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Abhanga 261The Power of the Name

The Power of God's Name

मराठी मूळ · गाथा 1481

नाशवंत देह नासेल हा जाणा । कां रे उच्चाराना वाचे नाम ॥1॥

नामें चि तारिले कोटएान हे कोटी । नामें हे वैकुंठी बैसविले ॥ध्रु.॥

नामापरतें सार नाहीं त्रिभुवनीं । तें कां तुह्मी मनीं आठवाना ॥2॥

तुका ह्मणे नाम वेदांसी आगळें । तें दिलें गोपाळें फुकासाटीं ॥3॥

Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)

English Translation · I.P. 261

BB assured that this perishable body will be destroyed: why then do you not utter his name ? Countless millions have been saved by his name; it has given them a place in Vaikuntha. There is nothing in the three worlds of such virtue as his name: why do you not recall it? Tuka says, His name is more glorious than the Vedas; Gopala has bestowed it on us freely.

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

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The Power of the Name

The supremacy of nama-smarana: God's name as the highest practice.

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