Text 23]
Yamarāja Instructs His Messengers
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gītā, bhaktyā mām abhijānāti:  simply by devotional service one can understand everything about the Supreme Lord. If one fortunately understands the Supreme Lord in this way, the result is  tyaktvā deham punar janma naiti:  after giving up his material body, he no longer has to take birth in this material world. Instead, he returns home, back to Godhead. That is the ultimate perfection. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (8.15):
mām upetya punar janma duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ
“After attaining Me, the great souls, who are  yogīs  in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.”
TEXT 23
नामोच्चारणमाहात्म्यं हरेः पश्यत पुत्रकाः ।
अजामिलोऽपि येनैव मृत्युपाशादमुच्यत ॥२३॥
nāmoccāraṇa-māhātmyaṁ hareḥ paśyata putrakāḥ ajāmilo 'pi yenaiva mṛtyu-pāśād amucyata
nāma —of the holy name;  uccāraṇa —of the pronouncing;  māhātmyaṁ —the exalted position;  hareḥ —of the Supreme Lord;  paśyata —just see;  putrakāḥ —O my dear servants, who are like my sons;  ajāmilaḥ api —even Ajāmila (who was considered greatly sinful);  yena —by the chanting of which;  eva —certainly;  mṛtyu-pāśāt —from the ropes of death;  amucyata —was delivered.
TRANSLATION
My dear servants, who are as good as my sons, just see how glorious is the chanting of the holy name of the Lord. The greatly