Text 1271
Taliks Between the Lord and Rāmānanda Rāva
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teńho kahe —āmi nāhi jāni kṛṣṇa-kathā sabe rāmāṇanḍa iāne, teńho nāhi ethā
SYNONYMS
teṅho kahe —he replied;  āmi —I;  nāhi —not;  jāni —know;  kṛṣṇa-kathā —topics of Lord Kṛṣṇa;  sabe —all;  rāmānanda —Rāmānanda Rāya;  jāne —knows;  teṅho —he;  nāhi —not:  ethā —here.
TRANSLATION
“Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya told me, ‘I do not actually know about the topics of Lord Kṛṣṇa. They are all known only to Rāmānanda Rāya, but he is not present here.’”
TEXT 1277
তোমার ঠাঞি আইলাঙ তোমার মহিমা শুনিয়া । 
তুমি মোরে স্ততি কর ‘সন্ন্যাসী’ জানিয়া ॥ ১২৭ ॥
tomāra ṭhāñi āilāṅa tomāra mahimā śuniyā tumi more stuti kara ‘sannyāsī’ jāniyā
SYNONYMS
tomāra-ṭhāñi —to your presence;  āilāṅa —I have come;  tomāra —your;  mahimā —glories;  śuniyā —hearing;  tumi —you;  more —Me;  stuti —praising;  kara —do;  sannyāsī —a person in the renounced order of life;  jāniyā —knowing as.
TRANSLATION
Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued: “After hearing about your glories, I have come to your place. However, you are offering Me words of praise out of respect for a sannyāsī, one in the renounced order of life.
PURPORT
Šrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Țhākura explains that a mundane person, being enriched by mundane opulences, must always know that the transcendental opulences of the advanced devotees are far more important than the materialistic opulences of a person like himself. A materialistic person with material opulences should not be very proud or puffed up before a transcendental devotee. If one approaches a transcendental devotee on the strength of his material heritage, opulence, education and beauty and does not offer respect to the advanced devotee of the Lord, the Vaiṣṇava devotee may offer formal respects to such a materially puffed-up person, but he may not deliver transcendental knowledge to him. Indeed, the devotee sees him as a non- brāhmaṇa  or  śūdra . Such a puffed-up