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  • daivādhīnaṁ jagat sarvaṁ janma-karma-śubhāśubham |
    saṁyogaś ca viyogaś ca na ca daivāt paraṁ balam ||
    kṛṣṇāyattaṁ ca tad daivaṁ sa daivāt paratas tataḥ |
    bhajanti satataṁ santaḥ paramātmānam īśvaram ||
    daivaṁ vardhayituṁ śaktaḥ kṣayaṁ kartuṁ svalīlayā |
    na daiva-baddhas tad bhaktaś cāvināśī ca nirguṇaḥ ||
    (Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa)

    “The entire world, along with birth, karma, auspiciousness, inauspiciousness, meeting and separation, is under the control of destiny (daiva). There is no power greater than destiny, yet that destiny is dependent on Kṛṣṇa. He is thus greater than destiny. Sādhus [thus] always worship the Paramātmā, Īśvara [i.e., Kṛṣṇa]. He can expand and diminish destiny by means of his līlā. Bhaktas [of Kṛṣṇa] are thus unbound by destiny, imperishable, and beyond the guṇas.”

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  • na vā etad viṣṇudatta mahad-adbhutaṁ yad asambhramaḥ sva-śiraś-chedana āpatite’pi vimukta-dehādy-ātma-bhāva-sudṛḍha-hṛdaya-granthīnāṁ sarva-sattva-suhṛd-ātmanāṁ nirvairāṇāṁ sākṣād bhagavatānimiṣāri-varāyudhenāpramattena tais tair bhāvair abhirakṣyamāṇānāṁ tat-pāda-mūlam akutaścid-bhayam upasṛtānāṁ bhāgavata-paramahaṁsānām |
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 5.9.20)

    [Śukadeva to Parīkṣit Mahārāja:] “O Viṣṇudatta, it is not greatly astonishing that the topmost ascetic devotees of Bhagavān (Bhāgavata-paramahaṁsas) are undisturbed even in the event of their own head being cut off, as they are completely free from the extremely tight knot in the heart of identification with the body and so forth [i.e., the mind, etc.], are by nature well-wishers of all beings, are free from enmity, are completely protected by ever-vigilant Bhagavān himself armed with the most excellent disc of time in various states of being [i.e., in various forms, such as Bhadrakālī (in this particular case in the life of Jaḍa Bharata), or, on account of his (i.e., Bhagavān’s) various qualities], and have approached the soles of his [i.e., Bhagavān’s] feet, wherein there is no fear [whatsoever].”

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  • na tathā me priyatama ātma-yonir na śaṅkaraḥ |
    na ca saṅkarṣaṇo na śrīr naivātmā ca yathā bhavān ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.14.15)

    “Neither he who is self-born [i.e., Brahmā], nor Śaṅkara [i.e., Śiva], nor Saṅkarṣaṇa [i.e., Balarāma], nor Śrī [i.e., Lakṣmī], nor even my own Self are so dearmost to me as you [O Uddhava].”

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  • kṛṣṇonmukhaṁ svayaṁ yānti yamāḥ śaucādayas tathā |
    ity eṣāṁ ca na yuktā syād bhakty-aṅgāntara-pātitā ||
    (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.261)

    “The restraints (yamas) and cleanliness and so on [i.e., the niyamas] come of their own accord to those who are intent upon Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, they are not fit to be included among the limbs of [uttama-] bhakti.”

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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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