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  • mama nātha yad asti yo’smy ahaṁ
    sakalaṁ tad dhi tavaiva mādhava |
    niyata-svam iti prabuddha-dhīr
    atha vā kiṁ nu samarpayāmi te ||
    (Stotra-ratna: 53)

    “O Master, whatever is mine and whoever I am—all of this is actually yours alone. O Mādhava, with this enlightened awareness of [everything] being eternally your own, what now can I even offer you?”

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  • vapur-ādiṣu yo’pi ko’pi vā
    guṇato’sāni yathā-tathā-vidhaḥ |
    tad ayaṁ tava pāda-padmayor
    aham adyaiva mayā samarpitaḥ ||
    (Stotra-ratna: 52; cited in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.196)

    “Whoever I may be inside the body and so forth, and of whatever sort [I may be in terms of body and so forth] according to the guṇas—today as such this ‘I’ is offered by me at your lotus feet.”

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  • jānāmi dharmaṁ na ca me pravṛttir
    jānāmy adharmaṁ na ca me nivṛttiḥ |
    tvayā hṛṣīkeśa hṛdi sthitena 
    yathā niyukto’smi tathā karomi ||
    (Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 3.94)

    “I understand dharma, but I do not have the propensity [to follow it]. I understand adharma, but I do not have the restraint [to abstain from it]. O Hṛṣīkeśa [i.e., O Master of the senses], as I am engaged by you, who are situated in my heart, so I act.”

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  • Eight verses in praise of Śrī Hari

    By Śrī Jayadeva Gosvāmī

    Read on →: Maṅgala-gītam

  • mārabi rākhabi yo iccha tohārā |
    nitya-dāse prati tuyā adhikārā ||
    (Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s Śaraṇāgati: 11.3)

    “You may kill me or protect me as you wish. You have [full] authority over your eternal servant.”

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  • manye’kutaścid-bhayam acyutasya
    pādāmbujopāsanam atra nityam |
    udvigna-buddher asad-ātma-bhāvād
    viśātmanā yatra nivartate bhīḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.2.33; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.258; Bhakti Sandarbha: 59)

    “I affirm that here [i.e., in saṁsāra], worship of the lotus feet of Acyuta, wherein fear ceases in all respects, is complete fearlessness [i.e., is the ultimate safety and well-being] for those whose minds are perpetually disturbed because of identification with the unreal [i.e., the non-self: the material body and mind].”

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