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  • ataḥ kavir nāmasu yāvadarthaḥ
    syād apramatto vyavasāya-buddhiḥ |
    siddhe’nyathārthe na yateta tatra
    pariśramaṁ tatra samīkṣamāṇaḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 2.2.3)

    “Therefore, a wise person should accept articles [only] as necessary, being non-neglectful and of resolute mind. Should one’s object be attained otherwise [i.e., should what is necessary for one’s sustenance come of its own accord], then one should not endeavor for it, seeing clearly the labor therein [i.e., seeing the unfavorable consequences of unnecessarily endeavoring for what one already has attained].”

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  • svamātuḥ svinna-gātrāyā visrasta-kabara-srajaḥ |
    dṛṣṭvā pariśramaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ kṛpayāsīt svabandhane ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.9.18)

    “Seeing his own mother’s sweating body, the garland from her braid fallen loose, and her exertion, Kṛṣṇa, by his grace, became bound by his own [i.e., by his own mother; alt., by his own will].”

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  • yādṛcchikatvaṁ na tu karma-janitatvaṁ … |
    (Sārārtha-darśinī-ṭīkā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.10.17)

    “Being yādṛcchika [lsly., “of independent cause”], and not rather, being produced by karma ….”

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  • sarpaḥ krūraḥ khalaḥ krūraḥ sarpāt krūrataraḥ khalaḥ |
    mantraoṣadhi-vaśaḥ sarpaḥ khalaḥ kena nivāryate ||
    (Cāṇakya-nīti)

    “A snake is cruel, and the wicked are cruel. The wicked [however] are even more cruel than a snake. A snake can be controlled by mantras and medicinal herbs, but how are the wicked subdued? [i.e., They cannot be subdued by anything].”

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  • vande’haṁ durjanān pūrvaṁ sajjanāś ca tataḥ param |
    mukha-prakṣālanāt pūrvaṁ pāyu-prakṣālanaṁ yathā ||
    (Bhāvārtha-dīpikā-prakāśa on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.1.1)

    “I offer obeisance to the wicked first, and thereafter to the virtuous, just as one washes one’s rear before washing one’s mouth.”

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  • mīnā jālena dāsaiḥ sarasi mṛga-gaṇā vāgurābhi svaraṇye
    hiṁsraiḥ saṁsāra-cakre hari-vimukha-narā māyayā moha-pāśaīḥ |
    kārāgāreṣu gāḍhoddhata-nṛpati-bhaṭāis taskarāḥ śṛṅkhalābhir
    vṛndāraṇye vayaṁ cādbhuta-rasa-valitais tad-guṇaughair nibaddhāḥ ||
    (Vṛndāvana-mahimāmṛta: 12.18)

    “Fish become tightly bound in a lake by fishermen with a net, animals in a deep forest by hunters with traps, human beings averse to Hari in the wheel of saṁsāra by māyā with the ropes of illusion, thieves in jails by forceful hired soldiers of a king with shackles, and we with the inundation of its [i.e., Vṛndāvana’s] qualities accompanied by astonishing rasa in the forest of Vṛndā.”

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