Text 71] Sanatana Gosvami Visits the Lord 35

tepus tapas te juhuvuh sasnur arya
brahmandcur nama grnanti ye te

“O my Lord, even a person born in a low family of dog-eaters is glorious if he al-
ways chants the holy name of the Lord. Such a person has already performed all
types of austerities, penances and Vedic sacrifices, has already bathed in the
sacred rivers, and has also studied all the Vedic literature. Thus he has become an
exalted personality.” Similarly, Kuntidevi says to Lord Krsna:

janmaisvarya-Sruta-sribhir
edhamdana-madah puman

naivarhaty abhidhatum vai
tvam akificana-gocaram

“A person who is proud of his birth, opulence, knowledge and beauty cannot
achieve Your lotus feet. You are available only to the humble and meek, not to the
proud.” (Bhag. 1.8.26.)

TEXT 71

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tara madhye sarva-srestha ndma-sankirtana
niraparadhe nama laile paya prema-dhana

SYNONYMS

tara madhye—of the nine different types of devotional service; sarva-srestha—
the most important of all; nama-sankirtana—chanting of the holy name of the
Lord; niraparadhe—without offenses; nama laile—if one chants the holy name;
paya—he gets; prema-dhana—the most valuable ecstatic love of Krsna.

TRANSLATION

“Of the nine processes of devotional service, the most important is to al-
ways chant the holy name of the Lord. If one does so, avoiding the ten kinds of
offenses, one very easily obtains the most valuable love of Godhead.”

PURPORT
Srila Jiva Gosvami Prabhu gives the following directions in his Bhakti-sandarbha
(270):

iyam ca kirtanakhyd bhaktir bhagavato dravya-jati-guna-kriyabhir dina-janaika-
visayapara-karund-mayiti sruti-puranadi-visrutih. ataeva kalau svabhavata evdtidinesu
