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  • durgamaṁ sugamaṁ tattvaṁ bhaved yasya prasādataḥ |
    rādhā-kṛṣṇa-rase magnaṁ śrīmad-rūpaṁ namāmi tam ||
    (Mukunda Dāsa Gosvāmī in his Artha-ratnālpa-dīpikā on Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.1.1)

    “I offer obeisance unto him, Śrī Rūpa, who is absorbed in the rasa of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, and by whose grace difficult to understand tattva shall become easy to understand.”

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  • ādadānas tṛṇaṁ dantair idaṁ yāche punaḥ punaḥ |
    śrīmad rūpa-padāmbhoja-dhūliḥ syāṁ janma-janmani ||
    (Muktā-caritam)

    “Taking a blade of grass between my teeth, I pray for this again and again, ‘May I be a speck of dust at the lotus feet of Śrīmad Rūpa birth after birth.‘”

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  • yad yatnataḥ śama-damātma-viveka-yogair
    adhyātma-lagnam avikāram abhūn mano me |
    rūpasya tat-smita-sudhaṁ sadayāvalokam
    āsādya mādyati hareś caritair idānīm ||
    (Stavāvalī: Abhīṣṭa-sūcana, 2)

    “Because of whose care my mind, through equipoise [i.e., fixity upon Bhagavān], restraint [of the senses], discernment [i.e., discrimination between the self and non-self], and yoga [i.e., meditation], became fixed in the higher self [i.e., Bhagavān] and undisturbed [by lust, anger, and so forth]—by receiving now the nectar of that Rūpa’s smile and [his] gracious glance, my mind becomes maddened by the acts of Hari!”

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  • kālena vṛndāvana-keli-vārttā
    lupteti tāṁ khyāpayituṁ viśiṣya |
    kṛpāmṛtenābhiṣiṣeca devas
    tatraiva rūpaṁ ca sanātanaṁ ca ||
    (Caitanyacandrodaya-nāṭaka: 9.38; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.19.119)

    “In the course of time, discussion of the play [i.e., līlā of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa] in Vṛndāvana was lost. Therefore, to distinguish and disseminate this, Deva [i.e., Śrīman Mahāprabhu], specifically in this respect, anointed Rūpa and Sanātana with the nectar of his grace.”

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  • rucim udvahatas tatra janasya bhajane hareḥ |
    viṣayeṣu gariṣṭho’pi rāgaḥ prāyo vilīyate ||
    (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.254)

    “For a person endowed with ruci there in bhajana of Hari, even the heaviest attachment to the sense objects largely dissolves.”

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  • sad-bhāvena haren mitraṁ sambhrameṇa tu bāndhavān |
    strī-bhṛtyau dāna-mānābhyāṁ dākṣiṇyenetarān janān ||
    (Hitopadeśa: Sandhi, 112)

    “Win over a friend with sincerity, relatives with honor, a wife or a servant with gifts and recognition, and others with cordiality.”

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