Text 25] Attack by Candavega on the City of Puranjana 1279

radha-krsna-pada@ravinda-bhajananandena mattalikau
vande riipa-sanatanau raghu-yugau Sri-jiva-gopalakau
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto the six Gosvamis, namely Sti
Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Ripa Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami,
Sri Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami and Sri Gopala Bhatta
Gosvami, 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 gopis and are engaged in the transcendental loving service
of Radha and Krsna.”

Thus jara, the effect of old age, does not harass a devotee. This is
because a devotee follows the instructions and the determination of Narada
Muni. All devotees are in the disciplic succession stemming from Narada
Muni because they worship the Deity according to Narada Muni’s direction,
namely the Narada-paficaratra or the paficaratrika-vidhi. A devotee follows
the principles of pafcaratrika-vidhi as well as bhagavata-vidhi. Bhagavata-
vidhi includes preaching work—Sravanari kirtanam visnoh—the hearing and
chanting of the glories of Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The paficaratrika-vidhi includes arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-
nivedanam. Because a devotee rigidly follows the instructions of Narada
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 experi-
enced 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
Jara, or old age, takes shelter of a devotee, Kalakanya 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
aifraaataa «=| area Tt |
TerMaTad a Ula + afeeats URI
dvav imav anusocanti
balav asad-avagrahau
yal loka-sastropanatam
na rati na tad icchati
