The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Viṣṇusahasranāmastotram

Verse 229

सकृत्स्मृतोऽपि गोविन्दो नृणां जन्मशतैः कृतम् ।पापराशिं दहत्याशु तूलराशिमिवानलः ॥

In plain words

Remember Govinda even once, and the whole heap of sin a person has piled up across hundreds of births burns away at once — the way fire takes a heap of cotton.

Close to the Sanskrit

Govinda, even remembered once, swiftly burns the heap of sin of men, done through hundreds of births, as fire a heap of cotton.