Verse 7

⁷This man has made his amends, even for the wrongs of ten million births, in that helpless he spoke out the name of Hari, which is a going toward well-being. ⁸By this alone the wiping out of this wrongdoer's wrong was done, when he called out the four syllables Narayana, saying, Come. ⁹A thief, a drinker of liquor, one who betrays a friend, a killer of a brahmin, one who goes to his teacher's bed, a killer of women, of kings, of fathers, of cows, and whatever other great sinners there are: ¹⁰for all of these too, who have wrong on them, this is the good amends, the uttering of Visnu's name, because by it the mind is turned to him.

¹¹A man with wrong on him is not made clean by the amends the Brahman-speakers have set out, nor by vows and the rest, as he is by the words of Hari's name spoken aloud, which bring within reach what he whose renown is highest is. ¹²Those amends are not certain: even when they are made, the mind runs off again on the bad road. So for those who want the clearing away of their action, the telling over of Hari's qualities is what makes their being clear.