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  • madhuraṁ madhuraṁ vapur asya vibhor
    madhuraṁ madhuraṁ vadanaṁ madhuram |
    madhu-gandhi mṛdu-smitam etad aho
    madhuraṁ madhuraṁ madhuraṁ madhuram ||
    (Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta: 92; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.21.136)

    “Sweet, swee Is this Lord’s figure.
    Sweet, sweet, swee Is his face.
    [And] Aho! Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet
    Is this gentle, honey-scented smile.”

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  • citraṁ tad etac caraṇāravindaṁ
    citraṁ tad etan nayanāravindam |
    citraṁ tad etad vadanāravindaṁ
    citraṁ tad etad vapur asya citram ||
    (Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta: 89)

    “Wondrous are these lotus feet!
    Wondrous are these lotus eyes
    Wondrous is this lotus face
    Wondrous, wondrous is this figure of his!”

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  • śuddhiṁ śuddha-bhakti-vāsanā-rūpām |
    (Prīti Sandarbha: 36)

    “‘Purity’ (śuddhim) [as spoken of in SB 7.13.22] refers to inclination (vāsanā) for pure bhakti [to Bhagavān].”

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  • tad evaṁ śaraṇāpattir vivṛtā |
    asyāś cāpūrvatvaṁ tāṁ vinā tadīyatvāsiddheḥ |
    (Bhakti Sandarbha: 237)

    “Thus, in this way, śaraṇāpatti [i.e., śaraṇāgati] has been described. And its incomparability [lit., “unprecedentedness”] is because of the non-establishment of being his own without it [i.e., one does not attain the actual feeling of belonging to Bhagavān, and Bhagavān does not actually consider one his own, that is, as one of his bhaktas, without śaraṇāgati].”

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  • yasyām eva kavaya ātmānam avirataṁ vividha-vṛjina-saṁsāra-paritāpopatapyamānam anusavanaṁ snāpayantas tayaiva parayā nirvṛtyā hy apavargam ātyantikaṁ parama-puruṣārtham api svayam āsāditaṁ no evādriyante bhagavadīyatvenaiva parisamāpta-sarvārthāḥ |
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 5.6.17; cited in Prīti Sandarbha: 19)

    “Incessantly immersing the self—which is [otherwise] being continuously afflicted by the sufferings of saṁsāra beset with various types of sin—in which [i.e., in one-pointed bhakti to Vāsudeva as aforementioned], the wise, who have fully attained all [puruṣa-] arthas solely by virtue of [their] belongingness to Bhagavān, with the supreme satisfaction of that [one-pointed bhakti to Vāsudeva] do not show any regard even to [what is conventionally considered] the final, ultimate puruṣārtha, apavarga [i.e., mukti of any of the five types] [even] when obtained of its own accord [i.e., offered by Śrī Bhagavān himself even though it has not been desired].”

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  • smerāṁ bhaṅgī-traya-paricitāṁ sāci-vistīrṇa-dṛṣṭiṁ
    vaṁśī-nyastādhara-kiśalayām ujjvalāṁ candrakeṇa |
    govindākhyāṁ hari-tanum itaḥ keśi-tīrthopakaṇṭhe
    mā prekṣiṣṭhās tava yadi sakhe bandhu-saṅge’sti raṅgaḥ ||
    (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.239; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 1.5.224)

    “O friend! If you enjoy in the company of kinsmen, then from here do not look towards the figure of Hari known as Govinda near Keśi Tīrtha smiling with the vaṁśī fixed on the sprouts of lips as he casts sidelong glances in a threefold posture and shines with the eye of a peacock feather [decorating his diadem].”

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