SB 11.29.16

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Eleventh Canto - Chapter 29: Bhakti-yoga

SB 11.29.15 - SB 11.29.17

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Please note: The synonyms, translation and purport of this verse were composed by disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda

TEXT 16

visṛjya smayamānān svān

dṛśaṁ vrīḍāṁ ca daihikīm

praṇamed daṇḍa-vad bhūmāv

ā-śva-cāṇḍāla-go-kharam

SYNONYMS

visṛjya — giving up; smayamānān — who are laughing; svān — one's own friends; dṛśam — the outlook; vrīḍām — the embarrassment; ca — and; daihikīm — of the bodily conception; praṇamet — one should offer obeisances; daṇḍa-vat — falling down like a rod; bhūmau — upon the ground; ā — even; śva — to the dogs; cāṇḍāla — outcastes; go — cows; kharam — and asses.

Translation and purport composed by disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda

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TRANSLATION

Disregarding the ridicule of one's companions, one should give up the bodily conception and its accompanying embarrassment. One should offer obeisances before all—even the dogs, outcastes, cows and asses—falling flat upon the ground like a rod.

PURPORT

One should practice seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead within all creatures. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu advised all devotees to consider themselves lower than a blade of grass and to be more tolerant than a tree. In such a humble position, one will not be disturbed in the prosecution of pure devotional service to the Lord. A devotee does not foolishly think that a cow or an ass is God, but rather the devotee sees the Supreme Lord within all creatures, and on this higher, spiritual plane he does not discriminate.

SB 11.29.15 - SB 11.29.17