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NAAM – THE ONLY RECOURSE
Excerpts from Fear Not

Sri Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath
Sri Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath
Jai Guru
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Fear Not
Look dearest! Why should you be alarmed? Say the Name constantly. You’ve nothing to worry about. For fear of Me fire burns, the Sun diffuses heat, Indra, Vayu and Death do each his duty. No one has power to touch the shadow of a devotee who has committed himself to My care. What to speak of others, I’m not Myself able to destroy my devotee whose form indeed is eternal. My wheel called Sudarshan ever protects him. Listen to none, worry about nothing, say the Name aloud and fearless. I’ve come down as the Name in Kali Yuga. Say the Name, I assume full responsibility for you and your family. Fear Not! Fear Not! Fear Not!
Jai Guru
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Fear Not
Listen, dearest! Do you know how much I love you? To fulfil your desires in order that you may be without any desire, I become whatever you want and come to you accordingly. Woman you wanted and I’ve come to you Myself in the garb of a lady. Cherishing these vain desires, you’ve only been weeping, eh, in life after life? So I call you, beloved, come, O come back, come back, child of the Supreme. Shake off your attachment to the body which is matter pure and simple, and come back into aware­ness of what you actually are, the soul which is an existence, consciousness and bliss. How to do that? By saying the Name repeatedly:

—“The Name is the wish-fulfilling gem, the ineffable Image of Consciousness, Krishna Himself, Fulfilled, Immaculate, Eternal, Free, for the Name is not distinct from Him who bears the Name.”

Got it? My Name and Myself are one and the same: to adopt the Name and to realise Myself amount to the same thing.
Only say the Name, and you’ll be relieved of disease, sorrow, pain, penury, anguish, and all that; you’ll be all bliss. The chanting of My hal­lowed Name destroys the deadly sins and grants everything covetable to him that covets and blesses the devotee with divine love.

Even those who are attached to material pleasure, bitterly envious, innocent of jnan and vairagya, without brahmacharya, incapable of right conduct and unfit for any other course, even they by just saying My Name attain a state which is beyond the reach of the pious souls.

Listen, dearest! The way you say the Name is exceedingly sweet, I enjoy it immensely. So I abide with you and urge, “Say the Name, Say the Name”. Beloved, say the Name, secure and aloud:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna KrishnaKrishna Hare Hare,
Hare Rama Hare Rama RamaRama Hare Hare
Fear Not!   Fear Not!   Fear Not!
Jai Guru
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Fear Not
Fear Not
Dearest! Listen, Dearest Mine! To do away with all your pain I’ve come down as the Name. Say the Name and all your worries shall cease: I’ll fill you, within and without, with light and delight. You’ll be thrilled every moment with My beatific touch, the world won’t flash upon your sight any longer, you’ll only see blissful Myself.
I say on oath My Name can quicken death itself.

—“Nam-Kirtan does away with fear of death’s envoy, with fear of the harrowings of hells and with fear of punishment from Death.”

Say the Name, only say the Name, Nam-Kirttan is the supreme jnan, the supreme austerity and the supreme truth, He who practises it can easily attain the supreme position, that is attainable by spiritual exercise practised in crores of lives.

Look yonder, the fires of distress rage fiercely all over the world. Come, come, pray don’t delay. Immersed in the ambrosial ocean of the Name, rest, secure and in bliss, nestled in My bosom.
Fear Not!   Fear Not!   Fear Not!
Jai Guru
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Listen, My Child of Bliss, dispossessed of thine own self! Whither running so fast like a lunatic? Come back, come back to your own realm of bliss. Here there is no disease, grief, sorrow, pain, torment or want. Here reigns bliss, sheer bliss profound. The way to return too is smooth, straight, even: Only Nam-Kirtan. Take refuge in Me alone, in the form of the Name and you need have no worry at all. I’ll do everything for you.
Look, beloved! The name calls for neither reverence nor faith. Just anyhow hear or say My Name and you shall be gratified.
What to speak of one whose conduct is pious, even one who is im­pious in conduct can attain liberation in the sense of sharing the same realm with Myself by merely cultivating My Name.

—“Now listen to the truth I declare: Saying but once My Name, one becomes My equal.”

Whatever one desires at the foot of that wish fulfilling tree, the Name, be it material pleasure or salvation, one does have it without fail. By sing­ing My Name constantly the devotee gets merged in Myself.
The Name is Myself, Myself am the Name.
In this Kali Yuga, Nam-Samkirtan is the best way to realise divine love.
Come, Come, Come, O suffering thirsting frustrated child of the Supreme! Saying the Name constantly, transcend death; dowered with devotion and love, become Mine own.