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Read on →: pratiṣṭhā-rajjūbhir baddhaṁ
pratiṣṭhā-rajjūbhir baddhaṁ kāmādyair vartma-pātibhiḥ |
chittvā tāḥ saṁharantas tān aghāreḥ pāntu māṁ bhaṭāḥ ||
(Vraja-vilāsa-stava: 1)“I have been bound with the ropes of pratiṣṭhā by the highwaymen of kāma and so forth. May the soldiers of Agha’s Foe [i.e., Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s bhaktas] protect me by cutting away these ropes and routing these highwaymen.”
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Read on →: jñātiṁ vidyāṁ mahattvaṁ ca
jñātiṁ vidyāṁ mahattvaṁ ca rūpaṁ yauvanam eva ca |
yatnena parivarjeta pañcaite bhakti-kaṇṭakaḥ ||
(Garga-saṁhitā: 10.62.7)“Kinsmen, learning, greatness, beauty, and youth—carefully elude these five impediments [lit., “thorns”] to bhakti.”
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Read on →: anartham arthataḥ paśyann
anartham arthataḥ paśyann arthaṁ caivāpy anarthataḥ |
indriyaiḥ prasṛto bālaḥ suduḥkhaṁ manyate sukham ||
(Mahābhārata: 5.34.59; Vidura-nīti: 213; cited in Mahāsubhāṣita-saṅgraha)“Seeing anartha within artha and artha within anartha [i.e., seeing nonsense within sense and even sense within nonsense, misfortune within fortune and even fortune within misfortune, evil within good and even good within evil, etc.], the fool, pulled by the senses, considers great suffering to be happiness.”
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Read on →: anartha-makarāgārād
anartha-makarāgārād asmāt saṁsāra-sāgarāt ।
uḍḍīyate nirudvegaṁ sarva-tyāgena putraka ॥
(Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: 6.111.9; cited in Mahāsubhāṣita-saṅgraha)“O son, through complete renunciation [i.e., by giving up all worldly interests, attachments, and engagements], one serenely flies up and away from this ocean of saṁsāra, the dwelling place of the sea monsters of anarthas [i.e., evils, vices, misfortunes, diversions, etc.].”
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Read on →: ūrjitaṁ sarvato balavat paramānanda-rūpatvāt
ūrjitaṁ sarvato balavat paramānanda-rūpatvāt—ko hy evānyāt kaḥ prāṇyāt yad eṣa ākāśa ānando na syāt iti śruteḥ |
(Krama-sandarbha-ṭīkā on Śrīmad Bhāgavata: 1.3.3; Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha: 3)“‘Potent’ [alt., ‘powerful’, or, ‘excellent’] (ūrjita) means the most powerful of all, because of [Bhagavān’s form] being the embodiment of the supreme bliss, as it is stated in the Śruti [i.e., Taitirīya Upaniṣad: 2.7.1]: ‘If he, Bliss, were not present in the sky [of the heart], who indeed would breathe? Who would live?’”