राम
Abhanga 265The Power of the Name

The Power of God's Name

English Translation · I.P. 265

YOU are set free from all obligations, if you recite the name of Yitthala continually; when you utter the name no sin can stay near you. Uttering his name it takes not one instant to burn up millions of the five great sins. You have sinned in time passed; sin, if you will, in time to come; we shall stand security for you. Commit what sins you can commit; what other names of sin deed 1 mention? Tuka says, Time and Death cannot enter here; our sins are consumed in flames.

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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