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  • manasaitāni bhūtāni praṇamed bahu-mānayan |
    īśvaro jīva-kalayā praviṣṭo bhagavān iti ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 3.29.34; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha 106)

    “Within the mind one should offer obeisance to and greatly honor [all] these beings, [considering,] ‘Bhagavān, Īśvara, has entered [all these beings] by means of impelling the jīvas [i.e., by virtue of his being the Inner Regulator (Antaryāmī), meaning, the Īśvara, within them].”

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  • atha māṁ sarva-bhūteṣu bhūtātmānaṁ kṛtālayam |
    arhayed dāna-mānābhyāṁ maitryābhinnena cakṣuṣā ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 3.29.27; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha 106)

    [Translation as per the Krama-sandarbha-ṭīkā:] “Therefore, with charity, respect, friendship, and eyes of non-difference, one should worship me, the Ātma of all beings, who have made my abode in all beings.”

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  • ei se vaiṣṇava-dharma sabāre praṇati |
    sei dharma-dhvajī yāra ithe nāhi rati ||
    (Caitanya-bhāgavata: 3.3.29)

    “Offering obeisances to everyone—this is Vaiṣṇava-dharma. One who has no affinity for this is [just] a dharma–flag-bearer [i.e., a pseudo follower of dharma who merely makes a show of following it but actually does not follow it at all].”

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  • uttama hañā vaiṣṇava habe nirabhimāna |
    jīve sammāna dibe jāni’ kṛṣṇa-adhiṣṭhāna ||
    (Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.20.25)

    “Although exalted, a Vaiṣṇava should be prideless and give respect to all jīvas, knowing them to be dwelling places of Kṛṣṇa.”

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  • ātmā nadī saṁyama-puṇya-tīrthā
    satyodakā śīla-taṭā dayormiḥ |
    tatrābhiṣekaṁ kuru pāṇḍu-putra
    na vāriṇā śuṣyati cāntarātmā ||
    (Hitopadeśa: Sandhi, 93)

    “The self is a river: discipline is its auspicious bathing places, truth its water, character its banks, and compassion its waves. Bath there, O son of Pāṇḍu. The inner self is not purified by water.”

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  • śucitvam atra tad-ananya-vṛttitvam |
    (Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha: 106)

    “Purity (śucitvam) in this regard [i.e., on the part of a bhakta] is the state of having a vṛtti [i.e., conduct, alt., mode of being, mentality] exclusively related to him [i.e., Bhagavān, and thus being free from any inclination and activity unrelated to Bhagavān].”

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