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  • nirdhanatva-mahārogo mad-anugraha-lakṣaṇam |
    (Unknown source; cited in Mādhurya-kādambinī: 3)

    “Poverty and severe disease are signs of my grace.”

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  • deśa-tyāgo mahān vyādhiḥ virodho bandhubhiḥ saha |
    dhana-hāni apamānaṁ ca mad-anugraha-lakṣaṇam ||
    (Nārada Pañcarātra)

    “Leaving one’s homeland, a severe disease, a dispute between friends, loss of wealth, and disrespect are signs of my grace.”

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  • he hema-kāra para-duḥkha-vicāra-mūḍha
    kiṁ māṁ muhuḥ kṣipasi vāra-śatāni vahnau |
    sandīpyate mayi suvarṇa-guṇātireko
    lābhaḥ paraṁ tava mukhe khalu bhasma-pātaḥ ||
    (Subhāṣita-ratna-bhāṇḍāgāra, Suvarṇa-kāraḥ, 23)

    [A golden ornament says to a goldsmith:] “O goldsmith incapable of understanding others’ suffering! Why do you repeatedly cast me into the fire hundreds of times? An abundance of golden hue is shining brightly in me, while you have attained the opposite: soot has fallen all over your face.”

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  • vipadaḥ santu tāḥ śaśvat tatra tatra jagad-guro |
    bhavato darśanaṁ yat syād apunar bhava-darśanam ||
    janmaiśvarya-śruta-śrībhir edhamāna-madaḥ pumān |
    naivārhaty abhidhātuṁ vai tvām akiñcana-gocaram ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.8.25–26)

    “[Kuntī Devī to Śrī Kṛṣṇa:] O Guru of the universe, let those dangers occur constantly everywhere in the midst of which shall occur the sight of you, by virtue of which the sight of material existence again does not! A person swelling with conceit as a result of birth, capability, learning, or beauty is never fit to speak of you, who are attainable [only] by the disinterested [i.e., those who foster no attachment to anything of the world].”

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  • tat te’nukampāṁ susamīkṣamāṇo
    bhuñjāna evātma-kṛtaṁ vipākam |
    hṛd-vāg-vapurbhir vidadhan namas te
    jīveta yo mukti-pade sa dāya-bhāk ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.14.8)

    “One who can perceive your grace fully and properly, endure the reactions to one’s own past actions, and live on offering obeisance unto you with mind, body, and words is an heir to the plane of mukti [i.e., freedom from ignorance and engagement in your eternal service].”

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  • vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam |
    brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.2.11)

    “Knowers of the Tattva say that which is non-dual consciousness and is called Brahman, Paramātmā, and Bhagavān is the Tattva.”

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