Potency of the Holy Name of God

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SB

6.2.14: One who chants the holy name of the Lord is immediately

freed from the reactions of unlimited sins, even if he chants

indirectly, jokingly, for musical entertainment, or even neglectfully.

This is accepted by all the learned scholars of the scriptures.

 

SB 6.2.15: If one chants the holy name of Hari and then dies

because of an accidental misfortune, such as falling from the top of a

house, slipping and suffering broken bones while traveling on the road,

being bitten by a serpent, being afflicted with pain and high fever, or

being injured by a weapon, one is immediately absolved from having to

enter hellish life, even though he is sinful.

SB

6.2.16: Authorities who are learned scholars and sages have

carefully ascertained that one should atone for the heaviest sins by

undergoing a heavy process of atonement and one should atone for lighter

sins by undergoing lighter atonement. Chanting the Hare Krsna mantra,

however, vanquishes all the effects of sinful activities, regardless of

whether heavy or light.

SB

6.2.17: Although one may neutralize the reactions of sinful

life through austerity, charity, vows and other such methods, these

pious activities cannot uproot the material desires in one's heart.

However, if one serves the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead, he

is immediately freed from all such contaminations.

SB

6.2.18: As a fire burns dry grass to ashes, so the holy name of

the Lord, whether chanted knowingly or unknowingly, burns to ashes,

without fail, all the reactions of one's sinful activities.

SB

6.2.19: If a person unaware of the effective potency of a

certain medicine takes that medicine or is forced to take it, it will

act even without his knowledge because its potency does not depend on

the patient's understanding. Similarly, even though one does not know

the value of chanting the holy name of the Lord, if one chants knowingly

or unknowingly, the chanting will be very effective.

 

SB

6.2.20: Having thus perfectly judged the principles of

devotional service with reasoning and arguments, the order carriers of

Lord Vishnu released the brahmana Ajamila from the bondage of the

Yamadūtas and saved him from imminent death.