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- Read on →: ka utsaheta santyaktum uttamaḥśloka-saṁvidam
ka utsaheta santyaktum uttamaḥśloka-saṁvidam |
anicchato’pi yasya śrīr aṅgān na cyavate kvacit ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.47.48)“[The gopīs to Uddhava:] Who could completely give up perception of [alt., private conversations with] he of highest praise, from whose chest Śrī never strays even when he is nonchalant?”
- Read on →: aho yūyaṁ sma pūrṇārthā bhavatyo loka-pūjitāḥ
aho yūyaṁ sma pūrṇārthā bhavatyo loka-pūjitāḥ |
vāsudeve bhagavati yāsām ity arpitaṁ manaḥ ||
dāna-vrāta-tapo-homa-japa-svādhyāya-saṁyamaiḥ |
śreyobhir vividhaiś cānyaiḥ kṛṣṇe bhaktir hi sādhyate ||
bhagavaty uttamaḥ-śloke bhavatībhir anuttamā |
bhaktiḥ pravartitā diṣṭyā munīnām api durlabhā ||
diṣṭyā putrān patīn dehān svajanān bhavanāni ca |
hitvāvṛṇīta yūyaṁ yat kṛṣṇākhyaṁ puruṣaṁ param ||
sarvātma-bhāvo’dhikṛto bhavatīnām adhokṣaje |
viraheṇa mahābhāgā mahān me’nugrahaḥ kṛtaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.47.23–27)“[Uddhava to the gopīs:] Aho! You all, whose minds are offered to Bhagavān Vāsudeva in this way, are verily successful and worshipable to the world. Bhakti to Kṛṣṇa is certainly accomplished by means of charity, rites, austerities, sacrifices, japa, study, and sense control, as well as by various other meritorious acts. Unexcelled bhakti to Bhagavān, he of highest praise (Uttamaḥśloka), that is rare to attain even for the sages, [however,] has been performed [alt., will be propagated] by you all by great fortune. That you all have forsaken [your] sons, husbands, bodies, relatives, and homes and accepted the Supreme Puruṣa [alt., ‘another man’] known as Kṛṣṇa is by great fortune. Bhāva in full form for he who is transcendent (Adhokṣaja) has been attained by [alt., conferred upon] you all, and by separation [i.e., by your experience of separation from Kṛṣṇa with that most complete form of bhāva], O you all of great fortune, tremendous favor has been shown to me.”
- Read on →: satyam uktaṁ kintv iha vā eke na manaso’ddhā viśrambham
satyam uktaṁ kintv iha vā eke na manaso’ddhā viśrambham anavasthānasya śaṭha-kirāta iva saṅgacchante |
tathā coktam—
na kuryāt karhicit sakhyaṁ manasi hy anavasthite |
yad-viśrambhāc cirāc cīrṇaṁ caskanda tapa aiśvaram ||
nityaṁ dadāti kāmasya cchidraṁ tam anu ye’rayaḥ |
yoginaḥ kṛta-maitrasya patyur jāyeva puṁścalī ||
kāmo manyur mado lobhaḥ śoka-moha-bhayādayaḥ |
karma-bandhaś ca yan-mūlaḥ svīkuryāt ko nu tad budhaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 5.6.2–5)“[Śukadeva Gosvāmī to Parīkṣit Mahārāja:] You have spoken correctly, but here [i.e., in this world], the great do not place trust in the unstable mind, which is like a cunning kirāta. Similarly, it also said, ‘One should never make a friendship with the unstable mind, as a result of trust in which the long-standing austerity (tapas) [even] of an īśvara is lost. It [i.e., the unstable mind] always gives an opening to desire (kāma) and [other] enemies of a yogī who has made a friendship [with it] which follow from that [i.e., desire] like the promiscuous wife of a [trusting] husband. Indeed, what intelligent person would accept [as a friend] that [mind] which is the basis of the bondage of karma and [the basis of] desire, anger, mania, greed, lamentation, delusion, fear, and so forth?’”
- Read on →: brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāham amṛtasyāvyayasya ca
brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāham amṛtasyāvyayasya ca |
śāśvatasya ca dharmasya sukhasyaikāntikasya ca ||
(Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā: 14.27)“Since I am the basis of Brahman, of the imperishable nectar, of the eternal dharma, and of the bliss of the one-pointed.”
- Read on →: ayaṁ svasty-ayanaḥ panthā dvijāter gṛha-medhinaḥ
ayaṁ svasty-ayanaḥ panthā dvijāter gṛha-medhinaḥ |
yac chraddhayāpta-vittena śuklenejyeta pūruṣaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.84.37)“This path whereby the Puruṣa [i.e., Śrī Bhagavān] shall be worshiped with śraddhā by means of purely obtained wealth is auspicious for a twice-born householder.”