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- Read on →: naikatra priya-saṁvāsaḥ suhṛdāṁ citra-karmaṇām
naikatra priya-saṁvāsaḥ suhṛdāṁ citra-karmaṇām |
oghena vyūhyamānānāṁ plavānāṁ srotaso yathā ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.5.25)“Living together with dear companions of variegated karma is not [always] possible, just as floating objects are [inevitably] separated by the current of a river.”
- Read on →: na vinā vipralambhena sambhogaḥ puṣṭim aśnute
na vinā vipralambhena sambhogaḥ puṣṭim aśnute |
(Bhojadeva’s Sarasvatī-kaṇṭhābharaṇa: 5.52; cited in Ujjvala-nīlāmaṇi: 15.3)“Without separation, union does not attain richness.”
- Read on →: saṅgama-viraha-vikalpe
saṅgama-viraha-vikalpe
varam iha viraho na saṅgamas tasya |
ekaḥ sa eva saṅge
tribhuvanam api tanmayaṁ virahe ||
(Unknown source; cited in Padyāvalī: 239; Ānanda-candrikā-ṭīkā on Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi: 15.3)“In the instance of [a lover having] an option between union and separation, separation is preferable in this case, and not union with him [i.e., the beloved]. In union, he alone is there, while in separation, indeed the three worlds are filled with him.”
- Read on →: kathañcana smāraṇam eva teṣām
kathañcana smāraṇam eva teṣām
avehi taj-jīvana-dānam eva |
teṣāṁ yato vismaraṇaṁ kadācit
prāṇādhikānāṁ maraṇāc ca nindyam ||
na sambhaved asmaraṇaṁ kadāpi
sva-jīvanānāṁ yad api priyāṇām |
tathāpi kenāpi viśeṣaṇena
smṛtiḥ praharṣāya yathā su-jīvitam ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.129–130)[Bhagavān to Nārada:] “Understand that somehow producing remembrance of them [i.e., those who are dear] is to give [those endowed with prema] life itself because any sort of forgetfulness of them who are more [dear] than one’s very life is more contemptible than dying [for those endowed with prema]. Although forgetting those who are as dear as one’s very life is never possible, still any sort of special remembrance [of them] is as great a joy as an abundant life.”
- Read on →: tac-choka-duḥkhoparamasya paścāc
tac-choka-duḥkhoparamasya paścāc
cittaṁ yataḥ pūrṇatayā prasannam |
samprāpta-sambhoga-mahā-sukhena
sampanna-vat tiṣṭhati sarvadaiva ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.127)[Bhagavān to Nārada:] “This is so because after the cessation of the sorrow of such grief [i.e., that produced by separation], the heart remains completely satisfied as though it is endowed constantly with the great joy of attained union.”