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  • bhaktyāham ekayā grāhyaḥ śraddhayātmā priyaḥ satām |
    bhaktiḥ punāti man-niṣṭhā śvapākān api sambhavāt ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.14.21; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.602; Bhakti Sandarbha: 147, 241; Prīti Sandarbha: 1; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.20.135)

    “[Śrī Kṛṣṇa:] I, the Self—the Beloved—of the sat, am attainable by means of one-pointed bhakti with śraddhā. Bhakti fixed upon me purifies even dog-cookers of their birth.”

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  • na sādhayati māṁ yogo na sāṅkhyaṁ dharma uddhava |
    na svādhyāyas tapas tyāgo yathā bhaktir mamorjitā ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.14.20; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.601; Bhakti Sandarbha: 78, 103, 147, 327; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.20.134)

    “[Śrī Kṛṣṇa:] O Uddhava, neither yoga, nor sāṅkhya, nor dharma, nor study, nor austerity, nor renunciation cause attainment of me like powerful bhakti to me [does].”

    Read on →: na sādhayati māṁ yogo na sāṅkhyaṁ dharma uddhava

  • yogyaṁ yogyena yujyate |
    (Unknown source; cited Bāṅgālā Bhāṣāra Abhidhāna; Surata-kathāmṛta: 43)

    “That which is fit is united with that which is fit.”

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  • The author [of Stavāvalī’s] earnest prayer to Śrī Kṛṣṇa

    By Śrīmad Raghunātha Dāsa Gosvāmīpāda

    Read on →: Grantha-kartuḥ prārthanā

  • Eight verses in prayer for the service of Śrī Rādhikā

    By Śrīmad Raghunātha Dāsa Gosvāmīpāda

    Read on →: Śrī Rādhikāṣṭakam

  • yaś ca mūḍhatamo loke yaś ca buddheḥ paraṁ gataḥ |
    tāv ubhau sukham edhete kliśyaty antarito janaḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 3.7.17)

    “One who is most foolish in this world, and one who has attained that which is beyond the intellect—these two both live happily. A person in between suffers.”

    Read on →: yaś ca mūḍhatamo loke yaś ca buddheḥ paraṁ gataḥ

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