The Role of Learned Sages and Flattery 2/2/5

What was the foremost duty of Śrīla Sanātana, Śrīla Rūpa, and the other Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana?

What did Śukadeva Gosvāmī warn against in the text?

What must a mendicant devotee have firm faith and conviction in?

What is the general rule for a mendicant devotee according to the text?

Who used to live in a cave and had a venomous snake as a co-partner?

What did the snake do when Ṭhākura Haridāsa agreed to leave the cave?

What is the recommended path for one who is fully accomplished and purified?

What is required to accumulate daivī sampat, or spiritual assets, according to the text?

How should a man in the renounced order of life feel?

What must a person's existence be purified by, according to the text?

What is the purpose of the renounced order of life?

What is a parasite?

What is advised in the scriptures regarding mendicants and householders?

What is the first duty of a person in the renounced order of life according to the text?

What is the purpose of alms-giving to mendicants?

What should the mendicants not take advantage of according to the text?

What is the duty of the householders towards mendicants?

What does the text say about the renounced order of life and begging?

What is the definition of a parasite?

What is part of a householder's duty according to the text?

What is the purpose of the renounced order of life according to the text?

What is the recommended path for a person in the renounced order of life according to the text?

What is the duty of householders towards mendicants according to the scriptures?

What is the definition of a parasite according to the text?

What should pseudo-mendicants not take advantage of according to the text?

What is part of a householder's duty according to the scriptures?

What should a mendicant devotee have firm faith and conviction in according to the text?

What are the sages advised against doing in the text?

What must a person's existence be purified by according to the text?

What is the first duty of a person in the renounced order of life according to the text?

What was the primary duty of Śrīla Sanātana, Śrīla Rūpa, and the other Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana?

What warning did Śukadeva Gosvāmī give to mendicants in the text?

What should a mendicant devotee have firm faith and conviction in?

Who used to live in a cave with a venomous snake as a co-partner?

What must a person's existence be purified by?

What is the general rule for a mendicant devotee according to the text?

What is the path recommended for one who is fully accomplished and purified?

What is the purpose of alms-giving to mendicants according to the text?

What does the text say about the renounced order of life and begging?

What is the purpose of the renounced order of life according to the text?

The renounced order of life is never meant for ______

The renounced order is meant for contributing something substantial to ______

Acceptance of alms from the householders by the bona fide mendicant is an opportunity afforded by the saint for the tangible benefit of the ______

In the sanātana-dharma institution, alms-giving to the mendicant is part of a householder's ______

Pseudo-mendicants, therefore, should not take advantage of the charitable disposition of the faithful ______

The first duty of a person in the renounced order of life is to contribute some ______

The renounced order of life is meant for contributing something substantial to ______

In the sanātana-dharma institution, alms-giving to the mendicant is part of a householder's ______

The renounced order is meant for contributing something substantial to ______

The renounced order of life is never meant for ______

According to the regulations of the sanātana-dharma institution, one is trained from the beginning to depend fully on the protection of the ______ in all circumstances.

A human being is required to accumulate daivī sampat, or ______ assets; otherwise, the next alternative, āsurī sampat, or material assets, will overcome him disproportionately, and thus one will be forced into the entanglement of different miseries of the material world.

A sannyāsī should always live alone, without company, and he must be ______.

He should never be afraid of living alone, although he is never alone. The ______ is residing in everyone's heart, and unless one is purified by the prescribed process, one will feel that he is alone.

But a man in the renounced order of life must be purified by the process; thus he will feel the presence of the ______ everywhere and will have nothing to fear (such as being without any company).

Everyone can become a ______ and honest person if his very existence is purified by discharging the prescribed duty for each and every order of life.

Amongst the other duties in the renounced order of life of Śrīla Sanātana, Śrīla Rūpa and the other Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana, the foremost duty discharged by them was to hold learned discourses amongst themselves at Sevāku�ja, Vṛndāvana (the spot where Śrī Rādhā-Dāmodara Temple was established by Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī and where the actual samādhi tombs of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī are laid). For the benefit of all in human society, they left behind them immense literatures of transcendental ______.

Similarly, all the ācāryas who voluntarily accepted the renounced order of life aimed at benefiting human society and not at living a comfortable or irresponsible life at the cost of others. However, those who cannot give any contribution should not go to the ______ for food, for such mendicants asking bread from the householders are an insult to the highest order.

Such mendicants are in abundance in the age of Kali. When a man becomes a mendicant willfully or by circumstances, he must be of firm faith and conviction that the Supreme ______ is the maintainer of all living beings everywhere in the universe.

Why, then, would He neglect the maintenance of a surrendered soul who is cent percent engaged in the service of the ______.