In plain words
Only when the saṅkalpas are true does the result, too, take on the form of Satya. A small example. Once, going to Nāmadeva: “Swami! Someone is stealing the dung cakes I have made,” said Sakkubāī. Then Nāmadeva asked: ‘Sakkubāī! How are you able to tell that they are your dung cakes?’ “I chant the Name constantly while I do all my work. The very power of the Name I chant protects the dung cakes,” said Sakkubāī, and running home, she brought back a dung cake. She held it to Nāmadeva’s ear. That dung cake was chanting God’s Name. Nāmadeva heard ‘Raṅgā Raṅgā Pāṇḍuraṅgā’. He looked. This is really true. Even the elders of those days used to have such doubts. He told her to make a dung cake once more. She brought cow dung and made it, saying to herself, Raṅgā Raṅgā Pāṇḍuraṅgā. He took that dung cake and held it to his own ear. There too came the sound Raṅgā Raṅgā Pāṇḍuraṅgā. The greatness in the Name and the divine power in saṅkalpa are beyond telling. Though man dies, saṅkalpas do not die. They live on forever. Before that, Nāmadeva used to be called by the name Vāmadeva. From then on he went on chanting the Name. Nāmadeva was none other than Jñānadeva’s younger brother. Many joys kept coming to Nāmadeva. Through saṅkalpa on the Name of God, any great deed whatever can be achieved, divinely and easily. In saṅkalpas, yad bhāvaṃ tad bhavati. Whatever feeling we form, that very result we gain. We must constantly develop our saṅkalpas into saṅkalpas that are sacred, true and fruitful. Humanness is itself the power of saṅkalpas. When we enquire what is chief for man, many say that life is chief for it. Some say wealth alone is the support. But Sakkubāī did not say so. The Name alone is man’s chief life. By the very greatness of that Name, it spreads the glory called humanness. Saṅkalpas are the root foundation of this Name. So saṅkalpas spread everywhere like electric waves.