The Power of the Name

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

BB assured that this perishable body will be destroyed: why then do you not utter his name ?

नामाचे पवाडे बोलती पुराणें । होऊनि कीर्तन तो चि ठेला ॥1॥

HE Puranas tell his story in song;

बाळ बापा म्हणे काका । तरी तो कां निपराध ॥१॥

IF a child calls his father uncle, why should he be rebuked?

SUCH is Vitthala’s name that it heals the disease of the world, the sum of action stored from the past.

YITTHOBA'S name is ever true and good and welcome, it severs all ties, its praise is heard in both worlds.

HIS name is the essence of all essences;

EACHEBS themselves do not understand the 1 secret of the Vedas: what authority do others possess ?

HOUGH you have made friends of the mighty, they cannot help you in the last hour.

YOU are set free from all obligations, if you recite the name of Yitthala continually;

CONSIDER him as a Brahmana beyond all doubt, vile though his birth may be, who THE NATURE OP GOD utters correctly the…

THE pleasure which his name gives ;

IHAD fallen into the eddy of the world;

THEBE is nothing else that I trust to, I have made it my business to utter “ Vitthoba.

DESIBING the bait, a fish swallows the book;

WHAT is not accomplished by the contemplation of Vitthala alone ?

THOUGH the name is close to his lips;

THOSE who live in the world cannot be servants of a teacher, they cannot renounce passion, for they tremble through…

EVERY fruit that appears on a tree is sure to ripen, if it falls not from its stem;

THOUGH you have no sweet speech, though God has given you no music in your voice, yet Vitthala suffers no loss for lack…

HIS miraculous power of mine is developed to _1_ its height in music;

REDUCE your speech to silence, keep it away from all objects of sense.

THE utterance of his name brings no liberation;

GOD serves his servants, he cannot suffer them to want anything, he throws away the dish prepared for himself and runs…