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In plain words
This nāma, that is, nā-a-ma: the name is formed of just these three letters.
This saṅkīrtana is made up of the seven notes. So when we enquire by the science of numbers: nā-a-ma. 'Nā' means zero, that which is nothing. 'A': its number is two. 'Ma': its number is five. So it comes to 0+2+5=7. Experiencing this very thing as the seven notes, they went on composing with the notes called sa ri ga ma pa da ni. So in the rāsa dances of those days they took into themselves the principle of sa ri ga ma pa da ni, added bhāva and rāga, and went on singing praise with tāla and mṛdaṅga. That was the scene in which, at the very first, they spoke to God of God, merged these seven notes in themselves, became absorbed, intoxicated and enraptured through saṅkīrtana of rāga, tāla and bhāva, and joined with God alone. What they prayed to God at the very first:
Come, come, cowherd boy with the flute, shining with good virtues, noble in nature, Gopāla of Nanda! Why do You come nowhere? I can go nowhere. In a pure heart, with joy blossoming, stand before us! (Come, come …)
Then setting notes to it:
Sa ri ga ma pa da ni sa … sa da pa ma ga ri sa ri sa da ni sa sa
Because it was sung in praise in this way, with rāga bound to the notes and with tāla, it is called saṅkīrtana; and they went on showing that through this saṅkīrtana the whole world became full of blessing, and that it brings welfare to the world itself.
In just the same way they went on proclaiming to the world the truth that the Name of Rāma too is formed of the seven notes. Here: ra, a, ma. This 'ra' has joined the principle of Tat. 'Ma' goes with the meaning called Tvam. This 'rā' is the number two. The number of the letter 'ma' is five. This too is seven. Hence the seven notes, the seven dvīpas, the seven seas, the seven colours. With this in view, people went on holding saptāhas. The seven ṛṣis too are merged in these seven notes. What stand as the support of the world are fire, the sun and the moon. All three of these are made up of three kinds of bījākṣaras. The bījākṣara of fire is 'ra'. The bījākṣara of the sun is 'a'. The bījākṣara of the moon is 'ma'. So this ra, a, ma is nothing but the very form of fire, sun and moon. Be a man an atheist, a theist, a believer or a believing unbeliever, he cannot argue that fire, sun and moon do not exist.