Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.10.19

yatra yatra ca mad-bhaktāḥ

praśāntāḥ sama-darśinaḥ

sādhavaḥ samudācārās

te pūyante 'pi kīkaṭāḥ

SYNONYMS

yatra yatra — wherever and whenever; ca — also; mat-bhaktāḥ — My devotees; praśāntāḥ — extremely peaceful; sama-darśinaḥ — equipoised; sādhavaḥ — decorated with all good qualities; samudācārāḥ — equally magnanimous; te — all of them; pūyante — are purified; api — even; kīkaṭāḥ — a degraded country or the inhabitants of such a place.

TRANSLATION

Whenever and wherever there are peaceful, equipoised devotees who are well behaved and decorated with all good qualities, that place and the dynasties there, even if condemned, are purified.

PURPORT

Wherever exalted devotees stay, not only they and their dynasties but the entire country is purified.

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