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kair api prema-vaivaśya-bhāgbhir bhāgavatavottamaiḥ |
adyāpi dṛśyate kṛṣṇaḥ krīḍan vṛndāvanāntare ||
(Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.5.392)
“Even by some highly elevated Bhāgavatas who are overwhelmed by prema, Kṛṣṇa is seen playing in Vṛndāvana still today.”
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avijñātākhila-kleśāḥ sadā kṛṣṇāśrita-kriyāḥ |
siddhāḥ syuḥ santata-prema-saukhyāsvāda-parāyaṇāḥ ||
samprāpta-siddhayaḥ siddhā nitya-siddhāś ca te dvidhā ||
(Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 2.1.280–281)
“[The characteristics of siddha Kṛṣṇa-bhaktas are described:] Those to whom all affliction is unknown, whose actions are always sheltered in Kṛṣṇa, and who are constantly absorbed in relishing the happiness of prema are siddhas. These siddhās are of two types: those who have attained siddhi and those who are eternally siddha.”
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utpanna-ratayaḥ samyaṅ nairvighnyam anupāgatāḥ |
kṛṣṇa-sākṣātkṛtau yogyāḥ sādhakāḥ parikīrtitāḥ ||
(Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 2.1.276)
“[The characteristics of sādhaka Kṛṣṇa-bhaktas are described:] Those in whom rati is manifest yet have not become completely unimpeded, and who are fit for realization of Kṛṣṇa, are said to be sādhakas.”
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tad-bhāva-bhāvita-svāntāḥ kṛṣṇa-bhaktā itīritāḥ ||
te sādhakāś ca siddhāś ca dvi-vidhāḥ parikīrtitāḥ ||
(Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 2.1.273, 275)
“[The definition of a Kṛṣṇa-bhakta:] Those whose hearts are imbued with that bhāva [i.e., their particular, highly exalted and personally desired rati for Kṛṣṇa] are called Kṛṣṇa-bhaktas. … They are said to be of two types: sādhakas and siddhas.”
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prabhu bole “torā āra nā karis pāpa” |
jagāi-mādhāi bale “āra nāre bāpa” ||
prabhu bale “śuna śuna tumi dui-jana |
satya ei āmi tore balila vacana ||
koṭi koṭi janme yata āche pāpa tora |
āra yadi nā karis, saba dāya mora ||
(Caitanya-bhāgavata: 2.13.225–227)
“Prabhu said, ‘You should not commit sin any more.‘
Jagāi and Mādhāi replied, ‘We shall not any more, O Father.’
Prabhu said, ‘Listen, listen you two. True are these words I am telling you: all of your sin from crores and crores of births—if you do not commit any more—is all my responsibility [i.e., I will absolve you of all of it].”
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ei tore satya kahi, baḍa priya tumi |
veda-mukhe baliyāchi yata kichu āmi ||
ye ye karma kaile haya ye ye divya-gati |
tāhā ghucāite pāre kāhāra śakati? ||
muñi pāro̐ sakala anyathā karibāre |
sarva-vidhi-upare āmāra adhikāre ||
(Caitanya-bhāgavata: 2.10.246–248)
[Mahāprabhu:] “I tell you the truth, since you are very dear [to me]. Who has the power to do away with all the various duties that I have stated through the mouth of the Vedas by performing which various divine attainments occur? I [alone] can change them all, since I have authority over all injunctions.”
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