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Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa

श्री सीताराम-नाम-प्रताप-प्रकाश

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First pramoda · provisional root

Editorial sequences 1–204 · 204 provisional units

Editorial sequence 1 of 1,178 · printed citation १

Śrī Hanumannāṭaka; speech of Śrī Mahāvīra to those exclusively devoted to Rāma's Name

Source PDF page(s) 9 · printed page(s) 1 · provisional, second collation pending

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कल्याणानां निधानं कलिमलमथनं पावनं पावनानां पाथेयं यन्मुमुक्षोः सपदि परपदप्राप्तये प्रस्थितस्य । विश्रामस्थानमेकं कविवरवचसां जीवनं सज्जनानां बीजं धर्मद्रुमस्य प्रभवतु भवतां भूतये रामनाम ॥१॥

Fresh English · provisional

May Rāma's Name—a treasury of blessings, destroyer of Kali's defilement, purifier even of purifiers; provisions for the seeker of liberation who has set out at once to attain the supreme state; the one resting place of great poets' speech, the life of good people, and the seed of the tree of dharma—bring about your welfare.

Editorial sequence 2 of 1,178 · printed citation २

Mahāśambhu-saṃhitā; speech of Śiva to devotees of Rāma

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मुक्तिस्त्रीकर्णपूरौ मुनिहृदयवयःपक्षती तीर्थभूमौ संसारापारसिन्धोः कलिकलुषतमस्तोमसोमार्कबिम्बौ । उन्मीलत्पुण्यपुञ्जद्रुमललितदले लोचने च श्रुतीनां कामं रामेति वर्णौ शमिह कलयतां सन्ततं सज्जनानाम् ॥२॥

Fresh English · provisional

May the two syllables rā and ma—the earrings of the woman Liberation, the two wings of the bird that is the sages' heart, the moon and sun discs over the massed darkness of Kali's taint on the bank of the boundless ocean of saṃsāra, the two lovely leaves of the tree of opening merit, and the eyes of the Vedas—continually bring good people the peace they desire.

Editorial sequence 3 of 1,178 · printed citation ३

Padma Purāṇa; speech of Śiva to Pārvatī

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नामचिन्तामणि रामश्चैतन्यपरविग्रहः । पूर्णः शुद्धो नित्यमुक्तो न भेदो नामनामिनः ॥३॥

Fresh English · provisional

The wish-granting jewel that is the Name is Rāma himself, the embodiment of supreme consciousness—complete, pure, and eternally free. There is no difference between the Name and the Named.

Editorial sequence 4 of 1,178 · printed citation ४

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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अतः श्रीरामनामादि न भवेद् ग्राह्यमिन्द्रियैः । स्फुरति स्वयमेवैतज्जिह्वादौ श्रवणे मुखे ॥४॥

Fresh English · provisional

Therefore Śrī Rāma's Name and the rest cannot be grasped by the senses. It manifests of itself on the tongue and elsewhere—in hearing and in the mouth.

Editorial sequence 5 of 1,178 · printed citation ५

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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राम रामेति रामेति रमे रामे मनोरमे । सहस्रनाम तत्तुल्यं रामनाम वरानने ॥५॥

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Rāma, Rāma, Rāma—I delight in Rāma, O lovely one. The Name Rāma is equal to the thousand names, O fair-faced one.

Editorial sequence 6 of 1,178 · printed citation ६

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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जपतः सर्ववेदांश्च सर्वमन्त्रांश्च पार्वति । तस्मात्कोटिगुणं पुण्यं रामनाम्नैव लभ्यते ॥६॥

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O Pārvatī, compared with reciting all the Vedas and all the mantras, merit multiplied ten millionfold is obtained by the Name Rāma alone.

Editorial sequence 7 of 1,178 · printed citation ७

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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ये ये प्रयोगास्तन्त्रेषु तैस्तैर्ह्यतिसाध्यते फलम् । तत्सर्वं सिद्ध्यति क्षिप्रं रामनामेति कीर्तनात् ॥७॥

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Whatever results the various rites in the tantras strive with great difficulty to achieve—all of them are accomplished quickly by chanting ‘Rāma's Name.’

Editorial sequence 8 of 1,178 · printed citation ८

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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भूतप्रेतपिशाचाश्च वेतालाश्चेटकादयः । कूष्माण्डा राक्षसा घोरा भैरवा ब्रह्मराक्षसाः ॥ श्रीरामनामग्रहणात् पलायन्ते दिशो दश ॥८॥

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Ghosts, departed spirits, piśācas, vetālas, ceṭakas and the rest; kūṣmāṇḍas, dreadful rākṣasas, bhairavas, and brahmarākṣasas—all flee to the ten directions when Śrī Rāma's Name is uttered.

Editorial sequence 9 of 1,178 · printed citation ९

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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प्राणप्रयाणसमये रामनाम सकृन्मुखेरितम् । स भित्त्वा मण्डलं भानोः परं धामाभिगच्छति ॥९॥

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If Rāma's Name is uttered from the mouth just once at the time life's breath departs, that person pierces the sun's orb and reaches the supreme abode.

Editorial sequence 10 of 1,178 · printed citation १०

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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अर्द्धमात्रे स्थितौ श्रीमत्सीतारामौ परात्परौ । ह्याकारेषु त्रयो देवा बिन्दौ शक्तिरनुत्तमा ॥१०॥

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In the half-mātrā abide glorious Sītā and Rāma, higher than the highest. In the letter-forms are the three gods, and in the bindu is unsurpassed Power.

Editorial sequence 11 of 1,178 · printed citation ११

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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असंख्यमन्त्रनामानां तु बीजं शमास्पदं परम् । अनादृत्य महामन्दा संशक्ताश्चान्यसाधने ॥११॥

Fresh English · provisional

It is the seed of innumerable mantras and names, the supreme abode of peace. Disregarding it, the very dull become attached to other practices.

Editorial sequence 12 of 1,178 · printed citation १२

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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जपकाले सदा देवि नामार्थं च परात्परम् । चिन्तयेच्चेतसा साक्षाद् बुद्ध्या श्रीरामरूपकम् ॥१२॥

Fresh English · provisional

O Goddess, at the time of repetition one should always contemplate in the heart the Name's meaning, higher than the highest, and directly discern it as the form of Śrī Rāma.

Editorial sequence 13 of 1,178 · printed citation १३

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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अशनं संभाषणं शयनमेकान्तं खेदवर्जितम् । भोजनादिक्रियं स्वल्पं तुरीये संस्थितिस्तदा ॥१३॥

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Eating, conversation, sleep, and solitude should be free from distress; food and other activity should be slight. Then there is abiding in the fourth state.

Editorial sequence 14 of 1,178 · printed citation १४

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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संयमं सर्वदा धार्यं नैव त्याज्यं कदाचन । संयमान्नामचिन्मात्रे प्रीतिः संजायतेऽधिका ॥१४॥

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Self-restraint must always be maintained and never abandoned. From self-restraint, greater love arises for the Name as consciousness alone.

Editorial sequence 15 of 1,178 · printed citation १५

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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प्रथमाभ्यासकाले च ग्रन्थं नामात्मकं सुधीः । द्वियाममेकयामं वा चिन्तयेद्धि प्रयत्नतः ॥१५॥

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At the beginning of practice, a wise person should diligently contemplate a text whose essence is the Name for two watches or for one.

Editorial sequence 16 of 1,178 · printed citation १६

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Pārvatī

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यदा नाम्नि लयं याति चित्तं क्लेशविवर्जितम् । तदा न चिन्तयेत्किंचित् लब्ध्वा ह्यानन्दमन्दिरम् ॥१६॥

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When the mind, free from affliction, dissolves into the Name, then one should contemplate nothing else, having attained the abode of bliss.

Editorial sequence 17 of 1,178 · printed citation १७

Padma Purāṇa; speech of Brahmā to Nārada

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चिन्तामणिसमं कायं लब्ध्वा वै भारतेऽमलम् । संस्मरेन्न परं नाम मोहात्स पतति ध्रुवम् ॥१७॥

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Having obtained in Bhārata a stainless body comparable to a wish-granting jewel, one should not, through delusion, remember something other than the Name; such a person certainly falls.

Editorial sequence 18 of 1,178 · printed citation १८

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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मानुष्यं दुर्लभं प्राप्य सुरैरपि समर्चितम् । जप्तव्यं सावधानेन रामनामाखिलेष्टदम् ॥१८॥

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Having gained the rare human condition, honoured even by the gods, one should attentively repeat Rāma's Name, which grants every desired good.

Editorial sequence 19 of 1,178 · printed citation १९

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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श्रुत्वा श्रीनाममाहात्म्यं यथार्थं श्रुतिपूजितम् । सर्वाशां संविहायाशु स्मर्तव्यं सर्वदा बुधैः ॥१९॥

Fresh English · provisional

Having heard the true greatness of the holy Name, honoured by revelation, the wise should quickly relinquish every expectation and remember it always.

Editorial sequence 20 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Unnumbered connective dohā in the compilation

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जिसकी रसना नाम रस रसी असी पद पाय । खसी वासना तिन्हन की हँसी उभय बिसराय ॥

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Whose tongue becomes steeped in the Name's rasa attains such a state: their cravings fall away, and, laughing, they forget both.

Editorial sequence 21 of 1,178 · printed citation २०

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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विष्णुनारायणादीनि नामानि चामितान्यपि । तानि सर्वाणि देवर्षे जातानि रामनामतः ॥२०॥

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Even the countless names such as Viṣṇu and Nārāyaṇa—all of them, O divine sage, arose from the Name Rāma.

Editorial sequence 22 of 1,178 · printed citation २१

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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शृणु नारद सत्यं त्वं गुह्याद् गुह्यतरं मतम् । रामनाम सकृदुच्चार्य याति रामास्पदं परम् ॥२१॥

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Hear, Nārada, this true teaching, more secret than the secret: by uttering Rāma's Name once, one reaches Rāma's supreme abode.

Editorial sequence 23 of 1,178 · printed citation २२

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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सर्वेषां हरिनाम्नां वै वैभवं रामनामतः । ज्ञातं मया विशेषेण तस्मात् श्रीनाम सञ्जप ॥२२॥

Fresh English · provisional

I have distinctly known that the glory of all Hari's names comes from the Name Rāma. Therefore repeat the holy Name.

Editorial sequence 24 of 1,178 · printed citation २३

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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क्षणार्द्धं जानकीजानेर्नाम विस्मृत्य मानवः । महादोषालयं याति सत्यं वच्मि महामुने ॥२३॥

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A person who forgets the Name of Jānakī's Lord for half a moment goes to an abode of great faults. I speak the truth, O great sage.

Editorial sequence 25 of 1,178 · printed citation २४

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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रामनामप्रभावेण सीतारामं परेश्वरम् । सदात्मानं प्रपश्यन्ति रामनामार्थचिन्तकाः ॥२४॥

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Through the power of Rāma's Name, those who contemplate its meaning behold Sītā-Rāma, the supreme Lord and the eternal Self.

Editorial sequence 26 of 1,178 · printed citation २५

Padma Purāṇa; speech of Sanatkumāra to Nārada

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सर्वापराधकृदपि मुच्यते हरिसंश्रयः । हरेरप्यपराधान् यः कुर्याद् द्विपदपांशवः ॥२५॥

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Even one who has committed every offence is released by taking refuge in Hari. But one who commits offences against Hari is the lowest dust among bipeds.

Editorial sequence 27 of 1,178 · printed citation २६

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Sanatkumāra's speech to Nārada

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नामाश्रयः कदाचित् स्यात्तर्त्येव स नामतः । नाम्नो हि सर्वसुहृदो ह्यपराधात् पतत्यधः ॥२६॥

Fresh English · provisional

Should such a person ever take refuge in the Name, that person crosses over by the Name alone. But through offence against the Name, the friend of all, one falls downward.

Editorial sequence 28 of 1,178 · printed citation २७

Padma Purāṇa; Nārada's question

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के तेऽपराधा विप्रेन्द्र नाम्नो भगवतः कृताः । विनिघ्नन्ति नृणां कृत्यं प्राकृतं ह्यानयन्ति हि ॥२७॥

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What are those offences against the Lord's Name, O foremost brāhmaṇa, that destroy people's meritorious work and bring them down to an ordinary condition?

Editorial sequence 29 of 1,178 · printed citation २८

Padma Purāṇa; Sanatkumāra's reply

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सतां निन्दा नाम्नः प्रथममपराधं वितनुते । यतः ख्यातिं यातां कथमु सहते तद्विगर्हाम् ॥ शिवस्य श्रीविष्णोर्य इह गुणनामादि सकलं । धिया भिन्नं पश्येत् स खलु हरिनामाहितकरः ॥२८॥

Fresh English · provisional

Defaming the holy is the first offence against the Name, for how could it endure abuse of those through whom it has become renowned? One who mentally sees all the qualities, names, and the rest of Śiva and Śrī Viṣṇu as divided is indeed one who harms Hari's Name.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Sanatkumāra's reply

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गुरोरवज्ञा श्रुतिशास्त्रनिन्दनं तथार्थवादो हरिनाम्नि कल्पनम् । नाम्नो बलाद्यस्य हि पापबुद्धिर्न विद्यते तस्य यमैर्हि शुद्धिः ॥२९॥

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Disrespect for the guru, reviling revelation and scripture, treating Hari's Name as mere praise or invention, and the sinful intent to rely on the Name's power: for one who has these, there is no purification through disciplines.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Sanatkumāra's reply

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धर्म व्रत त्याग हुतादिसर्वशुभक्रिया साम्यमपि प्रमादः । अश्रद्दधानेऽप्यमुखेऽप्यशृण्वति यश्चोपदेशं स नामापराधः ॥३०॥

Fresh English · provisional

Equating the Name with dharma, vows, renunciation, oblations, and every other auspicious rite is also heedlessness; and instruction given to one without faith, averse, and unwilling to hear is an offence against the Name.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Sanatkumāra's reply to Nārada

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श्रुत्वापि नाममाहात्म्यं यः प्रीतिरहितोऽधमः । अहंममादिपरमो नाम्नि सोऽप्यपराधकृत् ॥३१॥

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Even after hearing the greatness of the Name, the base person who remains without love and wholly absorbed in ego, possessiveness, and the rest also commits an offence against the Name.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Sanatkumāra's reply to Nārada

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अपराधविनिर्मुक्तः पलं नाम्नि समाचर । नाम्नैव तव देवर्षे सर्वं सेत्स्यति नान्यतः ॥३२॥

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Free from offences, practise the Name at every moment. By the Name alone, O divine sage, everything will be accomplished for you, and not by another means.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Sanatkumāra's reply to Nārada

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जाते नामापराधे तु प्रमादेन कथञ्चन । सदा संकीर्तयेन्नाम तदेकशरणो भवेत् ॥३३॥

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If an offence against the Name should somehow arise through heedlessness, one should always chant the Name and make it one's sole refuge.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Sanatkumāra's reply to Nārada

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नामापराधयुक्तानां नामान्येव हरन्त्यघम् । अविश्रान्तप्रयुक्तानि तान्येवार्थकराणि यत् ॥३४॥

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For those implicated in offences against the Name, the Names themselves remove sin when employed without interruption, for they alone bring the goal to pass.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Sanatkumāra's reply to Nārada

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नामैकं यस्य वाचि स्मरणपथि गतं श्रोत्रमूले गतं वा शुद्धं वाऽशुद्धवर्णं व्यवहितरहितं तारयत्येव सत्यम् । तच्चेद्देहद्रविणजनता लोभपाखण्डमध्ये, निक्षिप्तं स्यान्न फलजनकं शीघ्रमेवात्र विप्र ॥३५॥

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A single Name that has entered someone's speech, the path of remembrance, or the root of the ear—whether pure or imperfectly pronounced, and free of interruption—truly carries that person across. But if it is deposited amid concern for body, wealth, followers, greed, and hypocrisy, it does not bear fruit quickly here, O brāhmaṇa.

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Padma Purāṇa; Vasiṣṭha's speech to Bharadvāja

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अहो महामुने लोके रामनामाभयप्रदम् । निर्मलं निर्गुणं नित्यं निर्विकारं सुधास्पदम् ॥३६॥

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Ah, great sage! In this world the Name Rāma bestows fearlessness: it is stainless, beyond qualities, eternal, changeless, and an abode of nectar.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Vasiṣṭha's speech to Bharadvāja

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प्रत्यक्षं परमं गुह्यं सौशील्यादि गुणार्णवम् । त्यक्ता मन्दात्मका जीवा नानामार्गानुयायिनः ॥३७॥

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It is manifest, supreme, secret, and an ocean of virtues beginning with gracious character. Base-minded beings abandon it and follow many other paths.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Vasiṣṭha's speech to Bharadvāja

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यत्र तत्र स्थितो वाऽपि संस्मरेन्नाममुक्तिदम् । सर्वपापविशुद्धात्मा स गच्छेत् परमां गतिम् ॥३८॥

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Wherever one may be situated, one should remember the Name that gives liberation. With the self purified of every sin, that person reaches the supreme goal.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Vasiṣṭha's speech to Bharadvāja

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मोहानलोल्लसज्ज्वाला ज्वलल्लोकेषु सर्वदा । श्रीनामाम्भोदच्छायायां प्रविष्टो नैव दह्यते ॥३९॥

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The leaping flames of delusion's fire burn throughout the worlds at all times; one who has entered the shade of the cloud of the holy Name is never burned.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Vasiṣṭha's speech to Bharadvāja

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रामनामजपादेव रामरूपस्य साम्यताम् । याति शीघ्रं न सन्देहो सत्यं सत्यं वचो मम ॥४०॥

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Through repetition of Rāma's Name alone, one swiftly attains likeness to Rāma's form. There is no doubt: my word is true, true.

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Padma Purāṇa; Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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सकृदुच्चारयेद्यस्तु रामनाम परात्परम् । शुद्धान्तःकरणो भूत्वा निर्वाणमधिगच्छति ॥४१॥

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Whoever utters once the Name Rāma, which is higher than the highest, becomes pure in the inner faculty and attains liberation.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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कीर्तयन् श्रद्धया युक्तो रामनामाखिलेष्टदम् । परमानन्दमाप्नोति हित्वा संसारबन्धनम् ॥४२॥

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Chanting with faith the Name Rāma, giver of everything desired, one abandons the bond of worldly existence and attains supreme bliss.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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अनन्यगतयो मर्त्या भोगिनोऽपि परन्तप । ज्ञानवैराग्यरहिता ब्रह्मचर्यादिवर्जिताः ॥४३॥

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O scorcher of foes, mortals who have no other recourse—even if devoted to enjoyment, devoid of knowledge and dispassion, and bereft of celibacy and the other disciplines—

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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सर्वोपायविनिर्मुक्ता नाममात्रैकजल्पकाः । जानकीवल्लभस्यापि धाम्नि गच्छन्ति सादरम् ॥४४॥

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—free of every other means, but uttering the Name alone, go reverently to the abode of Jānakī's beloved.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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दुर्लभं योगिनां नित्यं स्थानं साकेतसंज्ञकम् । सुखपूर्वं लभेत् तन्नामसंराधनात् प्रिये ॥४५॥

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That eternal place called Sāketa, difficult for yogins to attain, one may gain with ease through complete worship of the Name, O beloved.

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Padma Purāṇa; Arjuna's speech to Kṛṣṇa

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भुक्तिमुक्तिप्रदातॄणां सर्वकामफलप्रद । सर्वसिद्धिकरानन्त नमस्तुभ्यं जनार्दन ॥४६॥

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O giver of every desired fruit among those who grant enjoyment and liberation, O maker of every attainment, O infinite Janārdana, homage to you.

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Padma Purāṇa; Arjuna's speech to Kṛṣṇa

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यं कृत्वा श्रीजगन्नाथ मानवा यान्ति सद्गतिम् । ममोपरि कृपां कृत्वा तत्त्वं ब्रूहि सुखालयम् ॥४७॥

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O glorious Lord of the world, tell me—showing mercy to me—the blissful principle by practising which human beings attain the good destination.

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Padma Purāṇa; Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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यदि पृच्छसि कौन्तेय सत्यं सत्यं वदाम्यहम् । लोकानान्तु हितार्थाय इह लोके परत्र च ॥४८॥

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If you ask, son of Kuntī, I shall speak the truth, the truth, for the welfare of beings both in this world and beyond.

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रामनाम संजीवनी महामनोहर मूरि । जासु जीह जिय विच वसी तासु सुजल भलि भूरि ॥

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The Name Rāma is life-restoring, an exceedingly captivating embodiment. In whose tongue and heart it dwells, that person's good fortune is beautifully abundant.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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रामनाम सदा पुण्यं नित्यं पठति यो नरः । अपुत्रो लभते पुत्रं सर्वकामफलप्रदम् ॥४९॥

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A person who constantly recites the ever-auspicious Name Rāma, if childless, obtains a son who grants the fruits of every desire.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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मङ्गलानि गृहे तस्य सर्वसौख्यानि भारत । अहोरात्रं च येनोक्तं राम इत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥५०॥

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Blessings and every happiness abide in the home of the person by whom the two syllables ‘Rāma’ are uttered day and night, O descendant of Bharata.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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गङ्गा सरस्वती रेवा यमुना सिन्धु पुष्करे । केदारे तूदकं पीतं राम इत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥५१॥

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By uttering the two syllables ‘Rāma,’ one has drunk water at the Gaṅgā, Sarasvatī, Revā, Yamunā, Sindhu, Puṣkara, and Kedāra.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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अतिथेः पोषणश्चैव सर्वतीर्थावगाहनम् । सर्वपुण्यं समाप्नोति रामनामप्रसादतः ॥५२॥

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Through the grace of Rāma's Name, one obtains all the merit of sustaining a guest and bathing in every sacred ford.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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सूर्यपर्वणि कुरुक्षेत्रे कार्तिक्यां स्वामिदर्शने । कृपापात्रेण वै लब्धं येनोक्तमक्षरद्वयम् ॥५३॥

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One by whom the two syllables are uttered, as a recipient of grace, has indeed gained the merit of Kurukṣetra at the solar observance and of seeing the Lord at Kārttikī.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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न गङ्गा न गया काशी नर्मदा चैव पुष्करम् । सदृशं रामनाम्नस्तु न भवन्ति कदाचन ॥५४॥

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Neither Gaṅgā, Gayā, Kāśī, Narmadā, nor Puṣkara ever become equal to Rāma's Name.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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तेन दत्तं हुतं तप्तं सदा विष्णुः समर्चितः । जिह्वाग्रे वर्तते यस्य राम इत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥५५॥

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That person has given gifts, offered oblations, practised austerity, and always worshipped Viṣṇu, upon whose tongue-tip the two syllables ‘Rāma’ abide.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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माघस्नानं कृतं तेन गयायां पिण्डपातनम् । सर्वकृत्यं कृतं तेन येनोक्तं रामनामकम् ॥५६॥

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By the person who has uttered the Name called Rāma, the Māgha bath has been performed, the ancestral offering at Gayā has been made, and every duty has been fulfilled.

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चाहो चारों ओर दौर देखो गौर ज्ञान विना दीनता न छीन होय झीन अघ आग है । जहाँ तक साधन सुराधन विलोकिये जू बाधन उपाधन सहित नट बाग है ॥ तीरथ की आस सो तो नाहक उपास्य हेतु एक बार राम कहे कोटिन प्रयाग है । युगल अनन्य इत उत भ्रम श्रम दाम नाम के रटन बिनु छूटत न दाग है ॥

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Run and look carefully in all four directions if you wish: without knowledge, lowliness does not strip away the wasting fire of sin. As far as practices and divine worship are examined, they form a showy garden together with bonds and encumbrances. Hope placed in pilgrimage is a needless object of attendance; saying ‘Rāma’ once is worth millions of Prayāgas. Yugalānanya says: wandering and toil here and there exact their price—the stain does not leave without repetition of the jewel-like Name.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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प्रायश्चित्तं कृतं तेन महापातकनाशनम् । तपस्तप्तं च येनोक्तं राम इत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥५७॥

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The person by whom the two syllables ‘Rāma’ have been uttered has performed the expiation that destroys great sins and has practised austerity.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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चत्वारः पठिता वेदास्सर्वे यज्ञाश्च याजिताः । त्रिलोकी मोचिता तेन राम इत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥५८॥

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By uttering the two syllables ‘Rāma,’ one has recited the four Vedas, performed all sacrifices, and liberated the three worlds.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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भूतले सर्वतीर्थानि आसमुद्रसरांसि च । सेवितानि च येनोक्तं राम इत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥५९॥

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The person by whom the two syllables ‘Rāma’ have been uttered has attended every sacred ford on earth and the lakes extending as far as the ocean.

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Padma Purāṇa; Arjuna's question

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यदा म्लेच्छमयी पृथ्वी भविष्यति कलौ युगे । किं करिष्यति लोकोऽयं पतितो रौरवालये ॥६०॥

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When in the age of Kali the earth becomes filled with mlecchas, what will this fallen world do in an abode like the Raurava hell?

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Padma Purāṇa; Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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न सन्देहस्त्वया कार्यो न वक्तव्यं पुनः पुनः । पापी भवति धर्मात्मा रामनामप्रभावतः ॥६१॥

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You should entertain no doubt and need not ask again and again: through the power of Rāma's Name, a sinner becomes righteous.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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न म्लेच्छस्पर्शनात्तस्य पापं भवति देहिनः । तस्मात्प्रमुच्यते जन्तुर्यस्स्मरेद्रामद्वयक्षरम् ॥६२॥

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For the embodied person who remembers the two syllables ‘Rāma,’ no sin arises from the touch of a mleccha; that creature is released from it.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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रामस्तवमधीयानः श्रद्धाभक्तिसमन्वितः । कुलायुतं समुद्धृत्य रामलोके महीयते ॥६३॥

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One who studies a hymn to Rāma, endowed with faith and devotion, raises up ten thousand of the lineage and is honoured in Rāma's realm.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Kṛṣṇa's reply to Arjuna

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रामनामामृतं स्तोत्रं सायं प्रातः पठेन्नरः । गोघ्नः स्त्रीबालघाती च सर्वपापैः प्रमुच्यते ॥६४॥

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A person should recite the hymn ‘Nectar of Rāma's Name’ morning and evening; even a killer of a cow, a woman, or a child is released from every sin.

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Padma Purāṇa; Agastya's speech to Rāma

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विश्वरूपस्य ते राम विश्वशब्दा हि वाचकाः । तथापि रामनामेदं प्रभो मुख्यतमं स्मृतम् ॥६५॥

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O Rāma, whose form is the universe, the words of the universe indeed express you; even so, Lord, this Name Rāma is remembered as foremost.

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Padma Purāṇa; Vyāsa's speech to brāhmaṇas

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रामनामांशतो जाता ब्रह्माण्डाः कोटिकोटिशः । रामनाम्नि परे धाम्नि संस्थिताः स्वामिभिस्सह ॥६६॥

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Millions upon millions of cosmic eggs arise from a portion of Rāma's Name; together with their lords, they abide in Rāma's Name, the supreme abode.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to brāhmaṇas

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विश्वासः सुदृढो नाम्नि कर्तव्यः साधकोत्तमैः । निश्चयेन परां सिद्धिं शीघ्रं प्राप्नोत्यसंशयम् ॥६७॥

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The finest practitioners should establish firm trust in the Name. With certainty one swiftly attains the highest accomplishment, without doubt.

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Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to brāhmaṇas

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चित्तस्यैकाग्रता विप्रा नाम्नि कार्या प्रयत्नतः । वृत्तिरोधं विना हार्दं दुर्लभं मुनीनामपि ॥६८॥

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O brāhmaṇas, concentration of mind upon the Name should be cultivated with effort. Without restraining its movements, the heart's joy is difficult even for sages to obtain.

Editorial sequence 72 of 1,178 · printed citation ६९

Padma Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to brāhmaṇas

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अहोभाग्यमहोभाग्यमहोभाग्यं पुनः पुनः । येषां श्रीमद्रघूत्तंसनाम्नि संजायते रतिः ॥६९॥

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Oh, what fortune! What fortune! Again and again, what fortune belongs to those in whom love arises for the Name of glorious Rāma, crest-jewel of the Raghus.

Editorial sequence 73 of 1,178 · printed citation ७०

Skanda Purāṇa; Śiva's speech to Śivā

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कामात्क्रोधाद्भयान्मोहान्मत्सरादपि यस्स्मरेत् । परंब्रह्मात्मकं नाम राम इत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥७०॥

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Whoever remembers—even from desire, anger, fear, delusion, or envy—the two syllables ‘Rāma,’ the Name whose nature is the supreme Brahman—

Editorial sequence 74 of 1,178 · printed citation ७१

Skanda Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Śivā

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येषां श्रीरामचिन्नाम्नि परा प्रीतिरचञ्चला । तेषां सर्वार्थलाभश्च सर्वदास्ति शृणु प्रिये ॥७१॥

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Hear, beloved: those whose supreme love for the consciousness-Name of glorious Rāma is unwavering always possess the attainment of every end.

Editorial sequence 75 of 1,178 · printed citation ७२

Skanda Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Śivā

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गिरिराजसुते धन्या नास्ति त्वत्सदृशी क्वचित् । यस्मात्तव महाप्रीतिर्वर्तते रामनाम्नि वै ॥७२॥

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Daughter of the mountain king, nowhere is there a blessed woman equal to you, because great love for Rāma's Name truly abides in you.

Editorial sequence 76 of 1,178 · printed citation ७३

Skanda Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Śivā

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सर्वेऽवताराः श्रीरामनामशक्तिसमुद्भवाः । सत्यं वदामि देवेशि नाममाहात्म्यमद्भुतम् ॥७३॥

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All incarnations arise from the power of glorious Rāma's Name. I speak the truth, O goddess of the gods: the greatness of the Name is wondrous.

Editorial sequence 77 of 1,178 · printed citation ७४

Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa; Dharmarāja's speech to Rāmacandra

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जयस्व रघुनन्दन रामचन्द्र प्रपन्नदीनार्तिहराखिलेश । वाञ्छामहे नाम निरामयं सदा प्रदेहि भगवन् कृपया कृपालो ॥७४॥

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Be victorious, Rāmacandra, joy of the Raghus, Lord of all who removes the distress of the afflicted and surrendered. We always desire the unailing Name; gracious Lord, bestow it through your mercy.

Editorial sequence 78 of 1,178 · printed citation ७५

Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa; continuation of Dharmarāja's speech to Rāmacandra

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त्वन्नामसंकीर्तनतो निशाचरा द्रवन्ति भूतान्यपयान्ति चारयः । नाशं तथा सम्प्रति यान्ति राजन् ततः परं धाम प्रयाति साक्षात् ॥७५॥

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At the chanting of your Name, night-roamers flee, spirits depart, and enemies likewise come to destruction, O king; thereafter one goes directly to the supreme abode.

Editorial sequence 79 of 1,178 · printed citation ७६

Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa; continuation of Dharmarāja's speech to Rāmacandra

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सुखप्रदं रामपदं मनोहरं युगाक्षरं भीतिहरं शिवाकरम् । यशस्करं धर्मकरं गुणाकरं वचो वरं मे हृदयेऽस्तु सादरम् ॥७६॥

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May the delightful two-syllabled utterance ‘Rāma’—giver of happiness, remover of fear, source of auspiciousness, maker of renown and righteousness, and mine of virtues—abide reverently in my heart as my chosen boon.

Editorial sequence 80 of 1,178 · printed citation ७७

Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa; continuation of Dharmarāja's speech to Rāmacandra

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रामनामप्रभा दिव्या वेदवेदान्तपारगा । येषां स्वान्ते सदा भाति ते पूज्या भुवनत्रये ॥७७॥

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Those within whose hearts the divine radiance of Rāma's Name—reaching beyond Veda and Vedānta—always shines are worthy of honour in the three worlds.

Editorial sequence 81 of 1,178 · printed citation ७८

Viṣṇu Purāṇa; Vyāsa's speech to Śuka

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अवशेनापि यन्नाम्नि कीर्तिते सर्वपातकैः । पुमान्विमुच्यते सद्यः सिंहत्रस्ता मृगा इव ॥७८॥

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When that Name is chanted even involuntarily, a person is immediately released from every sin, as deer flee in terror from a lion.

Editorial sequence 82 of 1,178 · printed citation ७९

Viṣṇu Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to Śuka

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ध्यायन्कृते यजन्यज्ञैस्त्रेतायां द्वापरेऽर्चयन् । यदाप्नोति तदाप्नोति कलौ श्रीरामकीर्तनात् ॥७९॥

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What one obtains through meditation in Kṛta, through sacrifices in Tretā, and through worship in Dvāpara, one obtains in Kali through chanting glorious Rāma.

Editorial sequence 83 of 1,178 · printed citation ८०

Viṣṇu Purāṇa; Sanatkumāra's speech to Vasiṣṭha

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प्रसङ्गेनापि श्रीरामनाम नित्यं वदन्ति ये । ते कृतार्था मुनिश्रेष्ठ सर्वदोषोद्गतास्सदा ॥८०॥

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Those who constantly utter glorious Rāma's Name even incidentally are fulfilled, O best of sages, and always risen beyond every fault.

Editorial sequence 84 of 1,178 · printed citation ८१

Viṣṇu Purāṇa; continuation of Sanatkumāra's speech to Vasiṣṭha

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दृष्टं श्रुतं मया सर्वं यत्किञ्चित्सारमुत्तमम् । परन्तु रामनामैकवैभवं तु परात्परम् ॥८१॥

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I have seen and heard everything whatsoever that is excellent and essential; yet the glory of Rāma's Name alone is higher than the highest.

Editorial sequence 85 of 1,178 · printed citation ८२

Viṣṇu Purāṇa; Brahmā's speech to Marīci

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केचिद्यज्ञादिकं कर्म केचिज्ज्ञानादिसाधनम् । कुर्वन्ति नामविज्ञानविहीना मानवा भुवि ॥८२॥

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Some human beings on earth, devoid of realization of the Name, perform rites beginning with sacrifice; others pursue disciplines beginning with knowledge.

Editorial sequence 86 of 1,178 · printed citation ८३

Viṣṇu Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Marīci

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तत्र योगरताः केचित्केचिद्ध्यानविमोहिताः । जपे केचित्तु क्लिश्यन्ति नैव जानन्ति तारकम् ॥८३॥

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Among them, some are absorbed in yoga, some bewildered in meditation, and some labour painfully at recitation; they do not know the deliverer.

Editorial sequence 87 of 1,178 · printed citation ८४

Viṣṇu Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Marīci

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अहं च शङ्करो विष्णुस्तथा सर्वे दिवौकसः । रामनामप्रभावेण सम्प्राप्ता सिद्धिमुत्तमाम् ॥८४॥

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I, Śaṅkara, Viṣṇu, and all the dwellers in heaven have attained the highest perfection through the power of Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 88 of 1,178 · printed citation ८५

Viṣṇu Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Marīci

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निर्वर्णं रामनामेदं वर्णानां कारणं परम् । ये स्मरन्ति सदा भक्त्या ते पूज्या भुवनत्रये ॥८५॥

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This Name Rāma is beyond letters and is the supreme cause of letters. Those who always remember it with devotion are worthy of honour in the three worlds.

Editorial sequence 89 of 1,178 · printed citation ८६

Bhaviṣyottara Purāṇa; Nārāyaṇa's speech to Mahālakṣmī

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भजस्व कमले नित्यं नाम सर्वेशपूजितम् । रामेतिमधुरं साक्षान्मया संकीर्त्यते हृदि ॥८६॥

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O Kamalā, always worship the Name honoured by the Lord of all. The sweet sound ‘Rāma’ is chanted directly by me within the heart.

Editorial sequence 90 of 1,178 · printed citation ८७

Bhaviṣyottara Purāṇa; continuation of Nārāyaṇa's speech to Mahālakṣmī

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रामनामात्मकं ग्रन्थं श्रवणात्प्राणवल्लभे । शुद्धान्तःकरणो भूत्वा स गच्छेद्रामसन्निधिम् ॥८७॥

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O beloved as life, by hearing a book whose essence is Rāma's Name, one becomes pure in the inner faculty and may go into Rāma's presence.

Editorial sequence 91 of 1,178 · printed citation ८८

Bhaviṣyottara Purāṇa; continuation of Nārāyaṇa's speech to Mahālakṣmī

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जीवाः कलियुगे घोरा मत्पादविमुखास्सदा । भविष्यन्ति प्रिये सत्यं रामनामविनिन्दकाः ॥८८॥

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In the age of Kali, beloved, fierce beings who are always turned away from my feet will become revilers of Rāma's Name—this is true.

Editorial sequence 92 of 1,178 · printed citation ८९

Bhaviṣyottara Purāṇa; continuation of Nārāyaṇa's speech to Mahālakṣmī

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गमिष्यन्ति दुराचारा निरये नात्र संशयः । कथं सुखं भवेद्देवि रामनामबहिर्मुखे ॥८९॥

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The ill-conducted will go to hell; of this there is no doubt. Goddess, how could happiness belong to one turned away from Rāma's Name?

Editorial sequence 93 of 1,178 · printed citation ९०

Bhaviṣyottara Purāṇa; continuation of Nārāyaṇa's speech to Mahālakṣmī

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सर्वेषां साधनानां वै श्रीनामोच्चारणं परम् । वदन्ति वेदमर्मज्ञा निमग्ना ज्ञानसागरे ॥९०॥

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Those who know the Veda's secret and are immersed in the ocean of knowledge declare that utterance of the holy Name is indeed supreme among all disciplines.

Editorial sequence 94 of 1,178 · printed citation ९१

Bhaviṣyottara Purāṇa; continuation of Nārāyaṇa's speech to Mahālakṣmī

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यत्प्रभावान्मया नित्यं परमानन्ददायकम् । रूपं रसमयं दिव्यं दृष्टं श्रीजानकीपतेः ॥९१॥

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Through its power I have beheld the divine, rasa-filled form of glorious Jānakī's Lord, which ever bestows supreme bliss.

Editorial sequence 95 of 1,178 · printed citation ९२

Bhaviṣyottara Purāṇa; Nārada's speech to Bharadvāja

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योगादिसाधने क्लेशं दुस्तरं सर्वथा मुने । अतस्सौलभ्यसन्मार्गं सङ्गच्छेन्नाम संस्मरन् ॥९२॥

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The hardship in disciplines beginning with yoga is altogether difficult to cross, O sage. Therefore, remembering the Name, one should follow the good and readily accessible path.

Editorial sequence 96 of 1,178 · printed citation ९३

Bhaviṣyottara Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Bharadvāja

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अनायासेन सर्वस्वं दुर्लभं मुनिसत्तम । प्रभावाद्रामनाम्नस्तु लभते रूपमद्भुतम् ॥९३॥

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Through the power of Rāma's Name, O best of sages, one effortlessly obtains the wondrous form—the rare all-in-all.

Editorial sequence 97 of 1,178 · printed citation ९४

Nāradiya Purāṇa; Sūta's speech to Śaunaka

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भयं भयानामपहारिणिस्थिते परात्परे नाम्नि प्रकाशसम्प्रदे । यस्मिन्स्मृते जन्मशतोद्भवान्यपि भयानि सर्वाण्यपयान्ति सर्वतः ॥९४॥

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When the transcendent Name—the remover of the fear of fears and giver of radiance—is present, and when it is remembered, all fears arisen over a hundred births depart on every side.

Editorial sequence 98 of 1,178 · printed citation ९५

Nāradiya Purāṇa; continuation of Sūta's speech to Śaunaka

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आयासः स्मरणे कोऽस्ति स्मृतो यच्छति शोभनम् । पापक्षयश्च भवति स्मरतां तदहर्निशम् ॥९५॥

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What exertion is there in remembrance? Remembered, it grants what is auspicious, and the sins of those who remember it day and night are destroyed.

Editorial sequence 99 of 1,178 · printed citation ९६

Nāradiya Purāṇa; continuation of Sūta's speech to Śaunaka

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प्रातर्निशि तथा सन्ध्यामध्याह्नादिषु संस्मरन् । श्रीमद्रामं समाप्नोति सद्यः पापक्षयो नरः ॥९६॥

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Remembering glorious Rāma in the morning, at night, at twilight, at midday, and at other times, a person reaches him, and sin is destroyed at once.

Editorial sequence 100 of 1,178 · printed citation ९७

Nāradiya Purāṇa; continuation of Sūta's speech to Śaunaka

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रामसंस्मरणाच्छीघ्रं समस्तक्लेशसंक्षयः । मुक्तिं प्रयाति विप्रेन्द्र तस्य विघ्नो न बाधते ॥९७॥

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Through remembrance of Rāma, every affliction is swiftly destroyed. One proceeds to liberation, O foremost brāhmaṇa, and no obstacle troubles that person.

Editorial sequence 101 of 1,178 · printed citation ९८

Nāradiya Purāṇa; Nārada's speech to Vyāsa

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सर्वेषां साधनानां च सन्दृष्टं वैभवं मया । परन्तु नाममाहात्म्यकलां नार्हति षोडशीम् ॥९८॥

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I have thoroughly seen the glory of all disciplines, yet it does not equal even a sixteenth part of one ray of the Name's greatness.

Editorial sequence 102 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Unnumbered dohā following printed citation 98

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राम रसायन पान कर परिहरु अपर भरोस । युगलानन्य विकार बन बीच न करु परितोस ॥

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Drink the elixir of Rāma and abandon reliance on anything else. Yugalānanya says: do not seek contentment amid the forest of disturbances.

Editorial sequence 103 of 1,178 · printed citation ९९

Nāradiya Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Vyāsa

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भवताऽपि परिज्ञातं सर्ववेदार्थसङ्ग्रहम् । नाम्नः परं क्वचित्तत्त्वं दृष्टं सत्यं वदस्व वै ॥९९॥

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You too have fully understood the compendium of all the Vedas' meanings. If you have seen anywhere a principle higher than the Name, then speak the truth indeed.

Editorial sequence 104 of 1,178 · printed citation १००

Nāradiya Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Vyāsa

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बहुधाऽपि मया पूर्वं कृतं यत्नं महामुने । नैव प्राप्तं परानन्दसागरं जन्मकोटिभिः ॥१००॥

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Although I formerly made efforts in many ways, O great sage, the ocean of supreme bliss was never attained, even through millions of births.

Editorial sequence 105 of 1,178 · printed citation १०१

Nāradiya Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Vyāsa

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यावच्छ्रीरामनाम्नस्तु प्रभावं वै परात्परम् । नाभ्यस्तं हृदये ब्रह्मन् तावन्नानार्थनिश्चयम् ॥१०१॥

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So long as the transcendent power of glorious Rāma's Name had not been cultivated in the heart, O Brahman, until then there was determination toward many different ends.

Editorial sequence 106 of 1,178 · printed citation १०२

Nāradiya Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Vyāsa

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श्रीमद्रामस्य सन्नाम्नि यस्य स्यान्निश्चला रतिः । स्वप्नेऽपि न भवेदन्यसाधने रुचिर्निष्फला ॥१०२॥

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For one whose love is unwavering in the true Name of glorious Rāma, not even in a dream would there arise a fruitless taste for another discipline.

Editorial sequence 107 of 1,178 · printed citation १०३

Śiva Purāṇa; Śaṅkara's speech to Nārada

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सीतया सहितं रामनाम जाप्यं प्रयत्नतः । युगलं नाम इदमेव परं प्रेमकारणं संशयं विना ॥१०३॥

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Rāma's Name joined with Sītā should be repeated with effort. This paired Name alone is the supreme cause of love, without doubt.

Editorial sequence 108 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Unnumbered vernacular dohā between printed citations 103 and 104

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जनक लली के पदकमल जब लागि उर नहिं वास । राम भ्रमर आवे नहीं तब लगि ताके पास ॥

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So long as the lotus feet of Janaka's daughter have no dwelling in one's heart, until then Rāma, the bee, does not come near that person.

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Śiva Purāṇa; continuation of Śaṅkara's speech to Nārada

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सकृदुच्चारणादेव मुक्तिमायाति निश्चितम् । न जानेऽहं शतादीनां फलं वेदैरगोचरम् ॥१०४॥

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From a single utterance alone, liberation certainly arrives. I do not know the fruit of a hundred or more—beyond the Vedas' reach.

Editorial sequence 110 of 1,178 · printed citation १०५

Śiva Purāṇa; continuation of Śaṅkara's speech to Nārada

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यन्नाम सततं ध्यात्वाऽविनाशित्वं परं मुने । प्राप्तं नाम्नैव सत्यं च सुगोप्यं कथितं मया ॥१०५॥

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By constantly meditating on that Name, O sage, supreme imperishability was attained through the Name alone. I have told this truth, which is deeply secret.

Editorial sequence 111 of 1,178 · printed citation १०६

Śiva Purāṇa; continuation of Śaṅkara's speech to Nārada

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श्रीरामनाम सकलेश्वरमादिदेवं धन्या जना भुवितले सततं स्मरन्ति । तेषां भवेत्परममुक्तिमयत्नतस्तथा श्रीरामभक्तिरचला विमला प्रसाददा ॥१०६॥

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Blessed people on earth constantly remember glorious Rāma's Name, Lord of all and primal deity. Supreme liberation comes to them without effort, together with unwavering, stainless devotion to glorious Rāma that bestows grace.

Editorial sequence 112 of 1,178 · printed citation १०७

Śiva Purāṇa; continuation of Śaṅkara's speech to Nārada

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रामनाम सदा सेव्यं जपरूपेण नारद । क्षणार्द्धं नामसंहीनं कालं कालातिदुःखदम् ॥१०७॥

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Rāma's Name should always be served in the form of repetition, O Nārada. Even half a moment of time bereft of the Name gives pain exceeding death.

Editorial sequence 113 of 1,178 · printed citation १०८

Śrīmad Bhāgavata; Śukadeva's speech to Parīkṣit

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आपन्नः संसृतिं घोरां यन्नाम विवशो गृणन् । ततः सद्यो विमुच्येत यद् बिभेति स्वयं भयम् ॥१०८॥

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Having fallen into dreadful transmigration, one who helplessly utters that Name may at once be freed from it—the Name of which fear itself is afraid.

Editorial sequence 114 of 1,178 · printed citation १०९

Śrīmad Bhāgavata; continuation of Śukadeva's speech to Parīkṣit

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कलिं सभाजयन्त्यार्या गुणज्ञाः सारभागिनः । यत्र संकीर्तनेनैव सर्वः स्वार्थोऽभिलभ्यते ॥१०९॥

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Noble people who discern qualities and partake of the essence honour Kali, in which every true end is obtained through congregational chanting alone.

Editorial sequence 115 of 1,178 · printed citation ११०

Śrīmad Bhāgavata; continuation of Śukadeva's speech to Parīkṣit

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अज्ञानादथवा ज्ञानादुत्तमश्लोकनाम यत् । संकीर्तितमघं पुंसां दहत्येधो यथाऽनलः ॥११०॥

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Whether unknowingly or knowingly, when the Name of the One praised in excellent verse is chanted, it burns away people's sin as fire burns fuel.

Editorial sequence 116 of 1,178 · printed citation १११

Śrīmad Bhāgavata; continuation of Śukadeva's speech to Parīkṣit

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ब्रह्महा पितृहा गोघ्नो मातृहाऽऽचार्यहाघवान् । श्वादः पुल्कसकोवाऽपि शुद्ध्येरन् यस्य कीर्तनात् ॥१११॥

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A killer of a brāhmaṇa, father, cow, mother, or teacher; a sinner, dog-eater, or even a Pulkaśa—such people may be purified by chanting it.

Editorial sequence 117 of 1,178 · printed citation ११२

Śrīmad Bhāgavata; continuation of Śukadeva's speech to Parīkṣit

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नातः परं कर्म निबन्धकृन्तनं मुमुक्षूणां तीर्थपदानुकीर्तनात् । न यत्पुनः कर्मसु सज्जते मनो रजस्तमोभ्यां कलिलं यदन्यथा ॥११२॥

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For those seeking liberation, there is no act of cutting bondage higher than repeated praise of the One whose feet are sacred places; through it the mind does not again cling to action, whereas otherwise it remains clouded by passion and darkness.

Editorial sequence 118 of 1,178 · printed citation ११३

Śrīmad Bhāgavata; continuation of Śukadeva's speech to Parīkṣit

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एवं व्रतः स्वप्रियनामकीर्त्या जातानुरागो द्रुतचित्त उच्चैः । हसत्यथो रोदिति रौति गायत्युन्मादवन्नृत्यति लोकबाह्यः ॥११३॥

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Vowed in this way, with love awakened through chanting the Name of his beloved and his heart melted, he laughs aloud, then weeps, cries out, sings, and dances like one mad, beyond worldly convention.

Editorial sequence 119 of 1,178 · printed citation ११४

Śrīmad Bhāgavata; continuation of Śukadeva's speech to Parīkṣit

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यथा गदं वीर्यतममुपयुक्तं यदृच्छया । अजानतोऽप्यात्मगुणं कुर्यान्मन्त्रोऽप्युदाहृतः ॥११४॥

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Just as a most potent medicine, taken by chance, produces its own effect even in one who does not understand, so too does a mantra when uttered.

Editorial sequence 120 of 1,178 · printed citation ११५

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; Vyāsa's speech to his disciples

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धर्मानशेषान्संशुद्धान्सेवते ये द्विजोत्तमाः । तेभ्योऽनन्तगुणं प्रोक्तं श्रेष्ठं श्रीनामकीर्तनम् ॥११५॥

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O finest twice-born, chanting the holy Name is declared superior by endless degrees to those who practise every completely purified duty.

Editorial sequence 121 of 1,178 · printed citation ११६

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to his disciples

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यस्यानुग्रहतो नित्यं परमानन्दसागरम् । रूपं श्रीरामचन्द्रस्य सुलभं भवति ध्रुवम् ॥११६॥

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Through its grace, the form of glorious Rāmacandra—the eternal ocean of supreme bliss—certainly becomes easy to attain.

Editorial sequence 122 of 1,178 · printed citation ११७

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to his disciples

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वेदानां सारसिद्धान्तं सर्वसौख्यैककारणम् । रामनाम परं ब्रह्म सर्वेषां प्रेमदायकम् ॥११७॥

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Rāma's Name is the essential conclusion of the Vedas, the sole cause of every happiness, the supreme Brahman, and the giver of love to all.

Editorial sequence 123 of 1,178 · printed citation ११८

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to his disciples

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तस्मात्सर्वात्मना रामनाम माहात्म्यकारकम् । भजध्वं सावधानेन त्यक्त्वा सर्वदुराग्रहान् ॥११८॥

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Therefore worship wholeheartedly, and with full attention, Rāma's Name, which produces greatness, abandoning every obstinate attachment.

Editorial sequence 124 of 1,178 · printed citation ११९

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to his disciples

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नित्यनैमित्तिकं सर्वं कृतं तेन महात्मना । येन ध्यातं परं प्राप्यं नाम निर्वाणदायकम् ॥११९॥

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By that great soul every daily and occasional duty has been performed, who has meditated on the supremely attainable Name that bestows liberation.

Editorial sequence 125 of 1,178 · printed citation १२०

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to his disciples

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जिह्वा सुधामयी तस्य यस्य नामामृते रुचिः । कृतकृत्यस्स एव स्यात् सर्वदोषैकदाहकः ॥१२०॥

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The tongue of one who delights in the nectar of the Name is filled with nectar. That person alone becomes fulfilled, burning away every fault.

Editorial sequence 126 of 1,178 · printed citation १२१

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; Vyāsa's speech to Sūta

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रामनाम परं गुह्यं सर्ववेदान्तवन्दितम् । ये रसज्ञा महात्मानस्ते जानन्ति परेश्वरम् ॥१२१॥

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Rāma's Name is the supreme secret, honoured by every Vedānta. Great souls who know rasa thereby know the supreme Lord.

Editorial sequence 127 of 1,178 · printed citation १२२

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to Sūta

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नामस्मरणनिष्ठानां निर्विकल्पैकचेतसाम् । किं दुर्लभं त्रिलोकेषु तेषां सत्यं वदाम्यहम् ॥१२२॥

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For those devoted to remembrance of the Name, whose minds are single and free of alternatives, what is difficult to attain in the three worlds? I speak the truth.

Editorial sequence 128 of 1,178 · printed citation १२३

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to Sūta

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अज्ञानप्रभवं सर्वं जगत्स्थावरजङ्गमम् । रामनामप्रभावेण विनाशो जायते ध्रुवम् ॥१२३॥

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The whole world of moving and unmoving beings has ignorance as its source; through the power of Rāma's Name, its destruction certainly arises.

Editorial sequence 129 of 1,178 · printed citation १२४

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to Sūta

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भजस्व सततं नाम जिह्वया श्रद्धया सह । स्वल्पकेनैव कालेन महामोदः प्रजायते ॥१२४॥

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Continually worship the Name with the tongue and with faith; in only a short time, great delight arises.

Editorial sequence 130 of 1,178 · printed citation १२५

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa; continuation of Vyāsa's speech to Sūta

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धन्यं कुलवरं तस्य यस्मिन् श्रीरामतत्परः । जायते सत्यसंकल्पः पुत्रः श्रीशेशवल्लभः ॥१२५॥

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Blessed and excellent is the family in which a son is born devoted to glorious Rāma, true in resolve and beloved of the Lord of Śrī and Śeṣa.

Editorial sequence 131 of 1,178 · printed citation १२६

Garuḍa Purāṇa; Viṣṇu's speech to Vainateya

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श्रीरामरामरामेति ये वदन्त्यपि पापिनः । पापकोटिसहस्रेभ्यस्तेऽपि सन्तरणं ध्रुवम् ॥१२६॥

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Even sinners who say ‘glorious Rāma, Rāma, Rāma’ certainly cross beyond thousands of millions of sins.

Editorial sequence 132 of 1,178 · printed citation १२७

Garuḍa Purāṇa; continuation of Viṣṇu's speech to Vainateya

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कलौ संकीर्तनादेव सर्वपापं व्यपोहति । तस्माच्छ्रीरामनाम्नस्तु कार्यं संकीर्तनं वरम् ॥१२७॥

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In Kali, congregational chanting alone removes every sin. Therefore the excellent chanting of glorious Rāma's Name should be performed.

Editorial sequence 133 of 1,178 · printed citation १२८

Agni Purāṇa; Mahādeva's speech to Durvāsas

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न भयं यमदूतानां न भयं रौरवादिकम् । न भयं प्रेतराजस्य श्रीमन्नामानुकीर्तनात् ॥१२८॥

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Through repeated chanting of the glorious Name, there is no fear of Yama's messengers, no fear of Raurava and the other hells, and no fear of the king of the dead.

Editorial sequence 134 of 1,178 · printed citation १२९

Agni Purāṇa; continuation of Mahādeva's speech to Durvāsas

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यच्चापराह्ने पूर्वाह्ने मध्याह्ने च तथा निशि । कायेन मनसा वाचा कृतं पापं दुरात्मना ॥१२९॥

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Whatever sin has been committed by a corrupt person through body, mind, or speech—in the afternoon, forenoon, midday, or at night—

Editorial sequence 135 of 1,178 · printed citation १३०

Agni Purāṇa; continuation of Mahādeva's speech to Durvāsas

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परं ब्रह्म परं धाम पवित्रं परमं च यत् । रामनामजपाद्धीघ्रं विनष्टं भवति ध्रुवम् ॥१३०॥

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—is certainly and swiftly destroyed through repetition of Rāma's Name, which is the supreme Brahman, the supreme abode, and the highest purifier.

Editorial sequence 136 of 1,178 · printed citation १३१

Agni Purāṇa; continuation of Mahādeva's speech to Durvāsas

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ब्राह्मणः क्षत्रियो वैश्यः स्त्रीशूद्राश्च तथान्त्यजाः । यत्र कुत्रानुकीर्तन्तु रामनामानुकीर्तनम् ॥१३१॥

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Brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas, women, śūdras, and those classed as antyajas—wherever they may be, let them repeatedly chant Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 137 of 1,178 · printed citation १३२

Agni Purāṇa; Prahlāda's speech to the boys

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यत्प्रभावादहं साक्षात्तीर्णो घोरभयार्णवम् । अनायासेन बाल्येऽपि तस्माच्छ्रीनामकीर्तनम् ॥१३२॥

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Through its power I directly crossed the dreadful ocean of fear without effort, even in childhood; therefore chanting the holy Name—

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Agni Purāṇa; continuation of Prahlāda's speech to the boys

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कर्तव्यं सावधानेन त्यक्त्वा सर्वदुराग्रहम् । साधनान्यं विहायाशु बुद्ध्वा वैरस्यमात्मनि ॥१३३॥

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—should be performed attentively, abandoning every obstinate attachment, quickly leaving other disciplines after recognizing their lack of rasa within oneself.

Editorial sequence 139 of 1,178 · printed citation १३४

Agni Purāṇa; continuation of Prahlāda's speech to the boys

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यद्भुञ्जन्स्वपंस्तिष्ठन् गच्छन्वै जाग्रति स्थितौ । कृतवान्पापमद्याहं कायेन मनसा गिरा ॥१३४॥

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Whatever sin I committed today through body, mind, or speech while eating, sleeping, staying, going, or being awake—

Editorial sequence 140 of 1,178 · printed citation १३५

Agni Purāṇa; continuation of Prahlāda's speech to the boys

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यत्स्वल्पमपि यत्स्थूलं कुयोनिनरकावहम् । तद्यातु प्रशमं सर्वं रामनामानुकीर्तनात् ॥१३५॥

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—whether slight or great, bringing a low rebirth or hell—may all of it subside through repeated chanting of Rāma's Name.

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Agni Purāṇa; continuation of Prahlāda's speech to the boys

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क्रियाकलापहीनो वा संयुक्तो वा विशेषतः । रामनामानिशं कुर्वन् कीर्तनं मुच्यते भयात् ॥१३६॥

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Whether entirely without a body of rites or especially endowed with it, one who chants Rāma's Name day and night is released from fear.

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Agni Purāṇa; continuation of Prahlāda's speech to the boys

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यदिच्छेत्परमां प्रीतिं परमानन्ददायिनीम् । तदा श्रीरामभद्रस्य कार्यं नामानुकीर्तनम् ॥१३७॥

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If one desires supreme love, the giver of supreme bliss, then repeated chanting of glorious Rāmabhadra's Name should be performed.

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Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; Śiva's speech to Nārada

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हनन्ब्राह्मणमत्यन्तं कामतो वा सुरां पिबन् । रामनामेत्यहोरात्रं संकीर्त्य शुचितामियात् ॥१३८॥

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Even one who deliberately kills a brāhmaṇa or drinks liquor may attain purity by chanting ‘Rāma's Name’ throughout a day and night.

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Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Nārada

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अपि विश्वासघाती च तथा ब्राह्मण निन्दकः । कीर्तयेद् रामनामानि न पापैः परिभूयते ॥१३९॥

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Even a betrayer of trust or one who reviles a brāhmaṇa, should that person chant the Names of Rāma, is not overcome by sins.

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Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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व्रजंस्तिष्ठन्स्वपन्नश्नन्स्वसन्वाक्यप्रपूर्णके । रामनाम्नस्तु सङ्कीर्त्य भक्तियुक्तः परं व्रजेत् ॥१४०॥

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Going, standing, sleeping, eating, breathing, and at the completion of speech, one who devotedly chants Rāma's Name may go to the supreme destination.

Editorial sequence 146 of 1,178 · printed citation १४१

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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कदाचिन्नाम सङ्कीर्त्य भक्त्या वा भक्तिवर्जितः । दहते सर्व पापानि युगान्ताग्निरिवोत्थितः ॥१४१॥

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Chanting the Name at any time, whether with devotion or bereft of devotion, burns all sins like the fire arisen at the end of an age.

Editorial sequence 147 of 1,178 · printed citation १४२

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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जन्मान्तर सहस्रैस्तु कोटि जन्मान्तरेषु यत् । रामनामप्रभावेण पापं निर्याति तत्क्षणात् ॥१४२॥

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Whatever sin has accumulated through thousands and millions of other births departs in that very instant through the power of Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 148 of 1,178 · printed citation १४३

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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अभक्ष्यभक्षणात्पापमगम्यागमनाच्च यत् । नश्यते नात्र सन्देहो रामनाम जपान्नृप ॥१४३॥

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The sin arising from eating what must not be eaten or approaching one who must not be approached is destroyed by repetition of Rāma's Name, O king; of this there is no doubt.

Editorial sequence 149 of 1,178 · printed citation १४४

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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अम्बरीष महाभाग शृणु मद्वचनं वरम् । सर्वोपद्रवनाशाय कुरु श्रीरामकीर्तनम् ॥१४४॥

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Greatly fortunate Ambarīṣa, hear my excellent word: perform the chanting of glorious Rāma for the destruction of every affliction.

Editorial sequence 150 of 1,178 · printed citation १४५

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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तावत्तिष्ठति देहेऽस्मिन्काल कल्मष सम्भवम् । श्रीनामकीर्तनं यावत्कुरुते मानवो नहि ॥१४५॥

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The impurity produced by time remains in this body only so long as a person does not perform chanting of the holy Name.

Editorial sequence 151 of 1,178 · printed citation १४६

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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यस्य स्मृत्या च नामोक्त्या तपो यज्ञक्रियादिषु । न्यूनं सम्पूर्णतां याति सद्यो वन्दे तमच्युतम् ॥१४६॥

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I bow to that infallible Lord through remembrance and utterance of whose Name any deficiency in austerity, sacrifice, ritual, and the rest immediately becomes complete.

Editorial sequence 152 of 1,178 · printed citation १४७

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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आधयो व्याधयो यस्य स्मरणान्नामकीर्तनात् । शीघ्रं वैनाशमायान्ति तं वन्दे पुरुषोत्तमम् ॥१४७॥

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I bow to that supreme Person through remembrance and chanting of whose Name mental afflictions and bodily illnesses quickly come to destruction.

Editorial sequence 153 of 1,178 · printed citation १४८

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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श्रीरामेत्युक्तमात्रेण हेलया कुलवर्द्धन । पापौघं विलयं याति दत्तमश्रोत्रिये यथा ॥१४८॥

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Merely by carelessly uttering ‘glorious Rāma,’ O increaser of the lineage, the flood of sin goes to ruin, like a gift given to one unlearned in revelation.

Editorial sequence 154 of 1,178 · printed citation १४९

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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गवामयुतकोटीनां कन्यानामयुतायुतैः । तीर्थकोटि सहस्राणां फलं श्रीनामकीर्तनम् ॥१४९॥

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Chanting the holy Name yields the fruit of giving tens of billions of cows, myriad myriads of maidens, and of thousands of millions of sacred fords.

Editorial sequence 155 of 1,178 · printed citation १५०

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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रामनामेति सद्भक्त्या येन गीतं महात्मना । तेनैव च कृतं सर्वं कृत्यं वै संशयं विना ॥१५०॥

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The great soul by whom ‘Rāma's Name’ has been sung with true devotion has thereby performed every duty, without doubt.

Editorial sequence 156 of 1,178 · printed citation १५१

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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वसन्ति यानि तीर्थानि पावनानि महीतले । तानि सर्वाणि नाम्नस्तु कलां नार्हन्ति षोडशीम् ॥१५१॥

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All the purifying sacred fords that exist upon the earth do not equal even a sixteenth part of one ray of the Name.

Editorial sequence 157 of 1,178 · printed citation १५२

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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रामनाम समं चान्यत्साधनं प्रवदन्ति ये । ते चाण्डालसमास्सर्वे सदा रौरव वासिनः ॥१५२॥

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Those who declare another discipline equal to Rāma's Name are all compared to caṇḍālas and said to dwell always in Raurava.

Editorial sequence 158 of 1,178 · printed citation १५३

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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रामनामाशयं दिव्यं ये जानन्ति समादरात् । ते कृतार्थाः कलौ राजन्सत्यं सत्यं वदाम्यहम् ॥१५३॥

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Those who reverently understand the divine purport of Rāma's Name are fulfilled in Kali, O king. I speak the truth, the truth.

Editorial sequence 159 of 1,178 · printed citation १५४

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa; continuation of Nārada's speech to Ambarīṣa

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दृष्टं नामात्मकं विश्वं मया विज्ञानचक्षुषा । वाङ्मनोगोचरातीतं निर्विकल्पं प्रमोददम् ॥१५४॥

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With the eye of realization I have seen the universe as consisting of the Name: beyond the reach of speech and mind, free of conceptual division, and bestowing delight.

Editorial sequence 160 of 1,178 · printed citation १५५

Brahma Purāṇa; Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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इदमेव हि माङ्गल्यमिदमेव धनागमः । जीवितस्य फलञ्चैव रामनामानुकीर्तनम् ॥१५५॥

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Repeated chanting of Rāma's Name alone is auspiciousness, this alone is the coming of wealth, and this alone is the fruit of life.

Editorial sequence 161 of 1,178 · printed citation १५६

Brahma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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प्रमादादपि संस्पृष्टो यथाऽनलकणो दहेत् । तथौष्ठपुट संस्पृष्टं रामनामदहेदघम् ॥१५६॥

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Just as a particle of fire burns even when touched through carelessness, so Rāma's Name, touching the enclosure of the lips, burns sin.

Editorial sequence 162 of 1,178 · printed citation १५७

Brahma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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हत्याऽयुतं पानसहस्रमुग्रं गुर्वङ्गनाकोटि निषेवणञ्च । स्तेनान्यसङ्ख्यानि च पातकानि श्रीरामनाम्ना निहतानि सद्यः ॥१५७॥

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Ten thousand killings, a thousand terrible drinkings, millions of violations involving a teacher's wife, thefts without number, and other sins are said to be destroyed at once by glorious Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 163 of 1,178 · printed citation १५८

Brahma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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निर्विकारं निरालम्बं निर्वैरञ्च निरञ्जनम् । भज श्रीरामनामेदं सर्वेश्वर प्रकाशकम् ॥१५८॥

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Worship this glorious Name Rāma, changeless, unsupported, without enmity, stainless, and the revealer of the Lord of all.

Editorial sequence 164 of 1,178 · printed citation १५९

Brahma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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श्रुत्वा श्रीरामनाम्नस्तु प्रभावं वै परात्परम् । सत्यं यो नाभिजानाति द्रष्टव्यं तन्मुखं नहि ॥१५९॥

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The face of one who, after hearing the transcendent power of glorious Rāma's Name, does not recognize it as true is not to be looked upon.

Editorial sequence 165 of 1,178 · printed citation १६०

Brahma Purāṇa; continuation of Brahmā's speech to Nārada

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विज्ञानं परमं गुह्यमिदमेव महामुने । बाह्यं वाऽभ्यन्तरं नाम सततं चिन्तनं वरम् ॥१६०॥

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This alone is supreme realization and the highest secret, O great sage: constant contemplation of the Name, outwardly or inwardly, is excellent.

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Kūrma Purāṇa; Śaṅkara's speech to Śivā

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गोप्याद्गोप्यतमं भद्रे सर्वस्वं जीवनं मम । श्रीरामनाम सर्वेशमद्भुतं भुक्ति मुक्तिदम् ॥१६१॥

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More secret than the secret, O gracious one, glorious Rāma's Name is my all and my life: wondrous, Lord of all, and giver of enjoyment and liberation.

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Kūrma Purāṇa; continuation of Śaṅkara's speech to Śivā

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जपस्व सततं रामनाम सर्वेश्वर प्रियम् । नियामकानां सर्वेषां कारणं प्रेरकं परम् ॥१६२॥

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Constantly repeat Rāma's Name, beloved of the Lord of all, the cause of all governors and the supreme impeller.

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Kūrma Purāṇa; continuation of Śaṅkara's speech to Śivā

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रामनामैव सद्विद्ये सत्यं वच्मि वरानने । समाहितेन मनसा कीर्तनीयस्सदा बुधैः ॥१६३॥

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Rāma's Name alone, O true knowledge—I speak the truth, lovely-faced one—should always be chanted by the wise with a collected mind.

Editorial sequence 169 of 1,178 · printed citation १६४

Kūrma Purāṇa; continuation of Śaṅkara's speech to Śivā

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रामनामात्मकं तत्त्वं सतां जीवनमुत्तमम् । निन्दितस्सर्वलोकेषु रामनाम बहिर्मुखः ॥१६४॥

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The principle whose nature is Rāma's Name is the highest life of the good. One turned away from Rāma's Name is censured in all worlds.

Editorial sequence 170 of 1,178 · printed citation १६५

Kūrma Purāṇa; continuation of Śaṅkara's speech to Śivā

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लौकिकी वैदिकी या या क्रिया सर्वार्थसाधिका । ताभ्यः कोट्यर्बुदगुणं श्रेष्ठं श्रीनामकीर्तनम् ॥१६५॥

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Chanting the holy Name is superior by millions upon hundreds of millions to all worldly and Vedic rites that accomplish every end.

Editorial sequence 171 of 1,178 · printed citation १६६

Kūrma Purāṇa; continuation of Śaṅkara's speech to Śivā

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धिक्कृतं तमहं मन्ये सततं प्राणवल्लभे । यज्जिह्वाग्रे न श्रीरामनाम संराजते सदा ॥१६६॥

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Beloved as life, I always consider blameworthy the person upon whose tongue-tip glorious Rāma's Name does not continually shine.

Editorial sequence 172 of 1,178 · printed citation १६७

Vāmana Purāṇa; Vāmana's speech to the sages

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अघौघा वज्रपाताद्या ह्यन्ये दुर्नीति सम्भवाः । स्मरणाद्रामभद्रस्य सद्यो यान्ति क्षयं क्षणात् ॥१६७॥

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Floods of sin, thunderbolt-strikes and the like, and other harms born of bad conduct immediately perish in a moment through remembrance of Rāmabhadra.

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Vāmana Purāṇa; continuation of Vāmana's speech to the sages

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शृण्वन्ति ये भक्तिपरा मनुष्याः संकीर्त्यमानं भगवन्तमुग्रम् । ते मुक्तपापाः सुखिनो भवन्ति यथाऽमृतप्राशनतर्पितास्तु ॥१६८॥

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Devotion-centred people who hear the mighty Lord being praised become free of sin and happy, like those satisfied by drinking nectar.

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Vāmana Purāṇa; continuation of Vāmana's speech to the sages

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परदाररतो वाऽपि परापकृतकारकः । स शुद्धो मुक्तिमायाति रामनामानुकीर्तनात् ॥१६९॥

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Even one attached to another's spouse or one who causes harm to another becomes purified and attains liberation through repeated chanting of Rāma's Name.

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Vāmana Purāṇa; continuation of Vāmana's speech to the sages

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अपवित्रः पवित्रो वा सर्वावस्थां गतोऽपि वा । यस्स्मरेत्पुण्डरीकाक्षं स बाह्याभ्यन्तरः शुचिः ॥१७०॥

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Whether impure or pure, or having entered any condition, one who remembers the lotus-eyed Lord is pure outwardly and inwardly.

Editorial sequence 176 of 1,178 · printed citation १७१

Matsya Purāṇa

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सर्वेषां राममन्त्राणां श्रेष्ठं श्रीतारकं परम् । षडक्षरमनुंसाक्षात्तथा युग्माक्षरं वरम् ॥१७१॥

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Among all Rāma mantras, the glorious supreme Tāraka is best: the six-syllabled formula itself, and likewise the excellent pair of syllables.

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Matsya Purāṇa

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येन ध्यातं श्रुतं गीतं रामनामेष्टदं महत् । कृतं तेनैव सत्कृत्यं वेदोदितमखण्डितम् ॥१७२॥

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The person by whom the great, wish-granting Name Rāma has been contemplated, heard, and sung has thereby performed without interruption the good work enjoined by the Veda.

Editorial sequence 178 of 1,178 · printed citation १७३

Matsya Purāṇa

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ध्येयं ज्ञेयं परं पेयं रामनामाक्षरं मुने । सर्वसिद्धान्तसारेदं सौख्यं सौभाग्य कारणम् ॥१७३॥

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The imperishable Name Rāma is to be contemplated, known, and supremely drunk, O sage. It is the essence of every doctrine and the cause of happiness and good fortune.

Editorial sequence 179 of 1,178 · printed citation १७४

Matsya Purāṇa

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नामैव परमं ज्ञानं ध्यानं योगं तथा रतिम् । विज्ञानं परमं गुह्यं रामनामैव केवलम् ॥१७४॥

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The Name alone is supreme knowledge, meditation, yoga, and love; Rāma's Name alone is realization and the supreme secret.

Editorial sequence 180 of 1,178 · printed citation १७५

Matsya Purāṇa

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नाम स्मरणनिष्ठानां नामस्मृत्या महाघवान् । मुच्यते सर्वपापेभ्यो वाञ्छितार्थं च विन्दति ॥१७५॥

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By remembering those devoted to remembrance of the Name, even a great sinner is released from every sin and obtains the desired end.

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Varāha Purāṇa; Śiva's speech to Śivā

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दैवाच्छूकरशावकेन निहतो म्लेच्छो जराजर्जरो- हारामेण हतोऽस्मि भूमिपतितो जल्पंस्तनुं त्यक्तवान् । तीर्णो गोष्पदवद्भवार्णवमहो नाम्नः प्रभावादहो- किं चित्रं यदि रामनामरसिकास्ते यान्ति रामास्पदम् ॥१७६॥

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By fate, a mleccha worn down by age was struck by a piglet. Falling to the ground and crying, ‘I have been struck by harāma,’ he left his body. Through the Name's power he crossed the ocean of becoming as though it were a calf's hoofprint—wonder of wonders! What marvel is it, then, if those who relish Rāma's Name reach Rāma's abode?

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Varāha Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Śivā

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ध्येयं नित्यमनन्यप्रेमरसिकैः पेयं तथा सादरं- ज्ञेयं ज्ञानरतात्मभिश्च सुजनैः सम्यक् क्रियाशान्तये । श्रीमद्रामपरेश नाम सुभगं सर्वाधिपं शर्मदं- सर्वेषां सुहृदं सुरासुरनुतं ह्यानन्दकन्दं परम् ॥१७७॥

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The beautiful Name of glorious Rāma, supreme Lord, is to be contemplated always by those who relish exclusive love, drunk reverently, and known by good people devoted to knowledge for the full quieting of action. It is ruler of all, giver of well-being, friend of everyone, praised by gods and antigods, and the supreme root of bliss.

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Varāha Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Śivā

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निरपेक्षं सदा स्वच्छं सर्वसम्पत्ति साधकम् । भजध्वं रामनामेदं महामाङ्गलिकं परम् ॥१७८॥

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Worship this Rāma Name, free of dependence, always pure, accomplishing every prosperity, supremely and greatly auspicious.

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Varāha Purāṇa; continuation of Śiva's speech to Śivā

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करुणावारिधिं नाम ह्यपराधनिवारकम् । तस्मिन्प्रीतिर्न येषां वै ते महापापिनो नराः ॥१७९॥

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The Name is an ocean of compassion and remover of offences; people who have no love for it are indeed called great sinners.

Editorial sequence 185 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Unnumbered Tulsīdās footnote verse attached to printed citation 179; Kavitāvalī 3.76 as cited

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आँधेरो अधम जड़ जाजरो जरा जवन, सूकर के शावक ढका ढकेल्यो मग में । गिरो हियो दहिरि हराम हो हराम हत्यो, हाय हाय करत परिगो काल फँग में ॥ तुलसी विसोक है तिलोकपति लोक गयो, नाम के प्रताप बात विदित है जग में । सोई रामनाम को सनेह सो जपत जन, ताकी महिमा क्यों कहै है जाति अँग में ॥

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Blind, base, dull, and worn by age, the foreigner was shoved on the road by a piglet. He fell, his heart shaken, crying ‘harāma—harāma has killed me’; lamenting, he fell into death's noose. Tulsī says he became free of grief and went to the realm of the Lord of the three worlds: the Name's power is known throughout the world. How, then, could the glory of a person who lovingly repeats that very Name Rāma be expressed within the limits of speech?

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Liṅga Purāṇa; Sūta to Śaunaka

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रामनामानिशं भक्त्या प्रजप्तव्यं प्रयत्नतः । नातः परतरोपायो दृश्यते श्रूयते मुने ॥१८०॥

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Rāma's Name should be repeated day and night, with devotion and earnest effort. No means higher than this is seen or heard, O sage.

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Liṅga Purāṇa; Mahādeva to Pārvatī

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वृथाऽऽलापंवदन्न्रीडा येषां नायाति सत्वरम् । हित्वा श्रीरामनामेदं ते नराः पशवः स्मृताः ॥१८१॥

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Those who, having abandoned this Name Śrī Rāma, feel no swift shame while speaking idle talk—those people are regarded as animals.

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Liṅga Purāṇa; under the Mahādeva-to-Pārvatī heading

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न जाने किं फलं ब्रह्मन् जायते नामकीर्तनात् । जानाति तच्छिवः साक्षाद्रामानुग्रहतो मुने ॥१८२॥

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I do not know, O brahman, what fruit arises from chanting the Name. Śiva himself knows it through Rāma's grace, O sage.

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Liṅga Purāṇa; Mahādeva to Pārvatī

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अहो नामामृतालापी जनः सर्वार्थसाधकः । धन्याद्धन्यतमोनित्यं सत्यं सत्यं वदाम्यहम् ॥१८३॥

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Ah, the person who speaks the nectar of the Name accomplishes every aim and is forever more blessed than the blessed. Truth, truth—I declare it.

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Liṅga Purāṇa; Mahādeva to Pārvatī

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रामनाम्ना जगत्सर्वं भासितं सर्वदा द्विज । प्रभावं परतमं तस्य वचनागोचरं मुने ॥१८४॥

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By Rāma's Name the whole world is illumined at all times, O twice-born one. Its supreme power lies beyond the reach of speech, O sage.

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Liṅga Purāṇa; Mahādeva to Pārvatī

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अलं योगादिसङ्क्लेशैर्ज्ञानविज्ञानसाधनैः । वर्त्तमाने दयासिन्धौ रामनामेश्वरे मुने ॥१८५॥

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Enough of the hardships of yoga and the rest, and of disciplines of knowledge and realization, when the sovereign Name Rāma, the ocean of compassion, is present, O sage.

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Liṅga Purāṇa; Mahādeva to Pārvatī

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रामात्परतरं नास्ति सर्वेश्वरमनामयम् । तस्मात्तन्नाम संलापे यत्नं कुरु मम प्रिये ॥१८६॥

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There is nothing higher than Rāma, the stainless Lord of all. Therefore make an effort to speak his Name, my beloved.

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Liṅga Purāṇa; Mahādeva to Pārvatī

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चाण्डालादिकजन्तूनामधिकारोऽस्ति वल्लभे । श्रीरामनाम मन्त्रेऽस्मिन् सत्यं सत्यं सदा शिवे ॥१८७॥

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Even people historically classed as caṇḍālas and the like have eligibility for this mantra of Śrī Rāma's Name, O beloved. It is true, true, O ever-auspicious one.

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Liṅga Purāṇa; Mahādeva to Pārvatī

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यत्प्रभावलवकांशतः शिवे शिवपदं सुभगं यदवाप्तम् । तद्रतिं विरहिता किल जीवा यान्ति कष्टमतुलं यम सादनम् ॥१८८॥

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By but a minute fraction of its power, O Śivā, I attained the beautiful station of Śiva. Living beings bereft of love for it, however, go to Yama's abode, a place of incomparable suffering.

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Liṅga Purāṇa; Mahādeva to Pārvatī

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साकारादगुणाच्चापि रामनाम परं प्रिये । गोप्याद्गोप्यतमं वस्तु कृपया सम्प्रकाशितम् ॥१८९॥

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Rāma's Name is higher than both the formed and the qualityless, O beloved. This reality, more secret than the secret, has been fully revealed through grace.

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Liṅga Purāṇa; Mahādeva to Pārvatī

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स्मर्तव्यं तत्सदा रामनाम निर्वाणदायकम् । क्षणार्द्धमपि विस्मृत्य याति दुःखालयं जनः ॥१९०॥

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That Name Rāma, the giver of liberation, should always be remembered. Forgetting it even for half a moment, a person goes to an abode of sorrow.

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Viṣṇu Purāṇa; Vyāsa's statement

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विष्णोरेकैकनामापि सर्ववेदाधिकं मतम् । तादृङ्नाम सहस्रेण रामनाम सतां मतम् ॥१९१॥

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Even each single Name of Viṣṇu is regarded as greater than all the Vedas. The good regard the Name Rāma as surpassing a thousand such names.

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Viṣṇu Purāṇa; Vyāsa's statement

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श्रीरामेति परं नाम रामस्यैव सनातनम् । सहस्रनाम सादृश्यं विष्णोर्नारायणस्य च ॥१९२॥

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‘Śrī Rāma’ is the supreme, eternal Name of Rāma himself. It possesses equivalence to the thousand names of Viṣṇu and Nārāyaṇa.

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Viṣṇu Purāṇa; Vyāsa's statement

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रामनाम्नः परं किञ्चित्तत्त्वं वेदे स्मृतिष्वपि । संहितासु पुराणेषु नैव तन्त्रेषु विद्यते ॥१९३॥

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No reality higher than Rāma's Name is found in the Veda or the Smṛtis, in the Saṃhitās, the Purāṇas, or the Tantras.

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Viṣṇu Purāṇa; Vyāsa's statement

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नाम्नो रामस्य ये तत्त्वं परं प्राहुः कुबुद्धयः । राक्षसांस्तान्विजानीयाद्व्रजेयुर्नरकं ध्रुवम् ॥१९४॥

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Those of distorted understanding who declare some reality higher than Rāma's Name should be known as rākṣasas; they will surely go to hell.

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Viṣṇu Purāṇa; Vyāsa's statement

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सा जिह्वा रघुनाथस्य नामकीर्त्तनमादरात् । करोति विपरीता या फणिनो रसना समा ॥१९५॥

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That is truly a tongue which respectfully chants Raghunātha's Name; one that does the opposite is like a serpent's tongue.

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Viṣṇu Purāṇa; Vyāsa's statement

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रामेति नाम यच्छ्रोत्रे विश्रम्भाज्जपितो यदि । करोति पापसन्दाहं तूलवह्निकणो यथा ॥१९६॥

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If the Name ‘Rāma’ is repeated with trust into someone's ear, it burns away sins just as a spark of fire burns cotton.

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Viṣṇu Purāṇa; Vyāsa's statement

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तावद्गर्जन्ति पापानि ब्रह्महत्याशतानि च । यावद्रामं रसनया न गृह्णातीति दुर्मतिः ॥१९७॥

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Sins—including hundreds of brahmin-killings—roar only so long as a person of distorted understanding does not take the Name Rāma upon the tongue.

Editorial sequence 204 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

First-pramoda colophon

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इति श्रीसीतारामनामप्रतापप्रकाशे प्रमोदनिवासे परात्परैश्वर्यदायके श्रीयुगलानन्यशरणसंगृहीतेऽष्टादशपुराणप्रमाणनिरूपणनाम प्रथमः प्रमोदः ॥१॥

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Thus ends the first pramoda, named ‘Exposition of the Testimony of the Eighteen Purāṇas,’ in Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa—the abode of delight and giver of transcendent sovereignty—compiled by Śrī Yugalānanya Śaraṇa.

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Second pramoda — statements from the secondary Purāṇas; Vāyu Purāṇa; Śiva to Nārada

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महतस्तपसोमूलं प्रसवः पुण्यसन्ततेः । जीवितस्य फलस्वादु सदा श्रीरामकीर्त्तनम् ॥१९८॥

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The constant chanting of Śrī Rāma is the root of great austerity, the source of a lineage of merit, and the sweet fruit of life.

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Second pramoda — Vāyu Purāṇa; Śiva to Nārada

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श्रीरामनाम सामर्थ्यं वैभवं शौर्यविक्रमम् । न वक्तुं कोऽपि शक्नोति सत्यं सत्यं च नारद ॥१९९॥

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No one is able to describe the potency, majesty, heroism, and prowess of Śrī Rāma's Name. It is true, true, O Nārada.

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Second pramoda — Vāyu Purāṇa; Śiva to Nārada

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सततं राम रामेति यस्तु कीर्तयते सदा । गुरुतल्पशतेनापि सद्य एव प्रमुच्यते ॥२००॥

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Whoever constantly chants ‘Rāma, Rāma’ is immediately released even from a hundred violations of the guru's bed.

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Second pramoda — Vāyu Purāṇa; Śiva to Nārada

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यातना यमलोकेषु तावदेव भवेन्नृणाम् । यावन्न भजते प्रीत्या रामनामपरात्परम् ॥२०१॥

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The torment of people in Yama's realms lasts only until they lovingly worship the Name Rāma, higher than the highest.

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Second pramoda — Vāyu Purāṇa; Śiva to Nārada

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सर्वेषामवताराणां कारणं परमाद्भुतम् । श्रीमद्रामेति नामैव कथ्यते सद्भिरुत्तमम् ॥२०२॥

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The good declare that the glorious Name Rāma alone is the supreme, wondrous cause of all incarnations.

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Second pramoda — Vāyu Purāṇa; Śiva to Nārada

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यत्र यत्र समुद्वारा दृश्यन्ते श्रूयतेऽथवा । तत्सर्वं रामनामैव सत्यं सत्यं वचो मम ॥२०३॥

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Wherever deliverances are seen or heard of, all of that is the Name Rāma alone. True, true is my statement.

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Second pramoda — Vāyu Purāṇa; Śiva to Nārada

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रामनामात्मिकावाणी श्रोतव्या सर्वदा बुधैः । त्यक्त्वा नानार्थवच्छब्दान्वादविभ्रान्तिमण्डितान् ॥२०४॥

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The wise should always listen to speech whose essence is Rāma's Name, abandoning words with manifold meanings that are adorned with disputation and confusion.

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Second pramoda — Nṛsiṃha Purāṇa

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रामरामेति रामेति सततं संस्मरन्ति ये । त एव वल्लभास्माकमीश्वराणां च नारद ॥२०५॥

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Those who constantly remember ‘Rāma, Rāma, Rāma’ are dear to us and to the lords as well, O Nārada.

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Second pramoda — Nṛsiṃha Purāṇa

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सर्वासां चित्तवृत्तीनां निरोधो जायते ध्रुवम् । रामनाम प्रभावेण जातव्यं सावधानतः ॥२०६॥

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Through the power of Rāma's Name, all movements of mind assuredly come to cessation. The printed second line then reads, ‘one should become, with attentiveness.’

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Second pramoda — Nṛsiṃha Purāṇa

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नरका ये नरा नीचा जीवन्तोऽपि मृतोपमाः । तेषामपि भवेन्मुक्ती रामनामानुकीर्त्तनात् ॥२०७॥

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Even those people called hellish and low, who though living are like the dead, attain release through repeated chanting of Rāma's Name.

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Second pramoda — Nṛsiṃha Purāṇa; Prahlāda to his father

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रामनामजपात्तात कुतो भयं सर्वतापशमनैकभेषजम् । पश्यतात मम गात्रसंगतः पावकोऽपि सलिलायतेऽधुना ॥२०८॥

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Father, how can there be fear from repeating Rāma's Name, the one medicine that calms every affliction? Look, father: even the fire touching my body now becomes like water.

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Second pramoda — Nṛsiṃha Purāṇa; Prahlāda to his father

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रामनाम प्रभावेण मुच्यते सर्वबन्धनात् । तस्मात्त्वमपि दैत्येश तस्यैव शरणं व्रज ॥२०९॥

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Through the power of Rāma's Name one is released from every bond. Therefore you too, O lord of the daityas, should go for refuge to that alone.

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Second pramoda — Nṛsiṃha Purāṇa; Nārada to Yājñavalkya

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श्रीरामेति जपञ्जन्तुः प्रत्यहं नियतेन्द्रियः । सर्वपापविनिर्मुक्तः सुरवद्भ्राजते नरः ॥२१०॥

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A person who, with restrained senses, repeats ‘Śrī Rāma’ every day becomes free from every sin and shines like a god.

Editorial sequence 218 of 1,178 · printed citation २११

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सौभाग्यं सर्वदा स्वच्छं सरसानन्दमद्भुतम् । अवश्यं लभते भक्त्या रामनामानुकीर्त्तनात् ॥२११॥

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Through devoted, repeated chanting of Rāma's Name, one assuredly obtains ever-pure good fortune, full of rasa, wondrous, and blissful.

Editorial sequence 219 of 1,178 · printed citation २१२

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रामनामरता नारी सुतं सौभाग्यमीप्सितम् । भर्तुः प्रियत्वं लभते न वैधव्यं कदाचन ॥२१२॥

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A woman devoted to Rāma's Name obtains a desired son and good fortune, becomes dear to her husband, and, the verse claims, never experiences widowhood.

Editorial sequence 220 of 1,178 · printed citation २१३

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पतिव्रतानां सर्वासां रामनामानुकीर्त्तनम् । ऐहिकामुष्मिकं सौख्यदायकं सर्वशो मुने ॥२१३॥

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For all women devoted to their husbands, repeated chanting of Rāma's Name bestows happiness in this world and the next, in every way, O sage.

Editorial sequence 221 of 1,178 · printed citation २१४

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सीत्यासहितं रामनाम येषां परमं प्रियम् । त एव कृतकृत्याश्च पूज्याः सर्वसुरेश्वरैः ॥२१४॥

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Those for whom the Name Rāma together with Sītā is supremely dear have indeed fulfilled their purpose and are worthy of honor from all the lords of the gods.

Editorial sequence 222 of 1,178 · printed citation २१५

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रामनामार्थमध्ये तु साक्षात्सीतापदं प्रियम् । विज्ञानागोचरं नित्यं मुने श्रीरामवैभवम् ॥२१५॥

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Within the meaning of the Name Rāma stands directly the beloved word Sītā. The majesty of Śrī Rāma is forever beyond the reach of discriminating knowledge, O sage.

Editorial sequence 223 of 1,178 · printed citation २१६

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आदौ सीतापदं पुण्यं परमानन्ददायकम् । पश्चाच्छ्रीरामनाम्नस्तु कथनं संप्रशस्यते ॥२१६॥

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First comes the sacred word Sītā, the giver of supreme bliss; afterward, the utterance of Śrī Rāma's Name is fully commended.

Editorial sequence 224 of 1,178 · printed citation २१७

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युग्मं वर्णं जपेद्यर्हि तदा सीतेति कीर्त्तयेत् । सावकाशे सदा भक्त्या मध्ये मध्ये समादरात् ॥२१७॥

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Whenever one repeats the pair of syllables, one should then chant ‘Sītā’; whenever there is leisure, one should always do so with devotion, respectfully, between repetitions.

Editorial sequence 225 of 1,178 · printed citation २१८

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एवं रीत्या स्मरन्नाम रामभद्रस्य सन्ततम् । षण्मासात्सिद्धिमाप्नोति कलौ विश्वासपूर्वकम् ॥२१८॥

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Remembering Rāmabhadra's Name constantly in this manner and with trust, one attains accomplishment within six months in the age of Kali.

Editorial sequence 226 of 1,178 · printed citation २१९

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सूर्योदये यथा नाशमुपैति ध्वान्तमाशु वै । तथैव रामसंस्मरणाद्विनाशं यान्त्युपद्रवाः ॥२१९॥

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Just as darkness swiftly comes to destruction at sunrise, so troubles pass into destruction through remembrance of Rāma.

Editorial sequence 227 of 1,178 · printed citation २२०

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दुराचारो महादुष्टो महाघौघ निकेतनः । रामनाम स्मरन् भक्त्या विशुद्धो भवति ध्रुवम् ॥२२०॥

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A person of corrupt conduct, profoundly harmful and an abode of a flood of grave wrongs, assuredly becomes purified by remembering Rāma's Name with devotion.

Editorial sequence 228 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

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रामनाम प्रभावेण यद्यच्चिन्तयते जनः । तत्तदाप्नोति वै तूर्णमभीष्टमति दुर्लभम् ॥

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Through the power of Rāma's Name, whatever a person contemplates, that indeed is swiftly obtained—even a most difficult-to-attain desire.

Editorial sequence 229 of 1,178 · printed citation २२२

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सर्वाभीष्टप्रदे नाम्नि प्रीतिर्नैवाभिजायते । मुने तस्यापराधानां गणना नैव विद्यते ॥२२२॥

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For one in whom no love arises for the Name that grants every desire, O sage, there is no counting the offenses.

Editorial sequence 230 of 1,178 · printed citation २२३

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रामनाम्नि रतिर्नास्ति कुरुते धर्मसञ्चयम् । तत्सर्वं निष्फलं प्रोक्तं पथि बीजाङ्कुरा इव ॥२२३॥

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If one has no love for Rāma's Name yet amasses religious merit, all of it is declared fruitless, like sprouts from seeds on a road.

Editorial sequence 231 of 1,178 · printed citation २२४

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बहुजन्मोग्रपुण्यानां फलं नामानुकीर्त्तनम् । सर्वेषामृषिमुख्यानां सम्मतं संशयं विना ॥२२४॥

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Repeated chanting of the Name is the fruit of intense merit across many births; this is the agreement of all the foremost sages, without doubt.

Editorial sequence 232 of 1,178 · printed citation २२५

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क्व नाकपृष्ठगमनं पुनरावृत्ति लक्षणम् । क्व जपो रामनाम्नस्तु मुक्तेर्बीजमनुत्तमम् ॥२२५॥

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What comparison is there between going to heaven, marked by returning again, and repetition of Rāma's Name, the unsurpassed seed of liberation?

Editorial sequence 233 of 1,178 · printed citation २२६

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सर्वरोगोपशमनं सर्वोपद्रवनाशनम् । सर्वारिष्टहरं क्षिप्रं रामनामानुकीर्त्तनम् ॥२२६॥

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Repeated chanting of Rāma's Name, the verse claims, calms every illness, destroys every trouble, and swiftly removes every misfortune.

Editorial sequence 234 of 1,178 · printed citation २२७

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नास्ति श्रीरामनाम्नस्तु परत्वं दृश्यते क्वचित् । सदृशं त्रिषु लोकेषु सर्वतन्त्रेषु कुत्रचित् ॥२२७॥

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Nothing higher than Śrī Rāma's Name is seen anywhere, nor anything equal to it in the three worlds or in any of the tantras.

Editorial sequence 235 of 1,178 · printed citation २२८

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रामरामेति यो नित्यं मधुरं जपति क्षणम् । स सर्व सिद्धिमाप्नोति रामनामानुभावतः ॥२२८॥

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One who each day sweetly repeats ‘Rāma, Rāma’ even for a moment attains every accomplishment through the power of Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 236 of 1,178 · printed citation २२९

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यदा श्री रामसन्नाम संस्मरेद्भावनायुतः । परानन्दे सुधासिन्धौ निमग्नो जायते तदा ॥२२९॥

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When a person, filled with devotional feeling, remembers the excellent Name Śrī Rāma, that person then becomes immersed in the nectar-ocean of supreme bliss.

Editorial sequence 237 of 1,178 · printed citation २३०

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प्रायो विवेकिनः सौम्य वेदान्तार्थैक नैष्ठिकाः । श्रीमद् रामेशभद्रस्य नाम संराधने रताः ॥२३०॥

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For the most part, O gentle one, discerning people devoted solely to the meaning of Vedānta delight in the complete worship of the Name of glorious Rāmeśabhadra.

Editorial sequence 238 of 1,178 · printed citation २३१

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तावदेव मदस्तेषां महापातक दन्तिनाम् । यावन्न श्रूयते रामनाम पञ्चाननध्वनिः ॥२३१॥

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The rutting pride of those elephants that are grave wrongs lasts only until the lion-roar of Rāma's Name is heard.

Editorial sequence 239 of 1,178 · printed citation २३२

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अविकारी विकारी वा सर्वदोषैकभाजनः । परमेशपदं याति सीतारामानुकीर्त्तनात् ॥२३२॥

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Whether unchanging or subject to change, even one who is a sole vessel of every fault reaches the station of the Supreme Lord through repeated chanting of Sītārāma.

Editorial sequence 240 of 1,178 · printed citation २३३

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हे जिह्वे रससारज्ञे सततं मधुरप्रिये । श्रीरामनामपीयूषं पिब प्रीत्या निरन्तरम् ॥२३३॥

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O tongue, knower of the essence of flavors and ever fond of sweetness, drink the nectar of Śrī Rāma's Name continuously and with love.

Editorial sequence 241 of 1,178 · printed citation २३४

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नातः परतरोपायो दृश्यते सम्मतौ श्रुतौ । सारात्सारतमं शुद्धं सर्वेषां मुक्तिदं परम् ॥२३४॥

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No means higher than this is seen in received teaching or revelation: the purest essence of every essence, supreme, granting liberation to all.

Editorial sequence 242 of 1,178 · printed citation २३५

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स्वाभाविकी तथा ज्ञानक्रियाद्याः शक्तयः शुभाः । रामनामांशतो जाता सर्वलोकेषु पूजिताः ॥२३५॥

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The auspicious powers—the innate power, knowledge, action, and the rest—arose from a portion of Rāma's Name and are honored in all worlds.

Editorial sequence 243 of 1,178 · printed citation २३६

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ज्ञानं वैराग्यमेवाथ तथा प्रीतिः परात्मनि । संलभेन्नामसङ्कीर्त्य ह्यभिरामाख्यमद्भुतम् ॥२३६॥

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By chanting the wondrous Name called Abhirāma, one may attain knowledge, detachment, and also love for the Supreme Self.

Editorial sequence 244 of 1,178 · printed citation २३७

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ते कृतार्थाः सदा शुद्धाः सर्वोपाधि विवर्जिताः । नाम्नः प्रभावमासाद्य गमिष्यन्ति परंपदम् ॥२३७॥

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They have fulfilled their purpose, are always pure, and are free from every limiting designation; having reached the power of the Name, they will go to the supreme station.

Editorial sequence 245 of 1,178 · printed citation २३८

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रामनाम परा ये च नामकीर्त्तनतत्पराः । नाम्नः पूजापरा ये वै ते कृतार्थाः न संशयः ॥२३८॥

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Those devoted to Rāma's Name, intent on chanting the Name, and indeed devoted to worship of the Name have fulfilled their purpose; there is no doubt.

Editorial sequence 246 of 1,178 · printed citation २३९

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तस्मात्समस्तलोकानां हितमेव मयोच्यते । रामनाम परान् मर्त्यान्न कलिर्बाधते क्वचित् ॥२३९॥

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Therefore I speak only for the welfare of all people: Kali never afflicts mortals devoted to Rāma's Name anywhere.

Editorial sequence 247 of 1,178 · printed citation २४०

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श्रीमद्रामेशनाम्नस्तु सततं शरणं व्रजेत् । अस्माकं सत्समाजेषूपायान्तरमनर्थकम् ॥२४०॥

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One should constantly seek refuge in the glorious Name of Rāmeśa. In our assemblies of the good, any other means is held to be fruitless.

Editorial sequence 248 of 1,178 · printed citation २४१

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सकृदुच्चारयेदेतद्रामनाम कलौयुगे । ते कृतार्था महात्मानस्तेभ्यो नित्यं नमो नमः ॥२४१॥

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Those who utter this Name Rāma once in the age of Kali have fulfilled their purpose and are great souls; homage, homage to them always.

Editorial sequence 249 of 1,178 · printed citation २४२

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न्यूनातिरिक्ततासिद्धिः कलौ वेदोक्तकर्मणाम् । नाम सङ्कीर्त्तनादेव सम्पूर्ण फलदायकम् ॥२४२॥

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In the age of Kali, deficiencies and excesses in rites prescribed by the Veda are brought to completion through chanting the Name alone, making the fruit complete.

Editorial sequence 250 of 1,178 · printed citation २४३

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सीतारामात्मकन्नाम सुधाधाम निरन्तरम् । ये जपन्ति सदा भक्त्या तेषां किञ्चिन्न दुर्लभम् ॥२४३॥

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For those who always devotedly repeat the Name whose essence is Sītārāma, the continuous abode of nectar, nothing is difficult to obtain.

Editorial sequence 251 of 1,178 · printed citation २४४

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नमः श्रीरामचन्द्राय परमानन्दरूपिणे । निवसन्ति यस्य जिह्वायां तस्याघं नश्यति क्षणात् ॥२४४॥

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‘Homage to Śrī Rāmacandra, whose form is supreme bliss’—for one upon whose tongue these words dwell, wrongdoing is destroyed in a moment.

Editorial sequence 252 of 1,178 · printed citation २४५

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स्वपन्भुञ्जन्ब्रजंस्तिष्ठन्नुत्तिष्ठंश्चवदंस्तथा । येषां सङ्कीर्त्तनन्नाम तेभ्यो नित्यं नमोनमः ॥२४५॥

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Homage, homage always to those whose chanting is the Name while sleeping, eating, walking, standing, rising, and speaking.

Editorial sequence 253 of 1,178 · printed citation २४६

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नामसङ्कीर्त्तनं नित्यं क्षुत्तृट्स्खलनादिषु । करोति प्रेमसंहीनस्सापि श्रीरामकिङ्करः ॥२४६॥

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Even one who chants the Name without love amid hunger, thirst, stumbling, and the like is a servant of Śrī Rāma.

Editorial sequence 254 of 1,178 · printed citation २४७

Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa

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अहोचित्रमहोचित्रमहोचित्रमिदंपरम् । रामनाम्नि स्थिते लोके संसारं वर्त्तते पुनः ॥२४७॥

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Ah, a wonder! A wonder! A wonder supreme: while Rāma's Name is present in the world, worldly recurrence continues still.

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सुलभो भगवन्नाम जिह्वा च वशवर्तिनी । तथापि नरकं याति किमाश्चर्यमतः परम् ॥

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The Lord's Name is easily available, and the tongue is under one's control; yet one goes to hell—what wonder could be greater than this?

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; first of a three-verse sentence

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मित्रद्रोही कृतघ्नश्च स्तेयी विश्वासघातकः । दुहितासंगमी दुष्टो भ्रातृपत्नीरतस्तथा ॥२४८॥

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One who betrays a friend, is ungrateful, steals, violates trust, commits incest with a daughter, is harmful, or has sex with a brother's wife—

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; second of a three-verse sentence

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विप्रदाररतो यस्तु विप्रवित्तापहारकः । परापवादकारी च बालघाती च वृद्धहा ॥२४९॥

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—one who has sex with a brahmin's wife, steals a brahmin's property, slanders another, kills a child, or kills an elderly person—

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; completion of a three-verse sentence

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स्त्रीजनानां संघाती हिंसकः सर्वदेहिनाम् । मातृगामी गुरुद्रोही रामनाम्ना विशुद्ध्यति ॥२५०॥

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—one who kills women, harms all embodied beings, commits incest with a mother, or betrays a guru is purified, the verse claims, by Rāma's Name.

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; first of a three-verse sentence

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महाचिन्ताऽऽतुरो यस्तु महाधिव्याधिव्याकुलः । ज्वरापस्मारकुष्ठादिमहारोगैः प्रपीडितः ॥२५१॥

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One afflicted by great anxiety, overwhelmed by severe mental and bodily illness, and tormented by major diseases such as fever, epilepsy, and leprosy—

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; second of a three-verse sentence

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महोत्पातमहारिष्टमहाक्रूरग्रहार्दितः । महाशोकाग्निसन्तप्तस्सर्वलोकैस्तिरस्कृतः ॥२५२॥

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—afflicted by great calamity, grave misfortune, or a profoundly cruel planetary influence; scorched by the fire of great grief and rejected by everyone—

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; completion of a three-verse sentence

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महानिन्द्यो निरालम्बो महादुर्भाग्यदुःखितः । महादरिद्री संतापी सुखीस्याद्रामकीर्त्तनात् ॥२५३॥

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—greatly condemned, without support, distressed by profound misfortune, deeply impoverished, or tormented would become happy through chanting Rāma, the verse claims.

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; first of a three-verse sentence

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कामक्रोधातुरः पापी लोभमोहमदोद्धतः । रागद्वेषादिभिर्दग्धो महादुर्वासनाऽऽवृतः ॥२५४॥

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One afflicted by desire and anger, wrongdoing, greed, delusion, and pride; burned by attachment, aversion, and the rest, and enveloped by deeply harmful tendencies—

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; second of a three-verse sentence

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षड्भिरूर्मिभिराक्रान्तः षड्विकारैर्विखिद्यतः । मनोराजकषायाद्यैर्व्याकुलः समुपद्रवैः ॥२५५॥

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—overrun by the six waves, distressed by the six transformations, and agitated by disturbances such as the taints of mental fantasy—

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; completion of a three-verse sentence

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अन्यैश्च विविधोत्पातैर्दारुणैरतिदुःखितः । रामनामानुभावेन परानन्दमवाप्नुयात् ॥२५६॥

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—and greatly distressed by other varied and terrible calamities may attain supreme bliss through the power of Rāma's Name.

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; first of a three-verse rhetorical sequence

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किंतीर्थैः किंव्रतैर्होमैः किंतपोभिः किमध्वरैः । दानैर्ध्यानैश्च किंज्ञानैर्विज्ञानैः किंसमाधिभिः ॥२५७॥

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What need is there of pilgrimage places, vows, fire offerings, austerities, or sacrifices? What need of gifts, meditations, knowledge, realization, or contemplative absorptions?

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; second of a three-verse rhetorical sequence

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किंयोगैः किंविरागैश्च जपैरन्यैः किमर्चनैः । यन्त्रैर्मन्त्रैस्तथातन्त्रैः किमन्यैरुग्रकर्मभिः ॥२५८॥

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What need of yogas or forms of detachment, other repetitions or acts of worship? What need of yantras, mantras, tantras, or other severe rites?

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Second pramoda — Bṛhannāradīya Purāṇa; completion of a three-verse rhetorical sequence

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स्मरणात्कीर्त्तनाच्चैव श्रवणाल्लेखनादपि । दर्शनाद्धारणादेव रामनामाखिलेष्टदम् ॥२५९॥

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For Rāma's Name grants every desired aim through remembrance and chanting, through hearing and even writing, and through seeing and bearing it.

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Second pramoda — Āditya Purāṇa; Mahādeva to Śivā/Pārvatī

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अहं जपामि देवेशि रामनामाक्षरद्वयम् । श्रीसीतायाः स्वरूपस्य ध्यानं कृत्वा हृदिस्थले ॥२६०॥

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O goddess of the gods, I repeat the two syllables of Rāma's Name after meditating upon the form of Śrī Sītā in the place of the heart.

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Second pramoda — Āditya Purāṇa; Mahādeva to Śivā/Pārvatī

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रामनाम्नि स्थितास्सर्वे भ्रातरः परिकरास्तथा । गुणानां निचयं देवि तथा श्रीधाममङ्गलम् ॥२६१॥

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Within Rāma's Name abide all the brothers and attendants, O goddess, as well as the host of virtues and the auspicious sacred abode.

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Second pramoda — Āditya Purāṇa; Āditya/Sūrya to the sages

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रामनामजपादेव भासकोऽहं विशेषतः । तथैव सर्वलोकानां क्रमणे शक्तिवानहम् ॥२६२॥

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Through repetition of Rāma's Name alone I shine forth with special brilliance; through it likewise I possess the power to traverse all the worlds.

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Second pramoda — Āditya Purāṇa; Āditya/Sūrya to the sages

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नामविश्रब्धहीनानां साधनान्तरकल्पना । कृतामहर्षिभिस्सर्वैः परमानन्दनैष्ठिकैः ॥२६३॥

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For those lacking trust in the Name, all the great sages devoted to supreme bliss devised the conception of other disciplines.

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Second pramoda — Āṅgirasa Purāṇa

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नामसङ्कीर्त्तनात्सर्वं मङ्गलं शाश्वतं शुभम् । सामीप्यं रामचन्द्रस्य तथा सर्वार्थसञ्चयः ॥२६४॥

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From chanting the Name come every blessing, enduring auspiciousness, nearness to Rāmacandra, and the gathering of every aim.

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Second pramoda — Āṅgirasa Purāṇa

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श्रीरामेति मनुष्यो यः समुच्चरति सर्वदा । जीवन्मुक्तो भवेत्सो हि साक्षाद्रामात्मकः सुधीः ॥२६५॥

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A person who always utters ‘Śrī Rāma’ becomes liberated while living; that wise person is directly of the nature of Rāma.

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Second pramoda — Āṅgirasa Purāṇa

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सुरद्रुमचयं त्यक्त्वा ह्येरण्डं समुपासते । यस्यान्यसाधने प्रीतिस्त्यक्त्वा श्रीनाममङ्गलम् ॥२६६॥

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One whose love lies in another discipline after abandoning the auspicious holy Name worships a castor-oil plant after forsaking a grove of heavenly trees.

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Second pramoda — Āṅgirasa Purāṇa

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आभ्यन्तरं तथा बाह्यं यस्तु श्रीराममुच्चरेत् । स्वल्पायासेन सङ्काशं जायते हृदिपङ्कजे ॥२६७॥

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For one who utters ‘Śrī Rāma’ inwardly as well as outwardly, radiance arises in the lotus of the heart with little effort.

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Second pramoda — Śuka Purāṇa; Agastya to Sutīkṣṇa

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श्रीमद्रामेतिनामैव जीवनानां च जीवनम् । कीर्त्तनात्सर्वरोगेभ्यो मुच्यते नात्र संशयः ॥२६८॥

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The Name ‘Śrī Rāma’ alone is the life of living beings; through chanting it one is released from every illness, the verse declares without doubt.

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Second pramoda — Śuka Purāṇa; Agastya to Sutīkṣṇa

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ब्रह्माण्डशतदानस्य यत्फलं समुदाहृतम् । तत्फलादधिकं विद्यात्सकृच्छ्रीरामकीर्त्तनात् ॥२६९॥

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Know that chanting Śrī Rāma once brings a result greater than the declared fruit of donating a hundred universes.

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Second pramoda — Śuka Purāṇa; Śiva to Śivā/Pārvatī

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यथैव पावको देवि रजसाच्छन्नतां व्रजेत् । तथा विश्वासहीनानां नास्तिनामार्थवैभवम् ॥२७०॥

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Just as fire, O goddess, becomes covered by dust, so for those without trust the majesty of the Name's meaning is absent.

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Second pramoda — Śuka Purāṇa; Śiva to Śivā/Pārvatī

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अहो भाग्यतराः सर्वे नामसंलग्नमानसाः । पावयन्ति जगत्सर्वं रामनामार्थचिन्तनात् ॥२७१॥

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Ah, all whose minds are attached to the Name are exceedingly fortunate; by contemplating the meaning of Rāma's Name, they purify the whole world.

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Second pramoda — Śuka Purāṇa; Śiva to Śivā/Pārvatī

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यत्प्रभावं समासाद्य शुको ब्रह्मर्षिसत्तमः । जप त्वं तन्महामन्त्रं रामनामरसायनम् ॥२७२॥

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Through attaining its power, Śuka became foremost among brahmarṣis. You should repeat that great mantra, the elixir of Rāma's Name.

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Second pramoda — Purāṇa-saṅgraha; Sūta to Śaunaka

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इदानीं रामनाम्नस्तु रहस्यं प्रवदामि ते । यच्छ्रुत्वा च पठित्वा च नरो याति परां गतिम् ॥२७३॥

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Now I shall tell you the secret of Rāma's Name, hearing and reciting which a person reaches the supreme destination.

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Second pramoda — Purāṇa-saṅgraha; Sūta to Śaunaka

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सर्वेषां मन्त्रवर्गाणां रामनाम परं स्मृतम् । गोप्यं श्रीपार्वतीशस्य जीवनं चित्तशोधकम् ॥२७४॥

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Among every class of mantra, Rāma's Name is remembered as supreme: secret, the very life of Pārvatī's Lord, and a purifier of mind.

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Second pramoda — Purāṇa-saṅgraha; Sūta to Śaunaka

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सुलभं सर्वजीवानामनायासेन सिद्धिदम् । सर्वोपायं विहायाशु जप्तव्यं प्रेमतत्परैः ॥२७५॥

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Available to all living beings and granting accomplishment without exertion, it should quickly be repeated by those intent on love, after relinquishing every other means.

Editorial sequence 284 of 1,178 · printed citation २७६

Second pramoda — Purāṇa-saṅgraha; Sūta to Śaunaka; first of a two-verse sentence

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येन केन प्रकारेण जपन्मोक्षप्रदं नृणाम् । एवंरीत्या जपेद्यस्तु रामनाममनुत्तमम् ॥२७६॥

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In whatever manner one repeats it, it grants liberation to people. Whoever in this way repeats the unsurpassed Name Rāma—

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Second pramoda — Purāṇa-saṅgraha; Sūta to Śaunaka; completion of a two-verse sentence

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तस्य पाणितले सिद्धिरनायासेन सत्वरम् । सत्यं वदामि सिद्धान्तं सर्वं कलिमलापहम् ॥२७७॥

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—for that person, accomplishment rests in the palm of the hand, swiftly and without exertion. I speak the true conclusion: it removes every impurity of Kali.

Editorial sequence 286 of 1,178 · printed citation २७८

Second pramoda — Purāṇa-saṅgraha; Sūta to Śaunaka; first of a three-verse instruction

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पृष्ट्वा रीतिर्यथातथ्यं गुरोः सान्निध्यतो मुने । तत्पश्चादभ्यसेन्नाम सर्वेश्वरमतन्द्रितः ॥२७८॥

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Having accurately asked about the method in the guru's presence, O sage, one should afterward practice the Name, the Lord of all, without weariness—

Editorial sequence 287 of 1,178 · printed citation २७९

Second pramoda — Purāṇa-saṅgraha; Sūta to Śaunaka; second of a three-verse instruction

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स्वल्पाहारं तथानिद्रां स्वल्पवाक्यं निरन्तरम् । मिथ्यासंभाषणं त्यक्त्वा तथा च गमनादिकम् ॥२७९॥

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—with little food, little sleep, and consistently few words, abandoning false conversation as well as wandering and the like—

Editorial sequence 288 of 1,178 · printed citation २८०

Second pramoda — Purāṇa-saṅgraha; Sūta to Śaunaka; completion of a three-verse instruction

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इहैव लभते नित्यं परिकराणां समागमम् । तथा नानारहस्यानां ज्ञानं संजायते ध्रुवम् ॥२८०॥

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—one obtains here itself the constant company of the attendants, and knowledge of many secrets assuredly arises.

Editorial sequence 289 of 1,178 · printed citation २८१

Second pramoda — Purāṇa-saṅgraha; Sūta to Śaunaka

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नाम्नः परात्परैश्वर्यं कथं वाचा वदामि ते । स्मरणाल्लक्ष्यते विश्वं रामरूपेण भास्वरम् ॥२८१॥

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How can I tell you in speech the transcendent sovereignty of the Name? Through remembrance, the universe is perceived as radiant in the form of Rāma.

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Second pramoda — Bhārata-vibhāga

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सर्वलक्षणहीनोऽपि युक्तो वा सर्वपातकैः । सर्वं तरति तत्पापं भावयन्नाममङ्गलम् ॥२८२॥

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Even one devoid of every auspicious mark or joined to every grave wrong crosses beyond all that wrongdoing by contemplating the auspicious Name.

Editorial sequence 291 of 1,178 · printed citation २८३

Second pramoda — Bhārata-vibhāga

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प्राणप्रयाणपाथेयं संसारव्याधिभेषजम् । दुःखशोकपरित्राणं श्रीरामेत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥२८३॥

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The two syllables ‘Śrī Rāma’ are provisions for life's departure, medicine for the illness of worldly existence, and rescue from suffering and grief.

Editorial sequence 292 of 1,178 · printed citation २८४

Second pramoda — Bhārata-vibhāga

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मातृहा पितृहा गोघ्नो ब्रह्महाऽऽचार्यहा मुने । श्वादः पुल्कसको वाऽपि शुद्धेरन् रामनामतः ॥२८४॥

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A killer of a mother, father, cow, brahmin, or teacher, O sage—even a dog-eater or a person historically classed as a pulkasa—would be purified through Rāma's Name, the verse claims.

Editorial sequence 293 of 1,178 · printed citation २८५

Second pramoda — Bhārata-vibhāga; first of a three-verse nominal series

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सर्वमङ्गलमाङ्गल्यं सर्वसिद्धान्तपारगम् । सर्वदेवाधिपं भद्रं सर्वसम्पत्तिकारकम् ॥२८५॥

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The auspiciousness of every blessing, one that has mastered every doctrine, the lord of all gods, beneficent, and the maker of every prosperity—

Editorial sequence 294 of 1,178 · printed citation २८६

Second pramoda — Bhārata-vibhāga; second of a three-verse nominal series

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महानादस्य जनकं महामोक्षस्यहेतुकम् । महाप्रेमरसेशानं महामोदमयं परम् ॥२८६॥

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—the source of the great sound, cause of great liberation, lord of the rasa of great love, filled with great delight, supreme—

Editorial sequence 295 of 1,178 · printed citation २८७

Second pramoda — Bhārata-vibhāga; completion of a three-verse nominal series

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आह्लादकानां सर्वेषां रामनाम परात्परम् । परं ब्रह्म परं धाम परं कारणकारणम् ॥२८७॥

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—Rāma's Name, highest among all that gives delight: the supreme brahman, supreme abode, and supreme cause of causes.

Editorial sequence 296 of 1,178 · printed citation २८८

Second pramoda — Gaṇeśa Purāṇa; Gaṇeśa to the sages

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रामनाम परं ध्येयं ज्ञेयं पेयमहर्निशम् । सर्वदा सद्भिरित्युक्तं पूर्वं मां जगदीश्वरैः ॥२८८॥

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Rāma's Name is supremely to be contemplated, known, and drunk day and night. So the good and the Lords of the world formerly told me at all times.

Editorial sequence 297 of 1,178 · printed citation २८९

Second pramoda — Gaṇeśa Purāṇa; Gaṇeśa to the sages

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अहं पूज्योऽभवं लोके श्रीमन्नामानुकीर्त्तनात् । अतः श्रीरामनाम्नस्तु कीर्त्तनं सर्वदोचितम् ॥२८९॥

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Through repeated chanting of the glorious Name I became worthy of worship in the world; therefore chanting Śrī Rāma's Name is fitting at all times.

Editorial sequence 298 of 1,178 · printed citation २९०

Second pramoda — Gaṇeśa Purāṇa; Gaṇeśa to the sages

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विघ्नानां सन्निहन्तारं दातारं सर्वसम्पदाम् । सुधासारं सदा स्वच्छं निर्विकारं निराश्रयम् ॥२९०॥

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It thoroughly destroys obstacles, gives every prosperity, is the essence of nectar, always pure, without alteration, and without dependence.

Editorial sequence 299 of 1,178 · printed citation २९१

Second pramoda — Nandī Purāṇa; Nandīśvara to Śiva's attendants

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सर्वदा सर्वकालेषु ये वै कुर्वन्ति पातकम् । रामनामजपं कृत्वा यान्ति धाम सनातनम् ॥२९१॥

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Even those who commit grave wrong at all times reach the eternal abode after repeating Rāma's Name, the verse claims.

Editorial sequence 300 of 1,178 · printed citation २९२

Second pramoda — Nandī Purāṇa; Nandīśvara to Śiva's attendants

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हरन् ब्राह्मणसर्वस्वं प्रपन्नघ्नं सुरां पिबन् । अपि भ्रूणं हनन् पूतो जायते नामकीर्त्तनात् ॥२९२॥

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One who steals all a brahmin owns, kills a person who has sought refuge, drinks liquor, or even kills a fetus becomes purified through chanting the Name, the verse claims.

Editorial sequence 301 of 1,178 · printed citation २९३

Second pramoda — Nandī Purāṇa; Nandīśvara to Śiva's attendants

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शृणुध्वं भो गणास्सर्वे रामनाम परं बलम् । यत्प्रसादान्महादेवो हालाहलमपीपिबत् ॥२९३॥

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Listen, all you attendants, to the supreme power of Rāma's Name, by whose grace Mahādeva drank even the Hālāhala poison.

Editorial sequence 302 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Unnumbered vernacular footnote verse attached to printed citation 293

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नाम प्रभाव जान शिव नीको। कालकूट फल दीन्ह अमीको॥

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Śiva knew the Name's power well: it made the deadly poison yield the fruit of nectar.

Editorial sequence 303 of 1,178 · printed citation २९४

Second pramoda — Nandī Purāṇa; Nandīśvara to Śiva's attendants

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जानाति रामनाम्नस्तु परत्वं गिरिजापतिः । ततोऽन्यो न विजानाति सत्यं सत्यं वचो मम ॥२९४॥

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Girijā's Lord knows the supremacy of Rāma's Name; no one other than him truly knows it. True, true is my statement.

Editorial sequence 304 of 1,178 · printed citation २९५

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama

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श्रीरामकीर्त्तने नित्यं यस्य पुंसो न जायते । सलोमपुलकं गात्रं स भवेत्कुलिशोपमः ॥२९५॥

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A man whose body does not continually develop horripilation during chanting of Śrī Rāma is said to be like a thunderbolt.

Editorial sequence 305 of 1,178 · printed citation २९६

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama

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रामनामजपे येषामश्रुपातो भवेन्नहि । त एव खरतुल्यास्तु ह्यपूताः पातकालयाः ॥२९६॥

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Those whose tears do not fall while repeating Rāma's Name are compared by the verse to donkeys, called impure and abodes of wrongdoing.

Editorial sequence 306 of 1,178 · printed citation २९७

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama

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श्रुत्वा श्रीरामनाम्नस्तु वैभवं पारमार्थिकम् । श्रवते न जलं नेत्रात्तन्नेत्रे वै रजोक्षिपेत् ॥२९७॥

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After hearing the ultimate majesty of Śrī Rāma's Name, if water does not flow from the eye, the verse says that dust should be cast into that eye.

Editorial sequence 307 of 1,178 · printed citation २९८

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Puṣkala Muni to the inhabitants of hell

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अहमप्यत्र नामानि कीर्त्तयामि जगत्पते । तानि वः श्रेयसे नित्यं भविष्यन्ति न संशयः ॥२९८॥

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I too chant the Names here, O Lord of the world. They will always conduce to your welfare; there is no doubt.

Editorial sequence 308 of 1,178 · printed citation २९९

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Puṣkala Muni to the inhabitants of hell

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अहो सतां संगममद्भुतंफलं परं पवित्रं नरकादि नाशनम् । कर्तव्यमेतद्धि सदैव सज्जनैः श्रीरामनाम्नि प्रभवेत्परारतिः ॥२९९॥

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Ah, the company of the good bears a wondrous fruit, is supremely purifying, and destroys hell and the like. Good people should always cultivate it, for through it supreme love for Śrī Rāma's Name may arise.

Editorial sequence 309 of 1,178 · printed citation ३००

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Puṣkala Muni to the inhabitants of hell

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सकृत्संकीर्तितो देवः स्मृतो वा मुक्तिदो नृणाम् । स्मरतामहर्निशं नाम न जाने किं फलं भवेत् ॥३००॥

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The Lord, chanted or remembered once, grants liberation to people. What fruit there may be for those who remember the Name day and night, I do not know.

Editorial sequence 310 of 1,178 · printed citation ३०१

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Puṣkala Muni to the inhabitants of hell

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कृतज्ञानां शिरोरत्नं रामनामपरात्परम् । कथं न द्रवते श्रुत्वा स्वनामाह्वानमुत्तमम् ॥३०१॥

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Rāma's Name, higher than the highest and the crown jewel of the grateful—how would it not melt on hearing the excellent invocation of its own name?

Editorial sequence 311 of 1,178 · printed citation ३०२

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Puṣkala Muni to the inhabitants of hell

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किमत्र हाहाकारेण युष्माकमधुना ध्रुवम् । स्मरध्वं रामनामाख्यं मन्त्रं दुःखापहारकम् ॥३०२॥

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What use is your wailing here now? Remember the mantra called Rāma's Name, which removes suffering.

Editorial sequence 312 of 1,178 · printed citation ३०३

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Puṣkala Muni to the inhabitants of hell

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कालं करालमत्यन्तं दृष्ट्वा स्वप्नमिदं जगत् । रामनामजपाच्छिद्रं जागृतिं याति निश्चितम् ॥३०३॥

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Seeing time as utterly fearsome and this world as a dream, through repetition of Rāma's Name one assuredly passes through an opening into wakefulness.

Editorial sequence 313 of 1,178 · printed citation ३०४

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Puṣkala Muni to the inhabitants of hell

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रामनाम्निसुधाधाम्नि कुतर्कं निरयावहम् । समाश्रयन्ति ये पापास्ते महाराक्षसाधमाः ॥३०४॥

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Those whom the verse calls wrongdoers and the lowest of great rākṣasas resort to faulty reasoning that leads to hell concerning Rāma's Name, the abode of nectar.

Editorial sequence 314 of 1,178 · printed citation ३०५

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Puṣkala Muni to the inhabitants of hell

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प्रभाकरस्य सङ्काशं सर्वलोकैकगोचरम् । उलूका नेत्रहीनाश्च नैव पश्यन्ति दुर्भगाः ॥३०५॥

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It is radiant like the sun and perceptible throughout every world; yet owls and people without sight do not see it, whom the verse calls unfortunate.

Editorial sequence 315 of 1,178 · printed citation ३०६

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Bhṛgu's statement

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श्रुत्वा नामानि तत्रस्थास्तेनोक्तानि तथा द्विज । नारका नरकान्मुक्ताः सद्य एव महामुने ॥३०६॥

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Having heard the Names spoken there by him, O twice-born one, the inhabitants of hell were immediately freed from hell, O great sage.

Editorial sequence 316 of 1,178 · printed citation ३०७

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Bhṛgu's statement

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श्वादोऽपि नहि शक्नोति कर्तुं पापानि यत्नतः । तावन्ति यावती शक्ती रामनाम्नोऽशुभक्षये ॥३०७॥

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Even one whom the text calls a dog-eater cannot, despite effort, commit as many wrongs as the power Rāma's Name has to destroy misfortune.

Editorial sequence 317 of 1,178 · printed citation ३०८

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Bhṛgu's statement

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स्वप्नेऽपि नामस्मृतिरादिपुंसः क्षयंकरोत्याहित पापराशिः । प्रयत्नतः किं पुनरादिपुंसः सङ्कीर्त्यते नाम रघूत्तमस्य ॥३०८॥

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Even remembrance in a dream of the Primal Person's Name destroys the accumulated mass of wrongdoing; how much more when the Name of the best of the Raghus, the Primal Person, is chanted with effort?

Editorial sequence 318 of 1,178 · printed citation ३०९

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Bhṛgu's statement

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इदमेव परं भाग्यं प्रशस्यं सद्भिरुत्तमैः । श्रीसीतारामनाम्नस्तु सततं कीर्त्तनं मुने ॥३०९॥

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The finest good people praise this alone as supreme good fortune: constant chanting of Śrī Sītārāma's Name, O sage.

Editorial sequence 319 of 1,178 · printed citation ३१०

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Bhṛgu's statement

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चातुर्यं सर्वथा विप्र इदमेव विनिश्चितम् । नामव्याहरणं नित्यं त्यक्त्वा दुर्वासनादिकम् ॥३१०॥

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This alone, O brahmin, is conclusively held to be wisdom in every respect: uttering the Name constantly after abandoning harmful tendencies and the like.

Editorial sequence 320 of 1,178 · printed citation ३११

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Bhṛgu's statement

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पुरा महर्षयः सर्वे रामनामानुकीर्त्तनात् । सिद्धा ब्रह्मसुखेमग्ना याताः श्रीरामसद्मनि ॥३११॥

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Formerly, through repeated chanting of Rāma's Name, all the great sages attained accomplishment, became immersed in the bliss of brahman, and went to Śrī Rāma's abode.

Editorial sequence 321 of 1,178 · printed citation ३१२

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama; Bhṛgu's statement

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श्रुतं संकीर्त्तितं वाऽपि रामनामाखिलेष्टदम् । दहत्येनांसिसर्वाणि प्रसंगात्किमु भक्तितः ॥३१२॥

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Rāma's Name, granting every desired aim, even when heard or chanted incidentally burns all wrongs; how much more when approached with devotion?

Editorial sequence 322 of 1,178 · printed citation ३१३

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama, another passage; the Supreme Person to Vaiṣṇavas

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मद् भक्ताः सत्यमेतत्तु वाक्यं मे शृणुताधुना । सकृदुच्चार्य मन्नाम मत्तुल्यो जायते नरः ॥३१३॥

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My devotees, hear now this true statement of mine: by uttering my Name once, a person becomes equal to me.

Editorial sequence 323 of 1,178 · printed citation ३१४

Second pramoda — Itihāsottama, another passage; the Supreme Person to Vaiṣṇavas

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रामनाम समं नाम न भूतो न भविष्यति । तस्मात्तदेव संकीर्त्य मुच्यते कर्मबन्धनात् ॥३१४॥

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No name equal to Rāma's Name has existed or will exist. Therefore, by chanting that alone, one is released from the bonds of action.

Editorial sequence 324 of 1,178 · printed citation ३१५

Second pramoda — Laghu Bhāgavata; Vyāsa's statement

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गोवधः स्त्रीवधः स्तेयं पापं ब्रह्मवधादिकम् । श्रीरामकीर्त्तनादेव शतधा याति सत्वरम् ॥३१५॥

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The wrongs of killing a cow, killing a woman, theft, killing a brahmin, and the like swiftly break into a hundred parts through chanting Śrī Rāma, the verse claims.

Editorial sequence 325 of 1,178 · printed citation ३१६

Second pramoda — Laghu Bhāgavata; Vyāsa's statement

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किं तात वेदागमशास्त्रविस्तरैस्तीर्थादिकैरन्यकृतैः प्रयोजनम् । यद्यात्मनो वाञ्छसि मुक्तिकारणं श्रीरामरामेति निरन्तरं रट ॥३१६॥

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What use, dear one, are extensive Vedic, Āgamic, and śāstric works, or pilgrimages and the like performed by others? If you desire a cause of liberation for yourself, continually repeat ‘Śrī Rāma, Rāma.’

Editorial sequence 326 of 1,178 · printed citation ३१७

Second pramoda — Laghu Bhāgavata; Vyāsa's statement

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वर्तमानं च यत्पापं यद्भूतं यद्भविष्यति । तत्सर्वं निर्द्दहत्याशु रामनामानुकीर्त्तनात् ॥३१७॥

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Whatever wrongdoing exists now, existed before, or will exist in the future—all of it is swiftly burned through repeated chanting of Rāma's Name, the verse claims.

Editorial sequence 327 of 1,178 · printed citation ३१८

Second pramoda — Laghu Bhāgavata; Vyāsa's statement

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ते कृतार्थाः मनुष्येषु सुभाग्या नृप निश्चितम् । रामनाम सदाभक्त्या स्मरन्ति स्मारयन्ति ये ॥३१८॥

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Among human beings, O king, those who always remember Rāma's Name with devotion and cause others to remember it have fulfilled their purpose and are surely fortunate.

Editorial sequence 328 of 1,178 · printed citation ३१९

Second pramoda — Laghu Bhāgavata; Vyāsa's statement

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अभक्ष्यभक्षणात्पापमगम्यागमनाच्च यत् । तत्सर्वं विलयं याति सकृद्रामेतिकीर्त्तनात् ॥३१९॥

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Whatever wrong is said to arise from eating forbidden food or having prohibited sexual relations passes entirely away through chanting ‘Rāma’ once, the verse claims.

Editorial sequence 329 of 1,178 · printed citation ३२०

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सदा द्रोहपरो यस्तु सज्जनानां महीतले । जायते पावनो धन्यो रामनाम वदन् सदा ॥३२०॥

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One on earth who is always intent on hostility toward good people becomes pure and blessed by continually speaking Rāma's Name, the verse claims.

Editorial sequence 330 of 1,178 · printed citation ३२१

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श्रीरामेति मुदायुक्तः कीर्त्तयेद्यस्त्वनन्यधीः । पावनेन च धन्येन तेनेयं पृथिवी धृता ॥३२१॥

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One who, with undivided awareness and filled with joy, chants ‘Śrī Rāma’ is pure and blessed; by such a person this earth is sustained.

Editorial sequence 331 of 1,178 · printed citation ३२२

Second pramoda — Prabhāsa Purāṇa

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मधुरालयमदो मुख्यं नाम सर्वेश्वरेश्वरम् । रसनायां स्फुरत्याशु महारासरसालयम् ॥३२२॥

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That Name is an abode of sweetness, foremost, and Lord of every lord; it swiftly manifests upon the tongue as the abode of the rasa of the great rāsa.

Editorial sequence 332 of 1,178 · printed citation ३२३

Second pramoda — Prabhāsa Purāṇa; the Lord to Nārada

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नाम्नां मुख्यतमं नाम श्रीरामाख्यं परन्तप । प्रायश्चित्तमशेषाणां पापानां मोचकं परम् ॥३२३॥

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The Name called Śrī Rāma is foremost among names, O scorcher of foes: the supreme expiation that releases one from all wrongs.

Editorial sequence 333 of 1,178 · printed citation ३२४

Second pramoda — Prabhāsa Purāṇa; the Lord to Nārada

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श्रीरामनाम परं प्राणात्प्रियतरं मम । न हि तस्मात् प्रियः कश्चित् सत्यं जानीहि नारद ॥३२४॥

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Śrī Rāma's Name is supremely dearer to me than life itself. Nothing is dearer than it; know this as true, O Nārada.

Editorial sequence 334 of 1,178 · printed citation ३२५

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नराणां क्षीणपापानां सर्वेषां सुकृतात्मनाम् । इदमेव परं ध्येयं नान्यत्स्वप्नेपि नारद ॥३२५॥

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For people whose wrongs are exhausted and for all whose nature is meritorious, this alone is the supreme object of contemplation—nothing else, even in a dream, O Nārada.

Editorial sequence 335 of 1,178 · printed citation ३२६

Second pramoda — Kālikā Purāṇa

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रामेत्यभिहिते देवे परात्मनि निरामये । असंख्यमखतीर्थानां फलं तेषां भवेद्ध्रुवम् ॥३२६॥

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For those who utter ‘Rāma’ with reference to the stainless divine Supreme Self, the fruit of countless sacrifices and pilgrimages assuredly arises.

Editorial sequence 336 of 1,178 · printed citation ३२७

Second pramoda — Kālikā Purāṇa

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रामनाम प्रभा दिव्या सर्ववेदान्त पारगा । वदन्ति नियतं राजन् ज्ञात्वा सर्वोत्तमोत्तमाः ॥३२७॥

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The very finest among the best, having known it, consistently declare, O king, that the radiance of Rāma's Name is divine and reaches beyond all Vedānta.

Editorial sequence 337 of 1,178 · printed citation ३२८

Second pramoda — Kālikā Purāṇa

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सर्वासामेव शक्तीनां कारणं तमसः परम् । श्रीरामनाम सर्वेशं सौख्यदं शरणार्थिनाम् ॥३२८॥

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Śrī Rāma's Name is the cause of all powers, beyond darkness, Lord of all, and a giver of happiness to those seeking refuge.

Editorial sequence 338 of 1,178 · printed citation ३२९

Second pramoda — Kālikā Purāṇa

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प्राणानां प्राणमित्याहुर्जीवानां जीवनं परम् । मन्त्राणां परमं मन्त्रं रामनाम सदा प्रियम् ॥३२९॥

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They call Rāma's Name the life of lives, the supreme life of living beings, the highest mantra among mantras, and forever dear.

Editorial sequence 339 of 1,178 · printed citation ३३०

Second pramoda — Devī Bhāgavata; Vyāsa to Śuka

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जीवानां दुष्टभावानां कृतघ्नानां तथा शुक । चरितं शृणु भो तात सदा पाप रतात्मनाम् ॥३३०॥

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Hear, dear Śuka, the conduct of living beings of harmful disposition, of the ungrateful, and of those whose selves are always attached to wrongdoing.

Editorial sequence 340 of 1,178 · printed citation ३३१

Second pramoda — Devī Bhāgavata; Vyāsa to Śuka

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श्रीमद्रामेतिनाम्नस्तु प्रभावं वै परात्परम् । ज्ञान वैराग्य हीनानां दृश्यं नैव कदाचन ॥३३१॥

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The transcendent power of the name ‘Śrīmad Rāma’ is never perceived by those devoid of knowledge and detachment.

Editorial sequence 341 of 1,178 · printed citation ३३२

Second pramoda — Devī Bhāgavata; Vyāsa to Śuka

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गर्भमध्ये तु यत्प्रोक्तं करुणानिधिमग्रतः । सततं कीर्त्तनं कुर्वे रामनाम्नः समादरात् ॥३३२॥

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What was declared in the womb before the treasure of compassion was this: ‘I shall constantly chant Rāma's Name with reverence.’

Editorial sequence 342 of 1,178 · printed citation ३३३

Second pramoda — Devī Bhāgavata; Vyāsa to Śuka

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त्यक्त्वा दुराग्रहं सर्वं कुटुम्बादिक संग्रहम् । करिष्यामि सदा भक्त्या तव नामानुकीर्त्तनम् ॥३३३॥

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Abandoning every obstinate attachment and the accumulation of family and the like, I shall always chant your Name with devotion.

Editorial sequence 343 of 1,178 · printed citation ३३४

Second pramoda — Devī Bhāgavata; Vyāsa to Śuka

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तत्सर्वं विस्मृतं ताताधमेनात्मापहारिणा । तस्मात्कष्टतरं दुःखं स प्राप्नोति पुनः पुनः ॥३३४॥

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All that has been forgotten, dear one, by the base person who robs his own self; therefore he undergoes still more grievous suffering again and again.

Editorial sequence 344 of 1,178 · printed citation ३३५

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra

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स्मरणे रामनाम्नस्तु न काल नियमः स्मृतः । भ्रमादुच्चार्यमाणोऽपि सर्व दुःख विनाशनः ॥३३५॥

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For remembrance of Rāma's Name, no restriction of time is prescribed; even when uttered by mistake, it destroys every sorrow.

Editorial sequence 345 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Second pramoda — unnumbered vernacular footnote attached to citation 335

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भाव कुभाव अनख आलस हूँ। नाम जपत मंगलदिसि दस हूँ॥

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With good feeling, bad feeling, anger, or even laziness, repeating the Name brings auspiciousness in all ten directions.

Editorial sequence 346 of 1,178 · printed citation ३३६

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra

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नाम प्रभावं ब्रह्मर्षे रामचन्द्रस्य शाश्वतम् । ब्रवीम्यहं समासेन सेतिहासं निशामय ॥३३६॥

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O brahmarṣi, I shall briefly tell the eternal power of Rāmacandra's Name together with its narrative; listen.

Editorial sequence 347 of 1,178 · printed citation ३३७

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra

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रामेति सततं नाम पाठ्यते सुन्दराक्षरम् । रामनाम परं ब्रह्म सर्ववेदाधिकं महत् ॥३३७॥

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She constantly taught the beautifully lettered Name ‘Rāma’: Rāma's Name is the supreme Brahman, great and higher than all the Vedas.

Editorial sequence 348 of 1,178 · printed citation ३३८

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra

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समस्त पातकध्वंसि स शुकस्तत्तदाऽपठत् । नामोच्चारणमात्रेण तयोश्च शुकवेश्ययोः ॥३३८॥

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That parrot then recited what destroys every wrongdoing. Merely through uttering the Name, for those two—the parrot and the courtesan—

Editorial sequence 349 of 1,178 · printed citation ३३९

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra

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विनष्टमभवत्पापं सर्वमेव सुदारुणम् । रामनाम प्रभावेण तौ गतौ धाम्नि सत्वरम् ॥३३९॥

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all their exceedingly dreadful wrongdoing was destroyed. Through the power of Rāma's Name, the two quickly went to the divine abode.

Editorial sequence 350 of 1,178 · printed citation ३४०

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra

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ईदृशं रामनामेदं जप त्वं द्विजसत्तम । अनायासेन तेऽभीष्टं सर्वं सेत्स्यति नान्यतः ॥३४०॥

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Repeat this Rāma-Name of such a kind, O best of twice-born men; without exertion, everything you desire will be accomplished—not from another means.

Editorial sequence 351 of 1,178 · printed citation ३४१

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra

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विष्णोर्नामानि विप्रेन्द्र सर्ववेदाधिकानि वै । तेषां मध्ये तु तत्वज्ञ रामनाम परं स्मृतम् ॥३४१॥

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Viṣṇu's names are indeed higher than all the Vedas, O lord of brahmins; among them, O knower of truth, Rāma's Name is remembered as supreme.

Editorial sequence 352 of 1,178 · printed citation ३४२

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra

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रामेत्यक्षरयुग्मं हि सर्वमन्त्राधिकं द्विज । यदुच्चारणमात्रेण पापी याति पराङ्गतिम् ॥३४२॥

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The pair of syllables ‘Rāma’ is higher than every mantra, O twice-born one; merely by uttering it, even a wrongdoer goes to the highest state.

Editorial sequence 353 of 1,178 · printed citation ३४३

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra

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रामनामप्रभावं हि सर्ववेदैः प्रपूजितम् । महेश एव जानाति नान्यो जानाति वै मुने ॥३४३॥

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Only Maheśa knows the power of Rāma's Name, which is greatly honored by all the Vedas; no other truly knows it, O sage.

Editorial sequence 354 of 1,178 · printed citation ३४४

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra

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विष्णोर्नामसहस्राणि पठनाद्यल्लभते फलम् । तत्फलं लभते मर्त्यो रामनाम स्मरन् सकृत् ॥३४४॥

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The result one gains by reciting Viṣṇu's thousand names is gained by a mortal who remembers Rāma's Name once.

Editorial sequence 355 of 1,178 · printed citation ३४५

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra; Dharmarāja to his messengers

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दूताः स्मरन्तौ तौ चापि रामनामाक्षरद्वयम् । तदा न मे दण्डनीयौ तयोः सीतापतिः प्रभुः ॥३४५॥

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Messengers, if those two remember the pair of syllables forming Rāma's Name, then they are not to be punished by me, for the Lord of Sītā is their master.

Editorial sequence 356 of 1,178 · printed citation ३४६

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra; Dharmarāja to his messengers

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संसारे नास्ति तत्पापं यद्रामस्मरणैरपि । न याति संक्षयं सद्यो दृढं शृणुत किङ्कराः ॥३४६॥

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In the world there is no wrongdoing that does not at once pass into extinction through remembrances of Rāma; hear this firmly, attendants.

Editorial sequence 357 of 1,178 · printed citation ३४७

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra; Dharmarāja to his messengers

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ये मानवाः प्रतिदिनं रघुनन्दनस्य नामानि- घोरदुरितौघविनाशकानि । भक्त्याऽर्चयन्ति विबुध प्रवरार्चितस्य- ते पापिनोऽपि हि भटा मम नैव दण्ड्याः ॥३४७॥

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Those people who each day devoutly honor the names of Raghunandana—which destroy floods of terrible wrongdoing and belong to him who is honored by the foremost learned ones—even if wrongdoers, O my guards, are certainly not to be punished by me.

Editorial sequence 358 of 1,178 · printed citation ३४८

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra; Dharmarāja to his messengers

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तस्माद्धि सर्वे पुण्याढ्यो गणिका च शुको भटाः । पूजनीयौ च तौ नित्यमस्माभिर्नात्र संशयः ॥३४८॥

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Therefore, guards, the courtesan and the parrot are wholly rich in merit; the two are always to be honored by us—of this there is no doubt.

Editorial sequence 359 of 1,178 · printed citation ३४९

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra; Dharmarāja to his messengers

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तावन्निष्ठन्ति पापानि देहेषु देहिनां वर । रामरामेति यावद्वै न स्मरन्ति सुख प्रदम् ॥३४९॥

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Wrongdoings remain in embodied beings' bodies only so long as they do not remember ‘Rāma, Rāma,’ the giver of happiness, O best of embodied beings.

Editorial sequence 360 of 1,178 · printed citation ३५०

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra; Dharmarāja to his messengers

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श्राद्धे च तर्पणे चैव बलिदाने तथोत्सवे । यज्ञे दाने व्रते चैव देवताराधनेऽपि च ॥३५०॥

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At a śrāddha, a libation, an offering, or a festival; at a sacrifice, gift, vow, or worship of a deity—

Editorial sequence 361 of 1,178 · printed citation ३५१

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अन्येष्वपि च कार्येषु वैदिकेषु विचक्षणैः । तत् स्मरेद्यत्फलं प्रेप्सू रामनामेति भक्तितः ॥३५१॥

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and in other Vedic rites performed by the discerning—one desiring a particular result should devoutly remember this: ‘Rāma's Name.’

Editorial sequence 362 of 1,178 · printed citation ३५२

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मृत्युकाले द्विजश्रेष्ठ रामरामेति यस्स्मरेत् । स पापात्माऽपि परमं मोक्षमाप्नोति मानवः ॥३५२॥

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At the time of death, O best of twice-born men, a person who remembers ‘Rāma, Rāma,’ even if disposed to wrongdoing, attains supreme liberation.

Editorial sequence 363 of 1,178 · printed citation ३५३

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रामेति नाम यात्रायां ये स्मरन्ति मनीषिणः । सर्वसिद्धिर्भवेत्तेषां यात्रायां नात्र संशयः ॥३५३॥

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The wise who remember the name ‘Rāma’ on a journey obtain every success in that journey; of this there is no doubt.

Editorial sequence 364 of 1,178 · printed citation ३५४

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra; Dharmarāja to his messengers

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राजद्वारे तथा दुर्गे विदेशे दस्युसंगमे । दुःस्वप्नदर्शने चैव ग्रहपीडासु वै मुने ॥३५४॥

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At a king's gate, in a fortress, abroad, in an encounter with robbers, on seeing a bad dream, or amid afflictions ascribed to planets, O sage—

Editorial sequence 365 of 1,178 · printed citation ३५५

Second pramoda — Kriyāyogasāra; Dharmarāja to his messengers

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अरण्ये प्रान्ते वाऽपि श्मशाने च भयानके । रामनाम स्मरेत्तस्य विद्यन्ते नापदो द्विज ॥३५५॥

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in a forest, at a frontier, or in a fearsome cremation ground—a twice-born person should remember Rāma's Name; for him no calamities arise.

Editorial sequence 366 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Second pramoda — unnumbered vernacular footnote attached to citation 355; printed as Mānas 3.31.6

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जाकर नाम मरत मुख आवा। अधमउ मुकुत होइ श्रुति गावा॥ (मानस ३.३१.६)

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If his Name comes to the mouth while one is dying, even the lowest becomes liberated—so the revealed tradition has sung.

Editorial sequence 367 of 1,178 · printed citation ३५६

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औत्पातिके महाघोरे राजरोगादिके भये । रामनाम स्मरन् मर्त्यो लभते नाशुभं क्वचित् ॥३५६॥

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Amid a greatly dreadful upheaval or fear from a royal disease and the like, a mortal remembering Rāma's Name encounters nothing inauspicious anywhere.

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रामनाम द्विजश्रेष्ठ सर्वाशुभ निवारणम् । कामदं मोक्षदं चैव स्मर्तव्यं सततं बुधैः ॥३५७॥

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Rāma's Name, O best of twice-born men, wards off every inauspicious thing, grants desires, and grants liberation; the wise should remember it constantly.

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रामनामेति विप्रर्षे यस्मिन् स्मर्यते क्षणे । क्षणः स एव व्यर्थस्स्यात्सत्यमेव मयोच्यते ॥३५८॥

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O brahmin seer, in whatever moment Rāma's Name is remembered, that very moment would be fruitless; I tell you this as truth.

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स्मरन्ति रामनामानि नावसीदन्ति मानवाः । सत्यं वदामि ते नित्यं महामङ्गल कारणम् ॥३५९॥

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People who remember Rāma's names do not sink into distress. I tell you truly: it is forever a cause of great auspiciousness.

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जन्मकोटि दुरित क्षयमिच्छुर्मुमुक्षुं च लभते भुवि मर्त्यः । रामनाम सततं यदि भक्त्या मोक्षदाय मधुरं स्मरतु स्म ॥३६०॥

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A mortal on earth who desires the destruction of wrongs from crores of births and seeks liberation obtains an unstated result; let that person constantly and devoutly remember the sweet Rāma-Name, said to give liberation.

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अहो चरित्रं जीवानां दुष्टानां पाप कर्मणाम् । रामेति मुक्तिदं नाम न स्मरन्ति नराधमाः ॥३६१॥

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Alas for the conduct of beings who are harmful and do wrongful deeds: those people whom the verse calls lowest do not remember the liberating name ‘Rāma.’

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अहर्निशं नाम परात्परेश्वरं जपन्ति ये ते सुखदाः सदा शिवाः । तेषां पदस्पर्शरजोभिषेकात् सदैव पूताः किल पापिनो द्विजाः ॥३६२॥

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Those who repeat day and night the Name that is the transcendent Lord are always auspicious and givers of happiness. By bathing in dust touched by their feet, even wrongdoers among the twice-born are, the verse says, forever purified.

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सहस्रास्येन शेषोऽपि रामनाम स्मरत्यलम् । तत्प्रभावेण ब्रह्माण्डं धृत्वा क्लेशं विना द्विज ॥३६३॥

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Even Śeṣa, with a thousand mouths, remembers Rāma's Name fully; through its power he bears the cosmic egg without distress, O twice-born one.

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वक्तुं श्रमो न चाल्पोऽपि श्रोतुमत्यन्त मोददम् । तथापि रामनामेदं न स्मरन्ति दुराशयाः ॥३६४॥

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Uttering it requires not even slight effort, and hearing it gives utmost joy; even so, people of harmful intent do not remember this Rāma-Name.

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अत्यन्त दुःखलभ्योऽपि सुमुक्तिर्जन्म कोटिभिः । लभ्यते रामनाम्नैव कर्मास्ति किमतः परम् ॥३६५॥

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Although excellent liberation is obtained only with extreme difficulty over crores of births, it is gained through Rāma's Name alone; what practice is higher than this?

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रामनामामृतं स्वादु कथं वाचा वदामि ते । स्मरणादेव ज्ञातव्यं सर्वदा बुध सत्तमैः ॥३६६॥

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How can I tell you in speech how sweet the nectar of Rāma's Name is? The finest wise people should always come to know it through remembrance itself.

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सर्वकृत्यं कृतं तेन येनोक्तं नाम मुक्तिदम् । नातः परतरं वस्तु क्वचित् संदृश्यते द्विज ॥३६७॥

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Every duty has been performed by one who has uttered the Name that grants liberation; no thing higher than this is seen anywhere, O twice-born one.

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यावच्छ्रीरामनाम्नस्तु सुप्रतापं हृदिस्थले । नायाति सम्भ्रमन्तीह विमुखाः सर्वयोनिषु ॥३६८॥

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So long as the splendid power of Śrī Rāma's Name does not enter the heart, those who have turned away wander confused here through every womb.

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रामनाम जप तत्परो जनो यत्फलं लभते तन्निरूपणे । याति नैव श्रमतोऽपि कदाचिच्छिवा श्रुति शेष गणेशाः ॥३६९॥

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In describing the result obtained by a person wholly devoted to repeating Rāma's Name, Śivā, revealed tradition, Śeṣa, and Gaṇeśa never reach completion, even with effort.

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मानुषं जन्म सम्प्राप्य यैर्नोक्तमक्षरद्वयम् । ते पिशाचास्तु चाण्डालास्सर्व प्रेत प्रपूजिताः ॥३७०॥

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Those who, after obtaining human birth, have not uttered the pair of syllables are called by the verse piśācas and caṇḍālas, honored by all departed spirits.

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रामनाम सदा ग्राही रामनाम प्रियः सदा । भक्तिं तस्मै प्रदास्यामि न च मुक्तिं कदाचन ॥३७१॥

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To one who always takes up Rāma's Name and always loves Rāma's Name, I shall grant devotion—and never liberation.

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गायन्ति रामनामानि वैष्णवाश्च युगे युगे । त्यक्त्वा च सर्वकर्माणि धर्माणि च कपिध्वज ॥३७२॥

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Age after age, Vaiṣṇavas sing Rāma's names, abandoning all rites and religious duties, O monkey-bannered Arjuna.

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रामनामैव नामैव रामनामैव केवलम् । गतिस्तेषां गतिस्तेषां गतिस्तेषां सुनिश्चितम् ॥३७३॥

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Rāma's Name alone—the Name alone, Rāma's Name alone—is their destination, their destination, their destination: this is firmly certain.

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श्रद्धया हेलया नाम वदन्ति मनुजा भुवि । तेषां नास्ति भयं पार्थ रामनामप्रसादतः ॥३७४॥

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People on earth who utter the Name with faith or with disregard have no fear, O Pārtha, through the grace of Rāma's Name.

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रामनाम रता यत्र गच्छन्ति प्रेम सम्प्लुताः । भक्तांस्ताननुगच्छन्ति मुक्तयः स्तुतिभिस्सह ॥३७५॥

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Wherever those absorbed in Rāma's Name, flooded with love, go, the liberations follow those devotees together with songs of praise.

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मानवा ये सुधासारं रामनाम जपन्ति हि । ते धन्या मृत्यु सन्त्रासरहिता रामवल्लभाः ॥३७६॥

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Those people who repeat Rāma's Name, the essence of nectar, are blessed, free from the terror of death, and dear to Rāma.

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नामैव परमा मुक्तिर्नामैव परमा गतिः । नामैव परमा शान्तिर्नामैव परमा मतिः ॥३७७॥

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The Name alone is supreme liberation; the Name alone is the supreme destination. The Name alone is supreme peace; the Name alone is supreme understanding.

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नामैव परमा भक्तिर्नामैव परमा धृतिः । नामैव परमा प्रीतिर्नामैव परमा स्मृतिः ॥३७८॥

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The Name alone is supreme devotion; the Name alone is supreme steadfastness. The Name alone is supreme love; the Name alone is supreme remembrance.

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नामैव परमं पुण्यं नामैव परमं तपः । नामैव परमो धर्मो नामैव परमो गुरुः ॥३७९॥

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The Name alone is supreme merit; the Name alone is supreme austerity. The Name alone is the supreme dharma; the Name alone is the supreme teacher.

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नामैव परमं ज्ञानं नामैव चाखिलं जगत् । नामैव जीवनं जन्तोर्नामैव विपुलं धनम् ॥३८०॥

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The Name alone is supreme knowledge, and the Name alone is the entire world. The Name alone is a creature's life; the Name alone is abundant wealth.

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नामैव जगतां सत्यं नामैव जगतां प्रियम् । नामैव जगतां ध्यानं नामैव जगतां परम् ॥३८१॥

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The Name alone is the truth of the worlds; the Name alone is what the worlds love. The Name alone is the worlds' contemplation; the Name alone is what lies beyond the worlds.

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नामैव शरणं जन्तोर्नामैव जगतां गुरुः । नामैव जगतां बीजं नामैव पावनं परम् ॥३८२॥

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The Name alone is a creature's refuge; the Name alone is the teacher of the worlds. The Name alone is the seed of the worlds; the Name alone is the supreme purifier.

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रामनाम रता ये च ते वै श्रीरामभावुकाः । तेषां संदर्शनादेव भवेद्भक्तो रसात्मिका ॥३८३॥

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Those who are absorbed in Rāma's Name are indeed connoisseurs of Śrī Rāma; merely by seeing them, devotion becomes constituted of rasa.

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कामादि गुण संयुक्ता नाममात्रैक बान्धवाः । प्रीतिं कुर्वन्ति ते पार्थ न तथा जित षड्गुणाः ॥३८४॥

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Those joined to qualities such as desire, whose sole companion is the Name, show love, O Pārtha, in a way that those who have conquered the six qualities do not.

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तं देशं पतितं मन्ये यत्र नास्ति सु वैष्णवः । रामनामपरो नित्यं परानन्द विवर्द्धनः ॥३८५॥

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I regard as fallen that land where there is no good Vaiṣṇava who is constantly devoted to Rāma's Name and increases supreme joy.

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रामनाम रता जीवा न पतन्ति कदाचन । इन्द्राद्यास्सम्पतन्त्यन्ते तथा चान्येऽधिकारिणः ॥३८६॥

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Beings absorbed in Rāma's Name never fall; Indra and the others, as well as other office-holders, fall completely in the end.

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राम स्मरण मात्रेण प्राणान्मुञ्चन्ति ये नराः । फलं तेषां न पश्यामि भजामि तांश्च पार्थिव ॥३८७॥

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Those people who relinquish their lives with the mere remembrance of Rāma—I do not see their result, and I honor them, O king.

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नाम स्मरण मात्रेण नरो याति निरापदम् । ये स्मरन्ति सदा रामं तेषां ज्ञानेन किं फलम् ॥३८८॥

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Through the mere remembrance of the Name, a person goes to a state without calamity. For those who always remember Rāma, what result is there from knowledge?

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नामैव जगतां बन्धुर्नामैव जगतां प्रभुः । नामैव जगतां जन्म नामैव सचराचरम् ॥३८९॥

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The Name alone is the friend of the worlds; the Name alone is the Lord of the worlds. The Name alone is the worlds' origin; the Name alone is everything moving and unmoving.

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नाम्नैव धार्यते विश्वं नाम्नैव पाल्यते जगत् । नाम्नैव नीयते धाम नाम्नैव भुज्यते फलम् ॥३९०॥

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By the Name alone the universe is upheld; by the Name alone the world is protected. By the Name alone the abode is reached; by the Name alone the result is experienced.

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नाम्नैव गृह्यते नाम गोप्यं परतरात्परम् । नाम्नैव कार्यते कर्म नाम्नैव नीयते फलम् ॥३९१॥

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By the Name alone the Name—secret and higher than the highest—is received. By the Name alone action is made to occur; by the Name alone its result is conveyed.

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नामैव चाङ्गशास्त्राणां तात्पर्यार्थमुत्तमम् । नामैव वेद सारांशं सिद्धान्तं सर्वदा शिवम् ॥३९२॥

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The Name alone is the highest intended meaning of the ancillary scriptures; the Name alone is the Vedas' essence and their ever-auspicious conclusion.

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नाम्नैव नीयते मेधा परे ब्रह्मणि निश्चला । नाम्नैव चञ्चलं चित्तं मनस्तस्मिन्प्रलीयते ॥३९३॥

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By the Name alone, understanding is led to become steady in the supreme Brahman; by the Name alone, the restless mind and mental faculty dissolve into it.

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श्रीरामस्मरणेनैव नरो याति पराङ्गतिम् । सत्यं सत्यं सदा सत्यं न जाने नामजं फलम् ॥३९४॥

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Through remembrance of Śrī Rāma alone, a person goes to the highest destination. True, true, always true: I do not know the result born from the Name.

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रामनाम प्रभावोऽयं सर्वोत्तम उदाहृतः । समासेन तथा पार्थ वक्ष्येऽहं तव हेतवे ॥३९५॥

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This most excellent power of Rāma's Name has been declared; and now, O Pārtha, I shall speak concisely for your sake.

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न नाम सदृशं ध्यानं न नाम सदृशो जपः । न नाम सदृशस्त्यागो न नाम सदृशी गतिः ॥३९६॥

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No contemplation equals the Name; no repetition equals the Name. No renunciation equals the Name; no destination equals the Name.

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न नाम सदृशं तीर्थं न नाम सदृशं तपः । न नाम सदृशं कर्म न नाम सदृशः शमः ॥३९७॥

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No pilgrimage place equals the Name; no austerity equals the Name. No rite equals the Name; no tranquility equals the Name.

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न नाम सदृशी मुक्तिर्न नाम सदृशः प्रभुः । ये गृह्णन्ति सदा नाम त एव जित षड्गुणाः ॥३९८॥

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No liberation equals the Name; no Lord equals the Name. Those who always take up the Name are themselves the conquerors of the six qualities.

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कुर्वन् वा कारयन्वाऽपि रामनामजपस्तथा । नीत्वा कुल सहस्राणि परंधामाधिगच्छति ॥३९९॥

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Whether performing or causing the repetition of Rāma's Name to be performed, one leads thousands of families and reaches the supreme abode.

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नाम्नैव नीयते पुण्यं नाम्नैव नीयते तपः । नाम्नैव नीयते धर्मो जगदेतच्चराचरम् ॥४००॥

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By the Name alone merit is conveyed; by the Name alone austerity is conveyed. By the Name alone dharma is conveyed—as is this world of moving and unmoving beings.

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रामनाम प्रभावेण सर्व सिद्धीश्वरो भवेत् । विश्वासेनैव श्रीरामनाम जाप्यं सदा बुधैः ॥४०१॥

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Through the power of Rāma's Name, one may become lord of every accomplishment; the wise should therefore always repeat Śrī Rāma's Name with confidence.

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शान्तो दान्तः क्षमाशीलो रामनाम परायणः । असंख्य कुलजानां वै तारणे सर्वदा क्षमः ॥४०२॥

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One who is tranquil, self-controlled, patient, and devoted to Rāma's Name is always capable of carrying across beings born in countless families.

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ये नाम युक्ता विचरन्ति भूमौ त्यक्त्वाऽर्थकामान्विषयांश्च भोगान् । तेषां च भक्तिः परमा च निष्ठा सदैव शुद्धा शुभगा भवन्ति ॥४०३॥

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Those joined to the Name wander the earth, having abandoned wealth, desire, sense objects, and enjoyments; their devotion and supreme steadfastness are always pure and auspicious.

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स्मरन्त्यो रामनामानि त्यक्त्वा कर्मापि चाखिलम् । स पूतः सर्वपापेभ्यः पद्मपत्रमिवाम्भसा ॥४०४॥

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Those who remember Rāma's names, having abandoned every rite—the verse then shifts to singular—he is purified from all wrongs, like a lotus leaf by water.

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त्यक्त्वा श्रीरामनामानि कर्म कुर्वन्ति येऽधमाः । तेषां कर्माणि बन्धाय न सुखाय कदाचन ॥४०५॥

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Those whom the verse calls lowest abandon Śrī Rāma's names and perform rites; their rites lead to bondage and never to happiness.

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यस्य चेतसि श्रीराम नाम माङ्गलिकं परम् । स जित्वा सकलाँल्लोकान् परंधाम परिव्रजेत् ॥४०६॥

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One in whose mind Śrī Rāma's Name is supremely auspicious may conquer all the worlds and journey to the supreme abode.

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नाम युक्ता जना पार्थ जात्यन्तर समन्विताः । प्रीतिं कुर्वन्ति श्रीरामं न तथा नष्ट षड्गुणाः ॥४०७॥

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People joined to the Name, O Pārtha, though associated with another birth-group, love Śrī Rāma in a way that those whose six qualities are destroyed do not.

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गायन्ति रामनामानि सततं ये जना भुवि । नमस्तेभ्यो नमस्तेभ्यो नमस्तेभ्यः पुनः पुनः ॥४०८॥

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To those people on earth who constantly sing Rāma's names: homage to them, homage to them, homage to them again and again.

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रामनामाश्रया ये वै भावुकाः प्रेम सम्प्लुताः । ते कृतार्थास्सदा तात सत्यं सत्यं न चान्यथा ॥४०९॥

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Those sensitive devotees who take refuge in Rāma's Name and are flooded with love are always fulfilled, dear one—true, true, and not otherwise.

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इति विज्ञापितं तात स्वया बुद्ध्या विधारय । रामनाम प्रसादेन सर्वं सुखमवाप्स्यसि ॥४१०॥

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Thus has this been communicated, dear one; determine it with your own understanding. Through the grace of Rāma's Name, you will obtain every happiness.

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तां नामगाथां विचरन्ति भूमौ गीत्वा सदा ते पुरुषाः सुधन्याः । ये नामगाथा परतत्त्वनिष्ठास्ते धन्य धन्याः भुवि कृत्य पुण्याः ॥४११॥

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Those greatly blessed people always wander the earth singing that account of the Name. Those steadfast in the supreme truth of the Name's account are blessed, blessed upon earth, their sacred work accomplished.

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रामनाम जनासक्तो रामनाम जनप्रियः । स पूतो निर्विकल्पश्च सर्वपापबहिर्मुखः ॥४१२॥

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One attached to people of Rāma's Name and dear to people of Rāma's Name is pure, free from conceptual alternatives, and turned away from every wrongdoing.

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रामनाम प्रसङ्गेन ये जपन्तीह चार्जुन । तेऽपि ध्वस्ताखिलाघौघा यान्ति रामास्पदं परम् ॥४१३॥

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Those who repeat Rāma's Name here incidentally as well, O Arjuna, have every flood of wrongdoing destroyed and go to Rāma's supreme abode.

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घोषयेन्नाम निर्वाण कारणं यस्त्वनन्य धीः । तस्य पुण्यफलं पार्थ वक्तुं कैः शक्यते भुवि ॥४१४॥

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Whoever, with undivided understanding, proclaims the Name as the cause of liberation—by whom on earth can that person's meritorious result be described, O Pārtha?

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तस्मान्नामानि कौन्तेय भजस्व-दृढ चेतसा । रामनाम समायुक्तास्ते मे प्रियतमास्सदा ॥४१५॥

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Therefore honor the Names with a resolute mind, O son of Kuntī. Those joined to Rāma's Name are always most dear to me.

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सततं नाम गायन्ति विनिर्विण्णेन चेतसा । तेषां मध्ये सदा वासः श्रीरामस्य विशेषतः ॥४१६॥

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Those who constantly sing the Name with a mind free from distress have Śrī Rāma dwelling especially and always in their midst.

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श्रद्धया हेलया वाऽपि गायन्ति नाम मङ्गलम् । तेषां मध्ये परं नाम वसेन्नित्यं न संशयः ॥४१७॥

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Whether with faith or even with disregard, those who sing the auspicious Name have the supreme Name dwelling always in their midst; there is no doubt.

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न तत्र विस्मयः कार्यो भवता रामनाम्नि च । सत्यं वदामि ते पार्थ प्रियाय मम चात्मने ॥४१८॥

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You should not be astonished there concerning Rāma's Name. I tell the truth to you, O Pārtha, who are dear to me as my own self.

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यन्नाम स्मरतो नित्यं महाह्यज्ञान बन्धनम् । छिद्यते चाश्रमेणैव तमहं राघवं भजे ॥४१९॥

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When his Name is constantly remembered, the great bond of ignorance is cut without toil; I worship that Rāghava.

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श्रद्धया परया युक्तो रामनाम परायणः । करोति जानकीजानिस्तस्य चिन्तां पुनः पुनः ॥४२०॥

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For one endowed with supreme faith and devoted to Rāma's Name, Jānakī's Lord gives thought again and again.

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अशेष पातकैर्युक्तः सर्वदोष परिप्लुतः । स पूतः सर्वपापेभ्यो यस्य नाम परन्तप ॥४२१॥

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Though joined to every wrongdoing and flooded by every fault, he is purified from every wrong; the verse then ends elliptically, ‘whose Name, O scorcher of foes.’

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रामनाम सदा प्रेम्णा संस्मरामि जगद्गुरुम् । क्षणं न विस्मृतिं याति सत्यं सत्यं वचो मम ॥४२२॥

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With love I always remember Rāma's Name, the teacher of the world. It does not pass into forgetfulness for even a moment—true, true is my statement.

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पर निन्दा समायुक्तः परदार परायणः । स पूतः सर्वपापेभ्यो यस्य नाम परन्तप ॥४२३॥

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Though engaged in slandering others and devoted to another's spouse, he is purified from every wrong; the verse then ends elliptically, ‘whose Name, O scorcher of foes.’

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पर हिंसा समायुक्तो लोभमोहसमाकुलः । सः पूतः सर्वपापेभ्यो यस्य नाम्नि सदा रुचिः ॥४२४॥

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Though engaged in violence against others and overcome by greed and delusion, one who always delights in the Name is purified from every wrong.

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अशेष पातकैर्याप्ताः स्वधर्म परिवर्जिताः । एते तरन्ति पापिष्ठा रामनाम प्रसादतः ॥४२५॥

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Pervaded by every wrongdoing and excluded from their own dharma, even these whom the verse calls most sinful cross over through the grace of Rāma's Name.

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निष्ठन्ति रामनामानि तिष्ठन्ति वदनानि च । तथापि नरके मूढाः पतन्तीत्यद्भुतं महत् ॥४२६॥

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Rāma's names are present, and mouths are present; even so, those whom the verse calls fools fall into hell—this is a great wonder.

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गायन्ति रामनामानि कर्म कुर्वन्ति चाखिलम् । स याति परमं स्थानं रामेण सह मोदते ॥४२७॥

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They sing Rāma's names and perform every rite; the verse then shifts to singular—he goes to the supreme place and rejoices with Rāma.

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विसृज्य रामनामानि कर्म कुर्वन्ति चाखिलम् । किमाश्चर्यं किमाश्चर्यं किमाश्चर्यं धनञ्जय ॥४२८॥

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Abandoning Rāma's names, they perform every rite. What a wonder, what a wonder, what a wonder, O Dhanañjaya!

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शान्तो दान्तः क्षमाशीलो रामनामार्थ चिन्तकः । तस्य सद्गुण संख्यानं वक्तुं नैव क्षमोऽप्यहम् ॥४२९॥

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Of one who is tranquil, self-controlled, patient, and contemplative of the meaning of Rāma's Name, even I am wholly unable to state the number of good qualities.

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विसृज्य रामनामानि कर्म कुर्वन्ति ये नराः । अप्राप्य सद्गतिं पार्थ भ्रमन्ति कर्म वर्त्मसु ॥४३०॥

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People who abandon Rāma's names and perform rites fail to attain the good destination, O Pārtha, and wander along the paths of action.

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राम नाम अवलम्बबिनु परमारथकी आस। बरसत वारिद बूंद गहि चाहत चढ़न अकास॥ राम नाम को अंक है सब साधन है शून। अंक गये कछु हाथ नहीं अंक रहे दस गुन॥

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Without reliance on Rāma's Name, hope for the supreme aim is like wishing to climb the sky by grasping raindrops from a raining cloud. Rāma's Name is the digit and all practices are zeros: when the digit is gone, nothing remains in hand; when the digit remains, they become tenfold.

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सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय भ्रमन्ति ते नराधमाः । विसृज्य रामनामानि माया मोहित चेतसः ॥४३१॥

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Abandoning Rāma's names, their minds deluded by māyā, those whom the verse calls lowest wander through every womb, O son of Kuntī.

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यदृच्छयापि श्रीरामनाम गृह्णन्ति सादरम् । स पूतः सर्वपापेभ्यो रामनाम प्रसादतः ॥४३२॥

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Even if they take up Śrī Rāma's Name by chance and with respect, the verse then shifts to singular—he is purified from every wrong through the grace of Rāma's Name.

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येनकेन प्रकारेण नाममात्रैक जल्पकाः । श्रमं विनैव गच्छन्ति परे धाम्नि समादरात् ॥४३३॥

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By whatever means, those who utter the Name alone go without effort and with honor to the supreme abode.

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नामयुक्ताज्जनान् दृष्ट्वा यः पश्येत् सादरं सखे । स याति परमं स्थानं रामेण सह मोदते ॥४३४॥

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A person who, having seen people joined to the Name, regards them with respect, dear friend, goes to the supreme place and rejoices with Rāma.

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नामयुक्ताज्जनान् दृष्ट्वा प्रणमन्ति च ये नराः । ते पूतास्सर्वपापेभ्यः कर्मणा तेन हेतुना ॥४३५॥

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People who see and bow to those joined to the Name are purified from every wrong through that very act as the cause.

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नामयुक्ताज्जनान् दृष्ट्वा स्निग्धो भवति यो नरः । स याति परमं स्थानं परमानन्द सागरम् ॥४३६॥

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A person who becomes tender on seeing those joined to the Name goes to the supreme place, the ocean of highest joy.

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गीत्वा च रामनामानि विचरेद्राम सन्निधौ । इदं ब्रवीमि ते सत्यं तस्य वश्यो जगत्पतिः ॥४३७॥

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One should wander in Rāma's presence while singing Rāma's names. I tell you this truly: the Lord of the world is subject to that person.

Editorial sequence 450 of 1,178 · printed citation ४३८

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गीत्वा च रामनामानि ये रुदन्ति नरोत्तमाः । तेषां हरिः परिक्रीतो परमेशेन संयुक्तः ॥४३८॥

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For the finest people who weep while singing Rāma's names, Hari is purchased, joined with the Supreme Lord.

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गीत्वा च रामनामेति पतन्ति भुवि ये नराः । ते वै धन्यातिधन्याश्च वैष्णवानां शिरोमणिः ॥४३९॥

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Those people who fall upon the earth singing ‘Rāma's Name’ are indeed blessed beyond the blessed—and, with the verse shifting to singular, the crest-jewel of Vaiṣṇavas.

Editorial sequence 452 of 1,178 · printed citation ४४०

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यदृच्छया न गृह्णन्ति रामनामेति मङ्गलम् । अदृश्यास्ते जनाः पार्थ दृष्टिमात्रेण वर्जिताः ॥४४०॥

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People who do not take up the auspicious words ‘Rāma's Name’ even by chance are, the verse says, not to be seen, O Pārtha—excluded by mere sight.

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स्वप्नेऽपि रामनाम्नस्तु येषामुच्चारणं नहि । भाग्यहीनास्तु ते नीचाः पापिनामग्रगामिनः ॥४४१॥

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Those by whom Rāma's Name is not uttered even in a dream are called by the verse luckless, low, and foremost among wrongdoers.

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भिक्षया ये न गृह्णन्ति रामनाम परमेश्वरम् । लोकोपचारनिरतास्ते वै पाखण्डिनो ध्रुवम् ॥४४२॥

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Those who do not take up Rāma's Name, the Supreme Lord, through entreaty, being devoted to worldly convention, are certainly called hypocrites by the verse.

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रामनाम जपाज्जीवा अनायासेन संसृतिम् । तरन्त्येव तरन्त्येव तरन्त्येव सुनिश्चितम् ॥४४३॥

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Through repetition of Rāma's Name, beings cross saṃsāra without effort—they cross indeed, they cross indeed, they cross indeed: this is firmly certain.

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भवत्येव भवत्येव भवत्येव महामते । सर्वपाप परिख्यातास्तरन्ति नामबान्धवाः ॥४४४॥

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It happens indeed, it happens indeed, it happens indeed, O greatly wise one: those known for every wrongdoing who are friends of the Name cross over.

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नमोस्तु नामरूपाय नमोस्तु नामजल्पिने । नमोस्तु नाम साध्याय वेदवेद्याय शाश्वते ॥४४५॥

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Homage to the one whose form is the Name; homage to the one who utters the Name. Homage to the one attained through the Name, eternal and knowable through the Vedas.

Editorial sequence 458 of 1,178 · printed citation ४४६

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नमोस्तु नाम नित्याय नमो नामप्रभाविने । नमोस्तु नामशुद्धाय नमो नाममयाय च ॥४४६॥

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Homage to the one eternal as the Name; homage to the one powerful through the Name. Homage to the one pure as the Name, and homage to the one consisting of the Name.

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श्रीरामनाम माहात्म्यं यः पठेच्छ्रद्धयान्वितः । स याति परमं स्थानं रामनाम प्रसादतः ॥४४७॥

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One who, endowed with faith, reads the greatness of Śrī Rāma's Name goes to the supreme place through the grace of Rāma's Name.

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रामनामार्थमुत्कृष्टं पवित्रं पावनं परम् । ये ध्यायन्ति सदा स्नेहात्ते कृतार्थाः जगत्त्रये ॥४४८॥

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Those who always lovingly contemplate the excellent, pure, and supremely purifying meaning of Rāma's Name are fulfilled throughout the three worlds.

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श्रीमद्रामस्य नाम्नस्तु प्रभावं निर्मलं मुने । जपावेशवशेनैव ज्ञायते सज्जनैः क्वचित् ॥४४९॥

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The stainless power of glorious Rāma's Name, O sage, is known here and there by good people only through absorption in repetition.

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मनोरथप्रदातारं सज्जनानां परं प्रियम् । लौकिकीं दुर्भगां ब्रीडां हन्तारं नाम सद्यशः ॥४५०॥

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The good fame of the Name grants wishes, is supremely dear to good people, and destroys worldly misfortune and shame.

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सकृदुच्चरितः शब्दो रामनाम्ना विभूषितः । कुरुते नामवत्कार्यं सर्वं मोक्षावधिं नृणाम् ॥४५१॥

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A word adorned with Rāma's Name, uttered once, performs for people every function that the Name does, extending as far as liberation.

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परत्वं परमं नाम्नो विदितं सर्वतः श्रुतौ । अबुधाः नैव जानन्ति सम्पतन्ति भवार्णवे ॥४५२॥

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The Name's supreme transcendence is known everywhere in revealed tradition; those whom the verse calls unwise do not know it and fall into the ocean of becoming.

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सकर्मोपासना ज्ञानमनायासेन सिद्धयति । रामनाम यदा जिह्वा सञ्जपत्यखिलेश्वरम् ॥४५३॥

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Ritual action, worship, and knowledge are accomplished without effort when the tongue properly repeats Rāma's Name, the Lord of all.

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Second pramoda — Kāśī Khaṇḍa; Śrī Śiva's speech

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पेयं पेयं श्रवणपुटके रामनामाभिरामं ध्येयं ध्येयं मनसि सततं तारकं ब्रह्मरूपम् । जल्पञ्जल्पन् प्रकृतिविकृतौ प्राणिनां कर्णमूले वीथ्यां वीथ्यामटतिजटिलः कोऽपि काशी निवासी ॥४५४॥

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Drink, drink delightful Rāma's Name into the cavity of the ear; meditate, meditate constantly in the mind upon the saving form of Brahman. Uttering it again and again at creatures' ears amid nature's transformation, a certain matted-haired resident of Kāśī wanders lane after lane.

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यस्यामलं प्रिययशः सुयशोविधाता तार्क्ष्य ध्वजश्च गिरिजे नितरां तथाहम् । प्रेम्णा वदामि च शृणोमि सहैव ताभ्यां तद्रामनाम सकलेश्वरमादिदेवम् ॥४५५॥

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The maker of good fame, the Garuḍa-bannered one, and likewise I, O Girijā, greatly speak with love and hear together the stainless, beloved fame of that Rāma-Name, Lord of all and primeval deity.

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इदमेकं परं तत्त्वं निर्णीतं ब्रह्मवादिभिः । नाम व्याहरणं शुद्धं सर्वकालेषु प्रेमतः ॥४५६॥

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The speakers of Brahman have determined this one supreme truth: the pure utterance of the Name with love at all times.

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Second pramoda — Kedāra Khaṇḍa; Śrī Śaṅkara to Pārvatī

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रामनाम समं तत्त्वं नास्ति वेदान्त गोचरम् । यत्प्रसादात्परांसिद्धिं सम्प्राप्ता मुनयोऽमलाः ॥४५७॥

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No truth within Vedānta's reach equals Rāma's Name; through its grace, stainless sages attained the supreme accomplishment.

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अतस्सर्वात्मना रामनाम रूपं स्मर प्रिये । अनायासेन भो देवि अमरी त्वं भविष्यसि ॥४५८॥

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Therefore remember with your whole being the form that is Rāma's Name, beloved. Without exertion, O goddess, you will become deathless.

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रामनाम प्रभावेण ह्यविनाशी पदं प्रिये । प्राप्तं मया विशेषेण सर्वेषां दुर्लभं परम् ॥४५९॥

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Through the power of Rāma's Name, beloved, I have indeed attained in a special way the imperishable, supreme state that is difficult for all to obtain.

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अन्यानि यानि नामानि तानि सर्वाणि पार्वति । कार्यार्थं सम्भवानीह रामनामादितः प्रिये ॥४६०॥

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Whatever other names there are, O Pārvatī, all arise here for particular purposes; Rāma's Name is primordial, beloved.

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मार्कण्डेयोऽपि श्रीरामनाम संस्मृत्य सादरम् । मृत्युं तीर्णोऽविलम्बेन रामनाम परं बलम् ॥४६१॥

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Even Mārkaṇḍeya, respectfully remembering Śrī Rāma's Name, crossed beyond death without delay; Rāma's Name is the supreme strength.

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तथैव नारदो योगी भक्तभूपास्तथापरे । मृत्योर्महार्णवं तीर्त्वा सन्निमग्नाः सुधाम्बुधौ ॥४६२॥

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Likewise Nārada the yogin, devoted kings, and still others, having crossed the great ocean of death, became wholly immersed in the ocean of nectar.

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लम्बोदरोऽपि श्रीरामनाममाहात्म्यमुज्ज्वलम् । श्रुत्वा च धारितं चित्ते ततः पूज्यः सुरासुरैः ॥४६३॥

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Even Lambodara, having heard the radiant greatness of Śrī Rāma's Name and held it in his mind, thereby became worthy of worship by gods and asuras.

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Second pramoda — Kedāra Khaṇḍa

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एवं नाम प्रसादेन ऋषयो देवतास्तथा । मनुष्याः किन्नरा नागा यक्षा विद्याधरास्तथा ॥४६४॥

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Thus, through the grace of the Name, sages and deities, as well as human beings, kinnaras, nāgas, yakṣas, and vidyādharas—

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Second pramoda — Kedāra Khaṇḍa

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सर्वे कृतार्था अभवन् तस्मिन्तस्मिन्युगे युगे । नातः परतरोपायो दृश्यते श्रूयतेऽपि वा ॥४६५॥

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—all became fulfilled in each and every age. No means superior to this is seen or even heard of.

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Second pramoda — Nirvāṇa Khaṇḍa; Śrī Śiva to Śrī Rāma

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भवन्नामामृतं पीत्वा गीत्वा च भवतो यशः । शिवोऽहं सर्वदेवैश्च पूजनीयो दयानिधे ॥४६६॥

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Having drunk the nectar of your Name and sung your glory, I am Śiva, worthy of worship by all the gods, O treasury of compassion.

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Second pramoda — Nirvāṇa Khaṇḍa; Śrī Śiva to Śrī Rāma

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निराकारं च साकारं सगुणं निर्गुणं विभो । उभौ विहाय सर्वस्वं तव नाम स्मराम्यहम् ॥४६७॥

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O all-pervading one, leaving aside both the formless and the formed, the qualified and the unqualified, I remember your Name as my all-in-all.

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Second pramoda — Nirvāṇa Khaṇḍa; Śrī Śiva to Śrī Rāma

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मन्दात्मानो न जानन्ति बहिरर्थे स्पृहायुताः । रामनाम परं ब्रह्म सर्ववेदान्त सम्मतम् ॥४६८॥

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Those of dull understanding, filled with longing for external objects, do not know Rāma's Name as supreme Brahman, accepted by all Vedānta.

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Second pramoda — Nirvāṇa Khaṇḍa; Śrī Śiva to Śrī Rāma

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जगत्प्रभुं परानन्दं कारणं सदसत्परम् । रामनाम परेशाने सर्वोपास्यं परेश्वरम् ॥४६९॥

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Rāma's Name is lord of the world, supreme bliss, the cause beyond being and non-being, the supreme deity, worshipped by all, and the highest lord.

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Second pramoda — Nirvāṇa Khaṇḍa; Śrī Śiva to Śrī Rāma

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सर्वेषां मत साराणामिदमेकं महन्मतम् । जानकी जीवनस्याथ नामसंकीर्तनं परम् ॥४७०॥

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Of all the essences of systems of thought, this alone is the great teaching: the supreme chanting of the Name of Jānakī's beloved.

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Second pramoda — Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, Kauśala Khaṇḍa; Sūta to the sages

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न तत्पुराणो नहि यत्र रामो यस्यां न रामो नहि संहिता सा । स नेतिहासो नहि यत्र रामः काव्यं न तत्स्यान्न हि यत्र रामः ॥४७१॥

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That is no purāṇa in which Rāma is absent; that is no compendium in which Rāma is absent. It is no history in which Rāma is absent, nor could it be poetry in which Rāma is absent.

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Second pramoda — Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, Kauśala Khaṇḍa; Sūta to the sages

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शास्त्रं न तत्स्यान्नहि यत्र रामस्तीर्थं न तद्यत्र न रामचन्द्रः । यागः स आगो नहि यत्र रामो योगस्स रोगो नहि यत्र रामः ॥४७२॥

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That could be no scripture in which Rāma is absent, nor a place of pilgrimage where Rāmacandra is absent. A sacrifice without Rāma is an offence; yoga without Rāma is disease.

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Second pramoda — Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, Kauśala Khaṇḍa; Sūta to the sages

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न सा सभा यत्र न रामचन्द्रः कालोऽप्यकालः कलिरेव सोऽस्ति । संकीर्त्यते यत्र न रामदेवो विद्याप्यविद्या रहिताह्यनेन ॥४७३॥

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That is no assembly in which Rāmacandra is absent; even a time without him is an untimely time—it is Kali itself. Where the divine Rāma is not chanted, learning, deprived of him, is indeed unlearning.

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Second pramoda — Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, Kauśala Khaṇḍa; Sūta to the sages

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स्थानं भयस्थानमरामकीर्ति रामेतिनामामृत शून्यमास्यम् । सर्पालयं प्रेतगृहं गृहं तद्यत्रार्च्यते नैव महेशपूज्यः ॥४७४॥

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A place without Rāma's praise is a place of fear; a mouth is empty when it lacks the nectar of the Name ‘Rāma.’ That house is an abode of serpents, a dwelling of ghosts, where the one worshipped by Maheśa is never worshipped.

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Second pramoda — Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, Kauśala Khaṇḍa; Sūta to the sages

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उक्तेन किं स्याद् बहुनात विश्वं सर्वं मृषास्याद्यदि रामशून्यम् । एतच्च कृष्णः पुनराहगङ्गां स्पृष्ट्वोपवीतं जपमालिकां च ॥४७५॥

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What would be gained by saying much? The whole world would be false if it were devoid of Rāma. Kṛṣṇa declared this again, having touched the Gaṅgā, the sacred thread, and the rosary.

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Second pramoda — Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, Kauśala Khaṇḍa

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रकारोध्वजवत्प्रोक्तो मकारश्छत्रवत्तथा । सर्ववर्णशिरस्थो हि राम इत्युच्यते बुधैः ॥४७६॥

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The letter r is proclaimed to be like a banner, and the letter m like a parasol; ‘Rāma’ stands at the head of all letters, so the wise say.

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Second pramoda — unnumbered Tulsīdās footnote attached to citation 476

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एक छत्र एक मुकुटमणि सब वरननि पर जोउ । तुलसी रघुवर नामके चरन विराजत दोउ ॥

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One is a parasol and one a crown-jewel, rising above all the letters. Tulsī says: the two feet of Raghubar's Name shine resplendent.

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Second pramoda — Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, Kauśala Khaṇḍa

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रकारार्थो भवेद्रामः परमानन्दविग्रहः । मकारार्थो भवेत्सीता सच्चिदानन्दरूपिणी ॥४७७॥

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The meaning of the letter r is Rāma, the embodiment of supreme bliss; the meaning of the letter m is Sītā, whose form is being, consciousness, and bliss.

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Second pramoda — Jaimini Purāṇa

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रामनाम परं स्वादु भेदज्ञा रसना च या । तन्नाम रसनेत्याहुर्मुनयस्तत्त्वदर्शिनः ॥४७८॥

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Rāma's Name is supremely sweet. The tongue that knows this distinction is what the truth-seeing sages call a tongue of the Name.

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Second pramoda — Jaimini Purāṇa

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कर्माधीनं जगत्सर्वं विष्णुना निर्मितं पुरा । तत्कर्म केशवाधीनं रामनाम्ना विनश्यति ॥४७९॥

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Long ago Viṣṇu fashioned the entire world subject to karma. That karma is subject to Keśava and is destroyed by Rāma's Name.

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Explicit close of the second pramoda

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इति श्रीसीतारामनामप्रतापप्रकाशे परात्परविलासनिवासे परात्परैश्वर्यदायके श्रीयुगलानन्यशरणसंगृहीते उपपुराणेतिहासादिनिरूपणन्नाम द्वितीयः प्रमोदः ॥२॥

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Thus, in Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa—an abode of the Supreme's play, bestowing the Supreme's majesty, compiled by Śrī Yugalānanya Śaraṇa—ends the second pramoda, named ‘Explanation of the Upapurāṇas, Itihāsas, and so forth.’

Third pramoda · provisional root

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Third pramoda — Agastya Saṃhitā; Śrī Śaṅkara to Śrī Rāmacandra

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अहं भवन्नामजपन्कृतार्थो वसामि काश्यामनिशं भवान्या । मरिष्यमाणस्य विमुक्तयेऽपि दिशामि मन्त्रं तव रामनाम ॥४८०॥

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Reciting your Name and fulfilled, I dwell in Kāśī without cease together with Bhavānī. For the liberation of one who is about to die, I also impart the mantra that is your Rāma-Name.

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Third pramoda — unnumbered Mānas verse in the footnote attached to citation 480

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काशी मरत जन्तु अवलोकी । जासु नाम बल करउँ विशोकी ॥

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Seeing a creature dying in Kāśī, by the power of whose Name I make that creature free from grief.

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Third pramoda — Agastya Saṃhitā; Śrī Śaṅkara to Śrī Rāmacandra

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रकारो रामचन्द्रस्स्यात्सच्चिदानन्दविग्रहः । अकारो जानकीप्रोक्ता मकारो लक्ष्मणः स्वराट् ॥४८१॥

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The letter r is said to be Rāmacandra, the embodiment of being, consciousness, and bliss; the letter a is declared to be Jānakī, and the letter m is Lakṣmaṇa, self-sovereign.

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Third pramoda — Agastya Saṃhitā; Śrī Śaṅkara to Śrī Rāmacandra

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रकारेण बहिर्याति मकारेण विशेत्पुनः । रामरामेति सच्छब्दो जीवो जपति सर्वदा ॥४८२॥

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By the letter r it goes outward, and by the letter m it enters again. The living being always repeats the true sound ‘Rāma, Rāma.’

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Third pramoda — Agastya Saṃhitā; Śrī Śaṅkara to Śrī Rāmacandra

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दैन्यं दिनं तु दुरितं पक्षमासर्तुवर्षजम् । सर्वं दहति निःशेषं तूलाचलमिवानलः ॥४८३॥

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The wretched wrongdoing arising from a day, fortnight, month, season, or year—it burns all of it without remainder, as fire burns a mountain of cotton.

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Third pramoda — Agastya Saṃhitā; Śrī Śaṅkara to Śrī Rāmacandra

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नामसंकीर्तनञ्चैव गुणानामपि कीर्तनम् । भक्त्या श्रीरामचन्द्रस्य वचसा शुद्धिरिष्यते ॥४८४॥

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The chanting of the Name and also the praise of Śrī Rāmacandra's qualities with devotion are regarded as purification through speech.

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Third pramoda — Viśvāmitra Saṃhitā; Viśvāmitra to a vaiśya

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विश्रुतानि बहून्येव तीर्थानि विविधानि च । कोट्यंशान्नापि तुल्यानि नाम संकीर्तनस्य वै ॥४८५॥

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Many diverse holy places are indeed renowned, yet they are not equal even to a ten-millionth part of the chanting of the Name.

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Third pramoda — Viśvāmitra Saṃhitā; Viśvāmitra to a vaiśya

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धन्याः पुण्याः प्रपन्नास्ते भाग्ययुक्ता कलौयुगे । संविहायाथ योगादीन् रामनामैक नैष्ठिकाः ॥४८६॥

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Blessed, meritorious, surrendered, and fortunate in the age of Kali are those who, leaving aside yoga and the other disciplines, are exclusively steadfast in Rāma's Name.

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Third pramoda — Viśvāmitra Saṃhitā; Viśvāmitra to a vaiśya

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रकारो रामरूपस्तु मकारस्तस्य सेवकः । आचार्यस्तु ह्याकारः स्यात्तयोः संयोजनाय च ॥४८७॥

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The letter r is Rāma's form, while the letter m is his servant; the letter ā is the teacher, serving to unite the two.

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Third pramoda — Viśvāmitra Saṃhitā; Viśvāmitra to a vaiśya

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राम रामेति यो नित्यं मधुरं जपति क्षणम् । स सर्वसिद्धिमाप्नोति सत्यं नैवात्र संशयः ॥४८८॥

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Whoever daily repeats ‘Rāma, Rāma’ sweetly for a moment attains every accomplishment—this is true; there is no doubt here.

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ब्रह्मघ्नश्च सुरापश्च स्तेयी च गुरुतल्पगः । शरणागतघाती च मित्रविश्रम्भकारकः ॥४८९॥

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A killer of a brāhmaṇa, a drinker of liquor, a thief, one who violates the teacher's bed, one who kills a person seeking refuge, and one who betrays a friend's trust—

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लब्धं परं पदं तेन जन्म कोटिभिरर्जितम् । कीर्तितं येन महता श्रीरामेत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥४९०॥

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—by that person the supreme state, earned across ten million births, is attained when the great two-syllabled expression ‘Śrī Rāma’ has been chanted.

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ज्ञातमध्यात्मशास्त्रं च प्राप्तं तेनामृतं महत् । कीर्तितं येन वचसा श्रीरामेत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥४९१॥

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The spiritual teaching is known and the great nectar attained by one who has voiced the two-syllabled expression ‘Śrī Rāma.’

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Third pramoda — Viśvāmitra Saṃhitā; Viśvāmitra to a vaiśya

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सर्वमन्त्रमयं नाम यन्त्रास्पदमनुत्तमम् । स्वाभाविकीं परां सिद्धिं दुर्लभां तज्जपाल्लभेत् ॥४९२॥

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The Name embodies every mantra and is the unsurpassed ground of yantras; through its repetition one may attain the rare, innate, supreme accomplishment.

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Third pramoda — Viśvāmitra Saṃhitā; Viśvāmitra to a vaiśya

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वृथा नाना प्रयोगेषु मन्त्रतन्त्रेषु मानवाः । यत्नं कुर्वन्त्यहो मूढास्त्यक्त्वा श्रीनाम सुन्दरम् ॥४९३॥

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People strive in vain at many rites, mantras, and tantras—alas, the foolish, having abandoned the beautiful sacred Name.

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यस्य संस्मरणादेव सर्वार्थाश्चक्षुगोचराः । भवन्त्येवानायासेन तच्छ्रीराममहं भजे ॥४९४॥

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By the very recollection of whom all objects become visible to the eye without effort—that Śrī Rāma I worship.

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Third pramoda — Saura Saṃhitā

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श्रीरामनाममनिशं परिकीर्तनीयं वर्तेत मोद सु निधानमशेष सारम् । जन्मार्जितानि विविधान्यपहाय दुःखान्यत्यन्त धर्म निचयं परधाममेति ॥४९५॥

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Śrī Rāma's Name, a treasure of delight and the essence of all, should be chanted without cease. Casting away diverse sorrows accumulated through births, one attains an immense store of dharma and the highest abode.

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ससागरां महीं दत्त्वा शुद्धकाञ्चन पूर्णिताम् । यत्फलं लभते लोके नामोच्चारात्ततोऽधिकम् ॥४९६॥

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Whatever fruit one gains in the world by giving away the earth with its oceans, filled with pure gold, is exceeded by utterance of the Name.

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वाच्यश्श्रीरामचन्द्रस्तु वाचको नाम संस्मृतम् । वाच्यवाचक सम्बन्धो नित्यमेव न संशयः ॥४९७॥

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Śrī Rāmacandra is the signified, while the remembered Name is the signifier; the relation between signified and signifier is eternal—there is no doubt.

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Third pramoda — Jābāli Saṃhitā

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रामनाम परं जाप्यं ज्ञेयं ध्येयं निरन्तरम् । कीर्तनीयं च बहुधा मुमुक्षुभिरहर्निशम् ॥४९८॥

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Rāma's Name is the supreme object of repetition, to be known and meditated upon without interruption, and to be praised in many ways day and night by those who seek liberation.

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श्रीरामनाम सामर्थ्यादखिलेष्टं करे स्थितम् । भवन्ति कृत पुण्यानां यथाकल्पतरोर्धनम् ॥४९९॥

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Through the power of Śrī Rāma's Name, every desired thing comes to rest in the hand of the meritorious, as wealth comes from a wish-fulfilling tree.

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नाम्नि यस्य रतिर्नास्ति स वै चाण्डालतोऽधिकः । सम्भाषणं न कर्तव्यं तेन सह नामतत्परैः ॥५००॥

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One who has no delight in the Name is declared worse than a caṇḍāla; those devoted to the Name are told not to converse with that person.

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रामनाम प्रभा दिव्या यस्योरसि प्रकाशते । तस्यास्ति सुलभं सर्वं सौख्यं सर्वेशजं परम् ॥५०१॥

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For one in whose breast the divine radiance of Rāma's Name shines, every supreme happiness arising from the Lord of all is easily available.

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साधनेन बिना सिद्धिर्दृष्टं नाम्नैव संस्फुटम् । अन्यत्र साधनैः दुःखैः दुर्लभं तन्महत् सुखम् ॥५०२॥

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Accomplishment without a discipline is seen clearly through the Name alone; elsewhere that great happiness is difficult to obtain through painful disciplines.

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Third pramoda — Sūta Saṃhitā

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यः श्रीरामपदं नरः प्रतिपदं संकीर्तयन्तत्क्षणान्मुक्तो- दुष्कृतराशितो बुधजनैः पूज्यो विवस्वत्प्रभः । त्यक्त्वा संसृति मृत्यु दुःख पटलं संशुद्धचित्तः पुमान्- श्रीरामास्पदमुन्नतं पर पदं प्राप्नोत्यायासं विना ॥५०३॥

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A person who chants the word Śrī Rāma at every step is freed that very instant from the mass of wrongdoing, honored by the wise, and radiant as the sun. Leaving behind the cycle of existence and the mass of death and sorrow, that person, with purified mind, attains without effort the exalted abode of Śrī Rāma, the supreme state.

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रिपवस्तस्य नश्यन्ति न बाधन्ते ग्रहाश्च तम् । राक्षसाश्च न खादन्ति नरं रामेति वादिनम् ॥५०४॥

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His enemies perish; the planets do not afflict him, nor do rākṣasas devour the person who says ‘Rāma.’

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Third pramoda — unnumbered vernacular footnote attached to citation 504

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जब जानकी नाथ सहाय करे तब कौन बिगार करे नर तेरो । सूरज मंगल सोम भृगुसुत बुध अरु गुरु वरदायक मेरो । राहुकेतु की कौन गम्यता चन्द्र शनिश्चर होत हैं चेरो

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When Jānakī's Lord gives aid, who can harm you, O man? Sun, Mars, Moon, Bhṛgu's son, Mercury, and Jupiter become my boon-givers. What reach have Rāhu and Ketu? The Moon and Saturn become servants.

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अहो धैर्यमहो धैर्यमहो धैर्यमिदं नृणाम् । रामनाम्नि स्थिते लोके न भजन्ति बहिर्मुखाः ॥५०५॥

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Ah, what endurance—what endurance, what endurance—people display: though Rāma's Name is present in the world, the outward-turned do not worship.

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रामनामामृतं पीत्वा भवेन्नित्यं निरामयम् । सिद्धान्तं सारमित्येकं साधूनां भावितात्मनाम् ॥५०६॥

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Having drunk the nectar of Rāma's Name, one should remain forever free of affliction: this alone is the essential conclusion of sādhus whose minds are cultivated.

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Third pramoda — Sūta Saṃhitā

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श्रीरामं रामभद्रं च सीतारामं सुखाकरम् । इतीरयन्ति ये नित्यं ते वै धन्यतमा नराः ॥५०७॥

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Those who daily utter ‘Śrī Rāma,’ ‘Rāmabhadra,’ and ‘Sītārāma, maker of happiness’ are indeed the most blessed of people.

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Third pramoda — Brahma Saṃhitā, speech of Śrī Śiva

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रामेति वर्णद्वयमादरेण सदा स्मरन्मुक्तिमुपैति जन्तुः । कलौ युगे कल्मषमानसानामन्यत्र धर्मे खलु नाधिकारः ॥५०८॥

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A creature who always remembers with reverence the two syllables ‘Rā-ma’ attains liberation. In the age of Kali, those whose minds are stained truly have no qualification for another dharma.

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Third pramoda — Brahma Saṃhitā, speech of Śrī Śiva

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यन्नामकीर्तनफलं विविधं निशम्य न श्रद्धधाति मनुते यदुतार्थवादम् । यो मानुषस्तमिह दुःखचये क्षिपामि संसारघोर विविधार्तिनिपीडिताङ्गम् ॥५०९॥

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The human being who, after hearing the many fruits of chanting that Name, places no faith in them and regards them as mere praise—I cast that person here into a heap of sorrow, with limbs tormented by the varied afflictions of terrible saṃsāra.

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Third pramoda — Brahma Saṃhitā, speech of Śrī Śiva

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कलिप्रभावतो नष्टाः सद्ग्रन्थानां कथाः शुभाः । पाखण्डैर्निर्मितं नानामतं श्रीनाम वर्जितम् ॥५१०॥

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Through the influence of Kali, the auspicious narratives of true scriptures have been lost; hypocrites have fashioned diverse doctrines devoid of Śrī Name.

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Third pramoda — Brahma Saṃhitā, speech of Śrī Śiva

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अतस्सर्वं परित्यज्य नामसंस्मरणे रताः । त एव कृतकृत्याश्च सर्वे वेदार्थ कोविदाः ॥५११॥

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Therefore, abandoning everything, those who delight in remembrance of the Name—they alone have fulfilled their purpose, and all of them know the meaning of the Vedas.

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Third pramoda — Brahma Saṃhitā, speech of Śrī Śiva

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श्रीरामेति वदन् जीवो याति ब्रह्म सनातनम् । सर्वाचारविहीनोऽपि ताप क्लेशादि संयुतः ॥५१२॥

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Even a living being devoid of all proper conduct and beset by affliction, distress, and the like goes to the eternal Brahman while saying ‘Śrī Rāma.’

Editorial sequence 529 of 1,178 · printed citation ५१३

Third pramoda — Bodhāyana Saṃhitā

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इष्टापूर्तानि कर्माणि शुभानि कृतान्यपि । भव हेतूनि तान्येव रामनाम्ना सुमुक्तयेः ॥५१३॥

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Those very sacrificial and charitable works, even when performed as auspicious deeds, are causes of continued becoming; through Rāma's Name, they are directed toward complete liberation.

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Third pramoda — Bodhāyana Saṃhitā

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श्रीमद्रामेति नामास्तु सदा सर्वत्र कीर्तनम् । नाशौचं कीर्तने तस्य स पवित्रकरो यतः ॥५१४॥

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May the glorious name ‘Rāma’ always be chanted everywhere. There is no impurity in its chanting, since it is a purifier.

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रामनामानि लोकेऽस्मिन् सर्वदा यस्तु कीर्तयेत् । तस्यापराधकोटिस्तु क्षमाम्येव न संशयः ॥५१५॥

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Whoever always chants Rāma's names in this world—I indeed forgive that person's ten million offenses; there is no doubt.

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Third pramoda — Bodhāyana Saṃhitā

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न तादृशं महाभाग पापं लोकेषु विश्रुतम् । यादृशं विप्र शार्दूल रामनाम्ना दहेन्नहि ॥५१६॥

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No such wrongdoing is known in the worlds, fortunate one—O tiger among brahmins—as Rāma's Name would fail to burn away.

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Third pramoda — Bodhāyana Saṃhitā

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श्रीरामनाम सामर्थ्यमतुलं विद्यते द्विज । न हि पापात्मकस्तावद् यत्पापं कर्तुं क्षमः क्षितौ ॥५१७॥

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The power of Śrī Rāma's Name is immeasurable, twice-born one; no sinful person on earth is capable of committing so much wrongdoing.

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Third pramoda — Tāpanīya Saṃhitā

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सर्वेषामेव दोषाणां प्रायश्चित्तं परं स्मृतम् । अपमृत्यु प्रशमनं मूलाविद्या विनाशनम् ॥५१८॥

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It is remembered as the supreme atonement for every fault, as the calming of untimely death, and as the destruction of root ignorance.

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नाम संकीर्तनं विद्धि अतो नान्यद् ब्रवीम्यहम् । सर्वस्वं रामचन्द्रस्य तन्नामानन्त वैभवम् ॥५१९॥

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Know the chanting of the Name; beyond this I say nothing else. That Name, whose glory is endless, is Rāmacandra's all-in-all.

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Third pramoda — Tāpanīya Saṃhitā

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स्वप्नेऽपि यो वदेन्नित्यं रामनाम परात्परम् । सोऽपि पातकराशीनां दाहको भवति ध्रुवम् ॥५२०॥

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Even one who constantly utters in a dream the supremely transcendent name Rāma surely becomes a burner of heaps of wrongdoing.

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Third pramoda — Tāpanīya Saṃhitā

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पापद्रुमकुठारोऽयं पापेन्धनदवानलम् । पापराशितमस्तोमं रविः साक्षात्प्रभानिधिः ॥५२१॥

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This is an axe for the tree of wrongdoing, a forest fire for the fuel of wrongdoing; for the mass of darkness formed by a heap of wrongdoing, it is the manifest sun, a treasury of radiance.

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Third pramoda — Tāpanīya Saṃhitā

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रामनाम परंधाम पवित्रं पावनास्पदम् । अतः परं न सन्मन्त्रस्तारकं विद्यते क्वचित् ॥५२२॥

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Rāma's Name is the supreme abode, pure and the seat of purification. Beyond it, no good mantra that carries one across is found anywhere.

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Third pramoda — Hiraṇyagarbha Saṃhitā, Agastya to Sutīkṣṇa

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अभिरामेति यन्नाम कीर्तितम् विवशाच्च यैः । तेऽपि ध्वस्ताखिलाघौघा यान्ति रामास्पदं परम् ॥५२३॥

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Even those by whom the name ‘Abhirāma’ has been uttered involuntarily go to Rāma's supreme abode, the whole flood of their wrongdoing destroyed.

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Third pramoda — Hiraṇyagarbha Saṃhitā, Agastya to Sutīkṣṇa

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श्रीरामेति वदन् ब्रह्मभावमाप्नोत्यसंशयम् । तत्त्वविद्यार्थिनो नित्यं रमन्ते चित्सुखात्मनि ॥५२४॥

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One who says ‘Śrī Rāma’ attains the state of Brahman without doubt; seekers of knowledge of reality constantly delight in the self whose nature is conscious bliss.

Editorial sequence 541 of 1,178 · printed citation ५२५

Third pramoda — Hiraṇyagarbha Saṃhitā, Agastya to Sutīkṣṇa

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इति रामपदेनासौ परं ब्रह्माभिधीयते । सर्वसिद्धान्तमित्याहुः सर्वे वै ब्रह्मवादिनः ॥५२५॥

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Thus, by the word ‘Rāma,’ that supreme Brahman is designated; all who teach Brahman indeed call it the conclusion of every doctrine.

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श्रीरामेति परं मन्त्रं तदेव परमं पदम् । तदेव तारकं विद्धि जन्ममृत्यु भयापहम् ॥५२६॥

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Know ‘Śrī Rāma’ as the supreme mantra; that itself is the supreme state. Know that itself as the mantra that carries one across and removes fear of birth and death.

Editorial sequence 543 of 1,178 · printed citation ५२७

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अल्पेन नाम्ना कथमस्य पापक्षयो भवेदत्र न शङ्कनीयम् । तृणादि राशिं दहतेऽल्पवह्निस्तथा महामोहमदादि नाम ॥५२७॥

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It should not be doubted here: how could this person's wrongdoing be destroyed by a small utterance of the Name? Just as a small fire burns a heap of grass and the like, so the Name burns great delusion, pride, and the rest.

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Third pramoda — Pulaha Saṃhitā

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बीजे यथा स्थितो वृक्षः शाखा पल्लव संयुक्तः । तथैव सर्ववेदाश्च रकारेषु व्यवस्थिताः ॥५२८॥

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Just as a tree furnished with branches and leaves stands within a seed, so all the Vedas are established within the letter ra.

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Third pramoda — Pulaha Saṃhitā

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यथा करण्डे रत्नानि गुप्तान्यज्ञैर्न दृश्यन्ते । तथैव सर्व मन्त्राश्च रकारेषु व्यवस्थिताः ॥५२९॥

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Just as jewels hidden in a casket are not seen by the unknowing, so all mantras are established within the letter ra.

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Third pramoda — Pulaha Saṃhitā

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रकारोच्चारणेनैव बहिर्निर्याति पातकम् । पुनः प्रवेशकाले च मकारस्तु कपाटवत् ॥५३०॥

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By the utterance of the letter ra alone, wrongdoing goes outside; when it would enter again, the letter ma is like a door.

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Third pramoda — unnumbered Tulsī vernacular footnote attached to citation 530

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तुलसी रा के कहत ही निकसत पापपहार । पुनि भीतर आवत नहीं देत मकार किवार ॥

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Tulsī: as soon as ‘rā’ is spoken, the mountain of wrongdoing departs; the letter ma, like a door, does not let it come back inside.

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सावित्री ब्रह्मणा सार्धं लक्ष्मीर्नारायणेन च । शम्भुना रामरामेति पार्वती जपति स्फुटम् ॥५३१॥

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Sāvitrī with Brahmā, Lakṣmī with Nārāyaṇa, and Pārvatī with Śambhu distinctly repeat ‘Rāma, Rāma.’

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रामरामेति रामेति स्वपन् जाग्रंस्तथा निशि । ये जपन्ति कलौ नित्यं ते वै श्रीरामरूपिणः ॥५३२॥

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Those who in the age of Kali constantly repeat ‘Rāma, Rāma—Rāma,’ while sleeping, while waking, and at night are indeed embodiments of Śrī Rāma.

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न साम्ब व्याधिजं दुःखं हेयं नानौषधैरपि । रामनामौषधं पीत्वा व्याधेस्त्यागो न संशयः ॥५३३॥

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Sāmba, suffering born of disease is not to be removed even by many medicines; after drinking the medicine of Rāma's Name, the disease departs—there is no doubt.

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कोटिजन्मार्जितं पापमौषधेः शाम्यते किम् । कीर्तनीयं परं नाम भवव्याधेस्तदौषधम् ॥५३४॥

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Can wrongdoing accumulated over ten million births be calmed by medicines? The supreme Name is to be praised; it is the medicine for the disease of becoming.

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सर्वं रोगोपशमनं सर्वाधीनां विनाशनम् । स्मर त्वं रामरामेति महामोदैकमन्दिरम् ॥५३५॥

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Remember ‘Rāma, Rāma,’ the sole abode of great joy, as the calming of every illness and the destruction of all distress.

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श्रीरामनामविमुखं जीवं शोधयितुं क्षमम् । प्रायश्चित्तं न चैवास्ति किञ्चित् सत्यं वचो मम ॥५३६॥

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There is no atonement at all capable of purifying a living being turned away from Śrī Rāma's Name; this word of mine is true.

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प्रायश्चित्तेषु सर्वेषु रामनाम जपं परम् । यतीनां रामभक्तानां सर्वरीत्या विशिष्यते ॥५३७॥

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Among all atonements, repetition of Rāma's Name is supreme; for ascetics and devotees of Rāma it is distinguished in every way.

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Third pramoda — Sanatkumāra Saṃhitā, Vyāsa to Yudhiṣṭhira

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श्रीरामेति परं जाप्यं तारकं ब्रह्मसंज्ञकम् । ब्रह्महत्यादि पापघ्नमिति वेदविदो विदुः ॥५३८॥

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Those who know the Veda understand ‘Śrī Rāma’ as the supreme object of repetition, the liberating name termed Brahman, and the destroyer of wrongdoing beginning with brahmin-killing.

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श्रीरामरामेति जना ये जपन्ति च सर्वदा । तेषां भुक्तिश्च मुक्तिश्च भविष्यति न संशयः ॥५३९॥

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For people who always repeat ‘Śrī Rāma, Rāma,’ both enjoyment and liberation will come to be; there is no doubt.

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ब्रह्महत्यादि पापानि तत्समानि बहूनि च । स्वर्णस्तेयसुरापानगुरुतल्पायुतानि च ॥५४०॥

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Wrongdoings beginning with brahmin-killing, many others equal to them, theft of gold, drinking liquor, and ten thousand violations of a teacher's bed—

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गोवधाद्युपपापानि अनृतात्सम्भवानि च । सर्वैः प्रमुच्यते पापैः कल्पायुतशतोद्भवैः ॥५४१॥

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—subsidiary wrongdoings beginning with cow-killing, and those arising from falsehood: one is freed from all such wrongdoings produced over a hundred times ten thousand kalpas.

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मानसं वाचिकं पापं कर्मणा समुपार्जितम् । श्रीरामस्मरणेनैव तत्क्षणान्नश्यति ध्रुवम् ॥५४२॥

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Wrongdoing of mind or speech, and that accumulated through action, surely perishes that very instant through remembrance of Śrī Rāma.

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इदं सत्यमिदं सत्यं सत्यमेतदिहोच्यते । रामः सत्यं परब्रह्म रामात्किञ्चिन्न विद्यते ॥५४३॥

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This is true, this is true—this truth is declared here: Rāma is truth, the supreme Brahman; nothing apart from Rāma is known.

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दृष्टो येनैव श्रीरामस्तथा तन्नामकीर्तनम् । कृतं सर्वं शुभं तेन जितं जन्म सुदुर्लभम् ॥५४४॥

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The one by whom Śrī Rāma has been seen and his Name praised has thereby performed every auspicious act and mastered this exceedingly rare birth.

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कारणं प्रणवस्यापि रामनाम जगद्गुरुम् । तस्माद्ध्येयं सदा चित्ते यतिभिः शुद्धचेतनैः ॥५४५॥

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Rāma's Name is the cause even of praṇava and the teacher of the world; therefore ascetics of purified awareness should always meditate upon it in the mind.

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प्रमादादपि श्रीरामनाम उच्चारितं जनैः । भस्मी भवन्ति पापानि रोगानीव रसायनैः ॥५४६॥

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Even when Śrī Rāma's Name is uttered carelessly by people, wrongdoings become ash, like diseases through restorative medicines.

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तदेव लग्नं सुदिनं तदेव ताराबलं चन्द्रबलं तदेव । विद्याबलं दैवबलं तदेव सीतापतेर्नाम यदा स्मरामि ॥५४७॥

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That alone is the auspicious moment and the favorable day; that alone is the strength of the stars and the strength of the moon. That alone is the strength of learning and the strength of destiny whenever I remember the name of Sītā's Lord.

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सर्वाभिलाषं पूर्णार्थं जपेन्नामपरात्परम् । सर्वं त्यक्त्वा ततो याति ह्यवश्यं पदमव्ययम् ॥५४८॥

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To fulfill every desire, one should repeat the supremely transcendent Name; then, having abandoned everything, one surely goes to the imperishable state.

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नाम संकीर्तनाज्जातं पुण्यं नोपचयन्ति ये । नाना व्याधि समायुक्ताः शतजन्मसु ते नराः ॥५४९॥

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People who do not accumulate the merit born from chanting the Name are beset by many diseases through a hundred births.

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अर्थवादं परे नाम्नि भावयन्तीह यो नरः । स पापिष्ठो मनुष्याणां निरये पतति स्फुटम् ॥५५०॥

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The person here who regards the supreme Name as mere eulogy is declared the most sinful among humans and plainly falls into hell.

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श्रीरामनाममाहात्म्यं याथार्थ्यं श्रुति सम्मतम् । कुतर्कं ये प्रकुर्वन्ति तेऽधमाः पापयोनयः ॥५५१॥

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The greatness of Śrī Rāma's Name is held to be real and approved by revelation; those who raise hostile arguments against it are called base and born from sin.

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रामरामेति रामेति प्रत्यहं वक्ति यो नरः । सम्यक् पूजायुतं पुण्यं तीर्थकोटि फलं लभेत् ॥५५२॥

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A person who each day says ‘Rāma, Rāma—Rāma’ obtains the merit of ten thousand proper acts of worship and the fruit of ten million pilgrimages.

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यस्तु पुत्रः शुचिर्दक्षः पूर्वे वयसि धार्मिकः । रामनाम परं नित्यं तत्पुत्रं कवयो विदुः ॥५५३॥

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A son who is pure, capable, religious in early life, and always devoted to the supreme name Rāma—the poets recognize that one as a son.

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न देशकालनियमो न शौचाशौचनिर्णयः । विद्यते कुत्रचिन्नैव रामनाम्नि परे शुचौ ॥५५४॥

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No restriction of place or time, and no determination of purity or impurity, exists anywhere at all for the supreme and pure name Rāma.

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रामेति नित्यं यो भक्त्या ब्रूयाद्रात्रिदिवं नरः । महापातककोटिभ्यो मुक्तः पूतो भवेत्तु सः ॥५५५॥

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A person who devotedly says ‘Rāma’ constantly, night and day, becomes free from ten million grave wrongdoings and purified.

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रामनामात्मकं मन्त्रं सततं कीर्तयन्ति ये । सर्वरोगविनिर्मुक्तो मुक्तिमाप्नोति दुर्लभाम् ॥५५६॥

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Those who constantly praise the mantra consisting of Rāma's Name—freed from every disease, one attains liberation that is difficult to obtain.

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म्लेच्छतुल्याः कुलीनास्ते ये न भक्ता रघूत्तमे । संकीर्णयोनयः पूता नामगृह्णन्ति ये सदा ॥५५७॥

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Those high-born people who are not devoted to the best of the Raghus are declared equal to mlecchas; those of mixed birth who always take the Name are declared pure.

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नास्ति नास्ति महाभाग कलौ युगसमं युगम् । स्मरणात् कीर्तनादत्र लभते परमं पदम् ॥५५८॥

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There is no age—there is no age, fortunate one—equal to the age of Kali; here one obtains the supreme state through remembrance and praise.

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तुला पुरुष दानानि दत्त्वा यत्फलमश्नुते । तस्मादसंख्यगुणितं रामनाम्नापि संलभेत् ॥५५९॥

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Whatever fruit one enjoys after giving gifts equal to a person's weight, one may obtain multiplied beyond counting through Rāma's Name.

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स्त्रीराजबालहा चैव यश्च विश्वासघातकः । सर्वापहारी पापिष्ठो मार्गघ्नो ग्रामदाहकः ॥५६०॥

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One who kills a woman, a king, or a child; one who betrays trust; a plunderer of everything, a great wrongdoer, a killer on the road, or a burner of villages—

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मातृगामी सुरापश्च भूतध्रुक् सर्वनिन्दकः । मातृहा पितृहा चैव भ्रूणहा गुरुतल्पगः ॥५६१॥

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—one who has intercourse with his mother, drinks liquor, harms living beings, reviles everyone, kills mother or father, kills a fetus, or violates a teacher's bed—

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ते चान्ये चैव पापिष्ठा महापापयुताश्च ये । सर्वपापैः प्रमुच्यन्ते रामनाम्नस्तु कीर्तनात् ॥५६२॥

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—those people, and other great wrongdoers burdened with grave wrongdoing, are released from all wrongdoings through praise of Rāma's Name.

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हेमभारसहस्रैश्च कुरुक्षेत्रे रविग्रहे । गजाश्वरथदानैश्च देवालय प्रतिष्ठया ॥५६३॥

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What use are thousands of loads of gold at Kurukṣetra during a solar eclipse, gifts of elephants, horses, and chariots, or the consecration of a temple—

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सर्वतः सर्वतीर्थानां तपोभिर्विविधैश्च किम् । श्रीरामनाम्नि सततं नित्यं यस्यास्ति निश्चयम् ॥५६४॥

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—what use are all sacred crossings everywhere and varied austerities for one whose conviction is constantly and always in Śrī Rāma's Name?

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घोरे कलियुगे प्राप्ते सर्वदोषैकभाजने । रामनामरता जीवास्ते कृतार्थाः सुजीविनः ॥५६५॥

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When the terrible age of Kali, the single receptacle of every fault, has arrived, living beings devoted to Rāma's Name have fulfilled their purpose and live well.

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रामनामपरा ये च घोरे कलियुगे द्विजाः । त एव कृतकृत्याश्च न कलिर्बधते हि तान् ॥५६६॥

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Those twice-born people who are devoted to Rāma's Name in the terrible age of Kali have indeed accomplished their purpose, and Kali does not afflict them.

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समस्तजगदाधारं सर्वेश्वरमखण्डितम् । रामनाम कलौ नित्यं ये जपन्ति समादरात् ॥५६७॥

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Those who in the age of Kali constantly and respectfully repeat Rāma's Name—the support of the entire world, the Lord of all, and undivided—

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ते धन्याः पूजनीयाश्च तेषां नास्ति भयं क्वचित् । सत्यं वदामि विप्रेन्द्र नान्यथा वचनं मम ॥५६८॥

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—they are blessed and worthy of honor, and they have no fear anywhere. I speak the truth, best of brahmins; my statement is not otherwise.

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Third pramoda — Mahāśambhu Saṃhitā, speech of Śrī Śiva

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यत्र कुत्राशुभे देशे भवेद्रामानुकीर्तनम् । सर्वं तीर्थादिकं विद्धि महाघौघं हरं हि तत् ॥५६९॥

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Wherever praise of Rāma occurs in an inauspicious place, know that place to encompass every sacred crossing and the rest, for it removes a great flood of wrongdoing.

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श्रीरामनामाखिलमन्त्रबीजं सञ्जीवनं चेत् हृदये प्रविष्टम् । हालाहलं वा प्रलयानलं वा मृत्योर्मुखं वा विशतां कुतो भीः ॥५७०॥

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If Śrī Rāma's Name, the seed of every mantra and a reviving power, has entered the heart, whence could fear arise for those entering deadly poison, the fire of dissolution, or the mouth of death?

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Third pramoda — Mahāśambhu Saṃhitā, speech of Śrī Jānakī to Śrī Rāma

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प्रणवं केचिदाहुर्वै बीजं श्रेष्ठं तथा परे । तत्तु ते नाम वर्णाभ्यां सिद्धिमाप्नोति मे मतम् ॥५७१॥

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Some indeed call praṇava supreme, while others call a seed syllable supreme; but, in my view, that attains its efficacy through the two syllables of your Name.

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रामेति नाममात्रस्य प्रभावमतिदुर्गमम् । मृगयन्ति तु तद्वेदाः कुतोऽन्यस्य हे प्रभो ॥५७२॥

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The power of the mere name ‘Rāma’ is exceedingly hard to fathom; the Vedas search for it—how could it belong to another, O Lord?

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रामनाम प्रभावेण स्वयम्भूः सृजते जगत् । विभर्ति सकलं विष्णुः शिवः संहरते पुनः ॥५७३॥

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Through the power of Rāma's Name, the Self-born creates the world, Viṣṇu sustains the whole, and Śiva dissolves it again.

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Third pramoda — Patañjali Saṃhitā

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पृथ्वीं शस्यसम्पूर्णां दत्त्वा यत्फलमश्नुते । रामनाम सकृज्जप्त्वा ततोऽनन्तगुणं फलम् ॥५७४॥

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The fruit one enjoys after giving away the whole earth filled with crops is surpassed by the infinitely multiplied fruit of repeating Rāma's Name once.

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रामेति नाम परमं मन्त्राणां बीजमव्ययम् । ये कीर्तयन्ति सततं तेषां किञ्चिन्न दुर्लभम् ॥५७५॥

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The supreme name ‘Rāma’ is the imperishable seed of mantras; nothing is difficult to obtain for those who praise it constantly.

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रामनाम परब्रह्म त्यक्त्वा वात्सल्यसागरम् । अन्यथा शरणं नास्ति सत्यं सत्यं वदाम्यहम् ॥५७६॥

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Apart from Rāma's Name—the supreme Brahman and ocean of tenderness—there is no other refuge; I speak the truth, the truth.

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नाम संकीर्तनादेव सम्पूर्णफलदायकम् । अन्यत् फल्गु फलं सर्वं मोक्षावधिमसंशयम् ॥५७७॥

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Through chanting the Name alone comes the giver of complete fruit; every other fruit, up to liberation, is paltry—without doubt.

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कलौ युगे राघवनामतस्सदा परं पदं यात्यनायासतो ध्रुवम् । सर्वैर्युगैः पूजितमुन्नतं युगं समस्तकल्याणनिकेतनं वरम् ॥५७८॥

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In the age of Kali, through Rāghava's Name one surely and always goes effortlessly to the supreme state. It is an exalted and excellent age, honored above all ages and an abode of every blessing.

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माङ्गल्यं सर्वपापघ्नमायुष्यमखिलेष्टदम् । भुक्तिमुक्तिप्रदं पुण्यं रामनामानुकीर्तनम् ॥५७९॥

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Praise of Rāma's Name is auspicious, destroys every wrongdoing, promotes long life, grants every desire, gives enjoyment and liberation, and is meritorious.

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येऽहर्निशं जगद्धातू रामनाम्नस्तु कीर्तनम् । कुर्वन्ति तान् नरव्याघ्र न कलिर्बाधते क्वचित् ॥५८०॥

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Those who day and night praise Rāma's Name, the sustainer of the world—Kali does not afflict them anywhere, tiger among men.

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शमनाय जलं वह्नेस्तमसो भास्करोदयः । शान्तिः कलेरघौघस्य नामसंकीर्तनं वरम् ॥५८१॥

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Water calms fire, sunrise calms darkness, and excellent chanting of the Name calms Kali's flood of wrongdoing.

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नामसंकीर्तनं तस्य क्षुत्तृट् स्खलनादिषु । यः करोति महाभाग तस्य तुष्यति राघवः ॥५८२॥

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Rāghava is pleased with the person who chants his Name amid hunger, thirst, stumbling, and the like, fortunate one.

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Third pramoda — Vaiśampāyana Saṃhitā

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सर्वधर्मबहिर्भूतः सर्वपापयुतस्तथा । मुच्यते नात्र सन्देहो रामनामानुकीर्तनात् ॥५८३॥

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One outside every dharma and likewise burdened with every wrongdoing is released through praise of Rāma's Name; there is no doubt here.

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ब्रवीमि वाक्यं श्रुतिशास्त्रसारं शृण्वन्तु तत्सर्वजनाः पवित्रम् । रामेति वर्णद्वयमादरेण जपन्तु सर्वे मुनिभिः प्रदिष्टम् ॥५८४॥

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I speak a purifying statement that is the essence of revelation and śāstra; let all people hear it. Let everyone respectfully repeat the two syllables 'Rā-ma,' as taught by the sages.

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रामनाम जपादेव महापातक कोटयः । विनश्यन्ति महाभाग अनायासेन तत्क्षणात् ॥५८५॥

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Through repetition of Rāma's Name alone, ten million grave wrongdoings perish effortlessly at that very instant, fortunate one.

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जीवनं रामभक्तस्य वरं पञ्चदिनानि च । न तु नामविहीनस्य कल्पकोटिशतानि च ॥५८६॥

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Better are even five days of life for a devotee of Rāma than a hundred times ten million kalpas for one without the Name.

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वारांनिधौ पततु गच्छतु वा हुताशं बन्ध्याऽथवा भवतु तज्जननी खरारेः । भक्तिर्न यस्य विमलेश्वरनाम्नि शुद्धे जीवच्छवो जगति गर्हित कर्मकर्ता ॥५८७॥

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Let him fall into the ocean or go into fire; or let the mother of that person be barren. One who has no devotion to the pure Name of the stainless Lord is, in the verse's words, a living corpse in the world and a doer of censured deeds.

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Third pramoda — Gārgīya Saṃhitā, speech of Dharmarāja to the messengers

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दूताः शृणुध्वं मम शासनं ध्रुवं सदैव माङ्गल्यकरं सुखावहम् । स्मरन्ति ये राघवनाम निर्मलं न तत्र यात्रा भवती शुभावहा ॥५८८॥

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Messengers, hear my fixed command, always auspicious and happiness-bearing: where people remember Rāghava's stainless Name, no journey there is to be undertaken, auspicious ones.

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साङ्केतरीत्याथ भयेन क्लेशादन्तेऽपि श्रीराममुदाहरन्ति । ते पुण्यभाजो मनुजा महात्मका न तत्र यात्रा भवती शुभावहा ॥५८९॥

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Those people who utter 'Śrī Rāma' by some indirect convention, from fear, from distress, or even at life's end are sharers in merit and great souls; no journey there is auspicious for you.

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वयं सदा नाम सुहृद्गुणे रतास्तथैव तज्जापकपादसेवकाः । प्रभावतो यस्य हरीश ब्रह्मा विभर्ति विश्वं सलयं ससम्भवम् ॥५९०॥

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We are always devoted to the Name's kindly virtue and likewise are servants at the feet of its reciters. By its power Hari, Īśa, and Brahmā sustain the world together with its dissolution and creation.

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तस्मात् प्रमादमुत्सृज्य दूरतः किङ्करास्सदा । श्रीरामनामसम्पन्ने गृहे गच्छतु नैव हि ॥५९१॥

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Therefore, servants, always cast negligence far away: never indeed go into a house endowed with Śrī Rāma's Name.

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कर्तव्यं वाक्यमाकर्ण्य स्वामिनो मम साम्प्रतम् । धार्यं ध्रुवं प्रयत्नेन महामोहैकनाशनम् ॥५९२॥

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Having heard this instruction of me, your master, you must now surely uphold it with effort; it alone destroys great delusion.

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Third pramoda — Bṛhad Vasiṣṭha Saṃhitā, speech of Śrī Vasiṣṭha to the princes

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हित्वा सकलपापानि लब्ध्वा सुकृतसञ्चयम् । स पूतो जायते धीमान् रामनामानुकीर्तनात् ॥५९३॥

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Having abandoned all wrongdoings and gained an accumulation of merit, that intelligent person becomes purified through praise of Rāma's Name.

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रामरामेति रामेति कीर्त्तयच्छुद्धचेतसा । राजसूयसहस्राणां फलं प्राप्नोति मानवः ॥५९४॥

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A person who sings 'Rāma, Rāma—Rāma' with a pure mind obtains the fruit of thousands of rājasūya sacrifices.

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Third pramoda — Bṛhad Vasiṣṭha Saṃhitā, speech of Śrī Nārada to the sages

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एकतः सर्वतीर्थानि जलं चैव प्रयागजम् । श्रीरामनाम माहात्म्यं कलां नार्हति षोडशीम् ॥५९५॥

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All sacred places and the water born at Prayāga, set on one side, do not equal even a sixteenth part of the greatness of Śrī Rāma's Name.

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अन्धानां नेत्रमुत्कृष्टं स्वच्छं श्रीनाम मङ्गलम् । बधिराणां तथा कर्णं पशूनां हस्तपादकम् ॥५९६॥

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For blind people the excellent, clear, auspicious Holy Name is an eye; likewise, for deaf people it is an ear, and, on the scan's provisional reading, for animals it is hands and feet.

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Third pramoda — Gālavīya Saṃhitā

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आश्रयः सर्वजन्तूनामाधाररहितात्मनाम् । जननी तातवन्नित्यं पोषकं सर्वदेहिनाम् ॥५९७॥

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For all creatures whose selves are without support, it is refuge and foundation; always like a mother and father, it nourishes every embodied being.

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Third pramoda — Sudarśana Saṃhitā

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चातकानां चकोराणां मयूराणां तथा शुभम् । लक्षणं दोषनिर्मुक्तं धार्यं श्रीनाम तत्परैः ॥५९८॥

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Those intent on the Holy Name should adopt the auspicious, fault-free traits of chātakas, chakoras, and peacocks.

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दुःखादिकं समं कृत्वा द्वन्द्वधर्मं विहाय च । भजेन्निरामयं नाम चित्तमाकृष्य सर्वतः ॥५९९॥

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Regarding sorrow and the like as equal, abandoning the condition of opposites, and drawing the mind back from every side, one should worship the untroubled Name.

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श्रीरामनाममात्रायामादौ चित्तस्य धारणा । कृत्वा पश्चात्सुधीर्ध्यानं रेफस्यैव विवेकतः ॥६००॥

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First establishing the mind's concentration on the initial mora of Śrī Rāma's Name, the wise person should afterward discernfully meditate on the repha.

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प्रणवादीनि मन्त्राणि रामनाम्नि समभ्यसेत् । यथा गुरूपदेशेन नित्यमेकाग्रमानसैः ॥६०१॥

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One should practice the mantras beginning with praṇava within Rāma's Name, in accordance with the guru's instruction, always with a one-pointed mind.

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एवं रीत्या जपेन्नाम तदा स्वल्पमुपागतः । जायते परमा सिद्धिर्विरक्तिर्भक्तिरुज्ज्वला ॥६०२॥

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One should repeat the Name in this manner; then, having come only a little way, supreme attainment, detachment, and radiant devotion arise.

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Third pramoda — Śiva Saṃhitā

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नारायणादि नामानि कीर्त्तितानि बहून्यपि । सम्यग् भगवतस्तेषु रामनाम प्रकाशकम् ॥६०३॥

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Even though many names of the Lord, beginning with Nārāyaṇa, have been sung, among them Rāma's Name is the one that fully illumines.

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Third pramoda — Śiva Saṃhitā

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नारायणादि नामानि साकारैश्वर्यमुत्तमम् । नित्यं ब्रह्म निराकारमैश्वर्यं वै विभाति च ॥६०४॥

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Names beginning with Nārāyaṇa manifest the excellent majesty of embodied form, while the eternal, formless brahman indeed manifests formless majesty.

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Third pramoda — Śiva Saṃhitā

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उभयैश्वर्यमान्नित्यो रामो दशरथात्मजः । साकेते नित्यमाधुर्यं धाम्नि संराजते सदा ॥६०५॥

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Rāma, Daśaratha's eternal son, possesses both forms of majesty and always reigns in Sāketa, the abode of eternal sweetness.

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Third pramoda — Śiva Saṃhitā

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रामनाम परं तत्त्वं द्वयोः कारणमुज्ज्वलम् । तस्य संस्मरणादेव साक्षाद्रामालयं व्रजेत् ॥६०६॥

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Rāma's Name is the radiant supreme principle and cause of both; through remembrance of it alone, one may go directly to Rāma's abode.

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Third pramoda — Śiva Saṃhitā

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नाम स्मरणमात्रेण नामी सन्मुखतां लभेत् । तस्माच्छ्रीरामनाम्नस्तु कीर्त्तनं सर्वदोचितम् ॥६०७॥

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Through remembrance of the Name alone, the Named One comes face to face; therefore praise of Śrī Rāma's Name is fitting at all times.

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Third pramoda — Śiva Saṃhitā

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रा शब्दस्तु परं ब्रह्म वाचकत्वेन बोधितः । मकारस्तु परा शक्तिः सर्वशक्त्यभिवन्दिता ॥६०८॥

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The sound 'rā' is taught as signifying supreme brahman, while the letter 'ma' is the supreme Power, revered by every power.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā

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न सोऽस्ति प्रत्ययो लोके यश्च श्रीराम नामतः । भिन्नं प्रतीयते विप्र सत्यं सत्यं वदाम्यहम् ॥६०९॥

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There is no cognition in the world that appears separate from Śrī Rāma's Name, O sage; truly, truly, I say this.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā

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लौकिकाः वैदिकाः सर्वे शब्दाः श्रीरामनामतः । समुद्भवन्ति लीयन्ते काले काले न संशयः ॥६१०॥

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All worldly and Vedic words arise from Śrī Rāma's Name and dissolve into it from age to age; there is no doubt.

Editorial sequence 628 of 1,178 · printed citation ६११

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā

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यथा भुशुण्डिशब्देन पलायन्ते खगा मुने । तरुं विहाय वै तद्वद्राम नाम्ना दुराशयाः ॥६११॥

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As birds flee, leaving a tree at the sound of a gun, O sage, so evil dispositions flee through Rāma's Name.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā

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यथा चिन्तामणेस्स्पर्शाद्दारिद्र्यं याति संक्षयम् । तथा श्रीराम नाम्ना वै मोहजालमसंशयम् ॥६१२॥

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As poverty comes to an end at the touch of the wish-fulfilling jewel, so indeed the net of delusion ends through Śrī Rāma's Name—without doubt.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā

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रामेति द्वयक्षरं नाम मानभङ्गः पिनाकिनः । अभेदो बोध्यते तेन सततं नामनामिनोः ॥६१३॥

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The two-syllabled Name 'Rāma' broke the pride of the Bearer of Pināka; by that, the perpetual non-difference of Name and Named is taught.

Editorial sequence 631 of 1,178 · printed citation ६१४

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, statement of Lomaśa

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एकदा मुनयः सर्वे शौनकाद्या बहुश्रुताः । नैमिषे सूतमासीनं पप्रच्छुरिदमादरात् ॥६१४॥

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Once, all the widely learned sages beginning with Śaunaka respectfully asked this of Sūta as he sat in Naimiṣa.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, the sages addressing Sūta

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अज्ञानध्वान्तविध्वंसोऽनन्तकोटिसमप्रभः । कथितो भवता पूर्वं तद्वदस्व महामते ॥६१५॥

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You formerly spoke of that which destroys the darkness of ignorance and has a radiance equal to limitless tens of millions; tell us of it, O great-minded one.

Editorial sequence 633 of 1,178 · printed citation ६१६

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śrī Sūta speaking

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शृणुध्वं मुनयः सर्वे रहस्यं परमाद्भुतम् । पार्वती शिव संवादं चतुर्वर्गप्रदायकम् ॥६१६॥

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Listen, all you sages, to the supremely wondrous secret: the dialogue of Pārvatī and Śiva, which grants the four aims of life.

Editorial sequence 634 of 1,178 · printed citation ६१७

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śrī Sūta speaking

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कैलासशिखरासीनं देवदेवं जगद्गुरुम् । लोकानां च हितार्थाय पप्रच्छ नगकन्यका ॥६१७॥

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For the welfare of the worlds, the mountain's daughter questioned the God of gods and teacher of the world, seated upon Kailāsa's peak.

Editorial sequence 635 of 1,178 · printed citation ६१८

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Pārvatī speaking

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देव देव महादेव सर्वज्ञ परमेश्वर । त्वत्तः श्रुतं मया पूर्वं मन्त्रतन्त्राद्यनेकधा ॥६१८॥

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O God of gods, Great God, all-knowing Supreme Lord, I have previously heard from you mantras, tantras, and much else in many forms.

Editorial sequence 636 of 1,178 · printed citation ६१९

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Pārvatī speaking

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सर्वधर्माणि जीवानां व्यवहाराणि यानि च । इदानीं श्रोतुमिच्छामि किं तत्त्वं कृतनिश्चितम् ॥६१९॥

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I have heard all the duties of living beings and their various dealings; now I wish to hear which principle you have determined as certain.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Pārvatī speaking

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गुह्याद् गुह्यतरं गुह्यं पवित्रं परमं च यत् । सुलभं सुगमोपायं विनायासेन सिद्धिदम् ॥६२०॥

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Tell me that which is a secret more secret than the secret, supremely purifying, accessible, an easy means, and a giver of attainment without exertion.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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धन्यासि कृतपुण्यासि यस्यास्ते मतिरीदृशी । पृष्टं लोकोपकाराय तस्मात्त्वां प्रवदाम्यहम् ॥६२१॥

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Blessed are you; you have acted meritoriously, for such is your intention. You have asked for the benefit of the worlds, and therefore I shall speak to you.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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रहस्यं परमं प्रेष्ठं सर्वसिद्धिप्रदायकम् । रामनामपरं तत्त्वं सर्वशास्त्रेषु प्रस्फुटम् ॥६२२॥

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The supreme and most beloved secret, the giver of every attainment, is the highest principle of Rāma's Name, manifest throughout all śāstras.

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यस्य नामप्रभावेण सर्वज्ञोऽहं वरानने । रामनाम्नः परं तत्त्वं नास्ति किञ्चिज्जगत्त्रये ॥६२३॥

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By the power of that Name I am all-knowing, lovely-faced one; there is no principle higher than Rāma's Name anywhere in the three worlds.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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रामभद्रं परित्यज्य योऽन्यदेवमुपासते । कुम्भीपाके महाघोरे पच्यते नात्र संशयः ॥६२४॥

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One who abandons Rāmabhadra and worships another deity is cooked in the exceedingly dreadful Kumbhīpāka hell; the verse declares there is no doubt.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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अज्ञानादथवा ज्ञानाद्रामेति द्वयक्षरं वदेत् । जन्मकोटिकृतं पापं नाशमायाति तत्क्षणात् ॥६२५॥

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Whether unknowingly or knowingly, should one utter the two syllables 'Rā-ma,' wrongdoing accumulated over ten million births comes to destruction at that very instant.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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यज्ञदानतपस्तीर्थस्वाध्यायाध्यात्मबोधतः । कोटिसंख्यं रामनाम्नि पावित्र्यं वर्तते प्रिये ॥६२६॥

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Compared with sacrifice, giving, austerity, pilgrimage, self-study, and knowledge of the self, purity numbered in tens of millions abides in Rāma's Name, beloved.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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ततः कोटिगुणं पुण्यं सीतानाम्ना सह प्रिये । इति मत्वा भजन्त्येतान् मुनयो नारदादयः ॥६२७॥

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And merit ten million times greater comes together with Sītā's Name, beloved; thinking thus, sages beginning with Nārada worship these Names.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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यावन्न कीर्तयेदस्या नाम कल्मषनाशनम् । अनन्तकोटिं जपतोऽपि न रामः फलसाधकः ॥६२८॥

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Until one praises her Name, the destroyer of taint, even repetition of 'Rāma' limitless tens of millions of times does not accomplish the fruit.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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सीतया सहितं यत्र रामनाम प्रकीर्त्यते । न तत्र नामदोषाणां प्रवृत्तिस्स्यात्कथञ्चन ॥६२९॥

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Where Rāma's Name is praised together with Sītā, the faults concerning the Name can in no way arise there.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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साङ्गाः सह रहस्याश्च पठिता वेदराशयः । कृताश्च सकलाः यज्ञा येन रामेति कीर्त्तितम् ॥६३०॥

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One by whom 'Rāma' has been praised has read the collections of the Vedas with their limbs and secrets and has performed every sacrifice.

Editorial sequence 648 of 1,178 · printed citation ६३१

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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रामेति द्वयक्षरं नाम यत्र संकीर्त्यते बुधैः । तत्राविर्भूय भगवान् सर्वदुःखं विनाशयेत् ॥६३१॥

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Where the wise praise the two-syllabled Name 'Rāma,' the Lord manifests there and destroys every sorrow.

Editorial sequence 649 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Third pramoda — unnumbered Jānakī Cālīsā footnote attached to citation 631

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दश अपराध न कब हूँ लागे । युगलनाम सुमिरत अनुरागे ॥

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The ten offenses never attach when one lovingly remembers the paired Name.

Editorial sequence 650 of 1,178 · printed citation ६३२

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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अज्ञानतिमिरोद्भेदं कोटिसूर्येन्दुभास्वरम् । ज्ञानामृतपयोवाहं रामनाम सदा जपेत् ॥६३२॥

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One should always repeat Rāma's Name, which breaks apart the darkness of ignorance, shines like ten million suns and moons, and is a cloud bearing the nectar of knowledge.

Editorial sequence 651 of 1,178 · printed citation ६३३

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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किं कार्यं वैदिकैः शब्दैः किं वा मन्त्रैश्च तान्त्रिकैः । किं कर्मणा च ज्ञानेन किमन्यैस्तपसा श्रमैः ॥६३३॥

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What need is there for Vedic words, or for tantric mantras? What need for ritual action and knowledge, or for other austerities and exertions?

Editorial sequence 652 of 1,178 · printed citation ६३४

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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स्मर्तव्यं रामनामैकं श्रोतव्यं चैव सर्वदा । पठितव्यं कीर्त्तितव्यं च श्रद्धायुक्तैर्दिवानिशम् ॥६३४॥

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Rāma's Name alone should be remembered and always heard; those endowed with faith should recite and praise it day and night.

Editorial sequence 653 of 1,178 · printed citation ६३५

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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विधिरुक्तं सदैवास्य न निषेधः क्वचिद्भवेत् । सर्वदेशे सर्वकाले सर्वैश्च नरजातिभिः ॥६३५॥

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Its observance is prescribed always and is nowhere prohibited—in every place, at every time, and by all classes of human beings.

Editorial sequence 654 of 1,178 · printed citation ६३६

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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इदमेकं सदा कार्यं यदीच्छेच्छुभमात्मनः । चतुर्वर्गप्रदानेऽपि समर्थो रघुपुङ्गवः ॥६३६॥

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This alone should always be done if one desires one's own good; the foremost of the Raghus is able to grant even the four aims of life.

Editorial sequence 655 of 1,178 · printed citation ६३७

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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ध्यानाज्ज्ञानाच्च सततं नाममात्रस्य कीर्तनात् । इत्युक्तं वः प्रियं सर्वं मया देवर्षिपुङ्गवाः ॥६३७॥

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From constant praise of the Name alone comes more than from meditation and knowledge. Thus I have told you everything dear, foremost divine sages.

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Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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नातोऽपि वेदितव्यं स्याद्भवतां तत्त्वमीयुषाम् । सिद्धान्तः सर्वशास्त्राणां भवतां समुदाहृतम् ॥६३८॥

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For you who have reached the principle, nothing further than this remains to be known; I have fully expounded to you the conclusion of all śāstras.

Editorial sequence 657 of 1,178 · printed citation ६३९

Third pramoda — Lomaśa Saṃhitā, Śiva speaking

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इति ते कथितं देवि रहस्यं परमाद्भुतम् । गोपनीयं प्रयत्नेन येन श्रेयो ह्यवाप्स्यसि ॥६३९॥

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Thus, goddess, I have told you the supremely wondrous secret. It must be guarded carefully; through it you will indeed obtain the good.

Editorial sequence 658 of 1,178 · printed citation ६४०

Third pramoda — Pulastya Saṃhitā

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कृष्णेति वासुदेवेति सन्ति नामान्यनेकशः । तेभ्यो रामेति यन्नाम प्राहुर्वेदाः परं मुने ॥६४०॥

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There are many names, such as Kṛṣṇa and Vāsudeva; the Vedas proclaim the Name 'Rāma' higher than those, O sage.

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Third pramoda — Pulastya Saṃhitā

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सर्ववेदाश्रयत्वाच्च सर्वलोकस्य कारणात् । ईश्वरप्रतिपाद्यत्वादखण्डब्रह्मवाचकः ॥६४१॥

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Because it is the refuge of all the Vedas, the cause of every world, and that which Īśvara expounds, it denotes undivided brahman.

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Third pramoda — Śuka Saṃhitā

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आकृष्टिः कृतचेतसां सुमहतामुच्चाटनं चांहसा- माचाण्डालममूकलोकसुलभो वश्यश्च मुक्ति स्त्रियः । नो दीक्षां न च दक्षिणां न च पुरश्चर्यामनागीक्षते मन्त्रोऽयं रसनास्पृगेव फलति श्रीरामनामात्मकः ॥६४२॥

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It attracts the minds of the self-controlled, even the very great, and drives away wrongdoing; it is accessible throughout the non-mute world down to those historically labeled caṇḍālas, and it brings the woman Liberation under control. It requires neither initiation, fee, nor preparatory rite; this mantra consisting of Śrī Rāma's Name bears fruit merely by touching the tongue.

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Third pramoda — Śuka Saṃhitā

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नायनाय यदृतेऽक्षराष्टकं पञ्चकं च न शिवाय यद्विना । मुक्तिदं भवति यद्द्वयोर्वशात्तद्द्वयं वयमुपास्महे किल ॥६४३॥

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Without that letter, the eight-syllabled formula becomes 'nāyanāya,' and without the other the five-syllabled formula becomes 'na śivāya.' Since they grant liberation by the power of those two letters, we indeed worship that pair.

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Third pramoda — Śuka Saṃhitā

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रामस्यातिप्रियं नाम रामेत्येव सनातनम् । दिवारात्रौ गृणन्नेषो भाति वृन्दावने स्थितः ॥६४४॥

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The eternal Name 'Rāma' is exceedingly dear to Rāma; this one, chanting it day and night, shines while dwelling in Vṛndāvana.

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Third pramoda — Śuka Saṃhitā

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येषां रामः प्रियो नैव रामे न्यूनत्वदर्शिनाम् । द्रष्टव्यं न मुखं तेषां सङ्गतिस्तु कुतस्तराम् ॥६४५॥

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One should not look upon the faces of those to whom Rāma is not dear and who see deficiency in Rāma—how much less associate with them.

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Third pramoda — Śuka Saṃhitā

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यन्नामवैभवं श्रुत्वा शंकराच्छुकजन्मना । साक्षादीश्वरतां प्राप्तः पूजितोऽहं मुनीश्वरैः ॥६४६॥

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Having heard the glory of that Name from Śaṅkara, in my birth as Śuka I attained lordship directly and became worshipped by the foremost sages.

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Third pramoda — Śuka Saṃhitā

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नातः परतरं वस्तु श्रुतिसिद्धान्तगोचरम् । दृष्टं श्रुतं मया क्वापि सत्यं सत्यं वचो मम ॥६४७॥

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I have nowhere seen or heard anything higher than this within the scope of revelation's settled teaching; truly, truly, this is my word.

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Third pramoda — Padma Saṃhitā

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पठेत् सकलशास्त्रं वेदपारं गतो वा यमनियमयुतो वा वेदशास्त्रार्थकृद्वा । अपि च सकलतीर्थव्रजको वाहिताग्निर्नहि हृदि यदि रामस्सर्वमेतद्वृथास्यात् ॥६४८॥

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One may read every śāstra, reach the far shore of the Vedas, practice restraint and observances, expound the meaning of Veda and śāstra, visit every sacred place, or maintain the ritual fire; if Rāma is not in the heart, all of this would be vain.

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Third pramoda — Padma Saṃhitā

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रूपस्यानुभवं दिव्यं परानन्दस्य सागरम् । रामनाम रसं दिव्यं पिब नित्यं सदाव्ययम् ॥६४९॥

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Drink always the imperishable divine rasa of Rāma's Name—the divine experience of form and ocean of supreme bliss.

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Third pramoda — Padma Saṃhitā

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रामनामरसानन्तसाधकं सुरसालयम् । स्मरणाद्रामभद्रस्य सङ्काशः तस्य संस्फुटम् ॥६५०॥

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Rāma's Name brings about endless rasa and is a fine abode of rasa; through remembrance, the radiance of Rāmabhadra becomes fully manifest for that person.

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Third pramoda — Padma Saṃhitā

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रकाराज्जायते ब्रह्मा रकाराज्जायते हरिः । रकाराज्जायते शम्भू रकारात्सर्वशक्तयः ॥६५१॥

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From the letter 'ra' arises Brahmā; from 'ra' arises Hari; from 'ra' arises Śambhu; from 'ra' arise all powers.

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Third pramoda — Padma Saṃhitā

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आदावन्ते तथा मध्ये रकारेषु व्यवस्थितम् । विश्वं चराचरं सर्वमवकाशेन नित्यशः ॥६५२॥

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At the beginning, end, and middle, the entire moving and unmoving universe is perpetually situated within the letter 'ra,' together with space.

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Third pramoda — Ananta Saṃhitā

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वने चरामो वसु चाहरामो नदीस्तरामो न भयं स्मरामः । इत्थं वदन्तश्च वने किराता मुक्तिं गता रामपदानुषङ्गात् ॥६५३॥

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'We roam in the forest, steal wealth, cross rivers, and remember no fear': forest-dwelling Kirātas who spoke in this way attained liberation through the incidental attachment of the word 'Rāma.'

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Third pramoda — Ananta Saṃhitā

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सर्वैश्वर्यप्रदं सर्वसिद्धिदं सर्वधर्मदम् । सर्वमोक्षकरं शुद्धं परानन्दस्य कारणम् ॥६५४॥

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It grants every majesty, every attainment, and every dharma; pure, it brings every liberation and is the cause of supreme bliss.

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Third pramoda — Ananta Saṃhitā

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एकैकं रामनाम्नस्तु सर्वतापप्रणाशनम् । सहस्रनामकोटीनां फलदं वेदविश्रुतम् ॥६५५॥

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Each single utterance of Rāma's Name destroys every affliction and gives the fruit of ten million repetitions of the thousand names; so it is renowned in the Veda.

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Third pramoda — Ananta Saṃhitā

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इमं मन्त्रं सदा स्नेहाद्ये जपन्तीह सादरम् । ते कृतार्थाः कलौ देवि अन्ये मायाविमोहिताः ॥६५६॥

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Those who lovingly and respectfully repeat this mantra here at all times are fulfilled in the age of Kali, goddess; the others are deluded by māyā.

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Third pramoda — Ananta Saṃhitā

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इमं मन्त्रं महेशानि जपन्नित्यमहर्निशम् । मुच्यते सर्वपापेभ्यो रामसायुज्यमाप्नुयात् ॥६५७॥

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Repeating this mantra constantly, day and night, great goddess, one is released from every wrongdoing and may attain union with Rāma.

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Third pramoda — Ananta Saṃhitā

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सर्वेषां सिद्धिदं रामनाम सर्वत्र सर्वदा । यस्य संस्मरणाच्छीघ्रं फलमायाति दूरगम् ॥६५८॥

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Rāma's Name grants attainment to everyone, everywhere and always; through remembrance of it, even a distant fruit arrives quickly.

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Third pramoda — Ananta Saṃhitā

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रामनाम्नः प्रभावेण स्वयम्भूः सृजते जगत् । तथैव सर्वदेवाश्च सर्वैश्वर्यसमन्विताः ॥६५९॥

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By the power of Rāma's Name, the Self-born creates the world; likewise, all the gods are endowed with every majesty.

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Third pramoda — Mārkaṇḍeya Saṃhitā

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अन्तःकरणसंशुद्धिर्नान्यसाधनतो भवेत् । कलौ श्रीरामनाम्नैव सर्वेषां सम्मतं परम् ॥६६०॥

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Purification of the inner faculty does not arise from another discipline; in the age of Kali it comes from Śrī Rāma's Name alone, held supreme by all.

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Third pramoda — Mārkaṇḍeya Saṃhitā

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आर्तानां जीवनं नित्यं दृप्तानां वै प्रमोददम् । भक्तानां त्राणकर्तारं रामनाम समाश्रये ॥६६१॥

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I take refuge in Rāma's Name, the perpetual life of the distressed, the giver of delight to the confident, and the protector of devotees.

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Third pramoda — Mārkaṇḍeya Saṃhitā

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कृपादिगुणसम्पन्नं सर्वदा शोकहारकम् । तारकं संसृतेर्नित्यं रामनाम भजाम्यहम् ॥६६२॥

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I always worship Rāma's Name, endowed with compassion and other virtues, remover of sorrow, and perpetual deliverer from worldly existence.

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Third pramoda — Mārkaṇḍeya Saṃhitā

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चित्तस्य वासना सूक्ष्मा सर्वानन्दविनाशिनी । सापि श्रीरामसल्लापादनायासेन नश्यति ॥६६३॥

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The subtle latent tendency of the mind destroys every joy; even it perishes effortlessly through conversation about Śrī Rāma.

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Third pramoda — Mārkaṇḍeya Saṃhitā

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रसना सर्पिणी प्रोक्ता संस्थिता बिल वन्मुखे । या न वक्ति सुधासारं रामनामपरात्परम् ॥६६४॥

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The tongue that does not utter the supreme Rāma Name, essence of nectar, is called a female serpent lodged in the mouth as in a burrow.

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Third pramoda — Mārkaṇḍeya Saṃhitā

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विवेकादीन् शुभाचारान् रक्षणाय सदोदितम् । श्रीरामेति सन्नाम परमानन्दविग्रहम् ॥६६५॥

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The good Name ‘Śrī Rāma,’ embodiment of supreme bliss, is always arisen to protect discernment and other virtuous conduct.

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Third pramoda — Atri Saṃhitā; Śrī Śaṅkara to Pārvatī

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येन केन प्रकारेण संस्मरेद्रामनामकम् । अवश्यं लभते सिद्धिं प्राप्तिरूपां मनोरमाम् ॥६६६॥

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By whatever means one remembers that which is called Rāma's Name, one certainly obtains the delightful attainment whose form is realization.

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Third pramoda — Atri Saṃhitā; Śrī Śaṅkara to Pārvatī

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श्रीमद्रामेति नाम्नस्तु नियमं धारणं सदा । कर्तव्यं सावधानेन त्यक्त्वा प्रामादिकं शिवे ॥६६७॥

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One should always carefully maintain a rule concerning the Name ‘Śrī Rāma,’ abandoning negligence and the like, Śivā.

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Third pramoda — Atri Saṃhitā; Śrī Śaṅkara to Pārvatī

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तावद्धि नियमं कार्यं यावत् चित्तं न संस्मरेत् । अनियमेन कृतं जाप्यं निष्फलं प्रथमं प्रिये ॥६६८॥

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A rule should be maintained for as long as the mind does not remember on its own; repetition performed without a rule is fruitless at first, beloved.

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नियमेनैव श्रीरामनाम्नि प्रीतिर्ध्रुवा भवेत् । तस्माद्विपर्ययं त्यक्त्वा नियमं सञ्चरेद्बुधः ॥६६९॥

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Through discipline alone may steadfast love for Śrī Rāma's Name arise; therefore, abandoning the contrary course, the wise person should practice the rule.

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अहो भाग्यमहो भाग्यं कलौ तेषां सदा शिवे । येषां श्रीरामनाम्नस्तु नियमं समखण्डितम् ॥६७१॥

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Ah, what fortune, what fortune is always theirs in the age of Kali, Śivā—their discipline concerning Śrī Rāma's Name is complete and unbroken.

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Third pramoda — Sanaka-Sanātana Saṃhitā

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हे जिह्वे मधुरप्रिये सुमधरं श्रीरामनामात्मकं पीयूषं पिब प्रेमभक्तिमनसा हित्वा विवादानलम् । जन्मव्याधिकषायकामशमनं रम्यातिरम्यं परं - श्रीगौरीशप्रियं सदैव सुभगं सर्वेश्वरं सौख्यदम् ॥६७१॥

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O tongue, lover of sweetness, drink the sweetest nectar that is Śrī Rāma's Name with a mind of loving devotion, abandoning the fire of dispute. It quells birth, illness, defilement, and desire; it is exceedingly lovely, supreme, ever dear to Gaurī's Lord, gracious, Lord of all, and giver of happiness.

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नानातर्कवितर्कमोहगहने क्लिश्यन्ति ये मानवा स्तेषां श्रीरघुवीरनामविमलं सर्वात्मना सौख्यदम् । प्रेमानन्दपवित्ररङ्गरमणं सर्वाधिपं सुन्दरं दृष्टं बोधमयं विचित्ररचनं सर्वोत्तमं शाश्वतम् ॥६७२॥

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For people who suffer in the dense forest of many arguments, counterarguments, and delusion, the stainless Name of Śrī Raghuvīra gives happiness in every way. It delights in the sacred play of loving bliss, is Lord of all and beautiful, manifest and awareness-filled, wondrously formed, supreme, and everlasting.

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श्रमं मृषैव कुर्वन्ति ज्ञानयोगादिसाधने । कथं न भजते रामनाम सर्वेशपूजितम् ॥६७३॥

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People labor in vain at disciplines such as knowledge and yoga; why does one not worship Rāma's Name, worshipped by the Lord of all?

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Third pramoda — Sanaka-Sanātana Saṃhitā

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सर्वेषां साधनानां वै परिपाकमिदं मुने । यज्जिह्वाग्रे परं नाम जपेन्नित्यमतन्द्रितम् ॥६७४॥

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This, sage, is truly the ripened culmination of all disciplines: that one should daily repeat the supreme Name upon the tip of the tongue, free from sloth.

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Third pramoda — Hanumat Saṃhitā

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राम त्वत्तोऽधिकं नाम इति मे निश्चला मतिः । त्वया तु तारिताऽयोध्या नाम्ना तु भुवनत्रयम् ॥६७५॥

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Rāma, my firm conviction is that the Name is greater than you: you delivered Ayodhyā, but the Name delivered the three worlds.

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Third pramoda — Hanumat Saṃhitā

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हे जिह्वे! जानकीजानेर्नाम माधुर्यमण्डितम् । भजस्व सततं प्रेम्णा चेदिच्छसि हितं स्वकम् ॥६७६॥

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O tongue, continually worship with love the sweetness-adorned Name of Jānakī's husband, if you desire your own good.

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Third pramoda — Hanumat Saṃhitā

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जिह्वे श्रीरामसंलापे विलम्बं कुरुषे कथम् । व्रीडा नायाति ते किञ्चिद्विना श्रीनाम सुन्दरम् ॥६७७॥

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O tongue, why do you delay in speaking of Śrī Rāma? Does no shame come to you apart from the beautiful blessed Name?

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Third pramoda — Hanumat Saṃhitā

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रामनामात्मकं मन्त्रं यन्त्रितं येन धारितम् । तस्य क्वापि भयं नास्ति सत्यं सत्यं वदाम्यहम् ॥६७८॥

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Whoever has borne the mantra consisting of Rāma's Name, secured as a yantra, has no fear anywhere—truth, truth, I say.

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Third pramoda — Hanumat Saṃhitā

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स्मरतोऽभीष्टमाप्नोति रामनामानुरागिणाम् । न जाने दर्शनस्पर्शपादोदकफलं यथा ॥६७९॥

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One obtains a cherished aim by remembering those attached to Rāma's Name; as for the fruit of seeing them, touching them, and receiving the water from their feet, I do not know how great it is.

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श्रीरामनामस्मरणात् सीतारामौ ममोपरि । कृपामहेतुकीं नित्यं कृत्वा सर्वोत्तमां मुने ॥६८०॥

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Through remembrance of Śrī Rāma's Name, Sītā and Rāma have always extended their supreme causeless grace toward me, O sage.

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Third pramoda — Sadāśiva Saṃhitā; Śrī Hanumān to Agastya

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यस्तु स्वप्ने वदेद्रामं सम्भ्रमस्खलनादिभिः । तस्य पादरजो मे तु मूर्धानमधिरोहतु ॥६८१॥

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May the dust from the feet of one who utters ‘Rāma’ in a dream, in agitation, while stumbling, or in like circumstances rise upon my head.

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Third pramoda — Sadāśiva Saṃhitā; Śrī Hanumān to Agastya

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रामनामात्मकं शब्दं श्रवणान्मुनिशिरोमणे । रामनामसमं पुण्यं फलं प्राप्नोति मानवः ॥६८२॥

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By hearing the sound consisting of Rāma's Name, O crown of sages, a person obtains a meritorious fruit equal to Rāma's Name.

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Third pramoda — Sadāśiva Saṃhitā; Śrī Hanumān to Agastya

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रामनामगुणालापी सज्जनो रामवल्लभः । सत्यं वच्मि महाभाग रामनाम परात्परम् ॥६८३॥

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A virtuous person who speaks of the qualities of Rāma's Name is beloved of Rāma. I speak truth, greatly fortunate one: Rāma's Name is supreme beyond all.

Editorial sequence 702 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Explicit close of the third pramoda

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इति श्रीसीतारामनामप्रतापप्रकाशे प्रमोदनिवासे परात्परैश्वर्यदायके श्रीयुगलानन्यशरणसंगृहीते संहितावाक्यप्रमाणो नाम तृतीय प्रमोदः ॥३॥

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Thus ends the third pramoda, named ‘The Testimony of Statements from the Saṃhitās,’ in Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa—the abode of delight and giver of transcendent sovereignty—compiled by Śrī Yugalānanya Śaraṇa.

Fourth pramoda · provisional root

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Editorial sequence 703 of 1,178 · printed citation ६८४

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Hanuman-nāṭaka; Śrī Hanumān to Agastya

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इदं शरीरं शतसन्धिजर्जरं पतत्यवश्यं परिणामदुर्वहम् । किमौषधं पृच्छसि मूढ दुर्मते निरामयं रामरसायनं पिब ॥६८४॥

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This body, worn out at its hundred joints, must fall and is hard to bear in its transformation. Why ask about medicine, foolish and ill-minded one? Drink the disease-free elixir of Rāma.

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Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Hanuman-nāṭaka; Śrī Hanumān to Agastya

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आसीनो वा शयानो वा तिष्ठतो यत्र कुत्र वा । श्रीरामनाम संस्मृत्य याति तत्परमं पदम् ॥६८५॥

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Whether seated, lying down, or standing anywhere at all, one who remembers Śrī Rāma's Name reaches that supreme state.

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Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Hanuman-nāṭaka; Śrī Hanumān to Agastya

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ये जपन्ति सदा स्नेहान्नाम माङ्गल्यकारणम् । श्रीमतो रामचन्द्रस्य कृपालोर्मम स्वामिनः ॥६८६॥

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Those who always lovingly repeat the Name—the cause of auspiciousness—of glorious Rāmacandra, the compassionate one and my Lord—

Editorial sequence 706 of 1,178 · printed citation ६८७

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Hanuman-nāṭaka; Śrī Hanumān to Agastya

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तेषामर्थे सदा विप्र प्रयतोऽहं प्रयत्नतः । ददामि वाञ्छितं नित्यं सर्वदा सौख्यमुत्तमम् ॥६८७॥

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—for their sake, O brahmin, I am always intent and, with effort, perpetually grant what is desired and supreme happiness.

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Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Hanuman-nāṭaka; Śrī Hanumān to Agastya

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रामनामैव नामैव सदा मज्जीवनं मुने । सत्यं वदामि सर्वस्वमिदमेकं सदा मम ॥६८८॥

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Rāma's Name—the Name alone—is always my life, O sage. I speak truth: this alone is always my entire treasure.

Editorial sequence 708 of 1,178 · printed citation ६८९

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Śrī Jānakī-pariṇaya-nāṭaka

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महामणीन्द्रादपि काशतेऽधिकं सदेव जिह्वाग्रप्रदीपयत्यलम् । आभ्यन्तरध्वान्तसबाह्यमुल्वणं निवारणे शक्तमहर्निशं भजे ॥६८९॥

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I worship night and day that which shines brighter than the greatest lordly jewel, fully illumines the tip of the tongue like a lamp, and is able to dispel fierce darkness both within and without.

Editorial sequence 709 of 1,178 · printed citation ६९०

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Śrī Jānakī-pariṇaya-nāṭaka

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सीतासमेतं रघुवीरनाम जपन्ति ये नित्यमघौघहारि । ते पुण्यवन्तः खलु भाग्यवन्तः परं पदं यान्ति स्ववर्गयुक्ताः ॥६९०॥

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Those who constantly repeat Raghuvīra's Name together with Sītā's—the remover of a flood of wrongdoing—are indeed meritorious and fortunate; together with their own circle, they go to the supreme state.

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Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Śrī Jānakī-pariṇaya-nāṭaka

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रोमाञ्चितशरीराश्च त्यक्तसर्वदुराग्रहाः । रटन्ति रामनामाख्यं मन्त्रं ते पावनेश्वराः ॥६९१॥

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Those whose bodies thrill, who have abandoned every harmful insistence, and who repeat the mantra called Rāma's Name are lords among purifiers.

Editorial sequence 711 of 1,178 · printed citation ६९२

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Śrī Jānakī-pariṇaya-nāṭaka

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येऽभिनन्दन्ति नामानि रामभद्रस्य नित्यशः । मनसा वचसा नित्यं ते वै भागवतोत्तमाः ॥६९२॥

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Those who constantly rejoice in the names of Rāmabhadra, always with mind and speech, are indeed the finest devotees.

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Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Śrī Jānakī-pariṇaya-nāṭaka

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दृढाभ्यासेन ये नित्यं रामनाम्नि रमन्ति च । तेषामभयदाता च श्रीरामो जानकीपतिः ॥६९३॥

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For those who constantly delight in Rāma's Name through firm practice, Śrī Rāma, Jānakī's husband, is the giver of fearlessness.

Editorial sequence 713 of 1,178 · printed citation ६९४

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Vicitra-nāṭaka

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प्रभावतो यस्य हि कुम्भजन्मना प्रशोषितः सिन्धुरपारपारणः । तथैव विन्ध्याचलरोधिताद्भुता मुनीन्द्रराजेन प्रभाकरेण ॥६९४॥

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By its power the boundless ocean was dried up by the pot-born sage; likewise the wondrous Vindhya mountain was checked by that sun-like king among great sages.

Editorial sequence 714 of 1,178 · printed citation ६९५

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Vicitra-nāṭaka

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न नामतः साधनमन्यदस्ति वै न साध्यसौभाग्यमतः परं क्वचित् । परात्परं प्रेमप्रकाशकं वरं सुधासारं सारमनन्तवैभवम् ॥६९५॥

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There is truly no discipline other than the Name, nor any attainable blessedness beyond it anywhere: supreme beyond the supreme, revealing love, excellent, the essence of nectar, the very essence, and possessed of endless majesty.

Editorial sequence 715 of 1,178 · printed citation ६९६

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Vicitra-nāṭaka

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यदीक्षणाच्छम्भुसुतो गणाधिपः सुरासुरैः प्राथमिकः प्रपूज्यः । प्रदक्षिणा यस्य कृते समस्ता क्षमावती स्यात्परितः प्रदक्षिणा ॥६९६॥

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By its glance, Śambhu's son, lord of the hosts, became the first to be worshipped by gods and antigods; when circumambulation was performed for it, the whole earth was thereby circumambulated all around.

Editorial sequence 716 of 1,178 · printed citation ६९७

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Vicitra-nāṭaka

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साराणां सारमित्याहुर्मुनयः सत्यवादिनः । श्रीरामनाम सर्वेशं नित्यानां नित्यमव्ययम् ॥६९७॥

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Truth-speaking sages call Śrī Rāma's Name the essence of essences, Lord of all, the eternal among eternal things, and imperishable.

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Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Vicitra-nāṭaka

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सर्वेषां सुलभं नाम सदा सर्वत्र सौख्यदम् । ये जपन्ति सदा भक्त्या तेभ्यो नित्यं नमो नमः ॥६९८॥

Fresh English · provisional

The Name is accessible to everyone, always and everywhere, and gives happiness. To those who constantly repeat it with devotion, homage and homage forever.

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Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Pramoda-nāṭaka

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वन्दे श्रीरामचन्द्रस्य नाम मुक्तिप्रदं परम् । यत्कृपालेशतोऽस्माकं सुलभं सर्वतः सुखम् ॥६९९॥

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I praise Śrī Rāmacandra's supreme, liberation-giving Name, through a mere trace of whose grace happiness is accessible to us on every side.

Editorial sequence 719 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Unnumbered vernacular footnote attached to citation 699

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रामनाम महिमा अगम श्रुति न कहो सिद्धान्त । युगलानन्य कृपा सुगम समुझित मिटत मन भ्रान्त ॥

Fresh English · provisional

The glory of Rāma's Name is unfathomable; revelation cannot state its final truth. By Yugalānanya's grace it becomes easy to understand, and the mind's delusion is erased.

Editorial sequence 720 of 1,178 · printed citation ७००

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Pramoda-nāṭaka

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अनामयं रूपयुगप्रकाशकं सदैव भक्तार्तिहरं कृपानिधिम् । स्मरामि श्रीराघवनाम निर्मलं प्रपूजितं देवमुनीश्वरेश्वरैः ॥७००॥

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I remember Śrī Rāghava's stainless Name: free from affliction, revealer of the divine Couple's form, always removing devotees' distress, a treasury of compassion, and deeply worshipped by gods and lords among sages.

Editorial sequence 721 of 1,178 · printed citation ७०१

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Pramoda-nāṭaka

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नाम्नः पराशक्तिपतेः प्रभावं प्रजानते मर्कटराजराजः । यद्रूपरागीश्वरवायुसूनुस्तद्रोमकूपे ध्वनिमुल्लसन्तम् ॥७०१॥

Fresh English · provisional

The sovereign among monkey-kings, the mighty Son of the Wind who is enamored of that form, knows the power of the Name of the Lord of the supreme Power—the sound that shines forth in each of his hair-pores.

Editorial sequence 722 of 1,178 · printed citation ७०२

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Pramoda-nāṭaka

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कषायविक्षेपलयादिहारकं सुतारकं संसृतिसागरस्य । सदैव दीनार्तिहरं दयानिधिं स्मरामि भक्त्या परमेश्वरप्रियम् ॥७०२॥

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With devotion I remember that which removes defilement, distraction, torpor, and the like; carries one well across the ocean of worldly existence; always removes the distress of the afflicted; is a treasury of compassion; and is dear to the Supreme Lord.

Editorial sequence 723 of 1,178 · printed citation ७०३

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Pramoda-nāṭaka

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गुणानां कारणं नाम तथैश्वर्यवतां सदा । संकीर्तनाल्लभेन्मर्त्यः पदमव्ययमुज्ज्वलम् ॥७०३॥

Fresh English · provisional

The Name is always the cause of virtues and likewise of powers; through its chanting, a mortal may obtain the radiant, imperishable state.

Editorial sequence 724 of 1,178 · printed citation ७०४

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Rahasya-nāṭaka

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मधुरमधुरमेतन्मङ्गलं मङ्गलानां सकलनिगमवल्लीसत्फलं चित्स्वरूपम् । सकृदपि परिगीतं श्रद्धया हेलया वा स भवति भवपारं रामनामानुभावात् ॥७०४॥

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This is sweet upon sweet, the auspiciousness of all auspicious things, the true fruit of the whole vine of revelation, and consciousness in form. Whoever sings it even once, whether with faith or casually, crosses beyond worldly becoming through the power of Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 725 of 1,178 · printed citation ७०५

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Rahasya-nāṭaka

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चेतोऽलेः कमलद्वयं श्रुतिपुटीपीयूषपूरद्वयं वागीशानयनद्वयं घनतमश्चण्डांशुचन्द्रद्वयम् । छान्दस्सिन्धुमणिद्वयं मुनिमनःकासारहंसद्वयं- मोक्षश्रीश्रवणोत्पलद्वयमिदं रामेति वर्णद्वयम् ॥७०५॥

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For the bee of the mind they are a pair of lotuses; for the cups of the ears, two floods of nectar; for the Lady of Speech, a pair of eyes; for dense darkness, sun and moon; for the ocean of Vedic verse, two jewels; for the lake of sages' minds, a pair of swans; and for the splendor of liberation, a pair of ear-lotuses—these two syllables, ‘Rā-ma.’

Editorial sequence 726 of 1,178 · printed citation ७०६

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Rahasya-nāṭaka

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रामनाम परं ब्रह्म दुराराध्यं दुरात्मनाम् । साध्यं च सुलभं नित्यं प्रेमसम्पन्नमानसैः ॥७०६॥

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Rāma's Name is the supreme absolute, difficult to worship for those called ill-natured, yet an eternally accessible goal for minds endowed with love.

Editorial sequence 727 of 1,178 · printed citation ७०७

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Rahasya-nāṭaka

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श्रुतिस्मृतिपुराणानि रामनाम्नि च संस्थितम् । यथैव लोके सुस्पष्टं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव ॥७०७॥

Fresh English · provisional

The Śrutis, Smṛtis, and Purāṇas are established in Rāma's Name, just as clusters of jewels are plainly seen upon a thread in the world.

Editorial sequence 728 of 1,178 · printed citation ७०८

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Rahasya-nāṭaka

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स्मरणाद्रामनाम्नस्तु यत् सुखं न लभेन्नरः । तत्सुखं खे गतं पुष्पं बन्ध्यापुत्रमिवाद्भुतम् ॥७०८॥

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Whatever happiness a person does not obtain from remembrance of Rāma's Name is as wondrously unreal as a flower in the sky or the son of a barren woman.

Editorial sequence 729 of 1,178 · printed citation ७०९

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Premārṇava-nāṭaka

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चित्राच्चित्रतरं लोके दृष्टं न कथितं मया । सार्वभौमस्य रामस्य नाम्नैव सुजपत्यलम् ॥७०९॥

Fresh English · provisional

I have seen in the world something more wondrous than wonder, though I have not described it: the Name alone of sovereign Rāma is fully worthy of careful repetition.

Editorial sequence 730 of 1,178 · printed citation ७१०

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Premārṇava-nāṭaka

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क्षणं विहाय श्रीरामनाम यः पामराधमः । कुरुते चान्यवस्तूनां चिन्तनं स तु गर्दभः ॥७१०॥

Fresh English · provisional

The verse calls the lowest wretch and a donkey anyone who abandons Śrī Rāma's Name even for a moment and turns to thinking of other things.

Editorial sequence 731 of 1,178 · printed citation ७११

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Premārṇava-nāṭaka

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प्रेमवैचित्र्यता प्रोक्ता दुर्लभा साधनान्तरैः । तां लभेद्रामनाम्नस्तु जपाच्छीघ्रं न संशयः ॥७११॥

Fresh English · provisional

Love's wondrous variation is said to be difficult to obtain through other disciplines; one may obtain it quickly through repetition of Rāma's Name—there is no doubt.

Editorial sequence 732 of 1,178 · printed citation ७१२

Fourth pramoda — dramatic statements; Premārṇava-nāṭaka

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सर्वाशां सम्परित्यज्य संस्मरेन्नाम मङ्गलम् । यदीच्छा वर्तते स्वच्छा प्राप्तिरूपा परात्पराः ॥७१२॥

Fresh English · provisional

Abandoning every hope, one should remember the auspicious Name, if there abides a pure wish whose form is attainment of the transcendent.

Editorial sequence 733 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Explicit close of the fourth pramoda

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इति श्रीसीतारामनामप्रतापप्रकाशे प्रमोदनिवासे परात्परैश्वर्यदायके श्रीयुगलानन्यशरणसंगृहीते नाटकवाक्यप्रमाणनिरूपणं नाम चतुर्थः प्रमोदः ॥४॥

Fresh English · provisional

Thus ends the fourth pramoda, named ‘Exposition of the Testimony of Dramatic Statements,’ in Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa—the abode of delight and giver of transcendent sovereignty—compiled by Śrī Yugalānanya Śaraṇa.

Fifth pramoda · provisional root

Editorial sequences 734–785 · 52 provisional units

Editorial sequence 734 of 1,178 · printed citation ७१३

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Manu Smṛti

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सप्तकोटिमहामन्त्राश्चित्तविभ्रमकारकाः । एक एव परो मन्त्रः श्रीरामेत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥७१३॥

Fresh English · provisional

Seventy million great mantras cause confusion of mind; the one supreme mantra alone is the two-syllabled ‘Śrī Rāma.’

Editorial sequence 735 of 1,178 · printed citation ७१४

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Manu Smṛti

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येषां नित्यं रमेच्चित्तं रामनाम्नि सदोज्ज्वले । तेषां पुण्यौघमुत्कृष्टं जायते हि प्रतिक्षणम् ॥७१४॥

Fresh English · provisional

For those whose mind constantly delights in the ever-radiant Rāma Name, an excellent flood of merit arises at every moment.

Editorial sequence 736 of 1,178 · printed citation ७१५

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Dakṣa Smṛti

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धन्या माता पिता धन्यो धन्याद्धन्यतमं कुलम् । यत्र श्रीरामनाम्नस्तु जापको जायते शुचिः ॥७१५॥

Fresh English · provisional

Blessed is the mother, blessed the father, and most blessed beyond the blessed is the family in which a pure repeater of Śrī Rāma's Name is born.

Editorial sequence 737 of 1,178 · printed citation ७१६

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Dakṣa Smṛti

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विषं तस्य सुधा प्रोक्तं शत्रुस्तस्य सुहृद्भवेत् । सर्वेषां प्रेमपात्रं सः यस्य नाम्नि सदा रुचिः ॥७१६॥

Fresh English · provisional

For one who always delights in the Name, poison is said to become nectar, an enemy may become a friend, and that person becomes an object of everyone's love.

Editorial sequence 738 of 1,178 · printed citation ७१७

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Dharmarāja Smṛti

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दृष्ट्वा श्रीरामनाम्नस्तु जापकं ध्यानतत्परम् । अभ्युत्थानं सदा स्नेहात् करिष्येऽहं महामुने ॥७१७॥

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Great sage, on seeing a repeater of Śrī Rāma's Name absorbed in meditation, I shall always rise affectionately in respect.

Editorial sequence 739 of 1,178 · printed citation ७१८

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Dharmarāja Smṛti

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स वै धन्यतरो देशः साक्षाच्छ्रीधामसन्निभः । यत्र तिष्ठन्ति श्रीरामनामसंलापनैष्ठिकाः ॥७१८॥

Fresh English · provisional

That land is indeed exceedingly blessed, resembling the blessed divine abode itself, where those steadfastly devoted to speaking Śrī Rāma's Name dwell.

Editorial sequence 740 of 1,178 · printed citation ७१९

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Kātyāyana Smṛti

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मिथ्यावादे दिवा स्वापे बहुशोऽम्बुनिषेवणे । रामनामाक्षरं जप्त्वा सद्यः पूतः प्रजायते ॥७१९॥

Fresh English · provisional

After false speech, sleeping by day, or frequent use of water, one is said to become pure at once by repeating the syllables of Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 741 of 1,178 · printed citation ७२०

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Kātyāyana Smṛti

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कृतैश्च क्रियमाणैश्च भविष्यद्भिश्च पातकैः । रामेति द्वयक्षरं नाम सकृज्जप्त्वा विशुध्यति ॥७२०॥

Fresh English · provisional

From wrongs already done, being done, and yet to come, one is purified by repeating once the two-syllabled Name ‘Rāma.’

Editorial sequence 742 of 1,178 · printed citation ७२१

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Kātyāyana Smṛti

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आयासः स्मरणे कोऽस्य मोक्षं यच्छति शोभनम् । पापक्षयश्च भवति स्मरतां तदहर्निशम् ॥७२१॥

Fresh English · provisional

What exertion is there in remembering it? It grants beautiful liberation, and wrongdoing diminishes for those who remember it day and night.

Editorial sequence 743 of 1,178 · printed citation ७२२

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Kātyāyana Smṛti

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अभिमानं परित्यज्य चेतसा शुद्धगामिना । शृण्वन्तु रामभद्रस्य नाममाहात्म्यमुज्ज्वलम् ॥७२२॥

Fresh English · provisional

Abandoning pride and proceeding with a purified mind, let them hear the radiant greatness of Rāmabhadra's Name.

Editorial sequence 744 of 1,178 · printed citation ७२३

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Sāṅkhalya Smṛti

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श्रवणात्कीर्तनाद्यस्य नरो याति निरापदम् । तच्छ्रीमद्रामनामाख्यं मन्त्रं वै संश्रयाम्यहम् ॥७२३॥

Fresh English · provisional

Through hearing and chanting that by which a person reaches a state free from danger, I truly take refuge in the mantra called the blessed Rāma Name.

Editorial sequence 745 of 1,178 · printed citation ७२४

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Sāṅkhalya Smṛti

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पापानां शोधकं नित्यं परानन्दस्य बोधकम् । रोधकं चित्तवृत्तीनां भजध्वं नाम मङ्गलम् ॥७२४॥

Fresh English · provisional

Worship the auspicious Name, which always purifies wrongs, awakens supreme bliss, and restrains the movements of the mind.

Editorial sequence 746 of 1,178 · printed citation ७२५

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Hārīta Smṛti

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इमं मन्त्रमगस्त्यस्तु जप्त्वा रुद्रत्वमाप्तवान् । ब्रह्मत्वं काश्यपश्चैव कौशिकोऽप्यमरेशताम् ॥७२५॥

Fresh English · provisional

By repeating this mantra, Agastya attained the state of Rudra; Kāśyapa attained the state of Brahmā, and Kauśika likewise the lordship of the immortals.

Editorial sequence 747 of 1,178 · printed citation ७२६

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Hārīta Smṛti

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कार्तिकेयो मनुश्चैव इन्द्रार्कगिरिनारदाः । बालखिल्यादि मुनयो देवतात्वं प्रपेदिरे ॥७२६॥

Fresh English · provisional

Kārttikeya, Manu, Indra, the Sun, the mountain, Nārada, and sages such as the Vālakhilyas attained divine status.

Editorial sequence 748 of 1,178 · printed citation ७२७

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Hārīta Smṛti

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अद्यापि रुद्रः काश्यां वै सर्वेषां त्यक्तजीविनाम् । दिशत्येतन्महामन्त्रं तारकं ब्रह्मनामकम् ॥७२७॥

Fresh English · provisional

Even now in Kāśī, Rudra imparts this great mantra, the liberating one called Brahman, to all whose life has departed.

Editorial sequence 749 of 1,178 · printed citation ७२८

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Hārīta Smṛti

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यस्य श्रवणमात्रेण सर्व एव दिवं गताः । प्रजप्तव्यं सदा प्रेम्णा तन्मन्त्रं रामनामकम् ॥७२८॥

Fresh English · provisional

By merely hearing it, all indeed went to heaven; that mantra called Rāma's Name should always be repeated with love.

Editorial sequence 750 of 1,178 · printed citation ७२९

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Hārīta Smṛti

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विनैव दीक्षां विप्रेन्द्र पुरश्चर्यां विनैव हि । विनैव न्यासविधिना जपमात्रेण सिद्धिदः ॥७२९॥

Fresh English · provisional

Without initiation, foremost brahmin, without preliminary observance, and without the rite of nyāsa, it grants attainment through repetition alone.

Editorial sequence 751 of 1,178 · printed citation ७३०

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Hārīta Smṛti

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तस्मात् सर्वात्मना रामनाम रूपं परं प्रियम् । मन्त्रं जपेत् सदा धीमान् संविहायान्यसाधनम् ॥७३०॥

Fresh English · provisional

Therefore, abandoning other disciplines completely, the wise person should always repeat the mantra whose form is Rāma's Name, supremely dear.

Editorial sequence 752 of 1,178 · printed citation ७३१

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Vaiṣṇava Smṛti

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रामनामरता ये च रामनामपरायणाः । वर्णा वा वर्णबाह्या वा ते कृतार्थाः सदा भुवि ॥७३१॥

Fresh English · provisional

Those devoted to Rāma's Name and wholly intent upon it are always fulfilled on earth, whether within the social classes or outside them.

Editorial sequence 753 of 1,178 · printed citation ७३२

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Vaiṣṇava Smṛti

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स्वपन् भुञ्जन् व्रजंस्तिष्ठनुत्तिष्ठंश्च वदंस्तथा । यो वक्ति रामनामाख्यं मन्त्रं तस्मै नमो नमः ॥७३२॥

Fresh English · provisional

Homage and homage to whoever utters the mantra called Rāma's Name while sleeping, eating, walking, standing, rising, and speaking.

Editorial sequence 754 of 1,178 · printed citation ७३३

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Atri Smṛti

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कवले कवले कुर्वन् रामनामनुकीर्तनम् । यः कश्चित् पुरुषोऽश्नाति सोऽन्नदोषैर्न लिप्यते ॥७३३॥

Fresh English · provisional

Whoever eats while chanting Rāma's Name with every morsel is not tainted by faults associated with food.

Editorial sequence 755 of 1,178 · printed citation ७३४

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Atri Smṛti

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सिक्थे सिक्थे लभेन्मर्त्यो महायज्ञाधिकं फलम् । यः स्मरेद्रामनामाख्यं मन्त्रराजमनुत्तमम् ॥७३४॥

Fresh English · provisional

With every grain, a mortal who remembers the unsurpassed king of mantras called Rāma's Name obtains a fruit greater than a great sacrifice.

Editorial sequence 756 of 1,178 · printed citation ७३५

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Sāṃvartaka Smṛti

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असङ्ख्यजन्मसुकृतैर्युक्तो यदि भवेज्जनः । तदा श्रीरामसन्मन्त्रे रतिस्सञ्जायते नृणाम् ॥७३५॥

Fresh English · provisional

When a person is endowed with merit from countless births, then delight in the true mantra of Śrī Rāma arises among human beings.

Editorial sequence 757 of 1,178 · printed citation ७३६

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Sāṃvartaka Smṛti

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तन्नामस्मरतां लोके कर्मलोपो भवेद्यदि । तस्य तत्कर्म कुर्वन्ति त्रिंशत्कोट्यो महर्षयः ॥७३६॥

Fresh English · provisional

If an observance is omitted in this world by those remembering that Name, thirty crores of great seers perform that observance for them.

Editorial sequence 758 of 1,178 · printed citation ७३७

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Āṅgirasa Smṛti

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कान्तारवनदुर्गेषु सर्वापत्सु च सम्भ्रमे । दस्युभिस्सन्निरुद्धे च यस्तु श्रीनाम कीर्तयेत् ॥७३७॥

Fresh English · provisional

Whoever chants the blessed Name in trackless forests and difficult places, amid every danger and alarm, or when hemmed in by bandits—

Editorial sequence 759 of 1,178 · printed citation ७३८

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Āṅgirasa Smṛti

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ततः सद्यो विमुच्येद्वै रामनामप्रभावतः । एतादृशं सदा स्वच्छं स्वतन्त्रं रामनाम च ॥७३८॥

Fresh English · provisional

—is indeed freed from it at once through the power of Rāma's Name. Such is Rāma's Name, always pure and independent.

Editorial sequence 760 of 1,178 · printed citation ७३९

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Śanaiścara Smṛti

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मत्कृता या भवेद्बाधा महादुःखौघदायिनी । रामनाम्नो जपोत्साही मुच्यते स्वल्पकालतः ॥७३९॥

Fresh English · provisional

One who is eager to repeat Rāma's Name is freed in a short time from whatever affliction caused by me brings a flood of great suffering.

Editorial sequence 761 of 1,178 · printed citation ७४०

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Śanaiścara Smṛti

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सर्वोपद्रवनाशार्थं रामनाम जपेद् बुधः । सत्यं सत्यं न सन्देहो मन्तव्यं सततं जनैः ॥७४०॥

Fresh English · provisional

For the destruction of every affliction, the wise person should repeat Rāma's Name; people should continually regard this as true—true, without doubt.

Editorial sequence 762 of 1,178 · printed citation ७४१

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Yājñavalkya Smṛti

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परमात्मानमव्यक्तं प्रधानपुरुषेश्वरम् । अनायासेन प्राप्नोति कृते तन्नामकीर्तने ॥७४१॥

Fresh English · provisional

When that Name is chanted, one effortlessly attains the unmanifest Supreme Self, the lord of primordial nature and the person.

Editorial sequence 763 of 1,178 · printed citation ७४२

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Yājñavalkya Smṛti

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ज्ञानविज्ञानसम्पन्नं वैराग्यं विषयेष्वनु । अमलां प्रीतिमुन्निद्रां लभते नामकीर्तनात् ॥७४२॥

Fresh English · provisional

Through chanting the Name, one obtains dispassion toward sense objects endowed with knowledge and realization, and stainless, wakeful love.

Editorial sequence 764 of 1,178 · printed citation ७४३

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Vasiṣṭha Smṛti

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रामनामजपेनैव तदर्चा चोत्तमा स्मृता । अन्येषां लौकिकी पूजा प्रतिष्ठावर्द्धिनी भुवि ॥७४३॥

Fresh English · provisional

Only through repetition of Rāma's Name is that worship remembered as supreme; the worldly worship of others increases social standing on earth.

Editorial sequence 765 of 1,178 · printed citation ७४४

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Vasiṣṭha Smṛti

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श्रीराम रामरामेति ये वदन्त्यपि पापिनः । पापकोटिसहस्रेभ्यस्तेषामुद्धरणं क्षणात् ॥७४४॥

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Even wrongdoers who say, ‘Śrī Rāma, Rāma, Rāma,’ are delivered in an instant from thousands of crores of wrongs.

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Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Gautama Smṛti

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तावद्विजृम्भते पापं ब्रह्महत्या पुरस्सरम् । यावच्छ्रीरामनाम्नस्तु नास्ति सम्भाषणं नृणाम् ॥७४५॥

Fresh English · provisional

Wrongdoing, led by the killing of a brahmin, flourishes only so long as people do not utter Śrī Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 767 of 1,178 · printed citation ७४६

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Gautama Smṛti

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रामनाम्नः परं तत्त्वं समं वा यस्त्वघी वदेत् । संसर्गं तस्य यः कुर्याद्रामद्वेषी भवेत्तु सः ॥७४६॥

Fresh English · provisional

Whoever, being at fault, declares some principle higher than or equal to Rāma's Name—and whoever associates with that person—is said to become hostile to Rāma.

Editorial sequence 768 of 1,178 · printed citation ७४७

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Māṇḍavya Smṛti

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सुरापो ब्रह्महा स्तेयी चौरो भग्नव्रतोऽशुचिः । स्वाध्यायोऽपार्जितः पापी लुब्धो नैष्कृतिकः शठः ॥७४७॥

Fresh English · provisional

A drinker of liquor, a killer of a brahmin, a thief, a robber, one whose vow is broken, an impure person; one described by the uncertain printed reading ‘svādhyāyopārjita,’ a wrongdoer, one greedy, ungrateful, or deceitful—

Editorial sequence 769 of 1,178 · printed citation ७४८

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Māṇḍavya Smṛti

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अव्रती वृषलीभर्ता कुनखी सोमविक्रयी । सोऽपि मुक्तिमवाप्नोति रामनामानुकीर्तनात् ॥७४८॥

Fresh English · provisional

—one without vows, the husband of a woman classed as a vṛṣalī, one with malformed nails, or a seller of soma: even such a person attains liberation by chanting Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 770 of 1,178 · printed citation ७४९

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Bṛhaspati Smṛti

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यावच्छ्रीरामनाम्नस्तु स्मरणं नास्ति भो मुने । तावद् यमभटाः सर्वे विचरन्तीह निर्भयाः ॥७४९॥

Fresh English · provisional

O sage, only so long as there is no remembrance of Śrī Rāma's Name do all the servants of Yama wander here without fear.

Editorial sequence 771 of 1,178 · printed citation ७५०

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Bṛhaspati Smṛti

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रामनाम परं ब्रह्म सर्वदेवैः प्रपूजितम् । सर्वेषां सम्मतं शुद्धं जीवनं महतामपि ॥७५०॥

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Rāma's Name is the supreme Brahman, greatly worshipped by all the gods, accepted by all, pure, and the very life even of the great.

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Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Ātātapa Smṛti

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नित्यन्धिक् क्रियतेऽस्माभिस्तेषां भाग्येषु निश्चितम् । नो पीतं रामनामाख्यं पीयूषं मानवाऽऽकृतौ ॥७५१॥

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We constantly and certainly cry shame upon the fortune of those who have not drunk the nectar called Rāma's Name while in human form.

Editorial sequence 773 of 1,178 · printed citation ७५२

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Ātātapa Smṛti

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सूक्ष्ममत्यन्तमात्मानं प्रवदन्ति विपश्चितः । तस्याऽप्यनुभवः साक्षाज्जायते नामकीर्तनात् ॥७५२॥

Fresh English · provisional

The learned declare the Self to be exceedingly subtle; even direct experience of it arises through chanting the Name.

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Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Ātātapa Smṛti

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ज्ञानानां परमं ज्ञानं ध्यानानां परमो लयः । योगानां परमो योगो रामनामानुकीर्तनम् ॥७५३॥

Fresh English · provisional

Among forms of knowledge it is the highest knowledge, among meditations the highest absorption, and among yogas the highest yoga: the chanting of Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 775 of 1,178 · printed citation ७५४

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Ātātapa Smṛti

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अयमेव परो लाभः सर्वेषां जगतीतले । नामव्याहरणं नित्यं श्रीरामस्य सनातनम् ॥७५४॥

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This alone is the highest gain for everyone upon the earth: the continual utterance of Śrī Rāma's eternal Name.

Editorial sequence 776 of 1,178 · printed citation ७५५

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Ātātapa Smṛti

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परं ब्रह्ममयं नाम वेदानां गुह्यमुत्तमम् । यत्प्रसादात् परां शान्तिं लभते पातकी नरः ॥७५५॥

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The Name consists of the supreme Brahman and is the highest secret of the Vedas; through its grace, a wrongdoing person obtains supreme peace.

Editorial sequence 777 of 1,178 · printed citation ७५६

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Ātātapa Smṛti

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ब्राह्मणः श्वपचीं भुञ्जन् विशेषेण रजस्वलाम् । यदन्नं सुरया पक्वं मरणे नाम संस्मरेत् ॥७५६॥

Fresh English · provisional

If a brahmin, consorting with a woman classed as a śvapacī, especially while she is menstruating, and [taking] food cooked with liquor, remembers the Name at death—

Editorial sequence 778 of 1,178 · printed citation ७५७

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Ātātapa Smṛti

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स याति परमं स्थानं सर्वपापविवर्जितः । सत्यं सत्यं पुनः सत्यं रामनामप्रभावतः ॥७५७॥

Fresh English · provisional

—that person goes to the highest place, freed from all wrongs, through the power of Rāma's Name. True, true, and true again.

Editorial sequence 779 of 1,178 · printed citation ७५८

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Ātātapa Smṛti

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तद्देहलक्षणं वृक्षं पापरूपास्तु पक्षिणः । त्यक्त्वा चोड्डीय गच्छन्ति विलम्बं संविहाय च ॥७५८॥

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The birds whose forms are wrongs abandon the tree represented by that person's body and fly away, casting off all delay.

Editorial sequence 780 of 1,178 · printed citation ७५९

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Kratu Smṛti

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तन्नास्ति कायजं लोके वाक्यजं मानसं तथा । यत्तु न क्षीयते पापं रामनामजपान्मुने ॥७५९॥

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There is no bodily, verbal, or mental wrong in the world, O sage, that is not destroyed by repetition of Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 781 of 1,178 · printed citation ७६०

Fifth pramoda — statements from the Smṛtis; Kratu Smṛti

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न तावत् पापमस्तीह यावन्नाम्ना हतस्मृतम् । अतिरेकभयादाहुः प्रायश्चित्तान्तरं बुधाः ॥७६०॥

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There is not so much wrongdoing here as is remembered to have been destroyed by the Name; from fear of excess, the wise have spoken of other expiations.

Editorial sequence 782 of 1,178 · printed citation ७६१

Fifth pramoda — Mahābhārata, Śānti Parvan; statement of the Lord

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ऋग्वेदेऽथ यजुर्वेदे तथैवाथर्वसामसु । पुराणे सोपनिषदि तथैवं ज्योतिषेऽर्जुन ॥७६१॥

Fresh English · provisional

In the Ṛgveda and Yajurveda, likewise in the Atharva and Sāma, in the Purāṇas with the Upaniṣads, and likewise in Jyotiṣa, Arjuna—

Editorial sequence 783 of 1,178 · printed citation ७६२

Fifth pramoda — Mahābhārata, Śānti Parvan; statement of the Lord

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साङ्ख्ये च योगशास्त्रे च आयुर्वेदे तथैव च । बहूनि मम नामानि कीर्तितानि महर्षिभिः ॥७६२॥

Fresh English · provisional

—and in Sāṅkhya, the discipline of yoga, and likewise Āyurveda, many names of mine have been proclaimed by the great seers.

Editorial sequence 784 of 1,178 · printed citation ७६३

Fifth pramoda — Mahābhārata, Śānti Parvan; statement of the Lord

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गौणानि तत्र नामानि कर्मजानि च कानि च । सर्वेषु मन्त्रतत्त्वेषु रामनाम परात्परम् ॥७६३॥

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Among them, some names are secondary and some arise from deeds; among all mantra-principles, Rāma's Name is beyond the highest.

Editorial sequence 785 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Fifth-pramoda colophon

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इति श्रीसीतारामनामप्रतापप्रकाशे प्रमोदनिवासे परात्परैश्वर्यदायके श्रीयुगलानन्यशरणसंगृहीते समस्तरहस्यसारे स्मृतिवाक्यप्रमाणनिरूपणं नाम पञ्चमः प्रमोदः ॥५॥

Fresh English · provisional

Thus, in Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa, the abode of delight that bestows the sovereignty beyond the highest, in the Essence of All Mysteries collected by Śrī Yugalānanya Śaraṇa, ends the fifth pramoda, entitled ‘Establishing the Testimony of Statements from the Smṛtis.’

Sixth pramoda · provisional root

Editorial sequences 786–825 · 40 provisional units

Editorial sequence 786 of 1,178 · printed citation ७६४

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Śiva Rahasya

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शोचन्ते ते तपोहीनाः स्वभाग्यानि दिने दिने । प्रमादेनापि यैर्नोक्तं श्रीरामेत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥७६४॥

Fresh English · provisional

Those devoid of austerity lament their own fortunes day after day, who have not uttered the two syllables ‘Śrī Rāma’ even inadvertently.

Editorial sequence 787 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Unnumbered vernacular footnote attached to citation 764; Yugalānanya

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रामनाम अनुराग धन चिन्तामणि चयसार । युगलानन्य स्नेह से जपिये बारहिंवार ॥ सीताराम प्रपन्न विनु भये न मोद अनन्त । युगलानन्य सनेह सजि पाइय प्रभा समन्त ॥

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The wealth of love for Rāma's Name is the essence of a treasury of wish-fulfilling jewels; Yugalānanya says: repeat it again and again with affection. Without surrender to Sītārāma, unending delight does not arise; Yugalānanya says: adorned with affection, one obtains radiance on every side.

Editorial sequence 788 of 1,178 · printed citation ७६५

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Śiva Rahasya

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रामनाम सुविज्ञेयः षण्मात्रास्तत्त्वबोधकाः । जानन्ति तत्त्वनिष्णाता रामनामप्रसादतः ॥७६५॥

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Rāma's Name is to be understood well: its six measures disclose the principle. Those deeply versed in that principle know them through the grace of Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 789 of 1,178 · printed citation ७६६

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Śiva Rahasya

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रामनाम्नि स्थितो रेफो जानकी तेन कथ्यते । रकारेण तु विज्ञेयः श्रीरामः पुरुषोत्तमः ॥७६६॥

Fresh English · provisional

The repha situated in Rāma's Name is thereby said to be Jānakī; by the letter ra, Śrī Rāma, the Supreme Person, is to be understood.

Editorial sequence 790 of 1,178 · printed citation ७६७

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Śiva Rahasya

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आकारेण तु विज्ञेयो भरतो विश्वपालकः । व्यञ्जनेन मकारेण लक्ष्मणोऽत्र निगद्यते ॥७६७॥

Fresh English · provisional

By the letter ā, Bharata, protector of the universe, is to be understood; by the consonant ma, Lakṣmaṇa is designated here.

Editorial sequence 791 of 1,178 · printed citation ७६८

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Śiva Rahasya

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ह्रस्वाकारेण निगमैः शत्रुघ्नः समुदाहृतः । मकारार्थो द्विधा ज्ञेयः सानुनासिकभेदतः ॥७६८॥

Fresh English · provisional

By the short a, the Vedas proclaim Śatrughna; the meaning of ma is to be understood as twofold through the distinction involving nasalization.

Editorial sequence 792 of 1,178 · printed citation ७६९

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Śiva Rahasya

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प्रोच्यन्ते तेन हंसा वै जीवाश्चैतन्यविग्रहाः । संसारसागरोत्तीर्णाः पुनरावृत्तिवर्जिताः ॥७६९॥

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By it are indeed declared the haṃsas—the living beings whose form is consciousness, who have crossed the ocean of saṃsāra and are free from return.

Editorial sequence 793 of 1,178 · printed citation ७७०

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Śiva Rahasya

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सैवाधिकारिणः सर्वे श्रीरामस्य परात्मनः । एतत्तात्पर्यमुख्यार्थादन्यार्थो योऽनुभूयते ॥७७०॥

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All those are thus eligible for Śrī Rāma, the Supreme Self. Whatever other meaning is apprehended apart from this intended primary sense—

Editorial sequence 794 of 1,178 · printed citation ७७१

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Śiva Rahasya

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सोऽनर्थ इति विज्ञेयः संसारप्राप्तिहेतुकः । तस्मात्तात्पर्यमर्थं च मन्तव्यं नामतन्मयैः ॥७७१॥

Fresh English · provisional

—is to be understood as harmful, a cause of entering saṃsāra. Therefore, those absorbed in the Name should understand its intended meaning.

Editorial sequence 795 of 1,178 · printed citation ७७२

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Nārāyaṇa Rahasya; Nārāyaṇa to Nārada

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यथौषधं श्रेष्ठतमं महामुने अजानतोऽप्यात्मगुणं प्रकुर्वते । तथैव श्रीराघवनामतो जनाः परं पदं यान्त्यनायासतः खलु ॥७७२॥

Fresh English · provisional

Great sage, just as the finest medicine produces its own effect even for one who does not understand it, so indeed people effortlessly reach the highest state through Śrī Rāghava's Name.

Editorial sequence 796 of 1,178 · printed citation ७७३

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Nārāyaṇa Rahasya; Nārāyaṇa to Nārada

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यथा दीपेन धाम्नस्तु तमस्तोमविनाशनम् । तथा श्रीरामनाम्ना तु अविद्यासन्निवर्तते ॥७७३॥

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Just as the mass of darkness in a dwelling is destroyed by a lamp, so ignorance turns away through Śrī Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 797 of 1,178 · printed citation ७७४

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Nārāyaṇa Rahasya; Nārāyaṇa to Nārada

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यन्नामकीर्तनाद्दोषास्सर्वे नश्यन्ति तत्क्षणात् । विनिर्दोषायते तस्मै श्रीरामाय नमो नमः ॥७७४॥

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By chanting whose Name all faults perish in that very instant—to that Śrī Rāma, who is wholly faultless, homage and homage.

Editorial sequence 798 of 1,178 · printed citation ७७५

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Nārāyaṇa Rahasya; Nārāyaṇa to Nārada

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त्यजेत् कलेवरं रोगी मुच्यते सर्वकर्मभिः । भक्त्याऽऽवेश्य मनो यस्मिन् वाचा श्रीनाम कीर्तने ॥७७५॥

Fresh English · provisional

An ill person who, with devotion, fixes the mind upon him and chants the blessed Name with the voice leaves the body and is freed from all karma.

Editorial sequence 799 of 1,178 · printed citation ७७६

Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Nārāyaṇa Rahasya; Nārāyaṇa to Nārada

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यस्तारयति भूतानि त्रिलोकीसम्भवानि च । स्वनामकीर्तनेनैव तस्मै नामात्मने नमः ॥७७६॥

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Homage to the One whose self is the Name, who carries across the beings born in the three worlds through the chanting of his own Name alone.

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Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Nārāyaṇa Rahasya; Nārāyaṇa to Nārada

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श्रीरामेत्युक्तमात्रेण दैहिकः क्लेशबन्धनः । पापौघो विलयं याति दानमश्रोत्रिये यथा ॥७७७॥

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By the mere utterance ‘Śrī Rāma,’ the flood of wrongs that binds one to bodily affliction dissolves, like a gift made to one unlearned in scripture.

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नियतं रामनाम्नस्तु कीर्तनाच्छ्रवणाच्छिवे । महतोऽप्येनसः सत्यमुद्धरेद्राघवो बली ॥७७८॥

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O Śivā, through regular chanting and hearing of Rāma's Name, mighty Rāghava truly raises one even from great wrongdoing.

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सत्यम्ब्रवीमि देवेशि श्रुत्वेदमवधारय । नामसङ्कीर्तनादन्यो मोचकोऽत्र न विद्यते ॥७७९॥

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I speak truth, goddess of the gods; hear this and hold it firmly: here there is no liberator other than chanting the Name.

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सकृदुच्चारयेद्यस्तु रामनामेति मङ्गलम् । हेलया श्रद्धया वापि स पूतः सर्वपातकैः ॥७८०॥

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Whoever utters once the auspicious Name ‘Rāma,’ whether casually or with faith, is purified from all wrongs.

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सर्वाचारविहीनोऽपि तापक्लेशादिसंयुतः । श्रीरामनाम सङ्कीर्त्य याति ब्रह्म सनातनम् ॥७८१॥

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Even one devoid of all prescribed conduct and afflicted by suffering and distress reaches the eternal Brahman by chanting Śrī Rāma's Name.

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यस्य नाम सततं जपन्ति येऽज्ञानकर्मकृतबन्धनं क्षणात् । सद्य एव परिमुच्य तत्पदं याति कोटिरविभास्वरं शिवम् ॥७८२॥

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Those who continually repeat his Name are immediately freed in an instant from bondage produced by ignorance and action, and reach that auspicious state radiant as ten million suns.

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सर्वकाले शुचिर्नाम महामोक्षैककारणम् । इति मत्वा जपेद्यस्तु स तु सिद्धान्तपारगः ॥७८३॥

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Whoever repeats the Name while regarding it as pure at all times and the sole cause of great liberation is indeed one who has crossed to the far shore of the doctrine.

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श्रीरामदिव्यनामानि सर्वदा परिकीर्तयेत् । यतः सर्वात्मकं नाम पावनानां च पावनम् ॥७८४॥

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One should always chant Śrī Rāma's divine Names, for the Name is the self of all and the purifier even of purifying things.

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Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Gaṇeśa Rahasya

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सर्वजातिबहिर्भूतो भुञ्जानो वा यतस्ततः । कदाचिन्नारकं दुःखं नाम वक्ता न पश्यति ॥७८५॥

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One outside every caste, even eating here and there, does not at any time see the suffering of hell if that person utters the Name.

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स्मरणे रामनाम्नस्तु मानसं यस्य वर्तते । तस्य वैवस्वतो राजा करोति लिपिमार्जनम् ॥७८६॥

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For one whose mind remains in remembrance of Rāma's Name, King Vaivasvata erases the written record.

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एकस्मिन्नप्यतिक्रान्ते मुहूर्ते नामवर्जिते । दस्युभिर्मोषितस्तेन युक्तमाक्रन्दितुं भृशम् ॥७८७॥

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When even a single muhūrta has passed without the Name, it is fitting to lament intensely that it has thereby been stolen by bandits.

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Sixth pramoda — statements from the Rahasyas; Śakti Rahasya

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रामेतिब्रुवतोऽनिशं भुवि जनस्येतावता सङ्क्षय- म्पापानामतिशोधकं खलु पुनर्नान्यत् कृतं चिन्तनम् । मार्तण्डोदयकाल एव तमसो नास्ति क्षतिस्स्यात् क्षयं किं कार्यं पुरुषैः प्रदीपकरणे चार्थानभिज्ञैर्वृथा ॥७८८॥

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For a person on earth who says ‘Rāma’ continually, wrongs are destroyed by this alone; indeed no other contemplation is needed for their complete purification. At the very rising of the sun darkness cannot remain without being destroyed—what need is there for people, ignorant of the point, to make a lamp in vain?

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अहो मूर्खमहो मूर्खमहो मूर्खमिदं जगत् । विद्यमानेऽपि मत्स्वामी मूढा नैव रमन्ति च ॥७८९॥

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Ah, foolish! Ah, foolish! Ah, this world is foolish: although my Lord is present, the deluded do not delight in him.

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श्रीराम राम रघुवंशकुलावतंस त्वन्नामकीर्तनपरा भवतीह वाणी । नान्यं वरं रघुपते भ्रमतोऽपि याचे सत्यं वदामि रघुवीर दयानिधेऽहम् ॥७९०॥

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Śrī Rāma, Rāma, crest-jewel of Raghu's lineage: may my speech here remain wholly intent upon chanting your Name. Lord of the Raghus, I ask no other boon, even by mistake; Raghavīra, treasure of compassion, I speak the truth.

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तस्मात् मूर्खतरः कोऽपि कोऽन्यस्तस्मादचेतनः । यस्य नाम्नि परा प्रीतिर्नास्ति सर्वेश्वरेश्वरे ॥७९१॥

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Who, then, could be more foolish or more insensible than one who has no supreme love for the Name, the Lord of all lords?

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परमानन्दजलधौ नाम्नि सिद्धान्तमौलिनि । नास्ति यस्य रतिर्नित्या स विप्रः श्वपचाधमः ॥७९२॥

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A brahmin who has no constant delight in the Name—the ocean of supreme bliss and crown of doctrine—is declared lower than one historically classed as a śvapaca.

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Unnumbered vernacular footnote attached after citation 792; attributed to Śrī Yugalānanda Śaraṇa

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श्रीसियपिय गुननिधिवल्ल, नाम सकल सुखखान । जो न जपे अनुराग सजि तासम कौन मलान ॥ (श्रीयुगलानन्दशरणजी)

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The Name of Śrī Sīyā's beloved, the treasury of virtues, is the mine of every happiness. Who is more sullied than one who does not repeat it, adorned with love? (Śrī Yugalānanda Śaraṇa.)

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अहो चित्रमहो चित्रमहोचित्रमिदं द्विजाः । रामनाम परित्यज्य संसारे रुचिमुल्वणाम् ॥७९३॥

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Ah, wonder! Ah, wonder! Brahmins, what a wonder this is: abandoning Rāma's Name, [people maintain] an intense liking for saṃsāra.

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यावन्नेन्द्रियवैक्लव्यं यावद्व्याधिर्न बाधते । तावत् सङ्कीर्तयेद्रामं सहजानन्ददायकम् ॥७९४॥

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So long as the senses have not become impaired and illness does not afflict, one should chant Rāma's Name, the giver of innate bliss.

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मातृगर्भाद्यदा जीवो निष्क्रान्तश्च तदैव हि । मृत्युवक्त्रागतो वाढं तस्माद्रामं प्रकीर्तयेत् ॥७९५॥

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From the very time a living being emerges from the mother's womb, it has certainly entered the mouth of death; therefore one should chant Rāma's Name.

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कदाऽहं विजनेऽरण्ये निरन्तरमितस्ततः । प्रलपन् रामरामेति गमिष्यामि च वासरान् ॥७९६॥

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When shall I pass my days in a solitary forest, wandering continually here and there and crying, ‘Rāma, Rāma’?

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यन्नाम स्मरतां पुंसां सद्यो हरति पातकम् । जायते चाक्षयं पुण्यं तं वन्दे जानकीपतिम् ॥७९७॥

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I bow to Jānakī's Lord, remembrance of whose Name at once removes the wrongdoing of people and brings forth imperishable merit.

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स्रग्रामनाममणिकस्य च यस्य कण्ठे संराजते प्रतिदिनं स तु मुक्तिरूपः । जन्मादिदुःखपरिपूर्णमहावर्णस्य साक्षात्परं परतरं प्लवनं पवित्रम् ॥७९८॥

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One upon whose neck the garland of jewels that is Rāma's Name shines each day is liberation embodied; for the great expanse filled with the suffering beginning with birth, it is directly the highest, supremely pure vessel of crossing.

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अयं सर्वेषु मन्त्रेषु चूडामणिरुदाहृतः । मन्त्राणां सिद्धिदो मन्त्रः श्रीरामेत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥७९९॥

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This is proclaimed the crest-jewel among all mantras: the two syllables ‘Śrī Rāma’ are the mantra that grants accomplishment to mantras.

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सर्वार्थसिद्धियुक्तेषु नाम्नामेकार्थतापतः । अतः श्रीरामनामेदं भजेद्भावैकवल्लभम् ॥८००॥

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Because the names endowed with accomplishment of every aim converge in a single meaning, one should therefore worship this Śrī Rāma Name, beloved solely through devotional feeling.

Editorial sequence 825 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Sixth-pramoda colophon

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इति श्रीसीतारामनामप्रतापप्रकाशे प्रमोदनिवासे परात्परैश्वर्यदायके श्रीयुगलानन्यशरणसंगृहीते रहस्यवाक्यप्रमाणनिरूपणं नाम षष्ठः प्रमोदः ॥६॥

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Thus, in Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa, the abode of delight that bestows the sovereignty beyond the highest, in the collection of Śrī Yugalānanya Śaraṇa, ends the sixth pramoda, entitled ‘Establishing the Testimony of Statements from the Rahasyas.’

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Editorial sequence 826 of 1,178 · printed citation ८०१

Seventh pramoda — statements from the Yāmalas; Brahma Yāmala

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रकारः सर्वदेवानां साक्षात् कालानलः प्रभुः । रकारः सर्वजीवानां सर्वपापस्य दाहकः ॥८०१॥

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The letter ra is directly the lord, the fire of time, among all the gods; the letter ra burns all wrongdoing belonging to all living beings.

Editorial sequence 827 of 1,178 · printed citation ८०२

Seventh pramoda — statements from the Yāmalas; Brahma Yāmala

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रकारः सर्वभूतानां जीवरूपी परात्परः । रकारः सर्वदेवानां तेजःपुञ्जः सनातनः ॥८०२॥

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The letter ra, whose form is the living self, is beyond the highest among all beings; the letter ra is the eternal mass of splendor of all the gods.

Editorial sequence 828 of 1,178 · printed citation ८०३

Seventh pramoda — statements from the Yāmalas; Brahma Yāmala

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रकारः सर्वसौख्यानां सिद्धिदस्तु पुरातनः । रकारः सर्वविद्यानां वेद्यस्तत्त्वं सनातनः ॥८०३॥

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The letter ra is the ancient giver of the attainment of every happiness; the letter ra is the eternal principle to be known through all forms of knowledge.

Editorial sequence 829 of 1,178 · printed citation ८०४

Seventh pramoda — statements from the Yāmalas; Brahma Yāmala

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रकारः सर्वभूतानामीश्वरोऽनन्तरूपधृक् । रकारः सर्वभूतानां व्याप्यव्यापकमीश्वरः ॥८०४॥

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The letter ra is the lord of all beings, bearing infinite forms; the letter ra is the divine both pervaded and pervading among all beings.

Editorial sequence 830 of 1,178 · printed citation ८०५

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रकारादुत्पद्यते नित्यं रकारे लीयते जगत् । रकारो निर्विकल्पश्च शुद्धबुद्धस्सदाऽद्वयः ॥८०५॥

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The world continually arises from the letter ra and dissolves into the letter ra; ra is free from conceptual division, pure, awakened, and always nondual.

Editorial sequence 831 of 1,178 · printed citation ८०६

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रकारः सर्वकामश्च परिपूर्णमनोरथः । रकारः सर्वदुष्टानां नाशको रघुनायकः ॥८०६॥

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The letter ra encompasses every desire and fulfills every wish; the letter ra is Raghunāyaka, destroyer of all the wicked.

Editorial sequence 832 of 1,178 · printed citation ८०७

Seventh pramoda — statements from the Yāmalas; Brahma Yāmala

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रकारः सर्वसत्त्वानां महामोदमयः स्वराट् । रकारः सर्ववेदानां कारणः प्रकृतेः परः ॥८०७॥

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The letter ra, filled with great delight, is sovereign over all beings; the letter ra is the cause of all the Vedas and beyond primordial nature.

Editorial sequence 833 of 1,178 · printed citation ८०८

Seventh pramoda — Brahma Yāmala; Pārvatī to Śiva

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गुटिका पादुका सिद्धिः परकायप्रवेशनम् । वाचा सिद्धिश्चार्थसिद्धिस्तथा सिद्धिर्मनोमयी ॥८०८॥

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The accomplishments of the magic pill and sandals, entry into another body, accomplishment of speech, accomplishment of wealth, and likewise mind-born accomplishment—

Editorial sequence 834 of 1,178 · printed citation ८०९

Seventh pramoda — Brahma Yāmala; Pārvatī to Śiva

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ज्ञानविज्ञानकर्माणि नानासिद्धिकराणि च । लक्ष्मी कुतूहला सिद्धिर्वाञ्छासिद्धिस्तु खेचरी ॥८०९॥

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—knowledge, realization, and acts that produce many accomplishments; Lakṣmī, wondrous accomplishment, fulfillment of wishes, and the sky-going power—

Editorial sequence 835 of 1,178 · printed citation ८१०

Seventh pramoda — Brahma Yāmala; Pārvatī to Śiva

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केनेदं सर्वमाप्नोति देव मे वद तत्त्वतः । सर्वतो निर्णयं कृत्वा ज्ञात्वा मामनुगामिनीम् ॥८१०॥

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By what does one obtain all this, God? Tell me according to the truth, deciding it from every side and knowing me to be your follower.

Editorial sequence 836 of 1,178 · printed citation ८११

Seventh pramoda — Brahma Yāmala; Śiva's reply

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सर्वैश्वर्यप्रदं सर्वसिद्धिदं परमार्थदम् । महामाङ्गलिकं नित्यं रामनाम परात्परम् ॥८११॥

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Rāma's Name, beyond the highest and eternally greatly auspicious, bestows every sovereignty, every accomplishment, and the highest good.

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Seventh pramoda — Brahma Yāmala; Śiva's reply

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नातः परतरोपायः सुखार्थं वर्तते प्रिये । सत्यं सत्यं पुनः सत्यं नान्यथा वचनं मम ॥८१२॥

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Beloved, no means higher than this exists for happiness. True, true, and true again; my statement is not otherwise.

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Seventh pramoda — Brahma Yāmala; Śiva's statement elsewhere

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रामनामपरा वेदा रामनामपरा गतिः । रामनामपरा यज्ञा रामनामपराः क्रियाः ॥८१३॥

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The Vedas culminate in Rāma's Name; the highest path is Rāma's Name. Sacrifices culminate in Rāma's Name, and rites culminate in Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 839 of 1,178 · printed citation ८१४

Seventh pramoda — Brahma Yāmala; Śiva's statement elsewhere

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रामनाम सदानन्दो रामनाम सदागतिः । रामनाम सदातुष्टो रामनाम सदाऽमलः ॥८१४॥

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Rāma's Name is perpetual bliss; Rāma's Name is the perpetual path. Rāma's Name is perpetually content; Rāma's Name is perpetually stainless.

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Seventh pramoda — Brahma Yāmala; Śiva's statement elsewhere

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रामनाम परं ज्ञानं रामनाम परो रसः । रामनाम परो मन्त्रो रामनाम परो जपः ॥८१५॥

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Rāma's Name is the highest knowledge; Rāma's Name is the highest rasa. Rāma's Name is the highest mantra; Rāma's Name is the highest repetition.

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Seventh pramoda — Brahma Yāmala; Śiva's statement elsewhere

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रामनाम परं ध्यानं सदा सर्वत्र पूर्णकम् । रामनाम सदा सेव्यमीश्वराणां मम प्रिये ॥८१६॥

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Rāma's Name is the highest meditation, always complete everywhere; beloved, Rāma's Name is always to be served by the divine lords and by me.

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Seventh pramoda — Brahma Yāmala; Śiva's statement elsewhere

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रकारादीनि नामानि शृण्वतो मम पार्वति । मनः प्रसन्नतामेति रामनामाभिशङ्कया ॥८१७॥

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Pārvatī, when I hear names beginning with the letter ra, my mind becomes joyful from the expectation of Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 843 of 1,178 · printed citation ८१८

Seventh pramoda — statements from the Yāmalas; Rudra Yāmala; Śiva to Śivā

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मकारः सर्वसाध्यानां सर्वसौख्यप्रदस्तथा । मकारः सर्वदेवानां सिद्धिदस्तु सदा प्रिये ॥८१८॥

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The letter ma grants every happiness for all attainable ends; beloved, the letter ma always grants accomplishment to all the gods.

Editorial sequence 844 of 1,178 · printed citation ८१९

Seventh pramoda — statements from the Yāmalas; Rudra Yāmala; Śiva to Śivā

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मकारः सर्वमूलानां मूलं मोदमयः स्वराट् । मकारश्च पराशक्तिरुज्ज्वला सर्वकामदा ॥८१९॥

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The letter ma is the root of all roots, filled with delight and sovereign; ma is the radiant supreme power that grants every desire.

Editorial sequence 845 of 1,178 · printed citation ८२०

Seventh pramoda — statements from the Yāmalas; Rudra Yāmala; Śiva to Śivā

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मकारः सर्वजीवानां पालको जगदीश्वरः । मकारः सर्वसिद्धीनां कारणं नात्र संशयः ॥८२०॥

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The letter ma is the protector of all living beings and lord of the world; the letter ma is the cause of every accomplishment—there is no doubt here.

Editorial sequence 846 of 1,178 · printed citation ८२१

Seventh pramoda — Rudra Yāmala; Śiva to Śivā

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मकारो लोकलोकानां मकारः सर्वव्यापकः । मकारः सर्वशास्त्राणां सिद्धान्तः सर्वमुक्तिदः ॥८२१॥

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The letter ma belongs to all worlds and non-worlds; ma is all-pervading. The letter ma is the conclusion of all scriptures and grants every liberation.

Editorial sequence 847 of 1,178 · printed citation ८२२

Seventh pramoda — Rudra Yāmala; Śiva to Śivā

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रकारादेर्न सिद्धिः स्यान्मकारादिं विना शिवे । मकारादेर्न सिद्धिः स्याद्रकारादिं विना प्रिये ॥८२२॥

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Śivā, there can be no accomplishment of what begins with ra without what begins with ma; beloved, there can be no accomplishment of what begins with ma without what begins with ra.

Editorial sequence 848 of 1,178 · printed citation ८२३

Seventh pramoda — Rudra Yāmala; Śiva to Śivā

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तस्माद्विवेकिभिर्नित्यं जप्तव्यमुभयाक्षरम् । सिद्धान्तं सर्ववेदानां रामनाम परात्परम् ॥८२३॥

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Therefore the discerning should always repeat the two syllables: Rāma's Name, beyond the highest and the conclusion of all the Vedas.

Editorial sequence 849 of 1,178 · printed citation ८२४

Seventh pramoda — Sammohana Tantra; Śiva to Śivā

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यन्मयोदितमुल्लासं मन्त्राणां भूधरात्मजे । तत् सर्वं रामनाम्ना वै सिद्धिमाप्नोति निश्चितम् ॥८२४॥

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Daughter of the mountain, every expansion of mantras that I have proclaimed certainly attains accomplishment through Rāma's Name.

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Seventh pramoda — Sammohana Tantra; Śiva to Śivā

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रामनामप्रभावेण पञ्चतत्त्वात्मकस्तनुः । स भवेत् सच्चिदानन्दः सत्यं सत्यं वचो मम ॥८२५॥

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Through the power of Rāma's Name, a body composed of the five elements becomes being-consciousness-bliss. True, true is my word.

Editorial sequence 851 of 1,178 · printed citation ८२६

Seventh pramoda — Sammohana Tantra; Śiva to Śivā

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चित्तैकाग्रतया नित्यं ये जपन्ति सदा प्रिये । रामनाम परं ब्रह्म किञ्चित्तेषां न दुर्लभम् ॥८२६॥

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Beloved, for those who always repeat Rāma's Name, the supreme Brahman, with one-pointed mind, nothing is difficult to obtain.

Editorial sequence 852 of 1,178 · printed citation ८२७

Seventh pramoda — Sammohana Tantra; Śiva to Śivā

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सर्वेषां सुप्रयोगाणां सिद्धिरन्यत्र दुर्लभा । श्रीरामनामस्मरणादनायासेन सिद्ध्यति ॥८२७॥

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The accomplishment of all effective applications is difficult elsewhere, but it succeeds effortlessly through remembrance of Śrī Rāma's Name.

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Seventh pramoda — Sammohana Tantra; Śiva to Śivā

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तस्माच्छ्रीरामनाम्नस्तु कीर्तनं सर्वसिद्धिदम् । कर्तव्यं नियतं देवि त्यक्त्वाऽन्यान्मन्त्र सञ्चयान् ॥८२८॥

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Therefore, goddess, one should regularly chant Śrī Rāma's Name, giver of every accomplishment, abandoning collections of other mantras.

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Seventh pramoda — Sammohana Tantra; Śiva to Śivā

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प्राणात् प्रियतरं मह्यं रामनाम सदा प्रिये । क्षणं विहातुं शक्तोऽस्मि नैव देवि कदाचन ॥८२९॥

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Beloved, Rāma's Name is always dearer to me than life; goddess, I am never able to leave it for even a moment.

Editorial sequence 855 of 1,178 · printed citation ८३०

Seventh pramoda — Tantra-sāra

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इदमेव परं सारं सर्वेषां मन्त्रसंहतेः । वेदानां हृदयं सौम्य रामनामसुधास्पदम् ॥८३०॥

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Gentle one, this alone is the highest essence of every collection of mantras and the heart of the Vedas: Rāma's Name, the abode of nectar.

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Seventh pramoda — Tantra-sāra

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यावच्छ्रीरामनाम्नस्तु पानं नास्ति नृणां शिवे । तावन्मन्त्राणि यन्त्राणि रुचिः स्याद्धृदयस्थले ॥८३१॥

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Śivā, only so long as people have not drunk Śrī Rāma's Name does fondness for mantras and yantras remain in the heart.

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Seventh pramoda — Tantra-sāra

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दुर्लभं सर्वजीवानामिमं मन्त्रेश्वरेश्वरम् । कथं भजन्ति पापिष्ठाः सुकृतौघं विना प्रिये ॥८३२॥

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Beloved, how can the greatly wrongdoing, without a flood of merit, worship this Lord of the lords of mantras, difficult for all beings to obtain?

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Seventh pramoda — Mantra-mahodadhi

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असारतरसंसारसागरोत्तारकारकम् । हारकं दुःखजालानां श्रीरामेत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥८३३॥

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The two syllables ‘Śrī Rāma’ carry one across the utterly insubstantial ocean of saṃsāra and remove the net of suffering.

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Seventh pramoda — Mantra-mahodadhi

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श्रीरामनामसर्वस्वं मन्त्राणां परमं गुरुम् । यस्य सङ्कीर्तनाज्जन्तुर्याति निर्वाणमुत्तमम् ॥८३४॥

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Śrī Rāma's Name is the entire substance and supreme teacher of mantras; by chanting it, a living being reaches the highest liberation.

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Seventh pramoda — Mantra-prakāśa

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कृतं सद्ग्रन्थशास्त्राणां निर्णयं परमं मया । श्रीरामनामस्मरणं सारमन्यं निरर्थकम् ॥८३५॥

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I have reached the highest determination concerning worthy books and scriptures: remembrance of Śrī Rāma's Name is the essence; everything else is without purpose.

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Seventh pramoda — Mantra-prakāśa

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ऋग्वेदोऽथ यजुर्वेदस्सामवेदस्त्वथर्वणः । अधीतास्तेन येनोक्तं श्रीरामेत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥८३६॥

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The Ṛgveda, Yajurveda, Sāmaveda, and Atharvaṇa have been studied by the one who has uttered the two syllables ‘Śrī Rāma.’

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Seventh pramoda — Mantra-prakāśa

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श्रीरामनाम संत्यक्त्वा ह्यन्यस्मिन् यस्य संरुचिः । स तु वञ्चयतो लोके पुनरायाति याति च ॥८३७॥

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One who abandons Śrī Rāma's Name and has strong fondness for another is deceived in the world and comes and goes again.

Editorial sequence 863 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Seventh-pramoda colophon

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इति श्रीसीतारामनामप्रतापप्रकाशे प्रमोदनिवासे परात्परैश्वर्यदायके श्रीयुगलानन्यशरणसंगृहीते तन्त्रवाक्यप्रमाणनिरूपणं नाम सप्तमः प्रमोदः ॥७॥

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Thus, in Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa, the abode of delight that bestows the sovereignty beyond the highest, in the collection of Śrī Yugalānanya Śaraṇa, ends the seventh pramoda, entitled ‘Establishing the Testimony of Statements from the Tantras.’

Eighth pramoda · provisional root

Editorial sequences 864–919 · 56 provisional units

Editorial sequence 864 of 1,178 · printed citation ८३८

Eighth pramoda — Śrī Jānakī-vinoda-vilāsa

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सीतां विना भजेद्रामं सीतां रामं विना भजेत् । कल्पकोटिसहस्रैस्तु लभते न प्रसन्नताम् ॥८३८॥

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One who worships Rāma without Sītā, or Sītā without Rāma, does not attain gracious favor even through thousands of crores of kalpas.

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Eighth pramoda — Śrī Jānakī-vinoda-vilāsa

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सीतारामात्मकं ध्यानं सीतारामात्मकार्चनम् । सीतारामात्मकं नामजपं परतरात्परम् ॥८३९॥

Fresh English · provisional

Meditation whose essence is Sītārāma, worship whose essence is Sītārāma, and repetition of the Name whose essence is Sītārāma are beyond the highest.

Editorial sequence 866 of 1,178 · printed citation ८४०

Eighth pramoda — Śrī Jānakī-vilāsottama

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स रामो न भवेज्जातु सीता यत्र न विद्यते । सीता नैव भवेत् सा हि यत्र रामो न विद्यते ॥८४०॥

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That can never be Rāma where Sītā is absent; nor indeed can she be Sītā where Rāma is absent.

Editorial sequence 867 of 1,178 · printed citation ८४१

Eighth pramoda — Śrī Jānakī-vilāsottama

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सीता रामं विना नैव रामः सीतां विना नहि । श्रीसीतारामयोरेष सम्बन्धः शाश्वतो मतः ॥८४१॥

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Sītā is not without Rāma, nor Rāma without Sītā; this relationship of Śrī Sītārāma is held to be eternal.

Editorial sequence 868 of 1,178 · printed citation ८४२

Eighth pramoda — Śrī Jānakī-vilāsottama

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रामः सीता जानकीरामचन्द्रौ नाणुर्भेदो ह्येतयोरस्ति किञ्चित् । सन्तो मत्वा तत्त्वमेतद्विचित्रं पारं यान्ताः संसृतिमृत्युकालात् ॥८४२॥

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Rāma is Sītā; Jānakī and Rāmacandra have not even an atom of difference between them. Saints, understanding this wondrous principle, cross beyond saṃsāra and the time of death.

Editorial sequence 869 of 1,178 · printed citation ८४३

Eighth pramoda — Rāma-mantrārtha; Śrī Vaiṣṇava-matābja-bhāskara

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रकारार्थो रामः सगुणपरमैश्वर्यजलधि- र्मकारार्थो जीवस्सकलविधिकैङ्कर्यनिपुणः । तयोर्मध्येऽकारो युगलमथ सम्बन्धमनयो- रनन्योऽर्थः सिद्धस्स्मृतिनिगमरूपोऽयमतुलः ॥८४३॥

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The meaning of ra is Rāma, the ocean of supreme lordship endowed with qualities; the meaning of ma is the living being, skilled in every mode of service. Between those two, a signifies the pair and their relationship; this incomparable, non-separate meaning of the two is established in the form of Smṛti and Nigama.

Editorial sequence 870 of 1,178 · printed citation ८४४

Eighth pramoda — Jānakī-ratna-māṇikya

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सीतां विना ये सखि कोटिकल्पसमास्तु रामं जनकात्मजाशु । ध्यायन्ति निन्द्याश्रयभागिनस्ते रामप्रसादाद्विमुखाः भवन्ति ॥८४४॥

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Friend, those who, without Sītā—the daughter of Janaka—meditate on Rāma for ages equal to crores of kalpas partake of a blameworthy refuge and become turned away from Rāma's grace.

Editorial sequence 871 of 1,178 · printed citation ८४५

Eighth pramoda — Jānakī-ratna-māṇikya

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रामस्तु वश्यो भवतीह सीतिप्रोच्चारणाद् ये तु जपन्ति सीताम् । भूत्वानुगामी भजते जनांस्तान् ब्रह्मेशशक्रार्चितराजपुत्रः ॥८४५॥

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Here Rāma becomes responsive through the utterance of ‘sī’; as for those who repeat ‘Sītā,’ the royal prince worshipped by Brahmā, Śiva, and Indra becomes their follower and serves them.

Editorial sequence 872 of 1,178 · printed citation ८४६

Eighth pramoda — Bharadvāja-stotra

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राम रामेति रामेति वदन्तं विकलं भवान् । यमदूतैरनुक्रान्तं वत्सं गौरिव धावतु ॥८४६॥

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When someone overwhelmed and overtaken by Yama's messengers cries ‘Rāma, Rāma, Rāma,’ may you run after that person as a cow runs after her calf.

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Eighth pramoda — Bharadvāja-stotra

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स्वच्छन्दचारिणं दीनं रामरामेतिवादिनम् । तावन्मामनुनिम्नेन यथा वारीव धावतु ॥८४७॥

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May you follow me, a destitute wanderer saying ‘Rāma, Rāma,’ just as water runs down a slope.

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Eighth pramoda — Bharadvāja-stotra

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राम त्वं हृदये येषां सुखं लभ्यं वनेऽपि तैः । मण्डं च नवनीतं च क्षीरसर्पिर्मधूदकम् ॥८४८॥

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Rāma, those in whose hearts you dwell readily obtain even in the forest whey, fresh butter, milk, ghee, honey, and water.

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Eighth pramoda — Bharadvāja-stotra

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सीतापते राम रघूत्तमेति यो नाम्निजल्पेद्युधि तस्य तत्क्षणात् । दिशं द्रवन्त्येव युयुत्सवोऽपि भियं दधाना हृदयेषु शत्रवः ॥८४९॥

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If someone in battle utters the names ‘Lord of Sītā,’ ‘Rāma,’ and ‘Best of the Raghus,’ that person's enemies at once flee in every direction, bearing fear in their hearts even though they wish to fight.

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Eighth pramoda — Prapanna-gītā, Lomaśa's statement

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रामान्नास्ति परो देवो रामान्नास्ति परं व्रतम् । न हि रामात्परो योगो नहि रामात्परो मखः ॥८५०॥

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There is no deity higher than Rāma, no observance higher than Rāma; there is no yoga higher than Rāma and no sacrifice higher than Rāma.

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Eighth pramoda — Prapanna-gītā, Puṣkara's statement

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ये केचिद्दुस्तरं प्राप्य रघुनाथं स्मरन्ति हि । तेषां दुःखोदधिः शुष्को भवत्यपि न संशयः ॥८५१॥

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Whoever, meeting what is hard to cross, remembers Raghunātha—the ocean of their suffering dries up; of this there is no doubt.

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Eighth pramoda — Prapanna-gītā, Ṛtuparṇa's statement

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भज श्रीरघुनाथन्त्वं कर्मणा मनसा गिरा । नैष्कापट्येन लोकेशं तोषयस्व महामते ॥८५२॥

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Worship Śrī Raghunātha with action, mind, and speech; great-minded one, please the Lord of the worlds without deceit.

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Eighth pramoda — Viśvāmitra Prātaḥ-pañcaka

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प्रातर्वदामि वचसा रघुनाथनाम वाग्दोषहारि सकलं समलं निहन्तृ । यत्पार्वती स्वपतिना सह भोक्तुकामा प्रीत्या सहस्रहरिनाम समं जजाप ॥८५३॥

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At dawn I voice Raghunātha's Name, which removes defects of speech and destroys every stain—the Name that Pārvatī, wishing to dine with her husband, lovingly repeated as equal to Hari's thousand names.

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Eighth pramoda — Suyajña Saṃhitā

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रामनाम कथयामोऽपरमपहाय । सीता नाम युतं यत् स्वादुसुखाय ॥८५४॥

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Leaving aside another, we proclaim Rāma's Name; joined with Sītā's Name, it is sweet and brings delight.

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Eighth pramoda — Virañci-sarvasva

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श्रीरामनामस्मरतः प्रयाति संसारपारं दुरितौघयुक्तः । नरस्स सत्यं कलिदोषजन्यं पापं निहन्त्याशु किमत्र चित्रम् ॥८५५॥

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A person laden with a flood of wrongdoing crosses beyond saṃsāra by remembering Śrī Rāma's Name. Truly, it swiftly destroys sin born of Kali—what is surprising in that?

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Eighth pramoda — Śiva-sarvasva

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यावन्न कीर्तयेद्रामं कलिकल्मषनाशनम् । तावत्तिष्ठति देहेऽस्मिन् भयं संसारदायकम् ॥८५६॥

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So long as one does not praise Rāma, destroyer of Kali's stain, fear that generates saṃsāra remains in this body.

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Eighth pramoda — Śiva-sarvasva

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श्रुतिस्मृतिपुराणेषु रामनाम समीरितम् । यन्नामकीर्तनेनैव तापत्रयविनाशनम् ॥८५७॥

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Rāma's Name is proclaimed in Śruti, Smṛti, and the Purāṇas; through praise of that Name alone, the three afflictions are destroyed.

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Eighth pramoda — Śiva-sarvasva

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सर्वेषामेव पापानां प्रायश्चित्तमिदं स्मृतम् । नातः परतरं पुण्यं त्रिषु लोकेषु विद्यते ॥८५८॥

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This is remembered as the expiation for every wrongdoing; in the three worlds no merit higher than it is found.

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Eighth pramoda — Śiva-sarvasva

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नामसंकीर्तनादेव तारकं ब्रह्म दृश्यते । सत्यं वदामि ते देवि नान्यथा वचनं मम ॥८५९॥

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Through praise of the Name alone, the liberating Brahman is seen. Goddess, I tell you the truth; my statement is not otherwise.

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Eighth pramoda — Vaiṣṇava-cintāmaṇi

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कालोऽस्ति दाने यज्ञे वा स्नानेकालोऽस्ति सञ्जपे । श्रीनामकीर्तने कालो नास्त्यत्र पृथिवीपते ॥८६०॥

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There is an appointed time for giving or sacrifice, and an appointed time for bathing and proper repetition; but here, lord of the earth, there is no appointed time for praise of Śrī's Name.

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Eighth pramoda — Vaiṣṇava-cintāmaṇi

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राम रामेति यो नित्यं मधुरं गायति क्षणम् । स ब्रह्महा सुरापो वा मुच्यते सर्वपातकैः ॥८६१॥

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One who each day sings ‘Rāma, Rāma’ sweetly for a moment—even if a killer of a Brahmin or a drinker of liquor—is released from every wrongdoing.

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Eighth pramoda — Śiva-siddhānta, Śaṅkara's statement

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ब्रह्मघ्नो गुरुतल्पगोऽपि पुरुषः स्तेयीसुरापोऽपिवा- मातृभ्रातृविहिंसकोऽपिसततं भोगैकबद्धस्पृहः । नित्यं राममिमं जपन् रघुपतिं भक्त्या हृदिस्थं तथा ध्यायन्- मुक्तिमुपैति किं पुनरसौ स्वाचारयुक्तो नरः ॥८६२॥

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Even a man who has killed a Brahmin, violated his teacher's bed, stolen, drunk liquor, harmed mother or brother, or remains bound by desire for pleasure alone reaches liberation by continually repeating this ‘Rāma’ and devotedly meditating on Raghupati within the heart—how much more a person established in proper conduct?

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Eighth pramoda — Śiva-siddhānta, Śaṅkara's statement

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हिमवद् विन्ध्ययोर्मध्ये जना भागवता मताः । उच्चारयन्ति श्रीरामनाम प्राणात् प्रियं मम ॥८६३॥

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The people between the Himalaya and Vindhya who utter Śrī Rāma's Name, dearer to me than life, are regarded as devotees of Bhagavān.

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Eighth pramoda — Śiva-siddhānta, Śaṅkara's statement

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रामनामरतानां वै सेवकानां च सेवया । मुच्यते सर्वपापेभ्यो महापातकवानपि ॥८६४॥

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By serving the servants of those devoted to Rāma's Name, even one burdened by grave wrongdoing is released from every wrongdoing.

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Eighth pramoda — Śiva-siddhānta, Śaṅkara's statement

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श्रीरामस्य कृपासिन्धोर्नाम्नः प्रोच्चारणं परम् । ओष्ठस्पन्दनमात्रेण कीर्तनं तु तपोऽधिकम् ॥८६५॥

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Utterance of the Name of Śrī Rāma, ocean of compassion, is supreme; praise consisting merely in movement of the lips is greater than austerity.

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Eighth pramoda — Bṛhad-gautamīya

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कुष्ठरोगी भवेल्लोके बहुधा ब्रह्महा नरः । सकृदुच्चरितं नाम शीघ्रं तत् क्षपयत्यघम् ॥८६६॥

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In the world, a killer of a Brahmin often becomes a person with leprosy; the Name uttered once swiftly destroys that wrongdoing.

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Eighth pramoda — Bṛhad-gautamīya

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यत्फलं दुर्लभं सर्वसाधनैः कल्पकोटिभिः । तत् फलं शीघ्रमाप्नोति रामनामानुकीर्तनात् ॥८६७॥

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The result that is difficult to obtain through every discipline over crores of kalpas is quickly attained through praise of Rāma's Name.

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Eighth pramoda — Āśvalāyana Tantra

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ये कीर्तयन्ति नामानि रामस्य परमात्मनः । सर्वधर्मबहिर्भूतास्तेऽपि यान्ति परं पदम् ॥८६८॥

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Those who praise the names of Rāma, the Supreme Self, reach the supreme state even if they stand outside every dharma.

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Eighth pramoda — Āśvalāyana Tantra

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स्वप्नेऽपि रामनाम्नस्तु स्मरणान् मुक्तिमाप्नुयात् । प्रीत्या सङ्कीर्तयेद्यस्तु न जाने किं फलं लभेत् ॥८६९॥

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Even by remembering Rāma's Name in a dream, one may attain liberation; what result one who lovingly praises it might obtain, I do not know.

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Eighth pramoda — Vairañcya Tantra

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पूजयस्व रघूत्तमं सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोपितम् । गुह्याद् गुह्यतमं नाम कीर्तयस्व निरन्तरम् ॥८७०॥

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Worship Raghūttama, concealed in all the tantras, and continually praise the Name that is more secret than the secret.

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Eighth pramoda — Vairañcya Tantra

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त्यक्त्वाऽन्यसाधनान् सर्वान् रामनामपरो भव । नातः परतरं यत्नं सुलभं सकलेष्टदम् ॥८७१॥

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Abandoning every other discipline, become devoted to Rāma's Name; no effort beyond this is so accessible and grants every desired aim.

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Eighth pramoda — Meru Tantra

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नाम्नां मुख्यतमं नित्यं रामनाम प्रकीर्तितम् । नातः परतरं नाम ब्रह्माण्डेऽपि प्रदृश्यते ॥८७२॥

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Rāma's Name is continually proclaimed the foremost of names; even in the cosmos no name higher than it is seen.

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Eighth pramoda — Meru Tantra

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रामनाम्नि सुधाधाम्नि यस्य प्रीतिर्न विद्यते । पापिनामग्रगण्यस्स भूमेर्भारो महत्तरः ॥८७३॥

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One who has no love for Rāma's Name, the abode of nectar, is foremost among wrongdoers and a great burden upon the earth.

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Eighth pramoda — Nārāyaṇa Tantra

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ये गृह्णन्ति निरन्तरं परपदं रामेति वर्णद्वयं ते वै- भागवतोत्तमाः सुखमया पूज्यास्तु ते सर्वथा । ते निस्तीर्य भवार्णवं सुतकलत्राद्यैस्तु नक्रैर्युतं- तृष्णावारि सुदुस्तरं परतरे सायुज्यमायान्ति वै ॥८७४॥

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Those who continually take up the two syllables ‘Rāma,’ the supreme expression, are indeed the highest devotees, full of happiness and wholly worthy of honor. Crossing the ocean of becoming—hard to cross, its waters craving and its crocodiles children, spouse, and the like—they attain union with the Supreme.

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Eighth pramoda — Nārāyaṇa Tantra

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यानि धर्माणि कर्माणि महोग्रफलदानि वै । निष्फलानि च सर्वाणि रामनामरतात्मनाम् ॥८७५॥

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All religious duties and acts that yield great and powerful results are fruitless for those whose selves delight in Rāma's Name.

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Eighth pramoda — Vāmana Tantra

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पृथिव्यां कतिधा लोका जाताश्च कतिधा मृताः । मुक्तास्तेऽत्र न सन्देहो रामनामानुकीर्तनात् ॥८७६॥

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How many people on earth have been born, and how many have died? Those [who praise the Name] are liberated through praise of Rāma's Name; of this there is no doubt.

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Eighth pramoda — Vāmana Tantra

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ब्रह्माण्डे सन्ति यावन्ति महोग्राः पुण्यसञ्चयाः । रामनाम्नो जपस्यापि कलां नार्हन्ति षोडशीम् ॥८७७॥

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All the vast and powerful accumulations of merit that exist in the cosmos do not equal even a sixteenth part of repetition of Rāma's Name.

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Eighth pramoda — Vasiṣṭha Tantra

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रामनामपरा ये च रामनामार्थचिन्तकाः । तेषां पादरजःस्पर्शात् पावनं भुवनत्रयम् ॥८७८॥

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Those devoted to Rāma's Name who contemplate its meaning—the touch of dust from their feet purifies the three worlds.

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Eighth pramoda — Vasiṣṭha Tantra

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कृष्णनारायणादीनि नामानि जपतोऽनिशम् । सहस्रैर्जन्मभी रामनाम्नि स्नेहो भवत्युत ॥८७९॥

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For one who repeats names such as Kṛṣṇa and Nārāyaṇa day and night, love for Rāma's Name indeed arises after thousands of births.

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Eighth pramoda — Vasiṣṭha Tantra

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राम एवाभिजानाति रामनाम्नः फलं हृदि । प्रवक्तुं नैव शक्नोति ब्रह्मादीनां तु का कथा ॥८८०॥

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Rāma alone knows within his heart the fruit of Rāma's Name, yet even he cannot express it—what then can be said of Brahmā and the others?

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Eighth pramoda — Śrī Rāma-rakṣā

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पातालभूतलव्योमचारिणश्छद्मचारिणः । न द्रष्टुमपि शक्तास्ते रक्षितं रामनामभिः ॥८८१॥

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Those who move through the netherworld, earth, or sky, and those who move in disguise, are not even able to see one protected by Rāma's names.

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Eighth pramoda — Śrī Rāma-rakṣā

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रामेति रामभद्रेति रामचन्द्रेति वा स्मरन् । नरो न लिप्यते पापैर्भुक्तिं मुक्तिं च विन्दति ॥८८२॥

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Remembering ‘Rāma,’ ‘Rāmabhadra,’ or ‘Rāmacandra,’ a person is not stained by wrongdoings and finds both enjoyment and liberation.

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Eighth pramoda — Śrī Rāma-rakṣā

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जगज्जैत्रैकमन्त्रेण रामनाम्नैव रक्षितम् । यः कण्ठे धारयेत्तस्य करस्थाः सर्वसिद्धयः ॥८८३॥

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For one who wears at the throat what is protected by Rāma's Name—the single mantra victorious over the world—all accomplishments rest in the hand.

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Eighth pramoda — Śāśvata Tantra

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वाङ्मनोगोचरातीतः सत्यलोकेश ईश्वरः । तस्य नामादिकं सर्वं रामनाम्ना प्रकाशते ॥८८४॥

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The Lord of Satyaloka is beyond the reach of speech and mind; all his names and the rest are illuminated by Rāma's Name.

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Eighth pramoda — Śāśvata Tantra

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यस्य प्रसादाद्देवेशि मम सामर्थ्यमीदृशम् । संहरामि क्षणादेव त्रैलोक्यं सचराचरम् ॥८८५॥

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Queen of the gods, by whose grace I possess such power that in a single moment I destroy the three worlds together with all that moves and does not move.

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Eighth pramoda — Śāśvata Tantra

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धाता सृजति भूतानि विष्णुर्धारयते जगत् । तथा चेन्द्रादयः सर्वे रामनाम्ना समृद्धिमान् ॥८८६॥

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The Creator brings beings forth, Viṣṇu sustains the world, and likewise Indra and all the others are endowed with power through Rāma's Name.

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Eighth pramoda — Rahasya-sāra, Śrī Nārāyaṇa to the sages

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रसनायां विशेषेण जप्तव्यं नाम सज्जनैः । कलौ संकीर्तनं विप्राः सर्वसिद्धान्तसम्मतम् ॥८८७॥

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Good people should repeat the Name especially upon the tongue; brahmins, in Kali, praise is accepted by every doctrinal conclusion.

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Eighth pramoda — Rahasya-sāra, Śrī Nārāyaṇa to the sages

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प्रेमसंक्लिन्नया वाचा ये रमन्ति रटन्ति वै । नाम सर्वेश्वराधारं ते कृतार्था महामुने ॥८८८॥

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Those who delight in and repeat, with a voice moistened by love, the Name that supports all lords have fulfilled their purpose, great sage.

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Eighth pramoda — Rahasya-sāra, Śrī Nārāyaṇa to the sages

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नामप्रोच्चारणं नित्यं रसनायां प्रशस्यते । भक्तानां योगिनां चैव ज्ञानिनां कर्मिणां तथा ॥८८९॥

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Constant utterance of the Name upon the tongue is commended for devotees, yogins, knowers, and ritual practitioners alike.

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Eighth pramoda — Rahasya-sāra, Śrī Nārāyaṇa to the sages

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यत्र संगृह्यते नाम प्रेमसम्पन्नमानसैः । तत्र तत्र परा वाणी नाभिस्था सर्वतः शुभा ॥८९०॥

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Wherever the Name is received by minds filled with love, there the supreme speech abiding at the navel is wholly auspicious.

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Eighth pramoda — Rahasya-sāra, Śrī Nārāyaṇa to the sages

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रामनाम परंब्रह्म सर्वमोदैकमन्दिरम् । जीवनं दिव्यनित्यानां पार्षदानां महात्मनाम् ॥८९१॥

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Rāma's Name is the Supreme Brahman, the single abode of every joy, and the life of the divine eternal attendants and great souls.

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Eighth pramoda — Rahasya-sāra, Śrī Nārāyaṇa to the sages

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यस्य रामरसे प्रीतिर्वर्तते भक्तिसंयुता । स एव कृतकृत्यश्च सर्वशास्त्रार्थकोविदः ॥८९२॥

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One whose love for the rasa of Rāma is joined with devotion has alone fulfilled the purpose and knows the meaning of all scriptures.

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Eighth-pramoda colophon

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इति श्रीसीतारामनामप्रतापप्रकाशे प्रमोदनिवासे परात्परैश्वर्यदायके श्रीयुगलानन्यशरणसंगृहीते नानारहस्यतन्त्रस्तोत्रवाक्यप्रमाणनिरूपणं नामाष्टमः प्रमोदः ॥८॥

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Thus, in Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa, the abode of delight that bestows the sovereignty beyond the highest, in the collection of Śrī Yugalānanya Śaraṇa, ends the eighth pramoda, entitled ‘Establishing the Testimony of Statements from Various Rahasya Texts, Tantras, and Hymns.’

Ninth pramoda · provisional root

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Ninth pramoda — Śrīmad Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa

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रामो रामो राम इति प्रजानां समभूद्ध्वनिः । रामभूतमिदं विश्वं रामे राज्यं प्रशासति ॥८९३॥

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‘Rāma, Rāma, Rāma’ became the people's cry; while Rāma governed the kingdom, this world became Rāma-filled.

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Ninth pramoda — Śrīmad Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa

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यश्च रामं न पश्येत्तु यं च रामो न पश्यति । निन्दितः सर्वलोकेषु स्वात्माऽप्येनं विगर्हति ॥८९४॥

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One who does not see Rāma, and whom Rāma does not see, is condemned in all worlds; even that person's own self reproaches him.

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Ninth pramoda — Śrīmad Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa

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क्षणार्द्धेनापि यच्चित्तं त्वयि तिष्ठत्यञ्चलः । तस्याज्ञानमनर्थानां मूलं नश्यति तत् क्षणात् ॥८९५॥

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If a mind remains motionless in you for even half a moment, its ignorance—the root of misfortunes—is destroyed in that very moment.

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Ninth pramoda — Śrīmad Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa

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कूजन्तं राम रामेति मधुरं मधुराक्षरम् । आरुह्य कविताशाखां वन्दे वाल्मीकिकोकिलम् ॥८९६॥

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I bow to Vālmīki, the cuckoo who, perched upon the branch of poetry, sweetly calls ‘Rāma, Rāma’ in sweet syllables.

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सकृदेव प्रपन्नाय तवास्मीति च याचते । अभयं सर्वभूतेभ्यो ददाम्येतद् व्रतं मम ॥८९७॥

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To one who has taken refuge just once and pleads, ‘I am yours,’ I grant freedom from fear of all beings; this is my vow.

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Ninth pramoda — Śrīmad Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa

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कथञ्चिदुपकारेण कृतेनैकेन तुष्यति । न स्मरत्यपकाराणां शतमप्यात्मवत्तया ॥८९८॥

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He is pleased by even one benefit rendered in any way, and through self-possession does not remember even a hundred injuries.

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Ninth pramoda — Brahma Rāmāyaṇa, Śrī Rāma to Śrī Jānakī

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ये त्वां स्मरन्ति सद्भक्त्या ते मे प्रियतमाः प्रिये । तेषां भाग्योदयं वक्तुं न शक्तोऽहं कदाचन ॥८९९॥

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Beloved, those who remember you with true devotion are dearest to me; I am never able to express the rise of their good fortune.

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Ninth pramoda — Brahma Rāmāyaṇa, Śrī Rāma to Śrī Jānakī

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क्वचित् त्वां ये स्मरन्त्यन्तर्मम पार्षदतां पराम् । कोटिजन्मार्जितैः पुण्यैः दुर्लभामपि यान्ति ते ॥९००॥

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Those who at any time remember you inwardly attain the supreme station of my attendants, difficult to obtain even through merit accumulated over crores of births.

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Ninth pramoda — Brahma Rāmāyaṇa, Śrī Rāma to Śrī Jānakī

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श्रीसीतारामनाम्नस्तु सदैक्यं नास्ति संशयम् । इति ज्ञात्वा जपेद्यस्तु स धन्यो भाविनां वरः ॥९०१॥

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There is always unity between Śrī Sītā's and Rāma's names; there is no doubt. One who knows this and repeats them is blessed and foremost among devotees of feeling.

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Ninth pramoda — Brahma Rāmāyaṇa, Śrī Rāma to Śrī Jānakī

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ज्ञानं सीतानाम तुल्यं न किञ्चिद् ध्यानं सीतानाम तुल्यं न किञ्चित् । भक्तिः सीतानाम तुल्या न काचित् तत्त्वं सीतानाम तुल्यं न किञ्चित् ॥९०२॥

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No knowledge equals Sītā's Name, no meditation equals Sītā's Name; no devotion equals Sītā's Name, and no principle equals Sītā's Name.

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Ninth pramoda — Brahma Rāmāyaṇa, Śrī Rāma to Śrī Jānakī

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एकं शास्त्रं गीयते यत्र सीता कर्माप्येकं पूज्यते यत्र सीता । एका लोके देवता चापि सीता मन्त्रश्चैकोऽप्यस्ति सीतेति नाम ॥९०३॥

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The one scripture is that in which Sītā is sung; the one act is that in which Sītā is worshipped. Sītā alone is the deity in the world, and the one mantra is the name ‘Sītā.’

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नान्यः पन्था विद्यते चात्मलम्भौ नान्यो भावो विद्यते चापि लोके । नान्यद् ज्ञानं विद्यते चापि वेदेष्वेकं सीतानाममात्रं विहाय ॥९०४॥

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No other path is found for attaining the Self, nor is another disposition found in the world; no other knowledge is found in the Vedas, leaving aside Sītā's Name alone.

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Ninth pramoda — Brahma Rāmāyaṇa, Śrī Rāma to Śrī Jānakī

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सीतेति मङ्गलं नाम सकृच्छ्रुत्वा कृपाकरः । श्रीरामो जानकीजानिर्विशेषेण प्रसीदति ॥९०५॥

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On hearing once the auspicious name ‘Sītā,’ Śrī Rāma, Jānakī's husband and fountain of compassion, becomes especially gracious.

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श्रीसीतानाममाहात्म्यं सुगोप्यं सर्वतः शुभम् । रसिका प्रेमसंपन्ना जानन्ति तदनुग्रहात् ॥९०६॥

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The greatness of Śrī Sītā's Name is deeply hidden and auspicious in every way; rasikas endowed with love know it through her grace.

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Ninth pramoda — Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa

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येषु येष्वपि देशेषु रामनाम उपासते । दुर्भिक्षदैन्यदोषाश्च न भवन्ति कदाचन ॥९०७॥

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In whatever lands Rāma's Name is worshipped, famine, destitution, and afflictions never arise.

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राम रामेति ये नित्यं पठन्ति मनुजा भुवि । तेषां मृत्युभयादीनि न भवन्ति कदाचन ॥९०८॥

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People on earth who continually recite ‘Rāma, Rāma’ never experience fear of death and the like.

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Ninth pramoda — Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa

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राम रामेति सततं पठनाल्लभते फलम् । वाचा सिद्ध्यादिकं सर्वं स्वयमेव भवेद्ध्रुवम् ॥९०९॥

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By continually reciting ‘Rāma, Rāma,’ one obtains the result; mastery of speech and all the rest certainly arise of themselves.

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Ninth pramoda — Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa

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यन्नाम विवशो गृणन् म्रियमाणः परं पदम् । याति साक्षात् त्वमेवासि मुमूर्षो मे पुरः स्थितः ॥९१०॥

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A dying person who helplessly utters your Name reaches the supreme state; you yourself stand visibly before me as I am about to die.

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Ninth pramoda — Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa

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यस्मिन् रमन्ते मुनयो विद्यया ज्ञानविप्लवे । तं गुरु प्राह रामेति रमणाद्राम इत्यपि ॥९११॥

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The sages delight in him when knowledge overturns ignorance; the teacher called him ‘Rāma’ because of delighting—and also ‘Rāma’ for that reason.

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इत्युक्त्वा राम! ते नाम व्यत्यस्ताक्षरपूर्वकम् । एकाग्रमनसा चैव मरेति जप सर्वदा ॥९१२॥

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Having said this: Rāma, continually repeat your Name with its syllables reversed—as ‘mara’—and with a one-pointed mind.

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त्वन्नामामृतहीनानां मोक्षः स्वप्नेऽपि नो भवेत् । तस्माच्छ्रीरामनाम्नस्तु संकीर्तनपरो भव ॥९१३॥

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For those deprived of the nectar of your Name, liberation would not occur even in a dream; therefore become devoted to praise of Śrī Rāma's Name.

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नाधीतवेदशास्त्रोऽपि न कृताध्वरकर्मकः । यो नाम वदते नित्यं तेन सर्वं कृतं भवेत् ॥९१४॥

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Even one who has not studied Veda and śāstra and has not performed sacrificial rites—if that person continually utters the Name, everything is thereby as though accomplished.

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Ninth pramoda — Mānasa Rāmāyaṇa

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ब्रह्माम्भोधिसमुद्भवं कलिमलप्रध्वंसनं चाव्ययं श्रीमच्छम्भुमुखेन्दुसुन्दरवरे संशोभितं सर्वदा । संसारामयभेषजं सुखकरं श्रीजानकीजीवनं धन्यास्ते कृतिनः पिबन्ति सततं श्रीरामनामामृतम् ॥९१५॥

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Born from the ocean of Brahman, imperishable and destroying Kali's stain, ever shining upon the lovely excellent moon-face of glorious Śambhu, a medicine for the illness of saṃsāra, a giver of happiness, and the life of Śrī Jānakī—blessed are those worthy people who continually drink the nectar of Śrī Rāma's Name.

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Ninth pramoda — Pramoda Rāmāyaṇa

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रामनामांशतो जातास्सुमन्त्राश्चाप्यनन्तकाः । अबुधा नैव जानन्ति नाममाहात्म्यमुज्ज्वलम् ॥९१६॥

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Countless excellent mantras arose from a portion of Rāma's Name; the unwise do not know the radiant greatness of the Name.

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Ninth pramoda — Bhuśuṇḍi Rāmāyaṇa

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श्रीरामनामदीप्ताग्निर्दग्धदुर्जातिकिल्विषः । श्वपचोऽपि बुधैः पूज्यो वेदाढ्योऽपि च नास्तिकः ॥९१७॥

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Even a dog-cooker whose supposed low-birth fault has been burned in the blazing fire of Śrī Rāma's Name is worthy of honor by the wise; even one rich in Veda is an unbeliever [without it].

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वेदशास्त्रशतं वापि तारयन्ति न तं नरम् । यस्तु स्वमनसा वाचा न करोति जपं परम् ॥९१८॥

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Even a hundred Vedas and śāstras do not carry across the person who does not perform the supreme repetition with mind and speech.

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रामनामविहीनस्य जातिश्शास्त्रं जपस्तपः । अप्राणस्यैव देहस्य मण्डनन्तु वृथा यथा ॥९१९॥

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For one without Rāma's Name, caste, scripture, repetition, and austerity are futile, like adornment of a body without life.

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ये शृण्वन्ति हि सद्भक्त्या रामनामपरात्परम् । तेऽपि यान्ति परं धाम किं पुनर्जापको जनः ॥९२०॥

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Those who hear with true devotion Rāma's Name, beyond the highest, also reach the supreme abode—what then of a person who repeats it?

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द्विजो वा राक्षसो वापि पापी वा धार्मिकोऽपि वा । राम रामेति यो वक्ति स मुक्तो भवबन्धनात् ॥९२१॥

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Whether twice-born or rākṣasa, wrongdoer or righteous, one who says ‘Rāma, Rāma’ is released from the bonds of becoming.

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यत्र यत्र समुद्धारो दृश्यते श्रूयतेऽथवा । रामनाम्नैव तत्सर्वं तत्र तत्र न संशयः ॥९२२॥

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Wherever deliverance is seen or heard of, all of it there is through Rāma's Name alone; there is no doubt.

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दिवा रात्रौ च ये नित्यं रामनाम जपन्ति हि । साक्षात्परिकरा दिव्या नित्या रसमयाः सदा ॥९२३॥

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Those who continually repeat Rāma's Name by day and night are directly the divine, eternal attendants, always filled with rasa.

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क्षणार्द्धमपि चैकान्ते स्थित्वा येषां रतिः परे । रामनामात्मके मन्त्रे तेषां जन्मादिकं नहि ॥९२४॥

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Those who, remaining in solitude for even half a moment, find delight in the supreme mantra formed of Rāma's Name have no birth and the rest.

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अहो श्रीभारतं वर्ष धन्यं पुण्यालयं परम् । प्राप्य यत्रापि श्रीरामनाम नैव जपन्ति ये ॥९२५॥

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Alas, those who, even after reaching glorious Bhārata-varṣa—blessed, a supreme abode of merit—do not repeat Śrī Rāma's Name...

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नान्यस्तत् सदृशो मूढश्चाण्डालो लोकगर्हितः । भ्रमन्ते भवचक्रेऽस्मिन् सर्वदा तस्य वै मतिः ॥९२६॥

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...there is no fool like that person, [likened to] a caṇḍāla condemned by the world; that person's mind forever wanders in this cycle of becoming.

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असंख्यकोटिलोकानामुपादानं परात्परम् । तथैव सर्ववेदानां कारणं नाम उच्यते ॥९२७॥

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The Name is said to be the material cause, beyond the highest, of countless crores of worlds, and likewise the cause of all the Vedas.

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स्वप्ने तथा संभ्रमतः प्रमादाच्चेज्जृम्भणात् संस्खलनाद्यभावात् । रामेति नाम स्मरतः सकृदेव नश्यत्यसंख्यद्विजधेनुहत्या ॥९२८॥

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Whether in a dream, from confusion, carelessness, yawning, stumbling, or privation, for one who remembers the name ‘Rāma’ just once, the wrongdoing of countless killings of Brahmins and cows is destroyed.

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प्रायो नामावलम्बेन सानुभूता प्रतीयताम् । अद्यत्वे तद्विशेषेण नामि प्राप्तिर्हि नामतः ॥९२९॥

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Let it be understood that experience is generally gained by reliance on the Name; especially at present, attainment of the Named is indeed through the Name.

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Ninth pramoda — Śāradā Rāmāyaṇa

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श्रीमतो जानकीजानेर्नाम नित्यं जपन्ति ये । ते सर्वैस्त्रिदशैः पूज्याः वन्दनीयाश्च सर्वदा ॥९३०॥

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Those who continually repeat the Name of glorious Jānakī's husband are worthy of worship by all the gods and always worthy of reverence.

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चतुर्युगेषु श्रीरामनाममाहात्म्यमुज्ज्वलम् । सर्वोत्कृष्टं न सन्देहो कलौ तत्रापि सर्वथा ॥९३१॥

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The radiant greatness of Śrī Rāma's Name is supreme in the four ages—of this there is no doubt—and especially so in Kali in every way.

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श्रीरामनामसंल्लापतत्परं पुरुषं भजेत् । मुक्तिस्स्यात् सेवनाद्देवि ह्यनायासेन सत्त्वरम् ॥९३२॥

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One should honor a person devoted to discourse on Śrī Rāma's Name; Goddess, through such service liberation would arise swiftly and without effort.

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यन्मुखे रामनामास्ति सर्वदा प्रेमतः शिवे । दृष्ट्वा तद् वदनं पुण्यं सुगमं शाश्वतं सुखम् ॥९३३॥

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Śivā, for one whose mouth always holds Rāma's Name with love, seeing that face makes merit, a good path, and lasting happiness accessible.

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अहो ह्यभाग्यं खलु पामराणां रामेति नामामृतशून्यमास्यम् । जीवन्ति ते देवि! कथं मनुष्याः पापात्मकाः मूढतमा धियास्ते ॥९३४॥

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Alas, how unfortunate are the wretched whose mouths are empty of the nectar-name ‘Rāma.’ Goddess, how do those people live, characterized as sinful and of utterly deluded understanding?

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असंख्यकोटिनामानि नैव साम्यं प्रयान्ति च । खद्योतराशयो यान्ति रवेः सादृश्यतां कथम् ॥९३५॥

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Countless crores of names do not reach equality [with it]; how could masses of fireflies attain likeness to the sun?

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यत्रास्ति तिमिरं घोरं महादुःखौघसंचयम् । तन्मार्गे रामनाम्नस्तु प्रभा संदृश्यते परम् ॥९३६॥

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Where there is terrible darkness, an accumulation of a great flood of suffering, on that path the supreme radiance of Rāma's Name is seen.

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यस्मिन्देशे न विद्यन्ते जनाः संबन्धिनस्तथा । तादृशे क्लेशसंपन्ने नामैको दुःखहारकः ॥९३७॥

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In a place where no people or relatives are present, in such a distress-filled place the Name alone removes suffering.

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निरालम्बं परं नाम निर्विकल्पं निरीहकम् । ये रटन्ति सदा भक्त्या ते कृतार्थाः सुमुक्तिदाः ॥९३८॥

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Those who always repeat with devotion the supreme Name—unsupported, without differentiation, and desireless—have fulfilled their purpose and give excellent liberation.

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Ninth pramoda — Vasiṣṭha Rāmāyaṇa

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नानातर्कविवादगर्तकुहरे पाताश्च ये जन्तव- स्तेषामेकमसंशयं सुशरणं श्रीरामनामात्मकम् ॥ मन्त्रं नास्ति यतः परं सुललितं प्रेमास्पदं पावनं- स्वल्पायासफलप्रदानपरमं प्रोत्कर्षसौख्यप्रदम् ॥९३९॥

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For beings fallen into the cavernous pit of many arguments and disputes, the one doubt-free good refuge is the mantra formed of Śrī Rāma's Name. There is no mantra higher than it: graceful, an abode of love, purifying, supreme in granting results with little effort, and giving surpassing happiness.

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नवद्वाराणि संयम्य ये रमन्ति समादरात् । रामनाम्नि परे मन्त्रे धन्या भागवतोत्तमाः ॥९४०॥

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Those who restrain the nine gates and respectfully delight in the supreme mantra of Rāma's Name are blessed and the highest devotees.

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यदि वातादिदोषेण मद्भक्तो मां च न स्मरेत् । अहं स्मरामि तं भक्तं नयामि परमां गतिम् ॥९४१॥

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If, because of a disorder such as vāta, my devotee cannot remember me, I remember that devotee and lead them to the supreme destination.

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मन्नामोच्चारकं साधुं सादरं पूजयन्ति ये । तेषामहं समुद्धर्ता मृत्युसंसारसागरात् ॥९४२॥

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I raise from the ocean of death and saṃsāra those who respectfully honor a holy person who utters my Name.

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ये स्मरन्ति सदा स्नेहान् ममनाम सुधासरः । तेऽतिधन्याः प्रियास्माकं सत्यं सत्यं ब्रवीम्यहम् ॥९४३॥

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Those who always lovingly remember my Name, a lake of nectar, are exceedingly blessed and dear to us; I tell the truth, the truth.

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एतदेव परं तत्त्वं मत्प्रसादाय निश्चितम् । मनसा वचसा नित्यं भजेन् मन्नाम मङ्गलम् ॥९४४॥

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This alone is determined as the supreme principle for gaining my grace: one should continually worship my auspicious Name with mind and speech.

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मद्वाक्यमादरेद्यस्तु स मे प्रियतमो नरः । तस्यार्थं सर्ववस्तूनि सृजामि वसुधातले ॥९४५॥

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The person who honors my word is dearest to me; for that person's sake I create all things upon the earth.

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मन्नाम संस्मरेद्यस्तु सततं नियतेन्द्रियः । तस्मात् प्रियतमः कश्चिन्नास्ति ब्रह्माण्डगोलके ॥९४६॥

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No one in the sphere of the cosmos is dearer than one who, with senses restrained, continually remembers my Name.

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यावन्तो ब्रह्मणो वक्त्रान्निर्गता वेदराशयः । ते च सर्वेऽप्यधीताः स्युर्नाम्नि नारायणात्मके ॥९४७॥

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All the masses of Veda that issued from Brahmā's mouth would be as though studied in the Name whose nature is Nārāyaṇa.

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नारायणस्य यावन्ति पुराणेष्वागमेषु च । दिव्यनाम्नां सहस्राणि कीर्तयन् यत्फलं लभेत् ॥९४८॥

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The result one would obtain by praising thousands of Nārāyaṇa's divine names found in the Purāṇas and Āgamas...

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ततः कोटिगुणं पुण्यं फलं दिव्यं मदात्मकम् । लभते सहसा ब्रह्मन् सकृद् रामेति कीर्तनात् ॥९४९॥

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...than that, Brahman, one suddenly obtains a divine result of my own nature and merit a crore times greater by praising ‘Rāma’ once.

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मन्नामकीर्तने हृष्टो नरः पुण्यवतां वरः । तस्यापि पादरजसा शुद्धयति क्षितिमण्डलम् ॥९५०॥

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A person delighted in praise of my Name is foremost among the meritorious; even by the dust of that person's feet, the sphere of earth is purified.

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असंख्यैः पुण्यनिचयैः कोटिजन्मार्जितैरपि । पञ्चाङ्गोपासनाभिश्च रामनाम्नि रतिर्भवेत् ॥९५१॥

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Through countless accumulations of merit acquired over crores of births, and through fivefold worship, love for Rāma's Name may arise.

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यावन्न रामभक्तानां सततं पादसेवनम् । रामनाम्नि परे तावत् प्रीतिस्संजायते कथम् ॥९५२॥

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Until there is continual service at the feet of Rāma's devotees, how can love for the supreme Rāma-name arise?

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पापिष्ठा भाग्यहीनाश्च पापकर्मणि तत्पराः । रामनाम्नः कथं तेषां मुखादुच्चारणं भवेत् ॥९५३॥

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How could Rāma's Name be uttered from the mouths of those characterized as extremely sinful, unfortunate, and intent on wrongdoing?

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रकारेणाघसंनाशो मकारान्मुक्तिरुत्तमा । पूर्णं वश्यतां याति रामो रामेति शब्दितः ॥९५४॥

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By the syllable ‘ra’ wrongdoing is destroyed; from ‘ma’ comes supreme liberation. When ‘Rāma’ is uttered, Rāma comes fully under one's influence.

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एतद्धनुमता प्रोक्तं रामनामरहस्यकम् । श्रुत्वा नलः प्लवङ्गेशस्तथैव हि चकार सः ॥९५५॥

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Brahmā said: This secret of Rāma's Name was spoken by Hanumān; hearing it, Nala, lord of monkeys, acted in just that way.

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लिखित्वा दृषदां मध्ये नाम सीतापतेर्मुहुः । निचिक्षेप पयोराशौ बहूनुच्चावचान् गिरीन् ॥९५६॥

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Having repeatedly written the Name of Sītā's husband upon the stones, he cast many mountains, high and low, into the ocean.

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संतरन्ति स्म दृषदो रामनामाङ्किता जले । तद् दृष्ट्वा वानराः सर्वे बभूवुर्विस्मितास्तदा ॥९५७॥

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Stones marked with Rāma's Name floated upon the water; seeing that, all the monkeys were astonished then.

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इदं सुगोप्यं भवते वदामि प्रसंगतः सेतुनिबन्धनेऽस्मिन् । न वाच्यमेतद् भवता परस्मै भक्त्योपसन्नाय तु वाच्यमेव ॥९५८॥

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I tell you this closely guarded teaching in connection with this building of the bridge. You must not tell it to another, but it should indeed be told to one who approaches with devotion.

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रामेतिमन्त्रं कवयो वदन्ति यद् द्वयक्षरं नाम रघूद्वहस्य । अस्मत् प्रभोरस्य महामहिम्नो मनुष्यलिङ्गस्य परस्य पुंसः ॥९५९॥

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The learned call ‘Rāma’ a mantra: the two-syllable Name of the scion of Raghu, our Lord of immense greatness, the supreme Person bearing the mark of a human being.

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तदेव सम्यग् विलिखोरुबुद्धे प्रत्यद्रिपाषाणशिलासु तावत् । भवाम्बुधिं येन जनास्तरन्ति किं तारणं दुष्करमस्य तेषाम् ॥९६०॥

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Write that very Name properly, O broad-minded one, upon every mountain rock. By it people cross the ocean of becoming; how, then, could carrying these [stones] across be difficult for it?

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ग्रावाङ्गणेभ्योऽपि जनस्य पापान्यतीव सारेण समाकुलानि । लघुक्रियन्ते मनुजा यदेतैर्भृशं विलुप्तैरिह तन्न चित्रम् ॥९६१॥

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Even a person's wrongs, weightier than masses of stones and crowded with exceeding substance, are made light by these [syllables], utterly dissolved here; that is no wonder, O human.

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श्रीसीताराम नाम को प्रबल प्रताप अनन्द। सावधान चिन्तन करत पाइय परमानन्द॥ रामनाम सुमिरन बिना साधन निखिल अनर्थ। युगलानन्य विहाय भ्रम सुमिरिय नाम समर्थ।

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The mighty glory of Śrī Sītārāma's Name is bliss; by reflecting attentively, one attains supreme bliss. Without remembering Rāma's Name, all practices are fruitless. Yugalānanya says: abandoning delusion, remember the capable Name.

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साधु भो साधु हनुमन् भवान् यदुपदिष्टवान् । जपन् संतारणं नाम रामस्य करुणानिधेः ॥९६२॥

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Nala said: Excellent, sir, excellent, Hanumān, is what you have taught: the Name of compassionate Rāma, which carries across the one who repeats it.

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सत्यमेतत्प्रभुरयं नराकारो नरोत्तमः । कोऽस्य स्वरूपं जानीयात्त्वामृते विदुषां वर ॥९६३॥

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This is true: this Lord, in human form, is the highest person. Who could know his nature except you, best of the learned?

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भूयस्त्वां परिपृच्छामि कृपाते मयि मारुते । क्षमस्व तन् ममात्यन्तं बहुधा मूढचेतसः ॥९६४॥

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I ask you again, O son of the Wind, because you have compassion for me. Forgive this of mine completely, for my mind is deluded in many ways.

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भवस्याम्भोनिधेश्चापि त्वया पारः प्रदर्शितः । विस्तरेण पुनर्ब्रूहि रामनाम्नोऽस्य वैभवम् ॥९६५॥

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You have shown the far shore both of the ocean of becoming and of this ocean. Tell me again, at length, the glory of this Name of Rāma.

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शृण्वन् स्मरन् प्रभोर्नाम माहात्म्यमिदमद्भुतम् । न तृप्यामि मरुत्सूनो कथयस्व ततो मम ॥९६६॥

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Hearing and remembering this wondrous greatness of the Lord's Name, I am not satisfied, O son of the Wind; therefore tell it to me further.

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श्रूयतां सावधानेन रामनामबलं त्वया । यच्छ्रुत्वा सर्वपापेभ्यो मुच्यते नात्र संशयः ॥९६७॥

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Hanumān said: Hear attentively the power of Rāma's Name; hearing it, one is freed from all wrongdoing—of this there is no doubt.

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एकतः सकला मन्त्रा एकतो ज्ञानकोटयः । एकतो रामनाम स्यात्तदपि स्यान्न वै समम् ॥९६८॥

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Let all mantras be on one side and crores of forms of knowledge on one side; let Rāma's Name be on the other—even then they would not be equal to it.

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देशकालक्रियाज्ञानादनपेक्ष्यं स्वरूपतः । अनन्तकोटिफलदं नाममन्त्रं जगत्पतेः ॥९६९॥

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By its very nature, the Name-mantra of the Lord of the world is independent of place, time, rite, and knowledge, and grants the results of endless crores.

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गङ्गास्नानसहस्रेण यज्ञान्तस्नानकोटिभिः । या न सिद्धिर्भवेज्जातु सा रामेतिप्रकीर्त्तनात् ॥९७०॥

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The attainment that might never arise from a thousand baths in the Gaṅgā or crores of concluding sacrificial baths comes from proclaiming ‘Rāma.’

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अन्यदेव फलं ज्ञाने श्रवणे वान्यदेव तत् । कीर्तने चान्यदेवस्य ह्यन्यदा वर्तते फलम् ॥९७१॥

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The result in knowing is one thing, and that in hearing another; in praise there is yet another result, and at another time the result differs.

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ये जानन्ति जनास्तत्त्वं रामनाम्नो महद् यशः । न ते दुष्कृतसन्दोहैर्लिप्यन्ते जन्मकोटिभिः ॥९७२॥

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Those people who know the truth and great glory of Rāma's Name are not stained by masses of wrongdoing over crores of births.

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शिव एवास्य जानाति सरहस्यं स्वरूपकम् । उपदिश्य सकृज्जीवान् यस्तारयति मोहतः ॥९७३॥

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Śiva alone knows its nature together with its secret; by teaching it once, he carries living beings beyond delusion.

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अन्यदाराधनशतैर्मन्त्रं फलति नाथवा । गृहीतमात्रफलदं रामनाम स्वरूपतः ॥९७४॥

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A mantra may or may not bear fruit through hundreds of other acts of worship, but Rāma's Name, by its nature, grants a result merely upon being received.

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न शौचनियमाद्यत्र न सिद्धारिविचारणम् । कल्पवृक्षस्वरूपत्वाज्जनानां रामनामकम् ॥९७५॥

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Here there is no rule of purity and the like, nor consideration of mantra-friend or mantra-enemy, because for people Rāma's Name has the nature of a wish-fulfilling tree.

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सकृज्जप्तं धुनोत्याशु पापमाजन्मसम्भवम् । द्विरावृत्या पुनर्जप्तं कोटियज्ञफलप्रदम् ॥९७६॥

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Repeated once, it quickly shakes off wrongdoing arising from birth onward; repeated again in a second recitation, it grants the result of a crore sacrifices.

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त्रिरावृत्या पुनर्जप्तं स्वरूपस्थं करोत्यमुम् । चतुरावृत्तिजप्तत्वादृणीभवति राघवः ॥९७७॥

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Repeated in a third recitation, it establishes this person in their own nature; through repetition in a fourth recitation, Rāghava becomes indebted.

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चिन्तामणिः कल्पतरुः कामधेनुश्च वै नृणाम् । अनल्पफलसन्दोहभवनं रामनाम वै ॥९७८॥

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For human beings, Rāma's Name is indeed a dwelling of abundant masses of results—a wish-granting jewel, wish-fulfilling tree, and wish-granting cow.

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नास्य रूपं विजानन्ति ब्रह्माद्या देवता अपि । वाग्वल्ली बीजमेतद्वै रामनाम जगत्पतेः ।९७९

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Even deities beginning with Brahmā do not know its form; this Rāma-name of the Lord of the world is indeed the seed of the vine of speech.

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अमृतस्याकरं विद्यादेतदेव महोर्जितम् । सर्वलोकमहामोहतिमिरौघनिवारणम् ॥९८०॥

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One should know this alone as the mighty mine of nectar, the remover of the flood of darkness that is the great delusion of every world.

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अनन्तकोटिसूर्येन्दुवह्निदीधितिदीप्तिमत् । बाह्यान्तरसुसञ्छन्नं तमोवृन्दनिरासकम् ॥९८१॥

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Radiant with the brilliance of endless crores of suns, moons, and fires, removing the mass of darkness that closely covers both outside and within...

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ज्ञानधारामृतरसैरात्मनः स्नपनंस्फुटम् । हृत्पद्मभवने नित्यं दीप्तिकृद्दीपकोपमम् ॥९८२॥

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...plainly bathing the self in the nectar-fluids of streams of knowledge, forever bringing radiance in the dwelling of the heart-lotus like a lamp...

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सर्व वेदान्तविद्यानां सारमेतदुदीरितम् । रामनामाखिलाज्ञानरजनीहरभास्करम् ॥९८३॥

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...this is declared the essence of all Vedānta learning: Rāma's Name, the sun that removes the night of all ignorance...

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पुरा कृतयुगे केचित् जनाः सुकृतिनो नल । सरहस्यं रामनाम सकृदास्वाद्य सद्गुरुम् ॥९८४॥

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...long ago in the Kṛta age, Nala, certain meritorious people, having once tasted Rāma's Name together with its secret as the true guru...

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भित्वाऽज्ञानतमोराशिं कृत्वा स्वात्मप्रकाशनम् । परे ब्रह्मणि संलीनाः सिद्धिं प्राप्ता विना श्रमम् ॥९८५॥

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...broke apart the dark mass of ignorance, revealed their own selves, merged into the supreme Brahman, and attained perfection without effort.

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अपरं साधनानीह बभूवुः कोटिशो नृणाम् । मुनीनां मतभेदेन येष्वायासो महान् भवेत् ॥९८६॥

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Other practices have arisen here by the crore for human beings through differences among the sages' views, and in them great exertion would occur.

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ध्यानतो रामचन्द्रस्य रामचन्द्रस्य भक्तितः । रामचन्द्रस्य यजनान्नाम्ना रामस्य मुच्यते ॥९८७॥

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Through meditation on Rāmacandra, devotion to Rāmacandra, worship of Rāmacandra, and Rāma's Name, one is released.

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नामैव यस्य बहिरन्तर्पापकोटिनिर्वासनैककरणं शरणं जनानाम् । कस्तस्य कोशलपुराधिपराजसूनोरन्यावतारनिवहस्तुलने प्रयातु ॥९८८॥

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His Name alone is the one means of expelling crores of wrongs outside and within, and the refuge of people. What host of other avatāras could enter into comparison with that royal son of the ruler of Kośala?

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यावन्ति नामानि रघूत्तमस्य तेषामिदं मुख्यतमं प्रदिष्टम् । यज्ज्ञानमात्रेण विमुक्तबन्धः स्वरूपनिष्ठां लभतेऽधमोऽपि ॥९८९॥

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Among all the names of Raghu's highest scion, this is declared the foremost; merely by knowing it, even one characterized as low is freed from bondage and attains steadiness in one's own nature.

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अज्ञानेन्धननिर्दाहो ज्ञानदीपप्रदीपनम् । एतदेव मतं नाम्नि रामेति द्वयक्षरात्मके ॥९९०॥

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Burning the fuel of ignorance and kindling the lamp of knowledge—this alone is held to reside in the two-syllable Name ‘Rāma.’

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जिह्वाग्रे यस्य लिखितं रामेति द्वयक्षर परम् । कथं स्पृशन्ति तं दूताः यमस्य क्रोधभीषणा ॥९९१॥

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How could Yama's messengers, terrifying in anger, touch one upon whose tongue-tip the supreme two-syllable ‘Rāma’ is written?

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रामनामाङ्किता मुद्रा प्रत्यङ्गं येन वै धृताः । आबद्धं तेन कवचं मोहशत्रुचमूजये ॥९९२।:

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One by whom seals marked with Rāma's Name are worn on every limb has thereby bound on armor for victory over the enemy-army of delusion.

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जाग्रंस्तिष्ठन् स्वपन् क्रीडन् विहरन्नाहरन्नपि । उन्मिषन् निमिषंश्चैव रामनाम सदा जपेत् ॥९९३॥

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Waking, remaining, sleeping, playing, wandering, eating, opening and closing the eyes—one should always repeat Rāma's Name.

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पापं कृत्स्नं विधूयाशु मुक्तभारः स मानुषः । अनायासेन मोहाख्यं सिन्धुं तरति दुस्तरम् ॥९९४॥

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Quickly shaking off all wrongdoing and freed of the burden, that person crosses without effort the hard-to-cross ocean called delusion.

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प्रारब्धकर्मापहृतिप्रवीणं रामेति नामैव बुधैर्निरुक्तम् । यज्ज्ञानमात्रादधमा किराती मुनीन्द्रवृन्दैरभवन्नमस्या ॥९९५॥

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The wise have defined the Name ‘Rāma’ alone as skilled in removing begun karma; merely by knowing it, a Kirāta woman characterized as low became worthy of reverence by hosts of leading sages.

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कस्तेन तुल्यः सुकृती भवेऽस्मिन् कस्तेन तुल्यश्च सदाप्रकाशः । कस्तेन तुल्यश्च विशोकमोहो यो नाम रामेति जपेदजस्रम् ॥९९६॥

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Who in this becoming is as meritorious as one who ceaselessly repeats the Name ‘Rāma’? Who is equally ever-radiant, and who equally free of grief and delusion?

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एतन् मया संपरिपृच्छ्यते ते भूयः प्रदिष्टं परमं रहस्यम् । हृदावधार्य स्वयमेव विद्धि वाच्यं भजित्वा सति नो परस्मिन् ॥९९७॥

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Because you questioned me fully, this supreme secret has again been taught to you. Hold it in the heart and know it yourself through devotion; it is to be spoken to one who is true, not to another.

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मुहुर्मुहुस्त्वया प्रोक्तं रामनाम परात्परम् । तदर्थं ब्रूहि भो स्वामिन् कृत्वा मह्यं दयां हृदि ॥९९८॥

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Pārvatī said to Śaṅkara: Again and again you have declared Rāma's Name to be beyond the highest. Lord, hold compassion for me in your heart and explain its meaning.

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त्वमेव जगतां मध्ये धन्या धन्यतरा प्रिये । पृष्टं त्वया महत्तत्त्वं रामनामार्थमुत्तमम् ॥९९९॥

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Śiva said: Beloved, among the worlds you alone are blessed, more greatly blessed, for you have asked about the great principle, the supreme meaning of Rāma's Name.

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वेदास्सर्वे च शास्त्राणि मुनयो निर्जरर्षभाः । नाम्नः प्रभावमत्युग्रं ते न जानन्ति सुव्रते ॥१०००॥

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All the Vedas and śāstras, the sages and foremost immortals, do not know the Name's exceedingly powerful influence, virtuous one.

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राम एवाभिजानाति कृत्स्नं नामार्थमद्भुतम् । ईषद् वदामि नामार्थं देवि तस्यानुकम्पया ॥१००१॥

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Rāma alone fully knows the wondrous meaning of the Name. Goddess, through his compassion I shall tell a little of that meaning.

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कोटिकन्दर्पशोभाढ्ये सर्वाभरणभूषिते । रम्यरूपार्णवे रामे रमन्ते सनकादयः ॥१००२॥

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Sanaka and the others delight in Rāma, an ocean of lovely form, adorned with every ornament and rich in the beauty of a crore Love-gods.

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अत एव रमुक्रीडा रामनाम्नः प्रवर्तते । रमन्ते मुनयः सर्वे नित्यं यस्याङ्घ्रिपङ्कजे ॥१००३॥

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Therefore the root `ramu`, ‘to delight,’ operates in Rāma's Name: all sages forever delight at his lotus feet.

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अनेकसखिभिः साकं रमते रासमण्डले । अतएव रमुक्रीडा रामनाम्ना प्रवर्तते ॥१००४॥

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With many female companions he delights in the circle of rāsa; therefore the root `ramu`, ‘to delight,’ operates through Rāma's Name.

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ब्रह्मज्ञाननिमग्नो यो जनको योगिनां वरः । हित्वा तद्रमते रामे रमुक्रीडा ततोऽनघे ॥१००५॥

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Janaka, foremost of yogins and immersed in knowledge of Brahman, leaves that and delights in Rāma; hence, sinless one, the root is `ramu`, ‘to delight.’

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आबालतो विरक्तो यो जामदग्न्यो हरिः स्मृतः । स एव रमते रामे रमुक्रीडा ततोऽनघे ॥१००६॥

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The son of Jamadagni, detached since childhood and remembered as Hari, himself delights in Rāma; hence, sinless one, the root is `ramu`, ‘to delight.’

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सप्तद्वीपाधिपास्सर्वे साधवोऽसाधवोऽपि वा । विदेहकुलसंभूता ये च सर्वे नृपोत्तमाः ॥१००७॥

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All the lords of the seven continents, whether virtuous or not, and all the highest kings born in the house of Videha...

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रामरूपहृता भूत्वा रमितास्तैर्निजा निजाः । दत्तात्मजा रमुक्रीडा रामस्यैव इति श्रुतिः ॥१००८॥

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...captivated by Rāma's form, each had their own daughters delighted by him and gave those daughters; thus śruti says that Rāma's own root is `ramu`, ‘to delight.’

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चित्रकूटमनुप्राप्य पितुर्वचनगौरवात् । रम्यमावसथं कृत्वा रममाणा वने त्रयः ॥१००९॥

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Having reached Citrakūṭa in honor of the father's word, the three made a lovely dwelling and delighted in the forest...

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देवगन्धर्वसंकाशास्तत्र ते न्यवसन् सुखम् । अतोऽस्य रामनाम्नो वै रमुक्रीडा प्रवर्तते ॥१०१०॥

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...resembling gods and gandharvas, they lived there happily. Therefore the root `ramu`, ‘to delight,’ operates in this Name ‘Rāma.’

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राक्षसी घोररूपा या दुष्टत्वं कर्तुमागता । साप्यासीद्रमिता रामे पतिवत् काममोहिता ॥१०११॥

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The rākṣasī of terrifying form who came to do harm was herself made to delight in Rāma like a husband, deluded by desire.

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चतुर्दशसहस्राश्च राक्षसाः खरदूषणाः । मोहिताः रामसद्रूपे रमुक्रीडात उच्यते ॥१०१२॥

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Fourteen thousand rākṣasas, Khara, Dūṣaṇa, and the others, were enchanted by Rāma's beautiful form; hence the root is said to be `ramu`, ‘to delight.’

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नाना मुनिगणाः सर्वे दण्डकारण्यवासिनः । ज्ञानयोगतपोनिष्ठा जापका ध्यानतत्पराः ॥१०१३॥

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All the many groups of sages dwelling in Daṇḍaka forest, devoted to knowledge, yoga, and austerity, repeaters intent upon meditation...

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मुनिवेशधरं रामं नीलजीमूतसन्निभम् । रमन्ते योषितीभूता रूपं दृष्ट्वा महर्षयः ॥१०१४॥

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...seeing Rāma in a sage's garb, resembling a dark rain cloud, the great seers became women and delighted in his form.

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ईषद्धास्ये कृते रामे दृष्ट्वा तेषामिमां गतिम् । यूयं धन्यतरा ज्ञानं मत्प्रसन्ने हि सांप्रतम् ॥१०१५॥

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Seeing their condition, Rāma gave a slight smile: ‘You are greatly blessed; this knowledge has now arisen through my favor.’

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मन्निदेशात् तपो यूयं चरध्वं भो महर्षयः । ईप्सितास्ते भविष्यन्ति द्वापरे आगते युगे ॥१०१६॥

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‘At my direction, great seers, practice austerity. Your desired aims will be realized when the Dvāpara age arrives.’

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अजरामरतनुं त्यक्त्वा रामाल्लब्धं विलोक्य सः । राम एवारमद्वाली रमुक्रीडात उच्यते ॥१०१७॥

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Seeing him, Vālī left the ageless, deathless body obtained from Rāma and delighted in Rāma alone; hence the root is said to be `ramu`, ‘to delight.’

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यतोऽयं रमते रामे सदैव पवनात्मजः । दग्ध्वा लंकां ततः सीतां वीक्ष्यायातः सुखेन सः ॥१०१८॥

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Because this son of the Wind always delights in Rāma, after burning Laṅkā and then seeing Sītā he returned safely.

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रमिता रामसद्रूपे राक्षसा रावणादयः । राम रामाहवेत्युक्त्वा राममेवाभिसंगताः ॥१०१९॥

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Rāvaṇa and the other rākṣasas, made to delight in Rāma's beautiful form, said ‘Rāma, Rāma’ in battle and reached Rāma himself.

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परधाम्नि गते रामेऽयोध्यायां ये चराचराः । रामेऽभिरमिता भूत्वा तत्साकं जग्मुरेव हि ॥१०२०॥

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When Rāma went to the supreme abode, all moving and unmoving beings in Ayodhyā, fully delighted in Rāma, went together with him.

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रामनाम्नो विशेषेण रमुक्रीडात उच्यते । हेतुरन्यद् रमुक्रीडां शृणु त्वं सावधानतः ॥१०२१॥

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The root `ramu`, ‘to delight,’ is especially said of Rāma's Name. Now listen attentively to another reason for that root.

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वाच्यवाचकरामस्य कथितौ रूपनामनी । रामनाम परं ब्रह्म रमिता यच्चराचरे ॥१०२२॥

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Rāma's form and Name are described as signified and signifier. Rāma's Name is supreme Brahman, delighting in all that moves and does not move.

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रमन्ते मुनयो यस्मिन् योगिनश्चोर्द्ध्वरेतसः । अतो देवि रमुक्रीडा रामनाम्नैव वर्तते ॥१०२३॥

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Sages and yogins who hold their seed upward delight in it; therefore, Goddess, the root `ramu`, ‘to delight,’ operates in Rāma's Name alone.

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पोषणं भरणाधारं रामनाम्नो जगत्सु च । अत एव रमुक्रीडा परब्रह्माभिधीयते ॥१०२४॥

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In the worlds, Rāma's Name is nourishment, maintenance, and support; therefore it is called both `ramu`, ‘to delight,’ and supreme Brahman.

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अंशांशै रामनाम्नश्च त्रयः सिद्धा भवन्ति हि । बीजमोङ्कारसोऽहं च सूत्रमुक्तमिति श्रुतिः ॥१०२५॥

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From portions of portions of Rāma's Name, three indeed become established: the seed, Oṃ, and `so'ham`; thus śruti declares the rule.

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कथमेतद्विजानामि संसिद्धा रामनामतः । बीजमोङ्कारसोऽहं च सूत्रमुक्तमिति श्रुतिः ॥१०२६॥

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Pārvatī said: How am I to understand that the seed, Oṃ, and `so'ham` are fully derived from Rāma's Name, as śruti states in the rule?

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निश्चलं मानसं कृत्वा सावधानाच्छृणु प्रिये । गुह्याद् गुह्यतमं तत्त्वं वक्ष्येऽमृतमयं मुदा ॥१०२७॥

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Śiva said: Make the mind steady and listen attentively, beloved. Joyfully I shall tell the nectar-filled principle more secret than the secret.

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रामनाम महाविद्ये! षड्भिर्वस्तुभिरावृतम् । ब्रह्मजीवमहानादैस्त्रिभिरन्यद्वदामि ते ॥१०२८॥

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O embodiment of great knowledge, Rāma's Name is enclosed by six entities. Having named Brahman, the individual being, and the great resonance, I shall tell you the other three.

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स्वरेण विन्दुना चैव दिव्यया माययापि च । पृथक्त्वेन विभागेन सांप्रतं शृणु पार्वति ॥१०२९॥

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They are the vowel, the point, and divine māyā. Pārvatī, now hear them separately, according to their divisions.

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परब्रह्ममयो रेफो जीवोऽकारश्च मश्च यः । रस्याकारो महानादो राया दीर्घस्वरात्मिका ॥१०३०॥

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The letter `r` consists of supreme Brahman; the `a` belonging to `m` is the individual being; the `a` of `r` is the great resonance; and the long vowel of `rā` is its essence.

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मकारो व्यञ्जनं बिन्दुर्हेतुः प्रणवमाययोः । अर्धभागादुकारः स्यादकारान्नादरूपिणः ॥१०३१॥

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The consonant `m` is the point and the cause of Oṃ and māyā; from half a portion of the resonance-formed `a`, the vowel `u` would arise.

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रकारगुरुराकार तथा वर्णविपर्ययः । मकारव्यञ्जनं चैव प्रणवं चाभिधीयते ॥१०३२॥

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The letter `r`, the heavy vowel `ā`, and then a reversal of letters, together with the consonant `m`, are declared to form Oṃ.

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मस्यासवर्णितं मत्वा प्रणवे नादरूपधृक् । अन्तर्भूतो भवेद्रेफः प्रणवे सिद्धिरूपिणी ॥१०३३॥

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Regarding the `a` of `m` as made homogeneous, bearing the form of resonance in Oṃ, the letter `r` would become included within Oṃ, whose nature is accomplishment.

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रामनाम्नः समुद्पन्नः प्रणवो मोक्षदायकः । रूपं तत्त्वमसेश्चासौ वेदतत्त्वाधिकारिणः ॥१०३४॥

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Oṃ, the giver of liberation, arises from Rāma's Name; it is also the form of `tat tvam asi` for one qualified in Vedic truth.

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अकारः प्रणवे सत्त्वमुकारश्च रजोगुणः । तमोहलमकारस्स्यात् त्रयोऽहङ्कारमुद्भवः ॥१०३५॥

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In Oṃ, `a` is sattva and `u` is the quality of rajas; the difficult printed expression `tamohala` is associated with `m`, and from the three arises egoity.

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चराचरसमुत्पन्नो गुणत्रयविभागतः । अतः प्रिये रमुक्रीडा रामनाम्नैव वर्तते ॥१०३६॥

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The moving and unmoving creation arose from the divisions of the three qualities; therefore, beloved, the root `ramu`, ‘to delight,’ operates in Rāma's Name alone.

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यथा च प्रणवो ज्ञेयो बीजं तद्वर्ण संभवम् । स शब्देन हकारेण सोऽहमुक्तं तथैव च ॥१०३७॥

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As Oṃ is to be understood, so too the seed arises from those letters; and in the same way, with the sound `s` and the letter `h`, `so'ham` is declared.

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इत्यादयो महामन्त्रा वर्तन्ते सप्त कोटयः । आत्मा तेषां च सर्वेषां रामनाम्ना प्रकाशते ॥१०३८॥

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There are seven crores of great mantras such as these; the essence of all of them shines through Rāma's Name.

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अतः प्रिये रमुक्रीडा तेषामर्थे प्रवर्तते । सनकाद्याः फणीशाद्या रामनाम भजन्त्यतः ॥१०३९॥

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Therefore, beloved, the root `ramu`, ‘to delight,’ operates in their meanings; hence Sanaka and the others, and the serpent-lord and the others, worship Rāma's Name.

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रामनामगुणैश्वर्यं संक्षेपेण प्रभाषितम् । रूपमेवं प्रतापं च रामनाम्नो वदामि ते ॥१०४०॥

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The qualities and sovereignty of Rāma's Name have been described briefly; now I tell you its form in this way and its power.

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शृणु त्वं परमं गुह्यं यन्न जानन्ति केऽपि च । केऽपि केऽपि विजानन्ति रामानुक्रोशयैव हि ॥१०४१॥

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Hear the supreme secret that none know; only a few, a few, understand it through Rāma's compassion alone.

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तेजोरूपमयो रेफः श्रीरामाम्बककञ्जयोः । कोटिसूर्यप्रतीकाशः परं ब्रह्म स उच्यते ॥१०४२॥

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The letter `r`, formed of radiance, belongs to the lotus eyes of Śrī Rāma; shining like a crore suns, it is called supreme Brahman.

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सोऽपि सर्वेषु भूतेषु सहस्रारे प्रतिष्ठितः । सर्वसाक्षी जगद्व्यापी नित्यं ध्यायन्ति योगिनः ॥१०४३॥

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That too is established in the thousand-petalled center of all beings, witness of all and pervading the world; yogins meditate on it continually.

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रामस्य मण्डलस्यैव तेजोरूपं वरानने! । कोटिकन्दर्पशोभाढ्यो रेफाकारो हि विद्धि च ॥१०४४॥

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Lovely-faced one, know the form of the letter `r` as the radiance of Rāma's circle, rich in the beauty of a crore Love-gods.

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अकारस्सोऽपि रूपश्च वासुदेवस्स कथ्यते । मध्याकारो महारूपः श्रीरामस्यैव वक्षसः ॥१०४५॥

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That form of the letter `a` is also said to be Vāsudeva; the great form of the middle `a` is Rāma's own chest.

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सोऽप्याकारो महाविष्णोर्बलवीर्यस्वरूपकः । सर्वेषामेव भूतानामाधारस्त्वं च विद्धि सः ॥१०४६॥

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That letter `a` too has the nature of Mahāviṣṇu's strength and valor; know it also as the support of all beings.

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अस्याकारो भवेद् रूपः श्रीरामकटिजानुनी । सोऽप्याकारो महाशम्भुरुच्यते यो जगद्गुरुः ॥१०४७॥

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This letter `a` would be the form of Śrī Rāma's waist and knees; that `a` too is said to be great Śambhu, the teacher of the world.

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इच्छाभूतं च रामस्य कारं व्यञ्जनं च यत् । सा मूलप्रकृतिर्ज्ञेया महामायास्वरूपिणी ॥१०४८॥

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That consonantal `kāra` which is Rāma's will is to be known as root prakṛti, having the nature of great māyā.

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भाषितेयं रमुक्रीडा गुह्याद् गुह्यतरा मया । अन्यं प्रकरणं वक्ष्ये त्वत्तोऽहं चारुलोचने! ॥१०४९॥

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I have explained this `ramu-krīḍā`, more secret than the secret. Lovely-eyed one, I shall tell you another topic.

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नारायणो रकारः स्यादकारो निर्गुणात्मकः । मकारो भक्तिरेव स्याद् महाह्लादाभिधायिनी ॥१०५०॥

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The letter `r` would be Nārāyaṇa, the letter `a` would have the nature of the attributeless, and the letter `m` would be devotion itself, expressive of great delight.

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विज्ञानस्थो रकारः स्यादाकारो ज्ञानरूपकः । मकारः परमा भक्ती रमुक्रीडोच्यते ततः ॥१०५१॥

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The letter `r` would abide in realized knowledge, the letter `ā` have the form of knowledge, and the letter `m` be supreme devotion; therefore `ramu-krīḍā` is stated.

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चिद्वाचको रकारः स्यात् सद्वाच्याकार उच्यते । मकारानन्दकं वाच्यं सच्चिदानन्दमव्ययम् ॥१०५२॥

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The letter `r` would signify consciousness; the letter `ā` is said to signify being; and `m` signifies bliss: imperishable being-consciousness-bliss.

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रकारस्तत्पदो ज्ञेयस्त्वं पदोऽकार उच्यते । मकारोऽसि पदं सोमं तत्त्वमसि सुलोचने! ॥१०५३॥

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The letter `r` is to be known as the word `tat`, and the letter `ā` is called the word `tvam`; the letter `m` is the word `asi`. The text then reads `somaṃ`: ‘tat tvam asi,’ lovely-eyed one.

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ब्रह्मेति तत्पदं विद्धि त्वं पदो जीवनिर्मलः । ईश्वरोऽसि पदं प्रोक्तं यतो माया प्रवर्तते ॥१०५४॥

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Know the word `tat` as Brahman, the word `tvam` as the stainless individual being, and the word `asi` as the Lord, from whom māyā proceeds.

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वेदसारमहावाक्यं यत्तत्त्वमसि कथ्यते । रामनाम्नश्च तत् सर्वा रमुक्रीडा प्रवर्तते ॥१०५५॥

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The great saying `tat tvam asi` is called the essence of the Vedas; all that proceeds from Rāma's Name, and thus `ramu-krīḍā` operates.

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अन्यं प्रकरणं त्वत्तो भक्त्या शृणु वदाम्यहम् । संक्षेपेणैव यद् भेदं क्षराक्षरनिरक्षरैः ॥१०५६॥

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Hear with devotion another topic that I tell you: in brief, the distinction through the perishable, imperishable, and beyond-letter.

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व्यञ्जनाच्च क्षरोत्पत्तिरकाराद् ब्रह्म चाक्षरः । रेफान्निरक्षरो ब्रह्म सर्वव्यापी निरञ्जनः ॥१०५७॥

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From the consonant arises the perishable; from the letter `a`, imperishable Brahman; and from the letter `r`, beyond-letter Brahman, all-pervading and stainless.

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क्षरोऽभिधीयते माया ब्रह्मात्मानस्तु चाक्षरः । परमात्मा परब्रह्म निरक्षर इति स्मृतः ॥१०५८॥

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Māyā is called the perishable; Brahman and the self are the imperishable; the supreme Self and supreme Brahman are remembered as beyond-letter.

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सकल व्यापिनस्त्रेधा क्षराक्षरनिरक्षराः । रामनामरमुक्रीडा प्रवीणेऽतः समुच्यते ॥१०५९॥

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The perishable, imperishable, and beyond-letter pervade everything in three ways; therefore, discerning one, `ramu-krīḍā` is fully said of Rāma's Name.

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रामनामगुणं त्वत्तो संक्षेपेण प्रभाषितम् । रामनामप्रतापं च सांप्रतं सूक्ष्मतः शृणु ॥१०६०॥

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The qualities of Rāma's Name have been described briefly to you; now hear its power in subtle detail.

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रकारोऽनलबीजं स्याद् ये सर्वे वाडवादयः । कृत्वा मनोमलं सर्वं भस्म कर्म शुभाशुभम् ॥१०६१॥

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The letter `r` would be the seed of fire, of all fires beginning with the submarine fire, making all impurity of mind and both favorable and unfavorable karma into ash.

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अकारो भानुबीजं स्याद् वेदशास्त्रप्रकाशकः । नाशयत्येव सद्दीप्त्या या विद्यते हृदये तमः ॥१०६२॥

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The letter `a` would be the seed of the sun and illuminator of Veda and śāstra; with its good radiance it destroys the darkness present in the heart.

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मकारश्चन्द्रबीजं च पीयूषपरिपूर्णकम् । त्रितापं हरते नित्यं शीतलत्वं करोति च ॥१०६३॥

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The letter `m` is the seed of the moon and filled with nectar; it continually removes the three afflictions and produces coolness.

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रकारो हेतुर्वैराग्यं परमं यच्च कथ्यते । अकारो ज्ञानहेतुश्च मकारो भक्तिहेतुकः ॥१०६४॥

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The letter `r` is the cause of what is called supreme detachment; the letter `a` is the cause of knowledge, and the letter `m` the cause of devotion.

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अतो देवि! रमुक्रीडा रामनाम्नः समुच्यते । सम्यक् शृणु प्रवीणे! त्वं हेतुरन्यद् वदामि ते ॥१०६५॥

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Therefore, Goddess, `ramu-krīḍā` is fully said of Rāma's Name. Discerning one, listen carefully; I tell you another reason.

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वेदे व्याकरणे चैव ये च वर्णाः स्वराः स्मृताः । रामनाम्नैव ते सर्वे जाता नैवात्र संशयः ॥१०६६॥

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All letters and vowels remembered in Veda and grammar arose from Rāma's Name alone; of this there is no doubt.

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रकारो मूर्ध्नि संचारी त्रिकुट्याकार उच्यते । मकारोऽधरयोर्मध्ये लोमे लोमे प्रतिष्ठितः ॥१०६७॥

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The letter `r` moves in the crown; the letter `a` is said to be at the three-peaked place; the letter `m` is established between the lips and in every hair.

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रकारो योगिनां ध्येयो गच्छन्ति परमं पदम् । अकारो ज्ञानिनां ध्येयस्ते सर्वे मोक्षरूपिणः ॥१०६८॥

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The letter `r` is the object of yogins' meditation, by which they go to the supreme state; the letter `a` is the object of the knowers' meditation, and they all take the form of liberation.

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पूर्णं नाम मुदा दासा ध्यायन्त्यचलमानसाः । प्राप्नुवन्ति परां भक्तिं श्रीरामस्य समीपकम् ॥१०६९॥

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Servants with unwavering minds joyfully meditate on the complete Name; they attain supreme devotion and nearness to Śrī Rāma.

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अन्तर्जपन्ति ये नाम जीवन्मुक्ता भवन्ति ते । तेषां न जायते भक्तिर्न च रामसमीपकाः ॥१०७०॥

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Those who repeat the Name inwardly become liberated while living; devotion does not arise for them, nor are they near to Rāma.

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जिह्वयाऽप्यन्तरेणैव रामनाम जपन्ति ये । ते च प्रेमपरा भक्ता नित्यं रामसमीपकाः ॥१०७१॥

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Those who repeat Rāma's Name both with the tongue and inwardly are devotees intent on love and forever near to Rāma.

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योगिनो ज्ञानिनो भक्ताः सुकर्मनिरताश्च ये । रामनाम्नि रतास्सर्वे रमुक्रीडात एव वै ॥१०७२॥

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Yogins, knowers, devotees, and those devoted to good action—all delight in Rāma's Name; thus indeed comes `ramu-krīḍā`.

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शृणुष्व मुख्यनामानि वक्ष्ये भगवतः प्रिये । विष्णुर्नारायणः कृष्णो वासुदेवो हरिः स्मृतः ॥१०७३॥

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Beloved, hear the principal names of the Lord that I shall state: Viṣṇu, Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva, and Hari are remembered.

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ब्रह्म विश्वम्भरोऽनन्तो विश्वरूपः कलानिधिः । कल्मषघ्नो दयामूर्तिः सर्वगः सर्वसेवितः ॥१०७४॥

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Brahman, Viśvambhara, Ananta, Viśvarūpa, Treasure of Arts, Destroyer of Stain, Embodiment of Compassion, All-pervading, and Served by All.

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परमेश्वरनामानि सन्त्यनेकानि पार्वति । परन्तु रामनामेदं सर्वेषामुत्तमोत्तमम् ॥१०७५॥

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Pārvatī, there are many names of the supreme Lord, but this Rāma-name is the highest of all the highest.

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ग्रहाणां च यथा भानुर्नक्षत्राणां यथा शशी । निर्जराणां यथा शक्रो नराणां भूपतिर्यथा ॥१०७६॥

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As the sun among planets, the moon among constellations, Śakra among immortals, and a king among human beings...

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यथा लोकेषु गोलोकः सरयू निम्नगासु च । कवीनां च यथाऽनन्तो भक्तानामञ्जनीसुतः ॥१०७७॥

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...as Goloka among worlds, the Sarayū among rivers, Ananta among poets, and Añjanī's son among devotees...

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शक्तीनां च यथा सीता रामो भगवतामपि । भूधराणां यथा मेरुः सरसां सागरो यथा ॥१०७८॥

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...as Sītā among powers, Rāma among divine manifestations, Meru among mountains, and the ocean among bodies of water...

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कामधेनुर्गवां मध्ये धन्वीनां मन्मथो यथा । पक्षिणां वैनतेयश्च तीर्थानां पुष्करो यथा ॥१०७९॥

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...as the wish-granting cow among cattle, Manmatha among archers, Vinatā's son among birds, and Puṣkara among pilgrimage places...

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अहिंसा सर्वधर्माणां साधुत्वेऽपि दया यथा । मेदिनी क्षमिणां मध्ये मणीनां कौस्तुभो यथा ॥१०८०॥

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...as nonviolence among all duties, compassion within saintliness, the earth among the forbearing, and Kaustubha among jewels...

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धनुषां च यथा शार्ङ्गः खड्गानां नन्दको यथा । ज्ञानानां ब्रह्म ज्ञानं च भक्तीनां प्रेमलक्षणा ॥१०८१॥

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...as Śārṅga among bows, Nandaka among swords, knowledge of Brahman among forms of knowledge, and love-characterized devotion among devotions...

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प्रणवः सर्वमन्त्राणां रुद्राणामहमेव च । कल्पद्रुमश्च वृक्षाणां यथाऽयोध्या पुरीषु च ॥१०८२॥

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...as Oṃ among all mantras, I myself among Rudras, the wish-fulfilling tree among trees, and Ayodhyā among cities...

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कर्मणां भगवत्कर्म अकारश्च स्वरेष्वपि । किमत्र बहुनोक्तेन सम्यग् भगवतः प्रिये ॥१०८३॥

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...as divine action among actions and the letter `a` among vowels. Beloved of the Lord, what need is there to say much more here?

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नाम्नां तथा च सर्वेषां रामनाम परं महत् ॥

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So too, among all names, Rāma's Name is supreme and great.

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नाम्नामेव च सर्वेषां रामनाम परं महत् ॥१०८४॥

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Among all names indeed, Rāma's Name is supreme and great.

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इदं त्वया कथं प्रोक्तं एतदर्थं वद प्रभो । त्वमेव सर्वं जानासि रामनाम सुवैभवम् ॥१०८५॥

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Lord, how have you stated this? Explain its meaning. You alone know the full and excellent glory of Rāma's Name.

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नानार्थमहं देवि! संक्षेपेण वदामि ते । नाम्नां भगवतोऽनेका गुणार्थाः कोटिकोटयः ॥१०८६॥

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Goddess, I shall tell you the many meanings briefly; the Lord's names have many qualities and meanings, crore upon crore.

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अप्सु नारं गृहं यस्य तेन नारायणः स्मृतः । जीवा नाराश्रया यस्य तेन नारायणोऽपि वा ॥१०८७॥

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He whose dwelling is in the waters, `nāra`, is remembered as Nārāyaṇa; or he upon whom living beings, `nārāḥ`, depend is also Nārāyaṇa.

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सर्वं वसति वै यस्मिन् सर्वस्मिन् वसतेऽपि वा । तमाहुर्वासुदेवं च योगिनस्तत्त्वदर्शिनः ॥१०८८॥

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The truth-seeing yogins call him Vāsudeva, in whom everything dwells or who dwells in everything.

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व्यापकोऽपिहि यो नित्यं सर्वं चैव चराचरे । विशप्रवेशने धातोर्विष्णुरित्यभिधीयते ॥१०८९॥

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He who continually pervades all that moves and does not move is called Viṣṇu from the root `viś`, ‘to enter.’

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कथ्यते स हरिर्नित्यं भक्तानां क्लेशनाशनः । भरणं पोषणं विश्वं विश्वम्भर इति स्मृतः ॥१०९०॥

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He is forever called Hari, destroyer of devotees' affliction; sustaining and nourishing the world, he is remembered as Viśvambhara.

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वायुवद् गगने पूर्णं जगतामेव वर्तते । सर्वभिन्नं निराकारं निर्गुणं ब्रह्म उच्यते ॥१०९१॥

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Pervading the worlds like wind and sky, separate from all, formless and without qualities, he is called Brahman.

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यस्यानन्तानि रूपाणि यस्य चान्तन्न विद्यते । श्रुतयो यन्न जानन्ति सोऽप्यनन्तोऽभिधीयते ॥१०९२॥

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He whose forms are endless, whose end is not found, and whom the śrutis do not know is also called Ananta.

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यो विराजस्तनुर्नित्यं विश्वरूपमथोच्यते । कला वै धिष्ठितान् सर्वान् यस्मिन्निति कलानिधिः ॥१०९३॥

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He whose body is continually the cosmic Virāj is then called Viśvarūpa; because all arts are established in him, he is Kalānidhi, Treasure of Arts.

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सर्वाण्येतानि नामानि मया प्रोक्तानि यानि च । सच्चिदानन्दरूपाणि नामान्येतानि सर्वशः ॥१०९४॥

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All these names that I have stated have, in every respect, the nature of being-consciousness-bliss.

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परन्तु नामभेदञ्च संक्षेपेण वदामि ते । सच्चिदानन्दरूपैश्च त्रिभिर्भेदैः पृथक् पृथक् ॥१०९५॥

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But I shall tell you briefly the distinctions among names, separately through the three distinctions whose forms are being, consciousness, and bliss.

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वर्तते रामनामेदं सत्यं दृष्ट्वा महेश्वरि! । नामान्यन्यान्यनेकानि मया प्रोक्तानि पार्वति ॥१०९६॥

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Great Goddess, this Rāma-name exists as the complete reality; Pārvatī, I have stated many other names.

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कस्मिन् मुख्यौ सदानन्दौ चिद्गुणं तथोच्यते । कस्मिंश्चित्सतौ मुख्यौ चानन्दं गुणं स्मृतम् ॥१०९७॥

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In some [names], being and bliss are primary and consciousness is called secondary; in some, consciousness and being are primary and bliss is remembered as secondary.

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त्वमेवमेव नामानि विद्धि सर्वाणि पार्वति । नामभेदं वदाम्यन्यं प्रवीणे! शृणु भक्तितः ॥१०९८॥

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Pārvatī, understand all names in just this way. Discerning one, I shall tell another distinction among names; listen with devotion.

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अन्यानि यानि सर्वाणि नामानि साक्षराणि च । निर्वर्णं रामनामेदं केवलं च स्वराधिपम् ॥१०९९॥

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All other names consist of letters; this Rāma-name is beyond letters, alone the ruler of vowels.

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Ninth pramoda — Mahā Rāmāyaṇa, Śiva's speech

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मुकुटं छत्रं च सर्वेषां मकारो रेफव्यञ्जनम् । रामनाममयाः सर्वे नामवर्णाः प्रकीर्तिताः ॥११००॥

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For all [letters], `m` is the crown and the consonant `r` the canopy; all letters of names are proclaimed to consist of Rāma's Name.

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अतएव रमुक्रीडा नानानामांशाः प्रवर्तते । निजमत्यानुसारेण रामनामप्रभाषितम् ॥११०१॥

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Therefore `ramu-krīḍā` operates through the portions of many names; Rāma's Name has been explained according to my own understanding.

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Ninth pramoda — unnumbered Tulsī footnote after citation 1101

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एक छत्र एक मुकुट मणि सब वरननि पर जोउ । तुलसी रघुबर नाम के वरन विराजत दोउ

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One is a canopy and one a crown-jewel, the two above all letters. Tulsī says: the two letters of Raghubar's Name shine.

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रामनामप्रभावोऽयं केन वक्तुं न शक्यते । ब्रह्मादीनां बुद्धेरपि कुण्ठिता भवति ध्रुवम् ॥११०२॥

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No one is able to state this power of Rāma's Name; even the understanding of Brahmā and the others certainly becomes blunted.

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कोटितीर्थनिदानानि कोटियोगव्रतानि च । कोटियज्ञजपाश्चैव तपसः कोटिकोटयः ॥११०३॥

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Crores of provisions of pilgrimage, crores of yogic vows, crores of sacrifices and repetitions, and crores upon crores of austerities...

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कोटिज्ञानैश्च विज्ञानैः कोटिध्यानसमाधिभिः । सत्यं वदामि नैतत्तुल्यं रामनाम न वर्तते ॥११०४॥

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...with crores of forms of knowledge and realized knowledge and crores of meditations and absorptions—truly I say, nothing equal to Rāma's Name exists.

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परावाण्या भजेन्नित्यं रामनामपरात्परम् । त्यक्त्वा मोहं च मात्सर्यं वाक्यं चैवानृतं तथा ॥११०५॥

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One should continually worship the Rāma-name, beyond the highest, with the transcendent voice, abandoning delusion, jealousy, and false speech...

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हृत्मलं क्रोधकामांधा लोभमज्ञानमेव च । रागद्वेषं च दुःसंगं त्यक्त्वा दुर्वासनामपि ॥११०६॥

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...abandoning impurity of heart, anger, the blindness of desire, greed, ignorance, attachment and aversion, bad company, and harmful disposition...

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सर्वेन्द्रियजितो भूत्वा पूतो बाह्यान्तरस्तथा । इदं नाम जपेन्नित्यं रामरूपी भवेन्नरः ॥११०७॥

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...having mastered all the senses and become pure outside and within, a person should continually repeat this Name and would take Rāma's form.

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रहः पठति यो नित्यमेतत् कमललोचने! । सर्वध्यानफलं तस्य कलां नार्हति षोडशीम् ॥११०८॥

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Lotus-eyed one, for the person who continually recites this in solitude, the result of all meditation is not worth even a sixteenth part of theirs.

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शठाय परशिष्याय विषयाढ्याय मानिने । न दातव्यं न दातव्यं श्रीरामोपासकं विना ॥११०९॥

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It must not be given, must not be given, to a deceitful person, another teacher's pupil, one steeped in sense objects, or one proud—only to a worshipper of Śrī Rāma.

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Ninth pramoda — Mahā Rāmāyaṇa, Śiva's speech

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यदि दातव्यमन्येषां सद्यो मृत्युः प्रजायते । महतामेव सर्वेषां जीवनं प्रोच्यते यतः ॥१११०॥

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If it is given to others, immediate death arises, for it is declared the very life of all the great.

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Ninth pramoda — colophon

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इति श्रीसीतारामनामप्रतापप्रकाशे प्रमोदनिवासे परात्परैश्वर्यदायके श्रीयुगलानन्यशरणसंगृहीते श्रीरामायणवाक्यप्रबलप्रमाणनिरूपणं नाम नवमः प्रमोदः ॥९॥

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Thus, in Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa, the abode of delights and giver of transcendent sovereignty, compiled by Śrī Yugalānanya Śaraṇa, ends the ninth pramoda, entitled ‘Demonstration of the strong authority of statements from the Śrī Rāmāyaṇa.’

Tenth pramoda · provisional root

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Tenth pramoda — Yajurveda

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मर्ताऽमर्त्तस्य ते भूरि नाममनामहे विप्रासो जातवेदसः ॥११११॥

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We mortals, the inspired ones, contemplate your many names, O immortal Jātavedas.

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Tenth pramoda — Atharvaṇa Upaniṣad

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जपात्तेनैव देवतादर्शनं करोति कलौ नान्येषां भवति ॥१११२॥

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Through repetition of that alone one beholds the deity; in Kali this does not occur through the others.

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Tenth pramoda — Yajurveda

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यस्य नाम महद्यशः ॥१११३॥

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Whose Name possesses great glory.

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Tenth pramoda — Yajurveda

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रामनाम जपादेव मुक्तिर्भवति ॥१११४॥

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Liberation arises through repetition of Rāma's Name alone.

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Tenth pramoda — Bhālleya Śruti

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सर्वाणि नामानि यमाविशन्ति ॥१११५॥

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Into whom all names enter.

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Tenth pramoda — Atharvaṇa

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यश्चाण्डालोऽपि रामेति वाचं वदेत् तेन सह संवदेत् तेन सह संवसेत् तेन सह सम्भुञ्जीयात् ॥१११६॥

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Even if one labeled a caṇḍāla should utter the word ‘Rāma,’ one should converse with that person, dwell with that person, and eat fully with that person.

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Tenth pramoda — Ṛgveda

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ॐ परं ब्रह्म ज्योतिर्मयं नाम उपास्यं मुमुक्षुभिः ॥१११७॥

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Oṃ: the luminous Name that is supreme Brahman is to be worshipped by those seeking liberation.

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Tenth pramoda — Sāmaveda

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ॐ मित्येकाक्षरं यस्मिन् प्रतिष्ठितं तन्नाम ध्येयं संसृतिपारमिच्छोः ॥१११८॥

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The Name in which the one-syllable ‘Oṃ’ is established is to be meditated upon by one who desires to cross saṃsāra.

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Tenth pramoda — Śrī Rāmottara-tāpanīya

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अकाराक्षरसम्भूतः सौमित्रिर्विश्वभावनः । उकाराक्षरसम्भूतः शत्रुघ्नस्तैजसात्मकः ॥१११९॥

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Saumitri, who brings forth the world, arose from the letter `a`; Śatrughna, whose nature is radiant, arose from the letter `u`.

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प्रज्ञात्मकस्तु भरतो मकाराक्षरसम्भवः । अर्द्धमात्रात्मको रामो ब्रह्मानन्दैकविग्रहः ॥११२०॥

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Bharata, whose nature is deep cognition, arose from the letter `m`; Rāma, whose nature is the half-measure, is the single embodiment of Brahman-bliss.

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Tenth pramoda — Śrī Rāma-pūrva-tāpanīya

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यथैव वटबीजस्थः प्राकृतश्च महान्द्रुमः । तथैव रामबीजस्थं जगदेतच्चराचरम् ॥११२१॥

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Just as a great natural tree abides in a banyan seed, so this moving and unmoving world abides in the Rāma-seed.

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यथा बीजात्मको मन्त्रो मन्त्रिणोऽभिमुखो भवेत् ॥११२२॥

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Just as a mantra whose nature is a seed should become present before the possessor of the mantra.

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धर्ममार्गं चरित्रेण ज्ञानमार्गं च नामतः । तथा ध्यानेन वैराग्यमैश्वर्यं तस्य पूजनात् ॥११२३॥

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Through his conduct, the path of dharma; through the Name, the path of knowledge; likewise through meditation, dispassion; and through his worship, sovereignty.

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रामनाम भुवि ख्यातमभिरामेण वा पुनः । अग्निसोमात्मकं विश्वं रामबीजप्रतिष्ठितम् ॥११२४॥

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Rāma's Name is renowned on earth—or, again, through being delightful; the universe whose nature is fire and moon is established in the Rāma-seed.

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रमन्ते योगिनोऽनन्ते सत्यानन्दे चिदात्मनि । इति रामपदेनासौ परं ब्रह्माभिधीयते ॥११२५॥

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Yogins delight in the infinite, in truth and bliss, whose nature is consciousness; therefore that supreme Brahman is denoted by the word ‘Rāma.’

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रुद्रस्तारकं ब्रह्म व्यापकं चष्टे येनासावमृतो भूत्वा स्वर्गी भवतीति ॥११२६॥

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Rudra declares the all-pervading Brahman as the deliverer, by which one, having become immortal, goes to heaven.

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Tenth pramoda — Śrī Rāma Upaniṣad

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राम एव परं ब्रह्म राम एव परं तपः । राम एव परं तत्त्वं श्रीरामो ब्रह्मतारकम् ॥११२७॥

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Rāma alone is supreme Brahman; Rāma alone is supreme austerity; Rāma alone is supreme reality; Śrī Rāma is the Brahman that delivers.

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स्व भूर्ज्योतिर्मयोऽनन्तरूपी स्वेनैव भासते । जीवत्वेनेदमों सृष्टिस्थितिहेतुर्लयस्य च ॥११२८॥

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Self-born, luminous, and of infinite form, it shines by itself; as life, it is this `oṃ`, the cause of creation, continuance, and dissolution.

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Tenth pramoda — Śrī Rāma Upaniṣad

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रेफारूढा मूर्तयः स्युः शक्तयस्तिस्र एव चेत् ॥११२९॥

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The forms mounted upon the letter `r` would indeed be the three powers.

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Tenth pramoda — colophon

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इति श्रीसीतारामनामप्रतापप्रकाशे प्रमोदनिवासे परात्परैश्वर्यदायके श्रीयुगलानन्यशरणसंगृहीते श्रुतिवाक्यप्रमाण निरूपणं नाम दशमः प्रमोदः ॥१०॥

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Thus, in Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa, the abode of delights and giver of transcendent sovereignty, compiled by Śrī Yugalānanya Śaraṇa, ends the tenth pramoda, entitled ‘Demonstration of the authority of statements from Śruti.’

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नानापुराणस्मृतिसंहितादि ग्रन्थोक्तवाक्यानि विचारितानि । नाम्नः परत्वानि समुद्गतानि श्रीमद्युगलानन्य प्रपन्नकेन ॥११३०॥

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Statements taught in many Purāṇas, Smṛtis, Saṃhitās, and other books were considered; the supremacies of the Name were drawn forth by the surrendered Śrī Yugalānanya.

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ये सर्वसौख्यदमिदं रघुनन्दनस्य नाम्नः परत्वमखिलार्यवरैरुपास्यम् । शृण्वन्ति शुद्धमनसा च पठन्ति नित्यं श्रीरामनाम्नि परमां रतिमाप्नुवन्ति ॥११३१॥

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Those who with a pure mind hear and daily read this account of the supremacy of Raghunandana's Name—which gives every happiness and is worshipped by all the best among the noble—attain supreme delight in Śrī Rāma's Name.

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श्रीरामनामरसिकाः प्रपठन्ति भक्त्या शृण्वन्ति चैव- सततं सुधियः प्रयत्नात् । नाम्नः परत्वमखिलागमसारभूतं निन्दन्ति नष्टमतयो- ह्यधमा मदान्धाः ॥११३२॥

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Those who relish Śrī Rāma's Name recite with devotion, and the discerning constantly listen with effort. The base and pride-blind, whose understanding is ruined, disparage the supremacy of the Name, the essence of all Āgamas.

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श्रीरामनाममाहात्म्यं श्रुत्वा यो नैव हृष्यति । राक्षसं तं विजानीयात् महाघौघनिकेतनम् ॥११३३॥

Fresh English · provisional

Know the one who does not rejoice on hearing the greatness of Śrī Rāma's Name as a rākṣasa, an abode of a flood of great wrongs.

Editorial sequence 1166 of 1,178 · printed citation ११३४

Collection verses

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श्रीरामनाममाहात्म्यं श्रुत्वा निन्दति योऽधमः । तन्मुखं नैव द्रष्टव्यं महारौरवदायकम् ॥११३४॥

Fresh English · provisional

The face of the base person who disparages the greatness of Śrī Rāma's Name after hearing it must not be looked upon; it is said to bring the Mahāraurava hell.

Editorial sequence 1167 of 1,178 · printed citation ११३५

Collection verses

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श्रुत्वा श्रीनाममाहात्म्यं प्रीतिश्चैवान्यसाधने । स महान्धो रविं त्यक्त्वा खद्योतं समुपासते ॥११३५॥

Fresh English · provisional

One who, after hearing the greatness of the holy Name, still has affection for another discipline is profoundly blind, worshipping a firefly after abandoning the sun.

Editorial sequence 1168 of 1,178 · printed citation ११३६

Collection verses

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श्रुत्वा श्रीनाममाहात्म्यं नाम्नि स्नेहो न जायते । ततः परो न ब्रह्माण्डे भाग्यहीनो महाघवान् ॥११३६॥

Fresh English · provisional

If affection for the Name does not arise after hearing the greatness of the holy Name, no one in the cosmos is more unfortunate or more greatly sinful than that person.

Editorial sequence 1169 of 1,178 · printed citation ११३७

Collection verses

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श्रीरामनाममाहात्म्यं सामान्यं यस्तु मन्यते । तस्याधमस्य दुष्टस्य संसर्गं संपरित्यजेत् ॥११३७॥

Fresh English · provisional

One should completely abandon association with the base and wicked person who regards the greatness of Śrī Rāma's Name as ordinary.

Editorial sequence 1170 of 1,178 · printed citation ११३८

Collection verses

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श्रुत्वा श्रीनाममाहात्म्यं तत्त्वमन्यं परं वदेत् । तन्मुखालोकनाच्छ्रेयः पापं विप्रवधादिकम् ॥११३८॥

Fresh English · provisional

If one hears the greatness of the holy Name and calls another reality supreme, sins such as killing a learned priest are said to be preferable to looking upon that person's face.

Editorial sequence 1171 of 1,178 · printed citation ११३९

Collection verses

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रामनामात्मकं ग्रन्थं चिन्तनीयमिमं सदा । श्रावयेन्न कदाचिद्वै श्रीरामोपासकं विना ॥११३९॥

Fresh English · provisional

This book, whose nature is Rāma's Name, should always be contemplated, but it should never be recited to anyone other than a worshipper of Śrī Rāma.

Editorial sequence 1172 of 1,178 · printed citation ११४०

Collection verses

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नामामृतरसोल्लासवैभवसम्प्रकाशकम् । ग्रन्थरत्नमिदं भूयात् भक्तानां भूतिकारकम् ॥११४०॥

Fresh English · provisional

May this jewel of a book, fully illuminating the splendor and joy of the nectar-rasa of the Name, bring well-being to devotees.

Editorial sequence 1173 of 1,178 · printed citation ११४१

Collection verses — Ānanda Saṃhitā

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जपन्ति यद् विष्णुशिवस्वयम्भुवो लक्ष्म्यादिवैकुण्ठचराश्च नित्याः । तदेव तत्त्वं च मुनीन्द्रयोगिनां श्रीरामनामामृतमाश्रयं मे ॥११४१॥

Fresh English · provisional

That which Viṣṇu, Śiva, the Self-born, and the eternal Vaikuṇṭha dwellers beginning with Lakṣmī repeat, and which is the very reality for foremost sages and yogins—may the nectar of Śrī Rāma's Name be my refuge.

Editorial sequence 1174 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Concluding dedication

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रामनाम्नो हि ग्रन्थस्य साधुभिर्लब्ध्याधिया । साधूनां पादपद्मेष्वेवानुवादः समर्पितः ॥

Fresh English · provisional

For the book concerning Rāma's Name, acquired with discerning understanding by the good, this rendering is offered at the lotus feet of the good.

Editorial sequence 1175 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Concluding Tulsī verse

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नाम भरोस नामबल नामसनेहु । जनम जनम रघुनन्दन तुलसिहि देहु ॥

Fresh English · provisional

Reliance on the Name, strength from the Name, and love of the Name—grant these to Tulsī birth after birth, O Raghunandana.

Editorial sequence 1176 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Concluding Tulsī verse

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जनम जनम जहँ तहँ तनु तुलसिहि देहु । तहँ तहँ राम निबाहिब नाम सनेहु ॥

Fresh English · provisional

Wherever, birth after birth, you give Tulsī a body, there and there, O Rāma, sustain love for the Name.

Editorial sequence 1177 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Concluding blessing

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श्रीरामनाम्नि रतिस्तु मतिरस्तु

Fresh English · provisional

May there be delight and understanding in Śrī Rāma's Name.

Editorial sequence 1178 of 1,178 · visibly unnumbered root unit

Work-completion colophon

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श्रीसीतारामनामप्रतापप्रकाश ग्रन्थ सम्पूर्ण हुआ ॥समाप्तोऽयं ग्रन्थः॥

Fresh English · provisional

The book Śrī Sītārāma-nāma-pratāpa-prakāśa is complete. This book has ended.

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