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  • pitāmaho me bhavadīya-sammataḥ
    prahrāda āviṣkṛta-sādhu-vādaḥ |
    bhavad-vipakṣeṇa vicitra-vaiśasaṁ
    samprāpitas tvaṁ paramaḥ sva-pitrā ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 8.22.8)

    [Bali Mahārāja to Vāmanadeva:] “Highly honored by those who are your own, and known to be of virtuous renown, my grandfather, Prahrāda [i.e., Prahlāda], underwent multifarious torture from his own father, who was inimical to you, and [still] held you to be his refuge.” 

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  • bhavanti puruṣā loke mad-bhaktās tvām anuvratāḥ |
    bhavān me khalu bhaktānāṁ sarveṣāṁ pratirūpa-dhṛk ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 7.10.21)

    [Nṛsiṁhadeva to Prahlāda Mahārāja:] “People in the world who follow you become my bhaktas, for you are indeed the paragon for all of my bhaktas.”

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  • A garland of verses for Mukunda

    By Śrī Kulaśekhara Ālvāra

    Read on →: Mukunda-mālā-stotra

  • abhyāso na hi tyaktavyo abhyāso hi paraṁ balam |
    anabhyāse viṣaṁ vidyā ajīrṇe bhojanaṁ viṣam ||
    (Subhāṣita-mañjarī)

    “Practice (abhyāsa) is never to be abandoned. Practice is indeed the greatest strength. Without practice, knowledge is poison, just as food is poison during indigestion.”

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  • durbalasya balaṁ rājā bālānāṁ rodanaṁ balam |
    balaṁ mūrkhasya maunitvaṁ caurāṇām anṛtam balam ||
    (Cāṇakya-nīti)

    “The strength of the weak is the king. The strength of children is crying. The strength of a fool is silence, and the strength of thieves is deceit.”

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  • āvirbhūya mano-vṛttau vrajanti tat-svarūpatām |
    svayaṁ-prakāśa-rūpāpi bhāsamānā prākāśyavat ||
    vastutaḥ svayam āsvāda-svarūpaiva ratis tv asau |
    kṛṣṇādi-karmakāsvāda-hetutvaṁ pratipadyate ||
    (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.3.4–5)

    “Although self-luminous in form, this rati appears in a vṛtti of the mind, assumes the state of its nature, and shines like something to be illuminated [by that vṛtti]. In reality this rati is itself taste just by [its own] nature, yet it enters the state of being the cause of tasting its objects, Kṛṣṇa and so forth.”

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