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  • kula-vidyā-ādi upalakṣaṇa sakala |
    sabāre poṣaye kṛṣṇa, kṛṣṇa sarva-bala ||
    (Caitanya-bhāgavata: 1.7.132)

    “Nobility, learning, and so on are all [merely] incidental characteristics. Kṛṣṇa nourishes everyone; Kṛṣṇa is the strength of all.”

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  • puṁsāṁ kilaikānta-dhiyāṁ svakānāṁ
    yāḥ sampado divi bhūmau rasāyām |
    na rāti yad dveṣa udvega ādhir
    madaḥ kalir vyasanaṁ samprayāsaḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 6.11.22)

    “To persons of one-pointed mind who are his own, he certainly does not bestow the riches which are [found] in Heaven, on Earth, or in Rasā, and from which enmity, fear, anxiety, conceit, quarrel, plight, and exertion ensue.”

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  • yadā yam anugṛhṇāti bhagavān ātma-bhāvitaḥ |
    sa jahāti matiṁ loke vede ca pariniṣṭhitām ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 4.29.46; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 10.64; Bhakti Sandarbha: 284; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 11.115)

    “[Nārada to Prācīnabarhi:] When Bhagavān, being meditated upon within the heart, favors one, then one abandons resolute regard for the world [i.e., social conventions] and the Veda [i.e., injunctions given in the Vedas].”

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  • na yat-prasādāyuta-bhāga-leśam
    anye ca devā guravo janāḥ svayam |
    kartuṁ sametāḥ prabhavanti puṁsas
    tam īśvaraṁ tvāṁ śaraṇaṁ prapadye ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 8.24.49)

    [Satyavrata Rāja to Matsya Avatāra:] “The [Supreme] Person [even] a trace of a one ten-thousandth part of whose grace other devas, gurus, and persons [i.e., kings and so forth] combined are independently [i.e., independent of him] unable to grant—I take shelter in him, Īśvara—you.”

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  • sarva-śakti-cakravartinī parama-bhāsvatī kṛpā-śaktir eva bhagavac-cittaṁ navanītam iva vidrutīkṛtya … |
    (Sārārtha-darśinī-ṭīkā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.9.18)

    “The empresses of all [Bhagavān’s] śaktis, the supremely radiant kṛpā-śakti (potency of grace), melts Bhagavan’s heart like butter.”

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  • māre kṛṣṇa rākhe ke? |
    rākhe kṛṣṇa māre ke? ||
    (Bengali proverb)

    “If Kṛṣṇa wants to kill you, then who can protect you? If Kṛṣṇa wants to protect you, then who can kill you?”

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