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  • yadi vahasi tridaṇḍaṁ nagra-muṇḍaṁ jaṭāṁ vā
    yadi vasasi guhāyāṁ parvatāgre śilālayām |
    yadi paṭhasi purāṇaṁ veda-siddhānta-tattvaṁ
    yadi hṛdayam aśuddhaṁ sarvam etan na kiñcit ||
    (Unknown source)

    “Someone may bear a tridaṇḍa [lit., “triple-staff”] and a shaved head or dreadlocks,
    Someone may live in a cave or in a stone recess at the top of a mountain,
    Someone may study the Purāṇas and the conclusions and principles of the Vedas,
    But if one’s heart is impure, then all of this goes for nothing.”

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  • santuṣṭyā manaḥ |
    (Sārārtha-darśinī-ṭīkā to Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.5.4)

    “The mind is purified by contentment.”

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  • akartuḥ mad-bhaktāv api bhagavān eva me bhaktiṁ kārayatīti buddhyā svātantryeṇa kartṛtvābhimāna-śūnyāt |
    (Excerpt from the Sārārtha-darśinī-ṭīkā to Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.29.33)

    “‘Non-doer’ means one who is such [i.e., a non-doer] on account of being free from the pride of being a doer independently by virtue of the mentality, ’Even in my bhakti [i.e., the bhakti I perform], Bhagavān causes my bhakti to be performed [i.e., I myself perform no action independently without being enabled to perform that action by him].’”

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  • akartur arpitātmatvena sva-bharaṇādi-karmānapekṣamāṇāt | yad bhagavati bhaktiḥ kriyate, tatrāpi svasya bhagavad-adhīnatvaṁ jñātvā tad-abhimāna-śūnyāc ca |
    (Excerpt from the Krama-sandarbha-ṭīkā to Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.29.33 and Bhakti Sandarbha: 106)

    “‘Non-doer’ means one who is such [i.e., a non-doer] on account of being unconcerned about activities beginning with maintaining oneself because of having offered oneself [to me, Bhagavān], and on account of being free from pride in the bhakti to Bhagavān one performs by understanding one’s own dependence upon Bhagavān therein as well.”

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  • harau ratiṁ vahann eṣa narendrāṇāṃ śikhāmaṇiḥ |
    bhikṣām aṭann ari-pure śvapākam api vandate ||
    (Padma Purāṇa; cited in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.3.33)

    “Holding rati for Hari [in his heart], this crest jewel among kings [i.e., Bhagīratha Mahārāja] went to beg alms at the homes of enemies and bowed down even to outcastes [lit., dog-cookers].”

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  • na svalpam apy adhyavasāya-bhīroḥ
    karoti vijñāna-vidhir guṇaṁ hi |
    andhasya kiṁ hasta-tala-sthito’pi
    prakāśayaty artham iha pradīpaḥ ||
    (Hitopadeśa: 1.165)

    “Application of knowledge [alt., of the faculty of discrimination] does not do even a little good for one who is afraid of determined action [i.e., putting one’s knowledge and conclusions into practice in the face of obstacles]. What object in this world does even a lamp present in the palm of the hand illuminate for a blind person?”

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