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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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  • śīlaṁ saṁvasatā jñeyaṁ śaucaṁ saṁvyavahārataḥ |
    prajñā saṁkathanāj jñeyā tribhiḥ pātraṁ parīkṣyate ||
    (Unknown source)

    “Character is to be known by living together, cleanliness [is to be known] by working together, and wisdom is to be known by conversing together. A recipient is to be examined in these three ways.”

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  • anāyāsena maraṇaṁ vinā dainyena jīvanam |
    anārādhita-govinda-caraṇasya kathaṁ bhavet ||
    (Caitanya-bhāgavata: 1.7.136, 2.1.237)

    “How can one by whom Govinda’s feet are not worshiped have a death without distress and a life without destitution?”

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