करपत्रैश्च फाल्यन्ते सुतीव्रैर्यमशासनैः ।
निन्दां कुर्वन्ति ये पापा वैष्णवानां महात्मनाम् ॥
पूजितो भगवान्विष्णुर्जन्मान्तरशतैरपि ।
प्रसीदति न विश्वात्मा वैष्णवे चापमानिते ॥
karapatraiś ca phālyante sutīvrair yama-śāsanaiḥ |
nindāṁ kurvanti ye pāpā vaiṣṇavānāṁ mahātmanām ||
pūjito bhagavān viṣṇur janmāntara-śatair api |
prasīdati na viśvātmā vaiṣṇave cāpamānite ||
(Skanda Purāṇa: Dvārakā Māhātmya; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa 10.314–15)
“Sinners who engage in defamation of great Vaiṣṇavas are cleaved with very sharp saws by the envoys of Yama. Even if Bhagavān Viṣṇu, the Ātmā of the universe, is worshipped for hundreds of lifetimes, he does not become pleased with one who has dishonored a Vaiṣṇava.”