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  • tasmād bhavantam anavadyam ananta-pāraṁ
    sarva-jñam īśvaram akuṇṭha-vikuṇṭha-dhiṣṇyam |
    nirviṇṇa-dhīr aham u he vṛjinābhitapto
    nārāyaṇaṁ nara-sakhaṁ śaraṇaṁ prapadye ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.7.18)

    “[Uddhava to Kṛṣṇa:] U he [i.e., O Bhagavān]! Therefore I, of despondent mind and [thus] stricken with distress, take shelter in you, the flawless, endless and boundless, all-knowing Capable One, you whose abode is unchecked Vaikuṇṭha, you who are the refuge of [all] beings [including even Mahāviṣṇu], and [still so also who are] the friend of [all] human beings [i.e., you descend to uplift them all].”

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  • satyasya te sva-dṛśa ātmana ātmano’nyaṁ
    vaktāram īśa vibudheṣv api nānucakṣe |
    sarve vimohita-dhiyas tava māyayeme
    brahmādayas tanu-bhṛto bahir-artha-bhāvāḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.7.17)

    [Uddhava to Kṛṣṇa:] “O Capable One, I do not see even among the devas a speaker suitable for me of the self-appearing Reality, the Ātmā, other than yourself, as all these embodied beings beginning with Brahmā [i.e., all the living beings that can be found within saṁsāra], their minds severely bewildered by your māyā, consider the external to be the object [i.e., they all consider the objects of the senses (viṣayas) to be the rightful focus on their awareness and endeavors].”

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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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