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  • yogād rūḍhir balīyasī |
    (Unknown source)

    “The conventional [meaning of a word] (ruḍḥi) is stronger than the etymological [meaning of that word] (yoga).”

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  • athāṅga-rājād avatārya cakṣur yāhīti janyām avadat kumārī |
    nāsau na kāmyo na ca veda samyag-draṣṭuṁ na sā bhinna-rucir hi lokaḥ ||
    (Raghu-vaṁśa: 6.30)

    “Then, lowering her eyes from King Aṅga, the girl said to her mother’s friend, ‘Please go.’ It was not that he was not desirable, and it was not that she did not know how to see properly; people are just of varied taste.”

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  • anya-sukha-duḥkha-nairapekṣyeṇaiva śuddhatvaṁ bhaktānām iti siddham |
    (Prīti Sandarbha: 47)

    “The purity of bhaktas is established only by indifference to other happiness and suffering.”

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  • na yasya cittaṁ bahir-artha-vibhramaṁ
    tamo-guhāyāṁ ca viśuddham āviśat |
    yad-bhakti-yogānugṛhītam añjasā
    munir vicaṣṭe nanu tatra te gatim ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 4.24.59; cited in Prīti Sandarbha: 7)

    “A sage whose heart, pure by virtue of being favored by bhakti-yoga, is not agitated by external objects and does not enter the cave of darkness, rightly and certainly sees your state therein.”

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  • praṇata-dehināṁ pāpa-karṣaṇaṁ
    tṛṇa-carānugaṁ śrī-niketanam |
    phaṇi-phaṇārpitaṁ te padāmbujaṁ
    kṛṇu kuceṣu naḥ kṛndhi hṛc-chayam ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.31.7)

    “Please put upon our breasts
    
Your lotus feet,
    
Which remove the sins of the embodied who have taken shelter,
    
Which follow the animals [of Vraja],
    
Which are the abode of śrī [i.e., beauty, or, Lakṣmī],
    
And which were placed on the hoods of the serpent [i.e., Kālīya].
    
Please cut away our lust [lit., ‘that which lies in the heart’].”

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  • saṁsāra-sindhum ati-dustaram uttitīrṣor
    nānyaḥ plavo bhagavato puruṣottamasya |
    līlā-kathā-rasa-niṣevanam antareṇa
    puṁso bhaved vividha-duḥkha-davārditasya ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 12.4.40; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha: 86)

    “For a person tormented by the forest fire of various miseries who is desirous of crossing over the exceedingly difficult to cross ocean of saṁsāra, there is no vessel other than honoring the rasa of the narrations of the līlā of Bhagavān Puruṣottama.”

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