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  • sādhavo hṛdayaṁ mahyaṁ sādhūnāṁ hṛdayaṁ tv aham |
    mad-anyat te na jānanti nāhaṁ tebhyo manāg api ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 9.4.68; cited in Paramātma Sandarbha: 93, Prīti Sandarbha: 65; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 1.1.62)

    [Viṣṇu to Durvāsā:] “Sādhus are my heart, and I am the sādhus’ heart. They do not know anyone other than me, and I do not know anyone other than them at all.”

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  • visṛjati hṛdayaṁ na yasya sākṣād
    dharir avaśābhihito’py aghaugha-nāśaḥ |
    praṇaya-raśanayā dhṛtāṅghri-padmaḥ
    sa bhavati bhāgavata-pradhāna uktaḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.2.55; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 10.74, Bhakti Sandarbha: 198)

    “One whose heart Hari himself, he who destroys multitudes of sins even when called unintentionally, does not leave because his lotus feet are bound [there] by a rope of love is said to be the foremost of Bhāgavatas.”

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  • yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi-
    koṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi-vibhūti-bhinnam |
    tad brahma niṣkalam anantam aśeṣa-bhūtaṁ
    govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi ||
    (Brahmā-saṁhitā: 5.40; cited in Laghu Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.5.224; Bhagavat Sandarbha: 80; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 1.2.14, 2.20.160)

    “I serve him, Govinda, the Original Person, whose effulgence is the indivisible, unlimited, and all-pervading Brahman distinct from the opulence of the innumerable earths and so forth throughout the billions of material universes.”

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  • bhavān hi kāraṇaṁ tatra sarva-jño jagad-īśvaraḥ |
    anugrahaṁ nigrahaṁ vā manyase tad vidhehi naḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.16.59)

    “Because you, the all-knowing Īśvara of the universe, are the cause in this regard [i.e., of one giving up your māyā], please give us mercy or punishment, as you think [fit].”

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  • dharmo’tha pāpa‑nicayaḥ śrutayas tapāṁsi
    brahmādi‑kīṭa‑patagāvadhayaś ca jīvāḥ |
    yad‑datta‑mātra‑vibhava‑prakaṭa‑prabhāvā
    govindam ādi‑puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi ||
    (Brahma-saṁhitā: 5.53)

    “I serve him, Govinda, the Original Person, by whose granted power alone are dharma, sins, the Śrutis, austerities, and all living beings beginning from Brahmā on down to worms and insects possessed of manifest influence.”

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  • dṛṣṭaṁ śrutaṁ bhūta-bhavad-bhaviṣyat
    sthāsnuś cariṣṇur mahad alpakaṁ ca |
    vinācyutād vastu tarāṁ na vācyaṁ
    sa eva sarvaṁ paramātma-bhūtaḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.46.43)

    “By no means can any object—seen or heard, of the past, present, or future, great or small, mobile or immobile—be named apart from Acyuta. He, the [internally] present Paramātma [i.e., fundamental existence within all objects], is indeed everything.”

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