kasmāt saṅkliśyate vidvān vyarthayārthehayāsakṛt |
kasyacin māyayā nūnaṁ loko’yaṁ suvimohitaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.23.26)
“Why is [even] a learned person repeatedly troubled by meaningless endeavors for wealth? Certainly this world is completely bewildered by someone’s māyā.”
bālas tāvat krīḍā-saktaḥ
taruṇas tāvat taruṇī-saktaḥ |
vṛddhas tāvac cintā-saktaḥ
pare brahmaṇi ko’pi na saktaḥ ||
(Moha-mudgara-stotram: 7)
“As a child, one is absorbed in play. As a youth, one is absorbed in young women. As an elder, one is absorbed in worry. No one is absorbed in Parabrahman.”
ādityasya gatāgatair ahar ahaḥ saṁkṣīyate jīvitaṁ
vyāpārair bahu-kārya-bhāra-gurubhiḥ kālo’pi na jñāyate |
dṛṣṭvā janma-jarā-vipatti-maraṇaṁ trāsaś ca notpadyate
pītvā mohamayīṁ pramāda-madirām unmatta-bhūtaṁ jagat ||
(Vairāgya-śatakam: 43)
“With the rising and setting of the sun day by day, life is passing away. With affairs heavy with the burden of numerous tasks, the time is also unrecognized [as it passes away]. And [even] after having observed birth, old age, misfortune, and death [occurring all around], [still] fear is not arising [in the people’s mind]. Having drunk the intoxicating wine of remiss, the world has become mad.”
man-māyā-mohita-dhiyaḥ puruṣāḥ puruṣarṣabha |
śreyo vadanty anekāntaṁ yathā-karma yatha-ruci ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.14.9)
[Kṛṣṇa to Uddhava:] “O best of human beings, human beings whose minds are bewildered by my māyā speak of good (śreyas) in many different ways according to [their own] karma and according to [their own] taste.”
yad etad hṛdayaṁ tava tad astu hṛdayaṁ mama |
yad idaṁ hṛdayaṁ mama tad astu hṛdayaṁ tava ||
(Sat-kriyā-sāra-dīpikā: Bhojanādi-dhṛti-homa, 2)
“May your heart be my heart, and may my heart be your heart.”
preyo mitraṁ bandhutā vā samagrā
sarve kāmāḥ śevadhir jīvitaṁ vā |
strīṇāṁ bhartā dharma-dārāś ca puṁsām
ity anyonyaṁ vatsayor jñātam astu ||
(Mālatī-mādhavam: 6.18)
“The supportive husband is for the woman, and the dharmic wife is for the man, a lover, a friend, all relatives, all desires, a treasure, and life [itself]. May this be known mutually between you dear youths.”
dampatyor bhāva ekatra sator apy anuraktayoḥ |
svābhīṣṭāśleṣa-vīkṣādi-nirodhī māna ucyate ||
(Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi: 15.74)
“The bhāva [i.e., variety of anger] of a loving couple present together or otherwise [i.e., physically apart] which obstructs their own desired embraces, glances, and so forth is called māna.”
paropadeśe pāṇḍityaṁ sarveṣāṁ sukaraṁ nṛṇām |
dharme svīyam anuṣṭhānaṁ kasyacit tu mahātmanaḥ ||
(Hitopedeśa: 1.107; cited in the Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā on Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.4.18)
“Erudition in instructing others is easy for everyone; only a few great souls actually practice dharma themselves.”
prayujyamāne mayi tāṁ śuddhāṁ bhāgavatīṁ tanum |
ārabdha-karma-nirvāṇo nyapatat pāñca-bhautikaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.6.29; cited in Prīti Sandarbha: 11)
“[Nārada:] When that pure figure related to Bhagavān [i.e., the form of an associate (pārṣada) of Bhagavān] was being bestowed upon me, the body [made] of the five elements, the commenced (prārabdha) karma of which was exhausted, fell away.”
vajrād api kaṭhorāṇi mṛdūni kusumād api |
lokottarāṇāṁ cetāṁsi ko nu vijñātum īśvaraḥ ||
(Uttara-rāma-carita: 2.7; cited in Caitanya Caritāmṛta: 2.7.73)
“Who has the ability to understand hearts of extraordinary persons, which are [both] harder than a lightning bolt and softer than a flower?”
