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# Bal Kand · Doha 27

The excellences of Śrī Rāma and the greatness of His story

**चौ०** 
> चहुँ जुग तीनि काल तिहुँ लोका। भए नाम जपि जीव बिसोका॥  
> बेद पुरान संत मत एहू। सकल सुकृत फल राम सनेहू॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> ध्यानु प्रथम जुग मखबिधि दूजें। द्वापर परितोषत प्रभु पूजें॥  
> कलि केवल मल मूल मलीना। पाप पयोनिधि जन मन मीना॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> नाम कामतरु काल कराला। सुमिरत समन सकल जग जाला॥  
> राम नाम कलि अभिमत दाता। हित परलोक लोक पितु माता॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> नहिं कलि करम न भगति बिबेकू। राम नाम अवलंबन एकू॥  
> कालनेमि कलि कपट निधानू। नाम सुमति समरथ हनुमानू॥४॥

Meaning: (Not only in this Kali age, but) in all the four ages*, at all times (past, present and future) and in all the three spheres (viz., heaven, earth and the subterranean region) creatures have been rid of their grief by repeating the Name. The verdict of the Vedas and the Purāṇas as well as of saints is just this: that love of Śrī Rāma (or the name ‘Rāma’) is the reward of all virtuous acts. (1)

* The span of life of the universe, which is known by the name of Kalpa and consists of 4,32,00,00,000 human years, has been divided into 1,000 epochs or Caturyugas. Each Caturyuga is made up of four Yugas or ages, viz., Satyayuga, Tretā, Dvāpara and Kaliyuga. Their duration is given below:

Satyayuga	17,28,000 years
Tretā	12,96,000 ”
Dvāpara	8,64,000 ”
Kaliyuga	4,32,000 ”

Thus it will be seen that the duration of Dvāpara is twice that of Kaliyuga, that of Tretā thrice that of Kaliyuga and that of Satyayuga four times that of Kaliyuga. In this way the duration of a Caturyuga is ten times that of Kaliyuga.

In the first age (Satya), contemplation; in the second age (Tretā), sacrifice; in the Dvāpara age the Lord is propitiated through worship. This age of Kali, however, is simply corrupt and the root of all impurities, where the mind of man wallows like a fish in the ocean of sin. (2)

In this terrible age the Name alone is the wish-yielding tree, the very thought of which puts an end to all the illusions of the world. The Name ‘Rāma’ is the bestower of one’s desired object in this age of Kali; It is beneficent in the other world and is like one’s father and mother in this world. (3)

In Kaliyuga neither Karma (action) nor Bhakti (devotion) nor again Jñāna (knowledge) avails; the name ‘Rāma’ is the only resort. The age of Kali is, as it were, the demon Kālanemi, the repository of all wiles; whereas the Name is the wise and mighty Hanumān*. (4)

* The story of Kālanemi and his death at the hands of Hanumān has been briefly told in the footnote under 7.3 in this very Kāṇḍa.

**दो०** 
> राम नाम नरकेसरी कनककसिपु कलिकाल।  
> जापक जन प्रहलाद जिमि पालिहि दलि सुरसाल॥२७॥

Meaning: (To use another metaphor) the Name of Rāma is, as it were, the Lord manifested as a man-lion and the age of Kali, the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu. Crushing this enemy of gods, the Name will protect the devotees repeating It, even as the Man-lion protected Prahlāda. (27)

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