइ कल्यान।।103(ख)।।
No other age equals Kali Yuga if one holds faith in the heart. Singing the pure qualities of Rama, one crosses existence without effort. Of the four pillars of dharma, one remains supreme in Kali Yuga. Charity given by any means whatsoever brings about one's welfare.