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  • sā hānis tan mahac chidraṁ sa mohaḥ sa ca vibhramaḥ |
    yan muhūrtaṁ kṣaṇaṁ vāpi vāsudevaṁ na kīrtayet ||
    (Kātyāyana Saṁhitā; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.508; Bhakti Sandarbha: 115; Sarva-samvādinī on Bhagavat Sandarbha, Durgama-saṅgaminī to Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.247; Krama-sandarbha-ṭīkā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 2.9.35)

    “That moment or even instant in which Vāsudeva is not praised is a loss, a great fault, a delusion, and a fiasco.”

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  • tad eva ramyaṁ ruciraṁ navaṁ navaṁ
    tad eva śaśvan manaso mahotsavam |
    tad eva śokārṇava-śoṣaṇaṁ nṛṇāṁ
    yad uttamaḥśloka-yaśo’nugīyate ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 12.12.50; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha 269)

    “Only that [speech] through which the glory of he of highest praise is continuously sung is pleasing, relishable, and ever-new, only that is a grand, eternal festival for the heart, and only that dries up the ocean of humanity’s lamentation.”

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  • mṛṣā giras tā hy asatīr asat-kathā
    na kathyate yad bhagavān adhokṣajaḥ |
    tad eva satyaṁ tad u haiva maṅgalaṁ
    tad eva puṇyaṁ bhagavad-guṇodayam ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 12.12.49; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha 269)

    [Translation based on the Sārārtha-darśinī-ṭīkā:] “False, harsh, and improper is that speech which does not describe Bhagavān Adhokṣaja. Only that [speech] through which Bhagavān’s qualities manifest is truthful, only that is beneficial, and only that is purifying.” [Translation based on the Bhakti Sandarbha vyākhyā:] “Vain, false, and extraneous is that speech which does not describe Bhagavān Adhokṣaja. Only that [speech] through which Bhagavān’s qualities manifest is truthful, only that is beneficial, and only that is purifying.”

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  • vidvattvaṁ ca nṛpatvaṁ ca naiva tulye kadācana |
    svadeśe pūjyate rājā vidvān sarvatra pūjyate ||
    (Hitopadeśa)

    “Being wise and being a ruler are never comparable [i.e, equal]. A king is honored in his own country. A wiseman is honored everywhere.”

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  • kiṁ kāvyena kaves tasya kiṁ kāṇḍena dhanuṣmataḥ |
    parasya hṛdaye lagnaṁ na ghūrṇayati yac chiraḥ ||
    (Nala-campū: 1.5; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.1.195)

    “What good is a poet’s poetry or a bowman’s arrow which strikes the heart of another but do not cause the head [of the other] to spin?”

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  • itara-pāpa-phalāni yathecchayā
    vitara tāni sahe caturānana |
    arasikeṣu kavitva-nivedanaṁ
    śirasi mā likha mā likha mā likha ||
    (Mahāsubhāṣita-saṅgraha)

    “I shall bear [all] those other reactions to my sins you allocate as per your wish, O Brahmā. Just do not write, do not write, do not write on my forehead, “Presenting poetics to the tasteless.”

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