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- Read on →: nikhila-śruti-mauli-ratna-mālā
nikhila-śruti-mauli-ratna-mālā-
dyuti-nīrājita-pāda-paṅkajānta |
api mukta-kulair upāsyamānaṁ
paritas tvāṁ hari-nāma saṁśrayāmi ||
(Stava-mālā: Nāmāṣṭaka, 1)“O you the tips of whose lotus feet are worshiped by the radiances of the jewel-necklaces of the foremost of the Śrutis! O name of Hari! In all respects, I take shelter fully in you, who are worshiped even by the liberated.”
- Read on →: nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ
nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ |
pūrṇaḥ śuddho nitya-mukto’bhinnatvān nāma-nāminoḥ ||
(Padma Purāṇa; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.503; Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.233; Bhagavat Sandarbha: 47; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.17.133)“[Translated according to the interpretation of Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmīpāda:] The name is a thought-jewel, Kṛṣṇa [himself], an embodiment of consciousness and rasa, complete, pure, and eternally liberated, because of the name and the bearer of the name being non-different.”
- Read on →: yasya kānti-lava-spṛṣṭaṁ kāṁsyaṁ tāmra-mayas trapu
yasya kānti-lava-spṛṣṭaṁ kāṁsyaṁ tāmra-mayas trapu |
pāṣāṇādikam anyad vā sarvaṁ bhavati kāñcanam ||
cintāmaṇiḥ sa vijñeyo munibhiḥ siddha-sādhanaḥ |
(Skanda Purāṇa: Brahmottara-khaṇḍa)“The effective means by the minute touch of the luster of which bell metal, copper, tin, stone, and so forth, as well as all else, becomes gold is known as a cintāmaṇi [lit., ‘thought-jewel’] by the sages.”
- Read on →: sarvāparādha-kṛd api mucyate hari-saṁśrayaḥ
sarvāparādha-kṛd api mucyate hari-saṁśrayaḥ |
harer apy aparādhān yaḥ kuryād dvipada-pāṁsanaḥ ||
nāmāśrayaḥ kadācit syāt taraty eva sa nāmataḥ |
nāmno’pi sarva-suhṛdo hy aparādhāt pataty adhaḥ ||
(Padma Purāṇa; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.518–520; Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.119-120; Bhakti Sandarbha: 265, 273)“[Śrī Sanat-kumāra to Śrī Nārada:] Even one who has committed all [types of] offenses (aparādhas) [i.e., sins in general] is delivered [from the consequences of those sins] by taking shelter of Hari, and a reprobate among the two-legged who shall commit offenses (aparādhas) even to Hari verily overcomes [the consequences of those offenses] on account of the name [of Hari] should he at any time take shelter in the name. As a result of offense even to the name [of Hari], the well-wisher of all, [however,] one certainly falls down.”