The moment Your holy name is taken by the tongue it thoroughly shatters the tree of birth and death down to it’s roots

Nama Article 20^th May 2015

Source: Shri Padyavali - Sri Sridhara Swami

सदा सर्वत्रास्ते ननु विमलमाद्यं तव पदं

तथाप्येकं स्तोकं न हि भवतरोः पत्रमभिनत् ।

क्षणं जिह्वाग्रस्थं तव तु  भगवन्नाम निखिलं

समूलं सम्भारं कषति कतरत्सेव्यमनयोः ॥

O Lord, is Your impersonal spiritual effulgence not always present everywhere? Even so, it has not been able to break even a single small leaf from the tree of repeated birth and death. On the other hand, the moment Your holy name is taken by the tongue it thoroughly shatters the tree of birth and death down to it's roots. Of these two (the spiritual effulgence or the holy name), which should be served?

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare