राम
Abhanga 264The Power of the Name

The Power of God's Name

English Translation · I.P. 264

HOUGH you have made friends of the mighty, they cannot help you in the last hour. Rather utter the name of Rama; make this provision, the best of all, or Yama will gnash his teeth and rend you. Amass, if you will, crores of wealth; it will not release you from the grasp of death. No train of followers or host innumerable will save you; only till death appears you may waste your might. Tuka says, Good sir, cut short the revolutions of birth anddeath !

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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