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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 3]
śravaṇam kīrtanam dhyānam harer adbhuta-karmaṇaḥ janma-karma-guṇānām ca tad-arthe 'khila-ceṣṭitam
“One should always chant and hear about the extraordinarily wonderful activities of the Lord, one should meditate upon these activities, and one should endeavor to please the Lord.” ( Bhāg.  11.3.27)
Śrīdhara Svāmī also quotes from the  Purāṇas, pāpa-kṣayaś ca bhavati smaratām tam ahar-niśam : “One can become free from all sinful reactions simply by remembering the lotus feet of the Lord day and night [ ahar-niśam ].” Furthermore, he quotes from  Bhāgavatam  (6.3.31):
tasmāt saṅkīrtanam viṣṇor jagan-maṅgalam aṁhasām mahatām api kauravya viddhy aikāntika-niṣkṛtam
All these quotations prove that one who constantly engages in chanting and hearing of the holy activities, name, fame and form of the Lord is liberated. As stated wonderfully in this verse,  etāvatālam agha-nirharaṇāya puṁsām : simply by uttering the name of the Lord, one is freed from all sinful reactions.
The word  alam , which is used in this verse, indicates that simply uttering the holy name of the Lord is sufficient. This word is used with different imports. As stated in the  Amara-kośa , the most authorized dictionary in the Sanskrit language,  alam bhūṣaṇa-paryāpti-śakti-vāraṇa-vācakam : the word  alam  is used to mean “ornament,” “sufficiency,” “power” and “restraint.” Here the word  alam  is used to indicate that there is no need of any other process, for the chanting of the holy name of the Lord is sufficient. Even if one chants imperfectly, one becomes free from all sinful reactions by chanting.
This power of chanting the holy name was proved by the liberation of Ajāmila. When Ajāmila chanted the holy name of Nārāyaṇa, he did not precisely remember the Supreme Lord; instead, he remembered his own son. At the time of death, Ajāmila certainly was not very clean; indeed,