aninduka ha-i ye sakṛt ‘kṛṣṇa’ bale
aninduka ha-i ye sakṛt ‘kṛṣṇa’ bale |
satya satya kṛṣṇa tāre uddhāriba hele ||
(Caitanya-bhāgavata: 2.9.246)
“Truly truly Kṛṣṇa will deliver with ease anyone who, being a non-defamer, once chants, ‘Kṛṣṇa.’”
Nāma
ābrahma-stambādi saba kṛṣṇera vaibhava
ābrahma-stambādi saba kṛṣṇera vaibhava |
‘nindā-mātra kṛṣṇa ruṣṭa’ kahe śāstra saba ||
anindaka ha-i ye sakṛt kṛṣṇa bale |
satya satya kṛṣṇa tāre uddhāriba hele ||
(Caitanya-bhāgavata: 2.20.147–148)
“From Brahmā to a clump of grass and so forth—everything is a manifestation of Kṛṣṇa. [Therefore,] All the śāstras say, ‘Kṛṣṇa becomes angry at any defamation at all.’ Truly, truly, Kṛṣṇa will easily deliver anyone who, being non-defaming, once chants, ‘Kṛṣṇa.’”
iti jāta-sunirvedaḥ kṣaṇa-saṅgena sādhuṣu
iti jāta-sunirvedaḥ kṣaṇa-saṅgena sādhuṣu |
gaṅgā-dvāram upeyāya mukta-sarvānubandhanaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 6.2.39)
“Thus possessed of complete disinterest [in saṁsāra] by [just] a moment of association with sādhus, he [i.e., Ajāmila] went to Gaṅgādvāra [i.e., Haridvāra], free from all connections [i.e., attachment to wife, sons, and so forth].”
yasya nāmnā vinaśyanti mahāpātaka-rāśayaḥ
yasya nāmnā vinaśyanti mahāpātaka-rāśayaḥ |
tasya śrī-kṛṣṇa-devasya vayam ucchiṣṭa-bhojinaḥ ||
ucchiṣṭa-bhojinas tasya vayam adbhuta-karmaṇaḥ |
yo bālya-līlayā tāṁs tān pūtanādīn apātayat ||
(Unknown source: cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 9.353–4)
“Śrī Kṛṣṇadeva, he by whose name heaps of the most severe sins are completely destroyed—we are partakers of his remnants. We are partakers of the remnants of he of astonishing acts who within his childhood līlā felled those such as Pūtanā.”
mahāprasāde govinde nāma-brahmaṇi vaiṣṇave
mahāprasāde govinde nāma-brahmaṇi vaiṣṇave |
svalpa-puṇya-vatāṁ rājan viśvāso naiva jāyate ||
(Attributed to Mahābhārata)
“O King, faith in mahāprasāda, Govinda, the name [i.e., Bhagavān‘s name], the Veda, and the Vaiṣṇava certainly does not arise in those possessed of little piety.”
ānanda-rūpatvam asya mahad-dhṛdaya-sākṣikaṁ yathā śrī-vigrahasya
ānanda-rūpatvam asya mahad-dhṛdaya-sākṣikaṁ yathā śrī-vigrahasya |
(Bhagavat Sandarbha: 47)
“Its [i.e., the name of Bhagavān’s] being a form of bliss like the blessed figure [of Bhagavān] is witnessed [i.e., evidenced] by the hearts of the great ones (mahats).”
sakṛn manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor
sakṛn manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor
niveśitaṁ tad-guṇa-rāgi yair iha |
na te yamaṁ pāśa-bhṛtaś ca tad-bhaṭān
svapne’pi paśyanti hi cīrṇa-niṣkṛtāḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 6.1.19; cited in Prīti Sandarbha: 74)
“Those here [i.e., in this world] by whom the mind has once been placed upon the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and been colored by his qualities do not, even in dreams, see Yama or his chain-carrying soldiers since they have [effectively] observed atonement [for their sins by having placed the mind on Bhagavān and consequently are sinless].”
viceyāni vicāryāṇi vicintyāni punaḥ punaḥ
viceyāni vicāryāṇi vicintyāni punaḥ punaḥ |
kṛpaṇasya dhanānīva tvan-nāmāni bhavantu naḥ ||
(Bhavānanda; cited in Padyāvalī: 30)
“Like riches for a miser, may your names be our object of pursuit, object of deliberation, and object of meditation again and again.”
rādheti nāma nava-sundara-sīdhu-mugdhaṁ
rādheti nāma nava-sundara-sīdhu-mugdhaṁ
kṛṣṇeti nāma madhurādbhuta-gāḍha-dugdham |
sarva-kṣaṇaṁ surabhi-rāga-himena ramyaṁ
kṛtvā tad eva piba me rasane kṣudhārte ||
(Stavāvalī: Abhīṣṭa-sūcana, 10)
“The name ‘Rādhā’ is fresh, beautiful, charming nectar, and the name ‘Kṛṣṇa’ is sweet, wonderfully condensed milk. O my hunger-stricken tongue! Enrich these with the fragrant camphor of rāga (love) and drink them at every moment.”