Mahabharata — Anushasana Parva, Shloka 25
गोशकृन्माहात्म्य-प्रश्नः (On the Merit of Cow-Dung and the Abode of Śrī) / Inquiry into the Sanctity of Cow-Dung
एवं रात्रौ दिवा चापि समेषु विषमेषु च । महाभयेषु च नर: कीर्तयन् मुच्यते भयात्
evaṁ rātrau divā cāpi sameṣu viṣameṣu ca | mahābhayeṣu ca naraḥ kīrtayan mucyate bhayāt ||
Wika ni Bhishma: “Gabi man o araw, sa mabuti man o masamang kalagayan, at kahit sa pagharap sa napakalalaking pangamba, ang taong patuloy na pumupuri at bumibigkas ng pangalan ni Gomātā (ang Banal na Inang Baka) ay napapalaya mula sa takot.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Maintain unwavering devotional remembrance—specifically, praising/reciting the sacred name associated with Gomātā—regardless of time or circumstance; such steady kīrtana is taught to dissolve fear and stabilize one’s dharmic resolve.
Bhīṣma is instructing (as a teacher of dharma) that in all situations—night/day, ease/distress, and even extreme danger—a person who continues kīrtana attains release from fear, presenting devotion as a protective discipline.