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- Read on →: yad yad icchati yāvac ca
yad yad icchati yāvac ca phalam ārādhite’cyute |
tat tad āpnoti rāgendra bhūri svalpam athāpi vā ||
(Viṣṇu Purāṇa: 3.8.7)“When Acyuta is propitiated, one attains whatever result one desires, and to whatever extent, O emperor, be it great or small.”
- Read on →: sṛṣṭy-ādikaṁ harir naiva
sṛṣṭy-ādikaṁ harir naiva prayojanam apekṣya tu |
kurute kevalānandād yathā mattasya nartanam ||
pūrṇānandasya tasyeha prayojana-matiḥ kutaḥ |
muktā apy āpta-kāmāḥ syuḥ kim utāsyākhilātmanaḥ ||
(Nārāyaṇa-saṁhitā; cited in Bhagavat Sandarbha: 47; Paramātma Sandarbha: 93; Govinda-bhāṣya on Vedānta-sūtra: 2.1.33)“Hari does not require any motive for emanation and so forth [of the material universes]. He acts purely out of bliss, like the dancing of an intoxicated person. Since he is full of bliss, how can he have any thought of a motive? Even liberated beings are of satisfied desire, so how much more so must be the Ātmā of all?”
- Read on →: avadhāraya dharmeṣu
avadhāraya dharmeṣu pradhānam avadhānataḥ |
nirbharānanda-kandāya govindāya mano’rpaya ||
(Mahāsubhāṣita-saṅgraha: 3238)“Attentively determine the foremost principle among all dharmas: offer the mind to Govinda, the source of immeasurable bliss.”
- Read on →: na śakyaḥ sa tvayā draṣṭum
na śakyaḥ sa tvayā draṣṭum asmābhir vā bṛhaspate |
yasya prasādaṁ kurute sa vai taṁ draṣṭum arhati ||
(Mahābhārata: 12.323.18; cited in Laghu Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.419, Bhagavat Sandarbha: 34)“O Bṛhaspati, he [i.e., Bhagavān] cannot be seen by you or by us. Only someone whom he has graced is able to see him.”
- Read on →: lokasya mithyābhimater acakṣuṣaś
lokasya mithyābhimater acakṣuṣaś
ciraṁ prasuptasya tamasy anāśraye |
śrāntasya karmasv anuviddhayā dhiyā
tvam āvirāsīḥ kila yoga-bhāskaraḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 3.29.5)[Devahūti to Kapiladeva:] “You, the sun of yoga [i.e., the illuminator of yoga, that is, the sun who nourishes the lotus of yoga], have appeared for the people who are eyeless [i.e., ignorant], [thus] possessed of identification with the unreal [i.e., the body and so on], [thus] exhausted because of their minds being entangled in karma, [thus] shelterless, and [thus] slumbering for a long time in darkness [i.e., saṁsāra; that is, you have appeared to teach the wisdom of yoga which resembles the sun in that it brings light to the eyes of the ignorant, removes the numbness of false identity, dispels the sleep and darkness of saṁsāra, and dries up the pool of exhaustion produced by the mind being attached to karma].”