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  • yasya sphūrti-lavāṅkureṇa laghunāpy antar munīnāṁ manaḥ
    spṛṣṭaṁ mokṣa-sukhād virajyati jhaṭity āsvādyamānād api |
    premṇas tasya mukunda sāhasitayā śaknotu kaḥ prārthane
    bhūyāj janmani janmani pracayinī kintu spṛhāpy atra me ||
    (Stava-mālā: Aṣṭādaśa-cchanda, Vastra-haraṇa, 2)

    “O Mukunda, who could have the capability to boldly pray for that prema upon being touched by even a tiny sprout of a minute manifestation of which the inner minds of sages immediately become disaffected from even the satisfaction of mokṣa they are relishing? [No one.] Birth after birth, however, let me just have [ever-] increasing desire for that [i.e., that prema].”

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  • premā yo’sau rādhikā-kṛṣṇa-yugmaṁ
    svānandena plāvayitvā sakhīś ca |
    śaśvad viśvaṁ plāvayan suprasiddhaḥ
    so’yaṁ buddhiṁ naḥ samiddhāṁ karotu ||
    (Gopāla-campū: 15.10)

    “That prema which has inundated the couple Rādhikā and Kṛṣṇa and the sakhīs with its own bliss and which continuously inundates the universe has become very well known. May this [prema] here inflame our mind.”

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  • namo’stu te mahāyogin prapannam anuśādhi mām |
    yathā tvac-caraṇāmbhoje ratiḥ syād anapāyinī ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.29.40)

    “[Uddhava to Kṛṣṇa:] May my obeisance be [offered] unto you, O greatest of yogīs. Please instruct me, who have taken shelter [in you], so that I may have everlasting rati for your lotus feet.”

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  • bhave bhave yathā bhaktiḥ pādayos tava jāyate |
    tathā kuruṣva deveśa nāthas tvaṁ no yataḥ prabho ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 12.13.22)

    “O Lord of the devas! Please act so that bhakti to your feet appears [within us] birth after birth, since you are our Master, O Prabhu!”

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  • śoṇa-snigdhāṅguli-dala-kulaṁ jāta-rāgaṁ parāgaiḥ
    śrī-rādhāyāḥ stana-mukulayoḥ kuṅkuma-kṣoda-rūpaiḥ |
    bhakta-śraddhā-madhu-nakha-mahaḥ-puñja-kiñjalka-jālaṁ
    jaṅghā-nālaṁ caraṇa-kamalaṁ pātu naḥ pūtanāreḥ ||
    (Ānanda-vṛndāvana-campū: 1.2)

    “[Consisting of] The stem of his shanks,
    The petals of his crimson, tender toes,
    The filament cluster of the radiance of his toenails,
    And the nectar of bhaktas’ śraddhā,
    And reddened by the pollen
    Of the ground kumkum from the buds of Śrī Rādhā’s breasts—
    May the lotus of the feet of Pūtanā’s Foe protect us.”

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  • tad ahaṁ tvad ṛte na nāthavān
    mad ṛte tvaṁ dayanīyavān na ca |
    vidhi-nirmitam etad anvayaṁ
    bhagavan pālaya mā sma jīhaya ||
    (Stotra-ratna: 51)

    “Therefore, without you, I do not have a master, and without me, you do not have a suitable recipient for your grace. This is our relationship, formed by destiny. O Bhagavān, please protect me; do not ever reject me.”

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