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  • sukhaṁ me sarvadā bhūyāt dukhaṁ mā bhūt kadācana |
    itīcchā sarva-sāmānyā jñānād eva tat siddhyate ||
    (Unknown source)

    “May I always be happy. May I never suffer. This desire is common to all, and it is fulfilled only through knowledge.”

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  • sukham eva sadā me syāt duḥkhaṁ mā bhūt kadācana |
    (Bhaviṣyottara Purāṇa: 1.10)

    “May I always be happy. May I never suffer.”

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  • Moonlight on Prema-bhakti

    By Śrīman Narottama Dāsa Ṭhākura Mahāśaya/p>

    Read on →: Prema-bhakti-candrikā

  • yadā vai sukhaṁ labhate’tha karoti, nāsukhaṁ labdhvā karoti, sukham eva labdhvā karoti |
    sukhaṁ tv eva vijijñāsitavyam iti sukhaṁ bhagavo vijijñāsa iti ||
    (Chāndogya Upaniṣad: 7.22.1)

    [Sanat Kumāra:] “Certainly when one attains happiness, then one acts. Upon attaining unhappiness, one does not act. Only upon attaining happiness does one act. Indeed happiness is to be desired to be known in depth.”
[Nārada:] “O venerable one, I desire to know happiness in depth.”

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  • deva-drohād guru-drohaḥ koṭi-koṭi-guṇādhikaḥ |
    jñānāpavādo nāstikyaṁ tasmād koṭi-guṇādhikam ||
    (Kūrma Purāṇa; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.751; Bhakti Sandarbha: 265)

    “Offence to guru is tens of millions of times worse than offence to the Deity. But denial of knowledge and disbelief are ten millions times worse than that [i.e., than offence to guru].”

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  • jano janasyādiśate’satīṁ gatiṁ
    yayā prapadyeta duratyayaṁ tamaḥ |
    tvaṁ tv avyayaṁ jñānam amogham añjasā
    prapadyate yena jano nijaṁ padam ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 8.24.51)

    [Satyavrata Rāja to Matsya Avatāra:] “A person [i.e., a worldly guru] teaches the unrighteous path [i.e., the pursuit of artha, kāma, and so on] whereby a person shall attain to unsurmountable darkness [i.e., saṁsāra], but you [appear in the form of the guru and] teach imperishable and unerring knowledge whereby a person quickly attains your own abode [alt., your own feet].”

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