Text 11] Pṛthu Mahārāja's Meeting with the Four Kumāras
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TEXT 11
व्यालालयद्रुमा वै तेष्वरिक्तस्त्वितसम्पदः ।  
 चतुरास्तीर्थपादीयप्रदतीर्थविवर्जिताः ॥११॥
vyālālaya-drumā vai teṣv 
    ariktākhila-sampadaḥ 
    yad-gṛhās tīrtha-pādīya- 
    pādatīrtha-vivarjitāḥ
vyāla —venomous serpents;  ālaya —home;  drumāḥ —tree;  vai —certainly;  teṣu —in those houses;  arikta —abundantly;  akhila —all;  sampadaḥ —opulences;  yat —that;  gṛhāḥ —houses;  tīrtha-pādīya —in relation with the feet of great saintly persons;  pāda-tīrtha —the water which washed their feet;  vivarjitāḥ —without.
TRANSLATION
On the contrary, even though full of all opulence and material prosperity, any householder's house where the devotees of the Lord are never allowed to come in, and where there is no water for washing their feet, is to be considered as a tree in which all venomous serpents live.
PURPORT
In this verse the word  tīrtha-pādīya  indicates devotees of Lord Viṣṇu, or Vaiṣṇavas. As far as  brāhmaṇas  are concerned, in the previous verse the mode of reception has been already described. Now, in this verse, special stress is being given to the Vaiṣṇavas. Generally the  sannyāsīs , or those in the renounced order of life, take trouble to enlighten the householders. There are  ekadaṇḍī sannyāsīs  and  tridaṇḍī sannyāsīs . The  ekadaṇḍī sannyāsīs  are generally followers of Śaṅkarācārya and are known as Māyāvāḍī  sannyāsīs , whereas the  tridaṇḍī sannyāsīs  are followers of Vaiṣṇava  ācāryas —Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya and so on—and they take trouble to enlighten the householders.  Ekadaṇḍī sannyāsīs  can be situated on the platform of pure Brahman because they are aware that the spirit soul is different from the body, but they are mainly impersonalists. The Vaiṣṇavas know that the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Person and that the Brahman effulgence is based on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā :  brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāham  (Bg. 14.27). The conclusion is that  tīrtha-pādīya  refers to Vaiṣṇavas. In the  Bhāgavatam  there is also another reference:  tīrthīkurvanti tīrthāni . Wherever he goes, a Vaiṣṇava