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  • sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ sarve santu nirāmayāḥ |
    sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu mā kaścid duḥkha-bhāg bhavet ||
    (Unknown Source)

    “May all be happy. May all be free from disease. May all see blessedness. May no one undergo suffering.”

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  • sarvas taratu durgāṇi sarvo bhadrāṇi paśyatu |
    sarvaḥ sad-buddhim āpnotu sarvaḥ sarvatra nandatu ||
    (Unknown Source)

    “May all overcome their difficulties. May all see blessedness. May all attain proper awareness. May all rejoice everywhere [and always].”

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  • ramaṇa-kavala-śiṣṭaṁ san-mṛṇālaṁ marālyaḥ
    kiśalaya-kulam eṇyaḥ śrī-marandaṁ bhramaryaḥ |
    amṛtam iva cakroyaś caindavaṁ rādhikādyā
    mumudur adhikam annaṁ prāsya kṛṣṇāvaśiṣṭam ||
    (Govinda-līlāmṛta: 20.71)

    “Rādhikā and her companions felt abundant delight eating the remnants of Kṛṣṇa’s food just as female swans do by eating morsels of the remnants of fine lotus stems left by their husbands, deer do by eating young shoots, bees do by eating bright flower nectar, and cakorīs do by drinking the moon’s nectar.”

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  • bhaktyā kṛṣṇasya rājendra prasādaṁ caraṇodakam |
    ye gṛhṇanti bhaveyur bhū-pāvanā nātra saṁśayaḥ ||
    (Garga-saṁhitā: 10.62.8)

    “O best of kings, those who partake of Kṛṣṇa’s prasādam and foot-water with bhakti become purifiers of the earth. Of this there is no doubt.”

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  • vrajātula-kulāṅganetara-rasāli-tṛṣṇā-hara-
    pradīvyad-adharāmṛtaḥ sukṛti-labhya-phelā-lavaḥ | 
    sudhā-jid-ahivallikā-sudala-vīṭikā-carvitaḥ
    sa me madana-mohanaḥ sakhi tanoti jihvā-spṛhām ||
    (Govinda Līlāmṛta: 8.8; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.16.119)

    “[Rādhārāṇī to Viśākhā:] The amṛta of his most lustrous lips takes away the incomparable noble women of Vraja’s thirst for [all] other rasas. A morsel of his remnants is attainable [only] by sukṛti. And the pan roll he has chewed made from fine leaves of betel defeats nectar. O sakhi, Madana-mohana increases the desire of my tongue.”

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  • adharera ei rīti, āra śunaha kunīti,
    se-adhara sane yāra melā |
    sei bhakṣya bhojya pāna, haya amṛta-samāna,
    nāma tāra haya ‘kṛṣṇa-phelā’ ||
    se phelāra eka lava, nā pāya devatā-saba,
    e dambhe kebā pātiyāya? |
    bahu janma puṇya kare, tabe sukṛti nāma dhare,
    se sukṛti tāra lava pāya ||
    (Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.16.130–131)

    “This is the way of your lips. Please hear of further ill-conduct [on their part]. The food, drink, and pan that meet with your lips becomes like amṛta, and are then known as ‘Kṛṣṇa-phelā’ [i.e., Kṛṣṇa’s remnants]. All the devatās do not attain [even] one morsel of such phelā.’ Who can believe this pride [on the part of Kṛṣṇa’s phelā]? One who engages in puṇya for many births bears the name sukṛti [i.e., “a person of excellent action”], and [only] such a sukṛti attains a morsel of this [phelā].”

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