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\nNammalwar’s Hymn of the Golden Age <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n‘Tis glory, glory, glory! For Life’s hard curse has expired;
\nswept out are Pain and Hell, and Death has nought to do here. Mark ye, the Iron Age shall end. For we have seen the hosts of
\nVishnu; richly do they enter in and chant His praise and dance and thrive.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n(1) <\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWe have seen, we have seen, we have seen \u2014 seen things full
\nsweet for our eyes. Come, all ye lovers of God, let us shout and dance for joy with oft-made surrenderings. Wide do they roam
\non earth singing songs and dancing, the hosts of Krishna who wears the cool and beautiful Tulsi, the desire of the Bees.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n(2) <\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nThe Iron Age shall change. It shall fade, it shall pass away.
\nThe gods shall be in our midst. The mighty Golden Age shall hold the earth and the flood of the highest Bliss shall swell.
\nFor the hosts of our dark-hued Lord, dark-hued like the cloud, dark-hued like the sea, widely they enter in, singing songs, and
\neverywhere they have seized on their stations. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n(3)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nThe hosts of our Lord who reclines on the sea of Vastness, behold them thronging hither.
\nMe seems they will tear up all
\nthese weeds of grasping cults. And varied songs do they sing, our Lord’s own hosts, as they dance falling, sitting, standing,
\nmarching, leaping, bending. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n(4)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAnd many are the wondrous sights that strike mine eyes. As by magic have Vishnu’s hosts come in and firmly placed
\nthemselves everywhere. Nor doubt it, ye fiends and demons, if, born such be in our midst, take heed! ye shall never escape. For
\nthe Spirit of Time will slay and fling you away. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n(5)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nThese hosts of the Lord of the Discus, they are here to free this earth of the devourers of Life, Disease and Hunger and
\nvengeful Hate and all other things of evil. And sweet are their songs as they leap and dance extending wide over earth. Go
\nforth, ye lovers of God and meet these hosts divine; with right minds serve them and live.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n(6)<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

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\nThe Gods that ye fix in your minds, in His name do they
\ngrant you deliverance. Even thus to immortality did the sage Markanda attain. I mean no offence to any, but there is no other
\nGod but Krishna. And let all your sacrifices be to them who are but His forms.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n(7) <\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nHis forms he has placed as Gods to receive and taste the
\nofferings that are brought in sacrifices in all the various worlds. He our divine Sovereign on whose mole-marked bosom the goddess Lakshmi rests
\n\u2014 His hosts are singing sweetly and deign to increase on earth. O men, approach them, serve and live.  <\/span><\/p>\n

\n(8)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nGo forth and live by serving our Lord, the deathless One. With your tongues chant ye the hymns, the sacred Riks of the
\nVeda, nor err in the laws of wisdom. Oh, rich has become this earth in the blessed ones and the faithful who serve them with
\nflowers and incense and sandal and water. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n(9)
\nI<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nn all these rising worlds they have thronged and wide they spread, those beauteous forms of Krishna \u2014 the unclad Rudra
\nis there, Indra, Brahma, all. The Iron Age shall cease to be
\n\u2014 do ye but unite and serve these.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n(10)<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

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