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animal. Such big animals are generally praised by other animals tike dogs, hogs,
camels and asses. A person who does not lend his aural reception to hearing about
the Supreme Personality of Godhead must be considered to have earholes like
holes in a field. Although that person has a tongue, it is like the tongue of a frog,
which unnecessarily creates a disturbance by croaking, inviting the snake of death.
Similarly, a person who neither takes advantage of the dust of the lotus feet of great
devotees nor smelis the tu/as7 leaves offered to the lotus feet of the Lord must be
considered dead even though he is supposedly working.”

Similarty, the Srimad-Bhdgavatam, Tenth Canto, Chapter One, verse 4, states:

nivrtta-tarsair upagilyamanad
bhavausadhacchrotra-mano ‘bhiradmdét
ka uttama-Sloka-gundnuvadat
puman virajyeta vind pasu-ghnét
“Who but the animal-killer or the killer of the soul will not care to hear glorifica-
tion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? Such glorification is enjoyed by
persons liberated from the contamination of this material world.”

Similarly, in the Third Canto, Chapter Twenty-three, verse 56, the Bhdgavatam
says, na tirthapada-sevayai jivann api mrto hi sah: ‘‘Although a person is apparently
living, if he does not serve the fotus feet of great devotees he is to be considered
a dead body.”

TEXT 124
Qtosa-firsstem, Bios AISHaw,
ARA-AA-APMAIT A I
Va-7a Az, farca afew fares,
FHM A SHANA W328 |
$ri-caitanya-nityananda, acarya advaitacandra,
svartipa-riipa-raghundthadasa
inha-sabara $ri-carana, Sire vandi nija-dhana,
janma-lila gaila krsnadasa
SYNONYMS

$ri-caitanya-nityananda— Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu;
Gcarya advaitacandra~Acarya Sri. Advaitacandra; svarupa-riipa-raghunathadasa—
Svartipa Damodara, Rupa Gosvami and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami; ‘Ahd-sabara—of
all of them; sr7-carana—the lotus feet; sire—on the head; vandi—offering respect;
nija-dhana—personal property; janma-/ilé—narcration of the birth; gaifa—sang;
Rrsnaddsa—Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami.
