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Tulsidas - Vinaya Patrika 66
Identifier
017269
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Poems of Tulsidas - translated by Professor John Stratton Hawley
Say Ram, say Ram, say Ram,
you fool!
That name is your raft
on the awful sea of life.
It is the only way of gaining
true gain and wealth,
For this sick age has swallowed ways
that helped in ages past.
Whether good or bad,
right-handed or left,
In the end the name of Ram
works for everyone.
This world is a sky garden
of flowers and fruits,
Towers that are only clouds-
you should never forget.
Those who abandon Ram's name
for something else, Tulsi says,
Leave the table set at home
to beg for filthy scraps.