Believe that the Lord’s Name is the boat, which will take you across the sea of worldly life. The Name is more efficacious than the contemplation of the Form.
Draupadi did not send a chariot to bring Krishna to her rescue; she uttered the Name in agony and Krishna responded and saved her from imminent dishonour.
In the Treta yuga, in Ramayana, Nala and his monkeys were building a bridge over the sea to Lanka;
the boulders on which they inscribed the sacred name Rama, floated on the waters, but they found that the boulders floated away due to wind and waves. They did not form a continuous bridge for the army to pass over. Some ingenious person gave a suggestion to write ‘RA’ on one boulder and ‘MA’ on another and they found that the two stuck hard together.
The name will serve as a float for you too; it will keep you attached to God and bring on you His Grace!
– Puttaparti Satya Sai Baba in Divine Discourse on Oct 24, 1965
"I draw to Me, My man from far off or even across the seven Seas to Shirdi, like a sparrow with a string fastened to its feet"-Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian Spiritual Guru-God 