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3. yena kenApi (by anyone - even including those who denigrate Him),
4. tejaskarah tiraskaropi vA (either in praise of His qualities or in
negative terms),
5. stavah priyatamah asya iti stava-priyah (He accepts them as praise of
Him - because these actions are done while thinking of Him).
stava-priyAya namah.
SrI BhaTTar gives an example of this guNa of bhagavAn by referring us to the
incident of ghaNTAkarNa, who did not like to hear even the name of vishNu
being uttered by anyone even casually. So he suspended two bells from his
ears, and at the very utterance of the name of vishNu, he will shake his head
violently, so that these words won't fall in his ears. But in order to ensure
that he shake his head at the mere mention of the name of vishNu, he had to
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