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Read on →: ekasmin vāsanā-dehe yadi cānyasya bhāvanā
ekasmin vāsanā-dehe yadi cānyasya bhāvanā |
tarhi tat-sāmyam eva syād yathā vai bharate nṛpe ||
(Bhakti-tattva-kaumudī; cited in Gaura-Govindārcana-smaraṇa-paddhati (149) of Gopāla Guru Gosvāmī and Dhyānacandra Govsāmī (152))“If thought of another [body] occurs while in one cognitional body, then likeness with that specifically shall occur [i.e., then one will attain a body like the one that was thought of], as in the case of King Bharata [who attained the body of a deer after being prolongedly absorbed in thought of a deer he had taken into his care].”
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Read on →: hariṁ surāga-mārgeṇa sevate yo narottamaḥ
hariṁ surāga-mārgeṇa sevate yo narottamaḥ |
kevalenaiva sa tadā gopikātvam iyād vraje ||
(Attributed to Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmīpāda in Aṣṭa-kālīya-līlā-smaraṇa-paddhati (148) of Gopāla Guru Gosvāmī and Dhyānacandra Govsāmī (151))“An exalted human being who worships Hari by means of the excellent path of rāga [i.e., the path of rāgānugā-bhakti-sādhana] alone then attains the state of being a gopikā in Vraja.”
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Read on →: martyo yadā tyakta-samasta-karmā
martyo yadā tyakta-samasta-karmā
niveditātmā vicikīrṣito me |
tadāmṛtatvaṁ pratipadyamāno
mayātma-bhūyāya ca kalpate vai ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.29.34; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 8.421; Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.194; Bhakti Sandarbha: 309; Prīti Sandarbha: 13; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.22.103; Sārārtha-darśinī-ṭīkā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 5.12.11)“When a mortal becomes one who has forsaken all karmas and offered the self to me, then he becomes distinctly desirous to act, attains immortality, and verily becomes fit for becoming of selfsame nature with me.”
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Read on →: lakṣeṣu śṛṇute kaścit koṭiṣv ekas tu budhyate
lakṣeṣu śṛṇute kaścit koṭiṣv ekas tu budhyate |
bhakti-tattvaṁ parijñāya kaścid eva samācaret ||
(Padma Purāṇa; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.543)“[Śrī Prahlāda to Śrī Bhagavān:] Among lakhs [of people], someone [i.e., a rare person] hears about the nature (tattva) of bhakti, yet among crores [of those who hear], one understands it, and only someone [i.e., an exceedingly rare person] can perform it after having thoroughly understood it.”
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Read on →: kaḥ paṇḍitas tvad aparaṁ śaraṇaṁ samīyād
kaḥ paṇḍitas tvad aparaṁ śaraṇaṁ samīyād
bhakta-priyād ṛta-giraḥ suhṛdaḥ kṛtajñāt |
sarvān dadāti suhṛdo bhajato’bhi kāmān
ātmanam apy upacayāpacayau na yasya ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.48.26; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.678; Bhakti Sandarbha: 107; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.22.96)“What paṇḍita would take full shelter in anyone other than you, to whom bhaktas are dear, whose words are truthful, who are well-wishing, who are grateful, and who bestow all thoroughly desired objects upon a well-wishing worshiper [of yourself] and even your own self [upon them] without any accumulation for, or diminution of, yourself [thereby]?”
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Read on →: sattvaṁ tattvaṁ paratvaṁ ca tattva-trayam ahaṁ kila
sattvaṁ tattvaṁ paratvaṁ ca tattva-trayam ahaṁ kila |
tri-tattva-rūpiṇī sāpi rādhikā mama vallabhā |
prakṛteḥ para evāhaṁ sāpi mac-chakti-rūpiṇī ||
sāttvikaṁ rūpam āsthāya pūrṇo’haṁ brahma cit-paraḥ ||
brahmaṇā prārthitaḥ samyak sambhavāmi yuge yuge |
tayā sārdhaṁ tvayā sārdhaṁ nāśāya devatā-druhām ||
(Bṛhad Gautamīya-tantra; cited in Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha: 189)“[Śrī Kṛṣṇa to Śrī Balarāma:] I verily am the three existents (1) being (sattvam), (2) (primary) existence (tattvam), and (3) supremacy (paratvam). She too, Rādhikā, my beloved, is an embodiment of these three existents. I am certainly beyond primordial material nature (prakṛti), and she too is an embodiment of my potency (śakti). Being established in a form of [pure] being (sāttvika-rūpa), I am the Complete Brahman, the Supreme Conscious Entity. Prayed to by Brahmā, I manifest in full in age after age along with her and along with you to destroy the oppressors of the devatās.”