Offering Obeisances...

Verse 1.19.29 (Kasi Prji):

* All the sages had arrived at the place where Maharaj Parikshit had decided to spend this last 7 days. Then Srila Sukadeva Goswami also arrived there.
* Points from this verse
- offering obeisances to devotees
- taking association of devotees
- less intelligent people do not see the advanced position of pure devotees.
* Maharaj Parikshit (MP) offers full dandavat to Srila Sukadeva Goswami (SG).
* Full dandavat means 7 or 9 parts of the body should touch the ground. Half dandavat means 5 parts of the body should touch the ground
- one progresses spiritually when one offers full dandavats to all devoteess
- Skanda purana: if one does not offer obeisances to a devotee, the Lord does not look to that person for 12 years
- offering obeisances also implies one is offering respects to the supersoul within the opposite person
* We also see here that SG also bows down to pay obeisances to Vyasadeva, Naradamuni etc. He also exchanges greetings with everyone else.
* MP is also told here as visnu-raatah (always protected by Vishnu). One incident is that he is protected by Krishna from the Brahamastra.
- Such pure devotees are always under the shelter of the Lord
- In BG also, Krishna says, his first duty is protection of devotees
- Our task as sadaka's, is sarva dharman paritajya.... abandon all varieties of irreligion and surrender unto the SPG.