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  • Eight verses in praise the Divine Couple

    Of uncertain authorship; attributed by some to Śrīmad Jīva Gosvāmīpāda

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  • The ten essential verses of Śrī Śrī Govinda-līlāmṛta

    By Śrīmad Kṛṣṇa Dāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmīpāda

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  • yāvat pāpais tu malinaṁ hṛdayaṁ tāvad eva hi |
    na śāstre satya-buddhiḥ syāt sad-buddhiḥ sad-gurau tathā ||
    aneka-janma-janita-puṇya-rāśi-phalaṁ mahat |
    sat-saṅga-śāstra-śravaṇād eva premādi jāyate ||
    (Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha: 1)

    “As long as the heart is polluted by sins, conviction in the truthfulness of the śāstra and conviction in the truthfulness of a true guru does not come about. Prema and so forth, which are the ultimate result of the accumulation of merit [i.e., engagement in practices of bhakti] created over the course of many births, manifest only by hearing śāstra in the association of sādhus.”

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  • ekākṣara-pradātāraṁ yo guruṁ nābhivandate |
    śvāna-yoni-śataṁ gatvā cāṇḍāleṣv abhijāyate ||
    (Cāṇakya-nīti-darpaṇa: 13.20)

    “One who does not respect a guru who has taught [even] a single syllable will undergo one hundred births as a dog and then be born among cāṇḍālas.”

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  • e saba-prasāde likhi caitanya-līlā-guṇa |
    yaiche taiche likhi, kari āpana pāvana ||
    (Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.11.10)

    “By the grace of them all [i.e., by the grace of Śrī Caitanya, Śrī Nityānanda, Śrī Advaita, their bhaktas, and the six gosvāmīs in particular], I write about Caitanya’s līlā and qualities. Howsoever I write [i.e., as I write to the best of my ability, as meager and faulty as that may be], I [at least] purify myself.”

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  • tad-vāg-visargo janatāgha-viplavo
    yasmin prati-ślokam abaddhavaty api |
    nāmāny anantasya yaśo’ṅkitāni yac
    chṛṇvanti gāyanti gṛṇanti sādhavaḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.5.11; 12.12.52)

    “Destructive of humanity’s sins is any composition of language in which, even if devoid of [syntactical] sense, there are names marked with [i.e., derived from descriptions of] the glories of Ananta [i.e., Bhagavān, lit., “he who is without end”] in every verse, since sādhus hear, sing, and speak [those names in the process of reciting the composition].”

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