അപി ചേത്സുദുരാചാരോ ഭജതേ മാമനന്യഭാക് സാധുരേവ സ മന്തവ്യഃ സമ്യഗ്വ്യവസിതോ ഹി സഃ
api cetsudurācāro bhajate māmananyabhāk sādhureva sa mantavyaḥ samyagvyavasito hi saḥ
Malayalam Translation
ഏറ്റവും ദുരാചാരനായവന് പോലും എന്നെ ഏകാഗ്രചിത്തനായി ഭജിക്കുന്നുവെങ്കില് അവനെ ശിഷ്ടനായി കരുതേണ്ടതാണ്. അവന് ശരിയായ നിശ്ചയം എടുത്തിട്ടുള്ളവനാണ്.
Explanation · English
Even if the most sinful worships Him with undivided heart? he too must indeed be deemed righteous for he has made the holy resolution to give up the evil ways of his life. Rogue Ratnakar became Valmiki by his holy resolution. Jagai and Madhai also became righteous devotees. Mary Magdalene a woman of illfame? became a pious woman. Sin vanishes when thoughts of God arise in the mind. Chandrayana and Kricchra Vratas will remove only certain particular sins but the remembrance of the Lord? thoughts of the Supreme Being? Japa and meditation? and Abheda Brahma Chintana (contemplation of Brahman with a nondualistic or Aham Brahmasmi or I am the Absolute attitute) will destroy the sins committed by a person even in hundred crores of Kalpas or ages.By abandoning the evil ways in his external life and by the force of his internal right resolution? he becomes righteous and attains eternal peace. (Cf.IV.36)