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HOPE ABOUNDING MESSAGES

(Abhai Bani)

Sri Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath

HOPE ABOUNDING MESSAGES

Jai Guru
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Have Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

Imagine nothing to be possible or impossible for Me. I can bind an elephant with the fibre of
lotus-stalk, drown a mountain in a cow's foot-print, none can determine My course of action.
Avoid worrying about health, wealth and debt. I've made every provision. Call; call Me, all
your anguish shall cease, Fear Not, Fear Not, Fear Not.

Just say the Name until you are at rest, say the Name. Let the earth recede from under your
feet, let the skies crumble on your head, let utter annihilation engulf you, without so much as
winking at anything, say the Name night and day. Know it for certain you rest on My lap, I've
been protecting you in My bosom. Say the Name, say the Name.

—"What's there for you to fear ? My devotee can never perish. All shall pass, my
devotees rest fearless and safe. Fear Not."
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Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

I say on oath I fulfil the hearts' desire of those who say My Name at the hour of death. Say the
Name, say the Name constantly, I'll assume full responsibility, you shall be forever at rest.

Come, whoever is anguished in life. come, you without devotion and spiritual exercise, come,
whoever is suffering, thirsting, pleasure-seeking, come, running apace, come, whoever is
ailing, sorrowing, tormented, do come, all, young and old, youths of both sexes, come, O
come, sinner and saint, high-born and low-born, come, O come, dunce and savant, take, O
take My Name, all your pain shall cease, you shall find yourselves immersed in the sea of
bliss.

Let the Name's rhythm course through every vein


Let it pulse through the blood that flows:
Let the grand message of God's own Name
Be engraved in bone after bone.

Say as much as you can, listen as you can. It, never goes in vain to say and hear My Name
Which is all consciousness.

O Partha, those who say My Name have their names printed in My heart, no matter
whether thay say It devoutly or disdainfully."

--"Those who repeat the Name anyhow, reach the supreme sphere with great honour
and without effort."

O beloved! Do just say My Name, be immune from fear, O dearest! Fear Not Fear Not Fear
Not.

Jai Guru
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Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

O My beloved! You are in the throes, eh, of disease, sorrow and distress? Weeping
incessantly, eh? Don't, don't weep any more, Say My Name, all your pain shall end, there's no
doubt about it. Say the Name constantly with or without devotion and faith and you shall be
gratified.

—"There's no sin of word, thought and deed, which, in this Kali Yuga, can't be wiped
off with Nam-Kirttan."

Say the Name, say the Name. As you stand or sit, eat or go to bed, in weal and woe, in want
as in affluence, devoutly or disdainfully, with or without reverence, in solitude as well as in
company, awake and asleep, say My Name. I say on oath I undertake full responsibility for
you and your family. You needn't worry about anything whatever. Blest with My love, you
shall be forever at rest, you shall be full of the Name, your past seven generations and
fourteen to follow shall be redeemed.

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— “So Arjun, cultivate the Name with conviction. He who adopts the
Name is My favourite, do please adopt the Name." (The Adipuran)

Look here, dear. In Kali Yuga I've come down as the Name. Say the Name, Say the Name.

Fear Not Fear Not Fear Not.

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
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Fear Not

Devotee mine! You've no cause for fear, do just say the Name. I'm the fear of fear, the terror
of the terrible, the slayer of every calamity. I've ever been protecting you. It's My vow, O
beloved, to grant assurance to those who take refuge in Me saying "I'm Thine". Let the skies
crumble down on earth, let the conflagration of dissolution play havoc, let millions of thunder
crash at once, let the entire universe shake under the impact of the most dreadful typhoon, let
the seven oceans heave and swell, yet, yet, O beloved, don't be alarmed. Don't forget that I’ve
been protecting you in My bosom. 'I'm Thine, beloved I'm thine.' Fear Not.

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

O suffering, thirsting, frustrated, fatigued, self-dispossessed child! Wail no more at life's


dream. Life's a dream, child, I alone am Truth. Say My Name, immersed in the blissful ocean
of the Name, be of the Name all compact.

Look, child, there's no word for the world other than Myself. The Fulfilled is manifest in the
Fulfilled, the Tranquil exists in the Tranquil, Space appears in Space, I abide but in Myself.

Do but look once with eyes washed with tears, with the Name constantly on the lips, and
you'll see the world's full of bliss.

( )

—"The universe, the gods such as Indra, perish, My devotee endowed with reverence
and grace does not." (The Brahma Vaivarta Puran)

( )

—"The Name chastens the spirit, the Name offers jnan, the Name grants deliverance to him
that seeks, and everything covetable to him that covets." The Name is the greatest place of
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pilgrimage, the Name is the site that diffuses virtue, the Name is the supreme deity, the Name
is the greatest austerity, the Name is the greatest charity, the Name is the supreme ritual, the
Name is the supreme dharma, the Name is wealth, the Name is the devotee's desired object
and liberation as well, the Name is the supreme devotion, the Name is the ultimate goal, the
Name is the most eligible for japa, the Name indeed is the best in every respect.

Dearest Mine! Say the Name and you’ve nothing to worry about materially or spiritually. I'll
rescue you out of the sea of death and life. Say the Name, say the Name. Fear Not Fear Not
Fear Not.

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

Look dearest! Why should you be alarmed?

Say the Name constantly. You've nothing to worry about. For fear of Me fire burns, the Sun
diffuses heat, Indra, Vayu and Death do each his duty. No one has power to touch the shadow
of a devotee who has committed himself to My care. What to speak of others, I'm not Myself
able to destroy my devotee whose form indeed is eternal. My wheel called Sudarsan ever
protects him. Listen to none, worry about nothing, say the Name aloud and fearless. I've come
down as the Name in Kali Yuga. Say the Name, I assume full responsibility for you and your
family. Fear Not Fear Not Fear Not.

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

Listen, dearest! Do you know how much I love? To fulfill your desires in order that you may
be without any desire, I become whatever you want and come to you accordingly. Woman
you wanted and I've come to you Myself in the garb of a lady. Cherishing these vain desires,
you've only been weeping, eh, in life after life? So I call you, beloved, come, O come back,
come back, child of the Supreme. Shake off your attachment to the body which is matter pure
and simple, and come back into awareness of what you actually are, the soul which is all
existence, consciousness and bliss. How to do that? By saying the Name repeatedly
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—The Name is the wish-fulfilling gem, the ineffable Image of Consciousness,


Krishna Himself, Fulfilled, Immaculate, Eternal, Free, for the Name is not distinct
from Him who bears the Name."

Got it? My Name and Myself are one and the same – to adopt the Name and to realise
Myself amount to the same thing.

Only say the Name, and you'll be relieved of disease, sorrow, pain, penury, anguish, and all
that, you'll be all bliss. The chanting of My hallowed Name destroys the deadly sins and
grants everything covetable to him that covets and blesses the devote with divine love.

Even those who are attached to material pleasure, bitterly envious, innocent of jnan and
vairagya, without brahmacharya, incapable of right conduct and unfit for any other course,
even they by just saying My Name attain a state which is beyond the reach of the pious souls.

Listen, dearest! The way you say the Name exceedingly sweet, I enjoy it immensely. So I
abide with you and urge, "Say the Name, Say the Name' Beloved, say the Name, secure and
aloud:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishn

Hare Hai Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not Fear Not Fear Not

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

Dearest! Listen, Dearest Mine! To do away with all your pain I've come down as the Name.
Say the Name and all your worries shall cease. I'll fill you, within and without, with light and
delight. You’ll be thrilled every moment with My beatific touch, the world won't flash upon
your sight any longer, you'll only see blissful Myself.

I say on oath My Name can quicken death itself.


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—“Nam-Kirtan does away with far of Death’s envoy, with fear of the harrowing of hells
and with fear of punishment from Death”.

Say the Name, only say the Name. Nam-Kirttan is the supreme jnan, the supreme austerity
and the supreme truth. He who practises it can easily attain the supreme position, that is
attainable by spiritual exercise practised in crores of lives.

Look yonder, the fires of distress rage fiercely all over the world. Come, come, pray don't
delay. Immersed in the ambrosial ocean of the Name, rest, secure and in bliss, nestled in My
bosom.

Fear Not Fear Not Fear Not

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

Listen, My Child of Bliss, dispossessed of thine own self! Whither running so fast like a
lunatic? Come back, come back to your own realm of bliss. Here there is no disease, grief,
sorrow, pain, torment or want. Here reigns bliss, sheer bliss profound. The way to return too is
smooth, straight, even. Only Nam-Kirttan. Take refuge in Me alone, in the form of the Name
and you need have no worry at all. I'll do everything for you.

Look, beloved! The Name calls for neither reverence nor faith. Just anyhow hear or say My
Name and you shall be gratified.

What to speak of one whose conduct is pious, even one who is impious in conduct can attain
liberation in the sense of sharing the same realm with Myself by merely cultivating My Name.

—"Now listen to the truth I declare: Saying but once My Name, one becomes My
equal."
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Whatever one desires at the foot of that wish-fulfilling tree, the Name, be it material pleasure
or salvation, one does have it without fail. By singing my Name constantly the devotee gets
merged in Myself..

The Name is Myself, Myself am the Name.

In this Kali Yuga, Nam-Samkirttan is the best way to realise divine love.

Come, Come, Come, O suffering thirsting frustrated child of the Supreme! Saying the Name
constantly, transcend death; dowered with devotion and love, become Mine own.

Fear Not Fear Not Fear Not

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

That's why, beloved, I'm calling you. You're utterly consumed with the three-fold evils?
You've been weeping incessantly from birth to birth? That's why I call; come, come, come 0
darling of delight, come to My bosom, say the Name. Shuddering at the sight of the stark
horrors that daily renew their grisly forms? No, no, don't be alarmed.

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—"Even when the earth is annihilated together with Brahma the Creator, even then My
devotees who incarnate themselves in forms calculated to reveal the divine sport, don't
perish." (The Saura Puran)

The Name and I are not distinct, you know. To say the Name and to stay with Me amount to
the same thing, Say the Name unceasingly, and disease, sorrow, pain and distress will be
dancing in your presence, assuming forms of bliss; in the great deluge of bliss the mortal
universe will totally dissolve, leaving no trace behind: everywhere you'll see Myself who am
all bliss.

Nam — Samkirttan is the smooth, straight, even way. The lustre of My Name goes beyond
the Vedas and the Vedanta. They also become adorable to the three worlds who say the Name
constantly. Their grace too can rescue numerous sinners and sufferers,
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Neglect no more, time flies fast. Say the Name. Practise saying the Name continuously. So
long as you can utter a syllable, don't give up saying the Name. Heedless of whether you are
holy or unholy, ignoring whether you have reverence and faith or not, say the Name every
moment. It is the Name indeed that will fetch divine love. By silent repetition of the Name
you'll see Me face to face. Say the Name, say the Name, say the Name. Fear Not Fear Not
Fear Not.

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

O darling of delight! You've no cause for fear. Say the Name without a pause, all pain shall
cease. My devotees never can have any cause for fear. They are not afraid of birth, death,
decline of age and disease.

Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Sudras, for that matter other castes as well hallowed by
devotion, attain the supreme status. The devotee is the life of My life, the mind of My mind,
the treasure of My treasure, dearer to Me than life itself. Say the Name every moment: blest
with rare devotion and divine love, you shall be gratified.

—"I'm not half so pleased with study of the Vedas; practice of austerity, performance of
yagna and visit to places of pilgrimage as I'm, by the singing of My Name. Singing My
Name and exalting My attributes, the devotee comes to be one with, and
indistinguishable from, Myself."

To protect the righteous, to destroy the wicked and to restore dharma, I Myself have come
down as the Name. The Name is Myself, Myself am the Name. Between the Name and
Myself there is no distinction. Say the Name, only say the Name, then you'll be in a position
to perceive that I alone exist, manifested as your Chosen Deity, un-manifested as the world. If
you recollect, sing, hear, write, see or wear the Name, I grant whatever is chosen.

Come, Come benighted, fatigued, worn-out wayfarer! Come, Come ailing, sorrowing,
sinning, repining humanity! Come, come dunce and savant, highest-born and lowest-born!
Come, come, Young and old, come, youths of both sexes! Come running on to the cool shade
of My Name. Doing away with all your pain, I'll keep you nestled in My bosom. Asleep,
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awake and in dream, in life and in death, you all will play, full of bliss, in My bosom. Say the
Name, say the Name.

Fear Not Fear Not Fear Not.

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

Beloved! Come, come, come to Me. Look, it's not once, but in age after age that I am calling
you. Come. I'm calling through the Upanishad, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the
Puranas, I'm calling as holy men and saints, in birth after birth I'm calling every moment as
your soul's soul. Come, Come. With your vision cleared of illusion, just look once and you'll
see that whatever is visible is Myself.

How much you have suffered from disease, sorrow, want and all that! O, sufferer! Come,
come. Here am 1—here's My stretehed bosom: Keeping you concealed there, I'll remove all
your pain.

Here there's no scorching heat. Here's only soothing light flooding all around. It's echoing
always with (non-generated) music of lyre, violin, tabor and flute. Here the sky rains nectar
perpetually and a stream of nectar flows on. Everything here is made of bliss: embodied bliss
is dancing here all around. Come running, come and see!

How to come? The Name and I are not different, keep the Name on the tongue, in every
breath, in mind and in pran as well. Remain immersed in the Name. Then you'll remain
virtually in My bosom and all your pain shall cease.

Art afraid of seeing multifarious forms?

There's no reason why you should be afraid. I am all you see. O beloved! O dearest! Say the
Name, say the Name, say the Name.

Fear Not Fear Not Fear Not.

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not
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Dearest child dispossessed of thine ownself! To grant assurance is My precise pledge. Let
anybody come, let him take refuge in Me and I lift him up into My bosom and absorb him.
Saying just once 'I'm Thine', be at rest in life and death.

The very day I gave you My Name in the role of Guru, I offered you My Ownself you know;
it's Myself you've had, O beloved! The necklace is round the neck, run no more about. The
lotus in your heart is My soft couch. Seated there I've been calling you constantly: Come,
come back, come back home.

Listen dearest! The Name is devotion, the Name is ecstasy, the Name is love. 'I Myself am the
Name, the Name is Myself.' You've had Me in the form of the Name. Fear no more. The
Name is the object of meditation, the Name is the act of meditation, the Name is the object of
spiritual exercise, the name is the act of spiritual exercise the Name is the process, the Name
is the product, the Name is the recipient, the Name is the object of worship, the Name is the
act of worship, the Name is offered in worship. Look, dear! I'm very fond of the tears shed by
the devotee whose heart has been dissolved and who wears the visible wreath of ecstatic thrill.
With tears of the eyes, say the Name, say the Name, offering the Name in worship.

Fear Not Fear Not Fear Not.

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

O Dearest, darling of delight! Only take refuge in Me, I’ll do away with all your afflictions.

Weeping, eh, for want of food and drink, for want of funds, in the grip of disease and grief?
Well, it's all a call from Me : I've been calling you. Say the Name without a break. I'll wipe
the tears shed by you in the dream miscalled life and take you to the realm of truth and bliss.

Shuddering at the orgies of horror and destruction around? Listen! What causes destruction is
not the crumbling of a hill, not earthquake or flood etc: it's—I that play the game of
destruction in all those forms. If to create, ‘to be born and be many’ is My will, to destroy is
equally My will. That too is called for now. Straying, wailing child chasing willo-the-wisp!
Come back, come back to the beautifully illuminated peaceful way of the Shastras. Look,
dear! If you disobey the perennial laws of the Shastras, you can never have fulfilment, peace
and bliss.
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Look here! A devotee who says the Name comes to no harm. Birth and death, decline and
dotage, disease, these can have no fear for him. Say My Name devoutly or disdainfully and
I'll pardon crores of your lapses. Say the Name, say the Name.

Fear Not Fear Not Fear Not.

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

O Dearest! It is for the sinner that I've come down as the Name. It is to extend grace to the
unrestrained, to the slaves of lust, anger, greed, infatuation etc. that I've incarnated Myself as
the Name. However sinful, however materially covetous you may be, rest assured, I'll relieve
you of all your sins and make you all bliss. Try just to hold Me and you've nothing else to do.
I'll absorb you Myself and will go on dancing within and without you. Only say Hare Krishna
Rama. That'll suffice. Away will go for ever your ego; disease, grief, want, pain, anguish;
those three gates of hell, lust, anger and greed. Walls of bliss will sprout up around. Bursting
out of the earth, will flow a fountain of bliss. The skies will begin to pour bliss incessantly.
The people of whatever village or town you live in will roll in bliss. I demand no devotion or
faith, no, not a drop of it: I've infinite faith, devotion, reverence and love at My disposal. Only
say the Name, say the Name.

Fear Not Fear Not Fear Not

Sri Sri Gurave Namah

Srimate Ramanujaya Namah Srimate Ramanandaya Namah

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not
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Dearest! Oh, I've have been calling you incessantly! Doing away with your disease, grief,
pain, distress, torment and anguish, I'll keep you forever immersed in the sea of supreme bliss,
which is why I've been calling you every moment from the inmost core of your heart, saying,
'Come Come Come.'

O My darling of delight! Pray don't remain oblivious of Me anymore. O you, dearer to Me


than life itself! It's not you alone that weep with anguish in the throes of life; I too weep with
you and say; 'Call Me, O call Me'; I will do away with all your pain, I will, I will, I will. In
birth as in death I'm your constant mate, you know, even as life itself; the lotus in your heart,
as you know, is My eternal abode, I never quit your heart for even a split second.

Call, Call: Say the Name, say the Name. My Name shall fill you, within and without, with
light, thrill and delight; listening to the tinkle of My anklet and to the notes of My flute, you'll
see Me, be immersed in Me. 'I exist, he who says the Name can see me, I absorb the devotee' :
this is immutable truth. Only say the Name, say the Name, say the Name.

Fear not Fear not Fear not

Standing or sitting, eating, going to bed


He who mutters the Name constantly is soon redeemed

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

O Most Desired, Darling of Delight! Beloved Wipe, wipe your eyes. To do away with your
disease, sorrow, pain, want and anguish I've come as the Name. As a fish I saved the Vedas,
as a tortoise I held Mandar hill, as a boar I slew Hiranyaksha, as Lion-man I destroyed
Hiranyakashipu, as a dwarf I duped Bali, as Parashuram, I exterminated Kshatriyas twenty-
one times, as Ram I killed Ravan, as Balaram I killed Pralamba and Dwibidha, as Krishna I
restored dharma, to protect the deeply devoted Draupadi from shame I appeared as cloth, to
beguile asuras I took the form of Buddha, I exist on earth as Jagannath, Biswanath,
Baidyanath and Ranganath to rescue crores and crores of sinners. Now I have come down, the
very same I, as the Name Incarnate. Come, come, poor victims of the sinful age. It's for you
I've assumed the form of the Name please—please--take the Name please—take the Name
please. There's no need for renunciation, restraint, discrimination of the pure and the impure
and of time and place. Say the Name anywhere, anyhow; your disease, pain and want shall
end, you shall be lost in the sea of bliss. O, O dearest! O self-dispossessed! You and I are
identical, as the sea and its waves are, as the sun and its rays, as moon and moon-beam
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happen to be: it is in My bosom you've been at play. Please—please—take the Name please.
Say the Name, say the Name, come back to your own self, the supreme self that is existence,
consciousness and bliss,

Say the Name, say the Name, say the Name.

Fear Not Fear Not Fear Not.

Sri Sri Gurave Namah

Srimate Ramanujaya Namah Srimate Ramanandaya Namah

Jai Guru

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna


Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Fear Not

To rescue My anguished children


I've come down as the Name divine.
He who seeks refuge, without or with faith,
Is blest with both assurance and beatitude.
Yoga yaga jnan dhyan sadhan bhajan:
My devotee can dispense with all these.
With japa of Name he becomes Name all over,
Away go lust, anger, greed, sloth, enemies all.
The world for him becomes the World's Lord,
Love's sea swells within his soul.
He bows always, wild with delight
Sings the Name, transported, uplifting both hands.
Fatigued and worn-out, Sinner cum sufferer,
Hurry up, be not late, time flies fast.
As you eat and go to bed, sing even the Name
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Him you shall see, the soul's solace, the Same.

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