Text 23] Yamaraja Instructs His Messengers 167

gita, bhaktya mam abhijanati: 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 tyaktvud 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 God-
head. That is the ultimate perfection. Therefore Krsna says in

Bhagavad-gita (8.15):

mam upetya punar janma
duhkhadlayam asasvatam

napnuvanti mahétmanah
samsiddhim paramam gatah

“After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never
return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they
have attained the highest perfection.”

TEXT 23

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namoccarana-maéhatmyam
hareh pasyata putrakah

ajamilo ‘pi yenaiva
mrtyu-pasdd amucyata

nama—of the holy name; uccdrana—of the pronouncing; mahat-
myam—the exalted position; hareh—of the Supreme Lord; pasyata—
just see; putrakadh—O my dear servants, who are like my sons; ajamilah
api—even Ajamila (who was considered greatly sinful); yena—by the
chanting of which; eva—certainly; mrtyu-pdsat—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
