No individual obeisances in an assembly of vaisnavas

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SABHAYAM YAJNASALAYAM DEVATA YATANESU API

PRATYEKANTU NAMASKARO HANTI PUNYAM PURAKRTAM

VAISNAVAN CA AGATAM VIKSA ABHIGAMYA ALINGYA VAISNAVAM

VAIDESIKAM PRINAYEYUR DARSAYANTAH SVA VAISNAVAN

 

(HARI BHAKTI VILASA 10/321, 323 BRHAN NARADIYA PURANA)

 

If any one individually pays obeisances to each and every

person in a conference, sacrificial arena, in the temple, then

whatever merits he had previous acquired are all destroyed at

once. (Therefore, ones obeisances to all together is sufficient).

If a devotee returns from a foreign country, one should embrase

him in a pleasing mood and introduce each and everyone of his own

companions to him.