• After teaching, helping, or being praised today, walk away cleanly — do not linger to harvest more appreciation.
• When someone offers you sincere honor, receive it gracefully as worship passing through you to Kṛṣṇa, then return to your own work.
• Notice the inner pull to stay where you are admired, and deliberately leave "as you came" — same inner posture, no swelling of ahaṅkāra.

• Where in my life do I quietly extend my stay so that praise can keep arriving, instead of leaving when the work is done?
• What would it mean for me, after a day of service or teaching, to depart "exactly as I came" — internally unchanged by the honor received?

• Mistaking the sage's grave composure for cold detachment, and so becoming aloof and ungracious when others try to honor you.
• Refusing legitimate worship and gifts in the name of humility, instead of accepting them as a Vaiṣṇava and passing them on to Kṛṣṇa.
• Imitating the avadhūta's freedom of movement without his gabhīra-dhīḥ — leaving responsibilities and relationships under the banner of "non-attachment."

• Share a time you were honored for something you did well — did you leave "as you came," or did the praise reshape you? What did that cost?
• Where is the line between accepting worship as a representative of Kṛṣṇa and absorbing it as your own glory? How do you actually feel the difference in the moment?
• The brāhmaṇa was pleased (prīto) and yet unmoved — is contentment from being honored compatible with detachment, or is one of them fooling us?

You are a senior devotee invited to give a class at a temple far from home. The hosts arrange elaborate worship of you — garland, āsana, gifts, public praise — and afterward the temple president asks you to stay an extra two days because "everyone wants more association." In pairs, enact the conversation: how do you, as the visiting teacher, both honor their bhakti and depart yathāgatam, without leaving them feeling rejected or yourself feeling diminished?

• If the sage is truly detached, why accept worship and gifts at all? Isn't refusing them more spiritual?
  Refusing worship would deprive the worshiper of the benefit of offering it; the brāhmaṇa accepts because King Yadu needs to give. The test of detachment is not in refusing honor but in not being inwardly altered by it — accepting fully, then leaving exactly as one came.
• This sounds like a transaction — I teach you, you worship me, I leave pleased. How is this different from a paid consultant?
  A consultant departs with the fee as his end; the brāhmaṇa departs prīto because the King received the teaching, not because his own account grew. His pleasure is the pleasure of a well-placed instruction, offered ultimately to Kṛṣṇa — the same body of action looks transactional from outside and is pure bhakti from within.