The Merciful Qualities of a True Vaishnava

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para-duḥkha-duḥkhī haya vaiṣṇava prasiddha sei khyāti habe saba pracāre pravṛddha
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The Vaisnavas are famous as para-duhkha-duhkhih. This fame will increase as the preaching increases.

nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-bhakti jāgile sabāra āpani pālābe kali kari' hā-hā-kāra
Translation

If eternally pure devotional service to Krsna is awakened in everyone, then Kali will flee, screaming, of his own accord.

"prāṇinām upakārāya" mahāprabhu-vāṇī iha-kāla-parā-kāla sukhera se khani
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Praninam upakaraya: do work for the benefit of all living beings. This is Mahaprabhu’s teaching. This is the storehouse of happiness in this life and the next.

eta kāja paḍe āche tomādera hāte ekatre miliyā kārya karaha tāhāte
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So which work has fallen into your hands, gather together and do it.

vāsudeva vipra bale prabhure namiyā sakala jīvere dāo uddhāra kariyā
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Vasudeva Datta said to the Lord, paying his obeisances: “Save all the living beings in the material world.

tādera saba pāpa-tāpa mo--hīnere dāo duḥkhī jīvera duḥkha tumi se ghucāo
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“Give all their sins and sufferings to me, who am the lowest of all. In this way all the miseries of the suffering conditioned souls will end.”

sei ta vaiṣṇava-śreṣṭha para-duḥkhe duḥkhī ātmendriya-tṛpti yāhe nahe tārā sukhī
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He was the best of Vaisnavas, para-duhkha-duhkhi. He knew that there is no real happiness in gratifying the senses.

ki dayā karite pāre avaiṣṇava-jana! aparādhī haya mātra "daridra nārāyaṇa"!
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And what kind of mercy can the non-Vaisnava have? He simply makes offenses by his daridra-narayana philosophy.

vijñāna-sammata sei vaiṣṇavera dayā vaiṣṇava-vihīna bhūme māyā duratyayā
Translation

The mercy of the Vaisnavas is scientific and authorized. Without the Vaisnavas’ mercy, this world is simply insurmountable Maya.

viṣṇu-vaiṣṇava-rājya yadi dharāya haya tabe-i se sukhī loka muni-ṛṣi kaya
Translation

If there is a kingdom of Visnu and Vaisnavas on the surface of the earth, then the world will be happy. So say all the great sages and Rsis.

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The Merciful Qualities of a True Vaishnava was composed by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. It appears in Miscellaneous Songs.

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The Vaisnavas are famous as para-duhkha-duhkhih. This fame will increase as the preaching increases.

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The Merciful Qualities of a True Vaishnava has 10 verses.