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  • svabhāvo dustyajo nātha lokānāṁ yad asad-grahaḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.16.56)

    “O Lord, people’s svabhāva (nature), which is that of clinging to the unreal [alt., to evil], is difficult to give up.”

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  • svasyoddhavasya te’py eṣa kṛtvāhaṁ śapathaṁ bruve |
    duḥsādhyaṁ tat-padaṁ hy atra tat-sādhanam api druvam ||
    (Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.5.208)

    “Taking this oath before myself, Uddhava, and yourself, I say that here that domain [i.e., Goloka] is difficult to attain, and the means of attaining (sādhana) that certainly is as well.”

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  • iti te jñānam ākhyātaṁ guhyād guhyataraṁ mayā |
    vimṛśyaitad aśeṣeṇa yathecchasi tathā kuru ||
    (Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā: 18.63)

    “Thus [alt., such] knowledge more confidential than the confidential has been spoken by me to you. Reflect on this in full and do as you so wish.”

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  • tam eva śaraṇaṁ gaccha sarva-bhāvena bhārata |
    tat-prasādāt parāṁ śāntiṁ sthānaṁ prāpsyasi śāśvatam ||
    (Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā: 18.62)

    “Take shelter in him alone with the entirety of your being, O Bhārata. By his grace, you shall attain the supreme peace and the eternal abode.”

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  • kṣaṇārdhenāpi tulaye na svargaṁ nāpunar-bhavam |
    bhagavat-saṅgi-saṅgasya martyānāṁ kim utāśiṣaḥ ||
    (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 4.24.57; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 10.285; Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā on Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.7.14; Bhakti Sandarbha: 189, 247; Prīti Sandarbha: 30)

    “[Bhagavān Śiva to the Pracetas:] I equate neither Svarga nor non-repetition of birth, much less the benedictions had by human beings, with even half a moment of association with those who are attached to Bhagavān.”

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  • bhaktānāṁ hṛdayaṁ śāntaṁ saśriyo me priyaṁ gṛham |
    vasāmi tatra śobhaiva vaikuṇṭhākhyādi-varṇanā ||
    (Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya: 14.57; cited in Paramātma Sandarbha: 102)

    “The peaceful heart of [my] bhaktas is the beloved abode of myself along with Śrī. I reside there, and the beauty [therein] is verily that the description of which is known as Vaikuṇṭha and so forth [i.e., the beauty found along with Śrī Bhagavān in the heart of his bhakta is that of his own divine abode of Vaikuṇṭha].”

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