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  • sva-dayita-nija-bhāvaṁ yo vibhāvya sva-bhāvāt
    sumadhuram avatīrṇo bhakta-rūpena lobhāt |
    jayati kanaka-dhāmā kṛṣṇa-caitanya-nāmā
    harir iha yati-veśaḥ śrī-śacī-sūnur eṣaḥ ||
    (Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.1.3)

    “Bearing a golden luster,
    
The name Kṛṣṇa Caitanya,
    
And the garb of an ascetic,
    
He who has descended here [amongst us]
    
With the form of a bhakta
    
Out of intense desire
    
After reflecting on the fine sweetness
    
Of the bhāva for himself
    
Of his own beloveds
    
In comparison to his own bhāva [for them]—
    
[He,] Hari, the Son of Śrī Śacī,
    
Triumphs!”

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  • śrī-rādhikā-prabhṛtayo nitarāṁ jayanti
    gopyo nitānta-bhagavat-priyatā-prasiddhāḥ |
    yāsāṁ harau parama-sauhṛda-mādhurīṇāṁ
    nirvaktum īṣad api jātu na ko’pi śaktaḥ ||
    (Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.2)

    “The gopīs led by Śrī Rādhikā—
    
Whose extraordinary dearness
    
To Bhagavān is renowned,
    
And the sweetnesses
    
Of whose supreme affection for Hari
    
No one can ever describe even slightly—
    
Eternally triumph!”

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  • jayati nija-padābja-prema-dānāvatīrṇo
    vividha-madhurimābdhiḥ ko’pi kaiśora-gandhiḥ |
    gata-parama-daśāntaṁ yasya caitanya-rūpād
    anubhava-padam āptaṁ prema gopīṣu nityam ||
    (Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.1.1)

    “Someone—
    
Who descended to bestow prema
    
For his own lotus feet,
    
Who is an ocean
    
Of various sweetnesses,
    
Who is fragrant with adolescence,
    
And whose everlasting prema for the gopīs,
    
Having attained the ultimate limit
    
Of the highest state,
    
Has reached the position of experience [for others]
    
Because of his form of Caitanya—
    Triumphs!”

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  • prītir yato yasya sukhaṁ ca yena
    samyag bhavet tad-rasikasya tasya |
    tat sādhanaṁ śreṣṭhatamaṁ susevyaṁ
    sadbhir mataṁ pratyuta sādhya-rūpam ||
    (Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.3.152)

    “The sādhana related to him [i.e., Śrī Bhagavān] of a relisher of him for which one’s complete affinity (__prīti__), and by which [one’s complete] satisfaction, shall come about is the best of all, [is] to be excellently performed, and [is] considered, rather, the goal and a form [of that goal] by the sat.”

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  • īrṣyā parotkarṣāsahanī dṛṣṭiḥ |
    (Vṛtti on Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa: 999)

    “Envy [alt., covetousness] (īrṣyā) means vision intolerant of another’s excellence.”

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  • asūyā guṇe’pi doṣāropaṇī dṛṣṭiḥ |
    (Vṛtti on Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa: 999)

    “Detraction (asūyā) means vision which ascribes faults even to qualities.”

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