Text 25]
Attack by Caṇḍavega on the City of Purañjana
1279
rādhā-kṛṣṇa-padāravinda-bhajanānandena mattālikau vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto the six Gosvāmīs, namely Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī and Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, who are very expert in scrutinizingly studying all the revealed scriptures with the aim of establishing eternal religious principles for the benefit of all human beings. Thus they are honored all over the three worlds, and they are worth taking shelter of because they are absorbed in the mood of the  gopī  and are engaged in the transcendental loving service of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.”
Thus  jarā , the effect of old age, does not harass a devotee. This is because a devotee follows the instructions and the determination of Nārada Muni. All devotees are in the disciplic succession stemming from Nārada Muni because they worship the Deity according to Nārada Muni’s direction, namely the  Nārada-pañcarātra  or the  pāñcarātrika-vidhi . A devotee follows the principles of  pāñcarātrika-vidhi  as well as  bhāgavata-vidhi .  Bhāgavata-vidhi  includes preaching work— śravaṇam kīrtanam viṣṇoḥ —the hearing and chanting of the glories of Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The  pāñcarātrika-vidhi  includes  arcanam vandanam dāsyam sakhyam ātma-nivedanam . Because a devotee rigidly follows the instructions of Nārada Muni, he has no fear of old age, disease or death. Apparently a devotee may grow old, but he is not subjected to the symptoms of defeat experienced by a common man in old age. Consequently old age does not make a devotee fearful of death, as a common man is fearful of death. When  jarā , or old age, takes shelter of a devotee, Kālakanyā diminishes the devotee’s fear. A devotee knows that after death he is going back home, back to Godhead; therefore he has no fear of death. Thus instead of depressing a devotee, advanced age helps him become fearless and thus happy.
TEXT 25
द्वाविमावनुशोचन्ति बालावसदवग्रहौ । यल्लोकशास्त्रोपनतं न राति न तदिच्छति ॥२५॥
dvāv imāv anuśocanti bālāv asad-avagrahau yal loka-śāstropanatam na rāti na tad icchati