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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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  • 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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