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  • tasmān nandātmajo’yaṁ te nārāyaṇa-samo guṇaiḥ |
    śriyā kīrtyānubhāvena gopāyasva samāhitaḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.8.19)

    [Gargācārya to Nanda Mahārāja:] “Therefore, O Nanda, attentively protect this son of yours who in qualities, beauty, glory, and influence is equal to Nārāyaṇa [alt., is he to whom Nārāyaṇa is equal in some, but not all, respects].”

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  • yasya brahmeti saṁjñāṁ kvacid api nigame yāti cin-mātra-sattāpy
    aṁśo yasyāṁśakaiḥ svair vibhavati vaśayann eva māyāṁ pumāṁś ca |
    ekaṁ yasyaiva rūpaṁ vilasati parama-vyomni nārāyaṇākhyaṁ
    sa śrī-kṛṣṇo vidhattāṁ svayam iha bhagavān prema tat-pāda-bhājām ||
    (Tattva Sandarbha: 8)

    “He whose existence purely as consciousness is called Brahman in parts of the Vedas, whose expansion the Puruṣa [i.e., Mahāviṣṇu] controls māyā [i.e., the material energy] and manifests as his own sub-expansions, and whose particular form known as Nārāyaṇa enjoys in Paravyoma [lit., ‘the higher sky,’ i.e., the spiritual world]—may [he,] Śrī Kṛṣṇa, Svayaṁ Bhagavān, bestow prema upon the servants of his feet here [i.e., in this world].”

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  • akhila-rasāmṛta-mūrtiḥ |
    (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.1.1)

    “The embodiment of the nectar of all rasas [Śrī Kṛṣṇa …].”

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  • īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ |
    anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam ||
    (Brahma-saṁhitā: 5.1)

    “The Controller, the Supreme Being, Kṛṣṇa, is the embodiment of eternal being, consciousness, and bliss, the origin without origin, Govinda, and the cause of all causes.”

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  • paṇḍitā bahavo rājan bahu-jñāḥ saṁśaya-cchidaḥ |
    sadasas patayo’py eke asantoṣāt patanty adhaḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 7.15.21)

    “O King! Many paṇḍitas who have vast knowledge and can cut away [others’] doubts, and even numerous assembly leaders [i.e., paṇḍitas of the highest rank], fall down because of dissatisfaction [i.e., the inability to be satisfied, that is, because of greed].”

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  • śanaiḥ panthāḥ śanaiḥ kanthā śanaiḥ parvata-laṅghanam |
    śanaiḥ vidyā śanaiḥ vittaṁ pañcaitāni śanaiḥ śanaiḥ ||
    (Unknown source)

    “Gradually a path, gradually a quilt, gradually climbing a mountain, gradually knowledge, and gradually wealth—gradually, gradually these five [come about].”

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