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Abhanga 270The Power of the Name

The Power of God's Name

English Translation · I.P. 270

DESIBING the bait, a fish swallows the book; his throat is laid open and he dies: as he writhes in the hour of death, he remembers the ’S NAME merciful one; in bis last moments he utters thy name. Tuka says, His happiness passes all bounds.

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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