Text 6] The Harnsa-guhya Prayers 195
Hiranyakasipu and Ravana also performed great austerities, but they did
so to demonstrate their demoniac tendencies. Vaisnavas must meet many
opponents while preaching the glories of the Lord, but Sri Caitanya
Mahdaprabhu recommends that they not become angry while preaching.
Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given this formula: trndd api sunicena
taror api sahisnund/ amanina manadena kirtaniyah sada harih. “One
should chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind, think-
ing oneself lower than the straw in the street: one should be more
tolerant than a tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and should be
ready to offer all respect to others. In such a state of mind one can chant
the holy name of the Lord constantly.”” Those engaged in preaching the
glories of the Lord should be humbler than grass and more tolerant than
a tree: then they can preach the glories of the Lord without difficulty.
TEXT 6
TAA HAT ATA AE TTT IN & I
tabhyam nirdahyamanams tan
upalabhya kuriidvaha
rajovaca mahdn somo
manyum prasamayann iva

tabhyam—by the wind and fire; nirdahyamanan—being burned;
tan—them (the trees); upalabhya—seeing; kuriidvaha—O Maharaja
Pariksit; raja—the king of the forest; wvdca—said; mahan—the great:
somah—predominating deity of the moon, Somadeva; manyum—the
anger; prasamayan—pacifying; iva—like.

TRANSLATION

My dear King Pariksit, when Soma, the king of the trees and
predominating deity of the moon, saw the fire and wind burning
all the trees to ashes, he felt great sympathy because he is the
