Text 261] Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya Offers Prasaida to the Lord 133

In this conversation between Markandeya and Bhagiratha, it is said: “My dear
King, if one derides an exalted devotee, he loses the results of his pious activities,
his opulence, his reputation and his sons. Vaisnavas are all great souls. Whoever
blasphemes them falls down to the hell known as Maharaurava. He is also accom-
panied by his forefathers. Whoever kills or blasphemes a Vaisnava and whoever is
envious of a Vaisnava or angry with him, or whoever does not offer him obei-
sances or feel joy upon seeing a Vaisnava, certainly falls into a hellish condition.”
The Hari-bhakti-vilasa (10.314) also gives the following quotation from
Dvaraka-mahatmya:
kara-patrais ca phalyante
sutivrair yama-sasanaih
nindam kurvanti ye papa
vaisnavanam mahatmanam

In a conversation between Prahlada Maharaja and Bali Maharaja, it is said, ‘Those
sinful people who blaspheme Vaisnavas, who are all great souls, are subjected
very severely to the punishment offered by Yamaraja.”
In the Bhakti-sandarbha (313) there is a statement concerning the blaspheming
of Lord Visnu.
ye nindanti hrsikesarn
tad-bhaktamm punya-rapinam
sata-janmarjitam punyam
tesam nasyati niscitam

te pacyante mahd-ghore
kumbhipake bhayanake
bhaksitah kita-sanghena
yavac candra-divakarau
Sri-visnor avamananad
gurutaram sri-vaisnavollanghanam

tadiya-disaka-janan
na pasyet purusadhaman
taih sardham vaficaka-janaih
saha-vasam na karayet

“One who criticizes Lord Visnu and His devotees loses all the benefits accrued in
a hundred pious births. Such a person rots in the Kumbhipaka hell and is bitten by
worms as long as the sun and moon exist. One should therefore not even see the
face of a person who blasphemes Lord Visnu and His devotees. Never try to
associate with such persons.”
