It is presumptuous to ask which of the two is the greater and which is the less; when they hear the difference between them, the wise will understand. Forms are found to be subordinate to names; the form cannot be known apart from the name.

You cannot come to a knowledge of any particular form, even if placed on the hand, unless the name is known, but if without seeing the form one meditates on the name, the form too flashes on the mind as an object of passionate devotion.

The mystery of name and form is unutterable; it is delightful to those who understand it, but it cannot be expressed. The name bears testimony to the impersonal and the personal alike; it is a clever interpreter revealing the truth of both.

If you would have light within and without, place the luminous Name of Rama on your tongue, like a jewelled lamp on the threshold of the door, O Tulasidasa.

As their tongues repeat the Name, ascetics awake, free from passion, all detached from the Creator’s world, and enjoy divine felicity, unequalled, ineffable, unsullied, without either name or form.

Even those who would understand profound spiritual mysteries learn them by repeating the Name. Aspirants, too, repeat the Name, absorbed in contemplation, and so become adept, acquiring the eight miraculous powers such as that of becoming infinitely small in size.

Disciples repeat the Name when burdended with affliction; their troubles disappear and they become happy. Thus Rama has four kinds of devotees in the world, and all four are meritorious, sinless and noble.