Text 24] Yamaraja Instructs His Messengers 169
Supreme Personality of Godhead; guna—of the transcendental qualities;
karma-némndm—and of His names according to His activities and
pastimes; vikrusya—crying to without offense; putram—his son; agha-
van—the sinful; yat—since; ajamilah api—even Ajamila; néraéyana—
the Lord’s name, Narayana; iti—thus; mriyamanah—dying; iyaya—
achieved; muktim—liberation.
TRANSLATION

Therefore it should be understood that one is easily relieved
from all sinful reactions by chanting the holy name of the Lord
and chanting of His qualities and activities. This is the only process
recommended for relief from sinful reactions. Even if one chants
the holy name of the Lord with improper pronunciation, he will
achieve relief from material bondage if he chants without offenses.
Ajamila, for example, was extremely sinful, but while dying he
merely chanted the holy name, and although calling his son, he
achieved complete liberation because he remembered the name of
Narayana.

PURPORT

In the assembly of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami’s father, Haridasa
Thakura confirmed that simply by chanting the holy name of the Lord
one is liberated, even if he does not chant completely inoffensively.
Smarta-bréhmanas and Mayavadis do not believe that one can achieve
liberation in this way, but the truth of Haridasa Thakura’s statement is
supported by many quotations from Srimad-Bhagavatam.

In his commentary on this verse, for example, Sridhara Svami gives
the following quotation:

sdyam pratar grnan bhaktya
duhkha-gramdd vimucyate

“If one always chants the holy name of the Lord with great devotion in
the evening and in the morning, one can become free from all material
miseries.”’ Another quotation confirms that one can achieve liberation if
one hears the holy name of the Lord constantly, every day with great
respect (anudinam idam ddarena srnvan). Another quotation says:
