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  • anādy-avidyā-yuktasya puruṣasyātma-vedanam |
    svato na sambhavād anyas tattvajño jñānado bhavet ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.22.10)

    “Knowledge of self shall not come about on its own for a living being beset with beginningless ignorance. [Therefore,] Another, a Knower of the reality and Bestower of [that] knowledge, shall be [i.e., must exist and also bestow that knowledge upon the jīva].”

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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].”

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  • 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

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