God bestows two-syllabled name for man's redemption

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The earth prayed to Lord Vishnu, “Swami! I can bear any kind of sinners but I cannot bear a person who cannot sing your glory. So, O Lord! Show the way so that they can sing your glory.” Then Sage Valmiki composed one crore stanzas of Ramayana. He wanted to distribute the one crore stanzas among the three worlds. The stanzas were distributed equally among the three worlds. Thirty three lakhs, thirty three thousand, three hundred and thirty three stanzas were distributed among the three worlds. But one sloka remained to be distributed. The sage thought, “How should I distribute this sloka? It is not possible to distribute among the three worlds.” The last sloka that had eleven letters had to be distributed among the three worlds equally. Each world received three letters and two letters remained to be distributed which could not be distributed equally among the three worlds. Then Lord Vishnu told Mother Earth, “After distributing the slokas of Valmiki's Ramayana among the three worlds two letters remained and those are ‘Ra Ma’, ‘Kri Shna’, ‘Ha Ri’, ‘Si Va’, ‘ Ha Ra’, ‘Sa Yee’ which I allot to you.” There are two letters in all the above names! Hence these two letters depict the dual nature of the world. This dual nature of the world confuses man many times. “A man with dual mind is half blind” So the mind says yes at one time and no at another which is the characteristic feature of this nature. Therefore, these two letters depicting the name of the Lord can be chanted by anybody and all can benefit by it. Christians say ‘Jesus’ which is composed of two letters, Muslims say ‘Allah’ which also has two letters. Every religion depicts God with two letters.

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