Text 57] The Glories of Haridasa Thakura 235
SYNONYMS

damstri—of a boar; damstra—by the teeth; ahatah—killed; mlecchah—a meat-
eater; ha—O; rama—my Lord Rama; iti—thus; punah punah—again and again;
uktva—saying; api—even; muktim—liberation; apnoti—gets; kim—what;
punah—again; sraddhayd—with faith and veneration; grnan—chanting.

TRANSLATION

“Even a mleccha who is being killed by the tusk of a boar and who cries in
distress again and again, “ha rama, ha rama” attains liberation. What then to
speak of those who chant the holy name with veneration and faith?’

PURPORT

This refers to an instance in which a meateater being killed by a boar uttered
the words “ha rama, hd rama” again and again at the time of his death. Since this is
a quotation from the Nrsirnha Purana, this indicates that in the puranic age there
must also have been mlecchas and yavanas (meateaters), and the words “ha
rama,” meaning “condemned,” were also uttered in those days. Thus Haridasa
Thakura gives evidence that even a meateater who condemns something by ut-
tering the words “ha rama” gets the benefit of chanting the holy name that the
devotee chants to mean “O my Lord Rama.”

TEXT 57
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ajamila putre bolaya bali ‘narayana’
visnu-dita asi’ chadaya tahara bandhana
SYNONYMS

ajamila—Ajamila; putre—unto his son; bolaya—calls; bali—saying; ndrayana—
the holy name of Narayana; visnu-dita—the attendants of Lord Visnu; 4asi’—
coming; chadaéya—remove; tahdra—of him; bandhana—the bonds.

TRANSLATION

“Ajamila was a great sinner during his life, but at the time of death he acci-
dentally called for his youngest son, whose name was Narayana, and the atten-
dants of Lord Visnu came to relieve him from the bonds of Yamaraja, the
superintendent of death.
