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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 19]
even to a place in the heavenly planetary systems if it has no propaganda to expand the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, no trace of Vaiṣṇavas, pure devotees of the Lord, and no festivals for spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It would be better to live perpetually cramped within the airtight bag of a mother's womb, where one can at least remember the lotus feet of the Lord, than to live in a place where there is no opportunity to remember His lotus feet. I pray not to be allowed to take birth in such a condemned place." Similarly, in  Caitanya-caritāmṛta , Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī says that since Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the inaugurator of the  saṅkīrtana  movement, anyone who performs  saṅkīrtana  to please the Lord is very, very glorious. Such a person has perfect intelligence, whereas others are in the ignorance of material existence. Of all the sacrifices mentioned in the Vedic literatures, the performance of  saṅkīrtana-yajña  is the best. Even the performance of one hundred  aśvamedha  sacrifices cannot compare to the sacrifice of  saṅkīrtana . According to the author of Śrī  Caitanya-caritāmṛta , if one compares  saṅkīrtana-yajña  to other  yajñas , he is a  pāṣaṇḍī , an infidel, and is liable to be punished by Yamarāja. There are many Māyāvādīs who think that the performance of  saṅkīrtana-yajña  is a pious activity similar to the performance of the  aśvamedha-yajña  and other such pious functions, but this is a  nāma-aparādha . Chanting of the holy name of Nārāyaṇa and chanting of other names are never equal, despite what Māyāvādīs think.
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प्राप्ता नृजातिं त्विह ये च जन्तवो 
    श्वानवियाह्व्यकतापसम्भृताम् । 
    न वै यतेरन्नपुनर्भवाय ते 
    भूयो वनौका इव यान्ति बन्धनम् ॥२५॥
prāptā nṛ-jātiṁ tv iha ye ca jantavo 
    jñāna-kriyā-dravya-kalāpa-sambhṛtām 
    na vai yaterann apunar-bhavāya te 
    bhūyo vanaukā iva yānti bandhanam