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- Read on →: yaḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-padāmbhoja-bhajanaikābhilāṣavān
yaḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-padāmbhoja-bhajanaikābhilāṣavān |
tenaiva dṛśyatām etad anyasmai śapatho’rpitaḥ ||
(Tattva Sandarbha: 6)“This [treatise, viz., Bhāgavata Sandarbha] is meant to be studied only by one whose sole aspiration is worship of the lotus feet of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. A curse [i.e., a prohibition on studying it] is cast upon anyone else.”
- Read on →: idaṁ te nātapaskāya nābhaktāya kadācana
idaṁ te nātapaskāya nābhaktāya kadācana |
na cāśuśrūṣave vācyaṁ na ca māṁ yo’bhyasūyati ||
(Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā: 18.67)“[Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa:] Neither to someone who is neglectful of austerity, nor to a non-bhakta, nor to someone who does not wish to listen, nor to someone who casts aspersions on me is this [i.e., this śāstra, Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā] ever to be spoken.”
- Read on →: gopayed devatām iṣṭāṁ gopayed gurum ātmanaḥ
gopayed devatām iṣṭāṁ gopayed gurum ātmanaḥ |
gopayec ca nijaṁ mantraṁ gopayen nija-mālikām ||
(Sammohana Tantra; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 2.147)“One should conceal [one’s] Iṣṭa-devatā. One should conceal one’s guru. One should conceal one’s mantra. One should conceal one’s mālikā.”
- Read on →: yathā siddha-rasa-sparśāt tāmraṁ bhavati kāñcanam
yathā siddha-rasa-sparśāt tāmraṁ bhavati kāñcanam |
sannidhānād guror evaṁ śiṣyo viṣṇumayo bhavet ||
(Āgama-śāstra; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha: 237)“As copper turns into gold at the touch of quicksilver, so a disciple becomes absorbed in [devotion to] Viṣṇu as a result of being in the company of guru.”