Doha 22
नाम जीहँ जपि जागहिं जोगी। बिरति बिरंचि प्रपंच बियोगी॥ ब्रह्मसुखहि अनुभवहिं अनूपा। अकथ अनामय नाम न रूपा॥१॥
जाना चहहिं गूढ़ गति जेऊ। नाम जीहँ जपि जानहिं तेऊ॥ साधक नाम जपहिं लय लाएँ। होहिं सिद्ध अनिमादिक पाएँ॥२॥
जपहिं नामु जन आरत भारी। मिटहिं कुसंकट होहिं सुखारी॥ राम भगत जग चारि प्रकारा। सुकृती चारिउ अनघ उदारा॥३॥
चहू चतुर कहुँ नाम अधारा। ग्यानी प्रभुहि बिसेषि पिआरा॥ चहुँ जुग चहुँ श्रुति नाम प्रभाऊ। कलि बिसेषि नहिं आन उपाऊ॥४॥
Meaning
Yogīs (mystics) who are full of dispassion and are wholly detached from God’s creation keep awake (in the daylight of wisdom) muttering the Name with their tongue, and enjoy the felicity of Brahma (the Absolute), which is incomparable, unspeakable, unmixed with sorrow and devoid of name and form. (1) Even those (seekers of Truth) who aspire to know the mysterious ways of Providence are able to comprehend them by muttering the Name. Strivers (hankering after worldly achievements) repeat the Name, absorbed in contemplation, and become accomplished, acquiring the eight superhuman powers such as ‘Aṇimā’ (i.e., becoming infinitely small in size), etc.* (2) * Works on Yoga enumerate the following eight kinds of miraculous powers acquired by Yogīs: (i) Aṇimā (the faculty of reducing one’s body to the size of an atom), (ii) Mahimā (the power of expanding one’s body to an infinitely large size), (iii) Garimā (the power of becoming infinitely heavy), (iv) Laghimā (the power of becoming infinitely light in body), (v) Prāpti (unrestricted access to all places), (vi) Prākāmya (realizing whatever one desires), (vii) Īśitva (absolute lordship) and (viii) Vaśitva (subjugating all). If devotees in distress mutter the Name, their worst calamities of the gravest type disappear and they become happy. In this world there are four kinds of devotees* of Śrī Rāma; all the four of them are virtuous, sinless and noble. (3) * Śrīmad Bhagavadgītā mentions four kinds of devotees, viz., (i) Ārta (the afflicted), (ii) Jijñāsu (the seeker of Truth), (iii) Arthārthī (the seeker of worldly riches) and (iv) Jñānī (the enlightened), and speaks of them all as virtuous and benevolent. Of course, the enlightened devotee, it is pointed out, is the most beloved of the Lord and constitutes His very Self (vide Gītā, VII 16—18). All the four, wise as they are, rely upon the Name. Of these, the enlightened devotee is specially dear to the Lord. The glory of the Name is supreme in all the four Yugas and all the four Vedas, particularly in the Kali age in which there is no other means of salvation. (4)
सकल कामना हीन जे राम भगति रस लीन। नाम सुप्रेम पियूष ह्रद तिन्हहुँ किए मन मीन॥२२॥
Meaning
Even those who are free from all desires and absorbed in the joy of devotion to Śrī Rāma, have thrown their heart as fish into the nectarine lake of supreme love for the Name. (22)
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