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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.”

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etad dhy evākṣaraṁ brahma etad dhy evākṣaraṁ param

etad dhy evākṣaraṁ brahma etad dhy evākṣaraṁ param |
etad dhy evākṣaraṁ jñātvā yo yad icchati tasya tat ||
(Kaṭha Upaniṣad: 1.2.16)

“This one syllable [i.e., Om] is indeed Brahman. This one syllable is indeed supreme. One who knows this one syllable attains that which he desires.”

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