Verse 51
The bathing place of crows· Verses 51–55
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51Those words, however fine their turns, never tell out the fame of Hari, which makes the world clean. They are a bathing place of crows, not one that swans come to; for where the Unfallen is, there the spotless good are. 52That pouring out of speech is a flood that carries off the people's ill, in which, though every verse of it be badly made, the names of the Endless stand marked with his fame, and the good hear them and sing them and speak them. 53Even freedom from works, even knowledge spotless and enough in itself, does not shine when the sense of the Unfallen is missing from it. How much less work that is not offered up to the Lord, which is always ill, even when it is work of the best.
54In the callings of class and stage, in austerity, in learning and the rest, the great labour is for fame and fortune and nothing else. The not-forgetting of the lotus feet of him who carries Sri comes by hearing the qualities of Hari told over, by holding him in regard, and the rest. 55The not-forgetting of Krsna's lotus feet wears away what is ill and spreads out calm; it brings the cleanness of clarity, devotion to the supreme Self, and knowledge joined with full understanding and with turning away.