“Tṛṇād api sunīcena” bhāva means everywhere guru darśana. Always everywhere our guru darśana can naturally help us to get established in this “tṛṇād api sunīcena” bhāva. So, in that case naturally we can show respect even to others, without expecting any honor for our self. But in the case of negative situation at least we can follow the mood of Śrīman UddhavJi Maharaj who wanted to show respect to wicked Duryodhana externally with the help of following darśana that Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is present there inside everybody as Super soul. Śrīman Mahāprabhu wanted to show the perfect siddhānta vichar in His Śikṣāṣṭaka that without tṛṇād api sunīcena bhāva one cannot sing the glories of the Supreme Lord or cannot chant Harinam in true sense.
tṛṇād api sunīcena
taror api sahiṣṇunā
amāninā mānadena
kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ (Śikṣāṣṭaka verse 3)
“One who is humbler than a blade of grass, more forbearing than a tree who gives due honour to others without desiring honor for himself is qualified to always chant the Holy Name of Kṛṣṇa.”
Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pati Śrī Śrīla Bhakti siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Paramahaṁsa Jagat Guru has written in his “Vaiṣṇava ke” that—
kanaka-kāminī, pratiṣṭhā-bāghinī,
chādiyāche yāre sei ta’ vaiṣṇava:
sei anāsakta, sei śuddha bhakta,
saṃsāra tathāya pāya parābhāva (Vaiṣṇava Ke 11)
If kanaka-kāminī, pratiṣṭhā-bāghinī is completely gone in a person they may be known as a true Vaiṣṇava—they are detached; they are pure devotees and material māyā (saṃsāra) cannot touch them.
So this is the most scientific explanation of tṛṇād api sunīcena bhāva, I mean to identify a real Vaiṣṇava this is the only way. So even no smell of lābha’, ‘pūjā’, ‘pratiṣṭhādi can be found in the life of a real Vaiṣṇava sādhu who is totally established in tṛṇād api sunīcena bhāva.
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