alaukika kṛṣṇa-līlā—divya-śakti tāra |
tarkera gocara nahe caritra yā̐hāra ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.19.103)
“Kṛṣṇa-līlā is otherworldly, and it possess divine śakti the acts of which are not within the scope of tarka.”
kṛṣṇa-līlāmṛta-pānaṁ vinā jīvitaṁ vastuto jīvitaṁ na bhavati |
(Excerpt from Sārārtha-darśinī-ṭīkā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.12.13)
“Without drinking the nectar of Kṛṣṇa-līlā, life is not really life.”
kṛṣṇa-caritaṁ kali-kalmaṣa-ghnaṁ … |
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.1.14)
“The acts of Kṛṣṇa are dispellers of the defilement of [the Age of] Kali.”
ānanda-cinmaya-rasātmatayā manaḥsu
yaḥ prāṇināṁ pratiphalan smaratām upetya |
līlāyitena bhuvanāni jayaty ajasraṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi ||
(Brahma-saṁhitā: 42)
“I worship Govinda, the Original Person, who, by virtue of being constituted of blissful spiritual rasa, appears to living beings engaged in remembrance [of Him] by reflecting into their minds and thus perpetually conquers the worlds with his play.”
kṛṣṇera yateka khelā sarvottama nara-līlā
nara-vapu tāhāra svarūpa |
gopa-veśa, veṇu-kara nava-kiśora, naṭa-vara
nara-līlāra haya anurūpa ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.21.101)
“Of all of Kṛṣṇa’s play, his human [i.e., human-like] līlā is the supreme. His human form is his true nature. His cowherd dress, flute-in-hand, adolescence, and superb dancing [perfectly] suit his human līlā.”
nivṛtta-tarṣair upagīyamānād
bhavauṣadhāc chrotra-mano-’bhirāmāt |
ka uttamaśloka-guṇānuvādāt
pumān virajyeta vinā paśughnāt ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.1.4)
“Other than one who slaughters animals, what person could desist from narration of the qualities of he of highest praise [i.e., Śrī Kṛṣṇa], which is sung continuously by those whose thirst [i.e., desire for objects of the senses] has been quenched [i.e., the liberated], which is the cure for material existence, and which is a delight to the ears and mind?”
nigama-kalpa-taror galitaṁ phalaṁ
śuka-mukhād amṛta-drava-saṁyutam |
pibata bhāgavataṁ rasam ālayaṁ
muhur aho rasikā bhuvi bhāvukāḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.1.3)
“O relishers of rasa! O aesthetes! Drink continuously and [even] beyond [the attainment of] liberation the rasa of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, the fruit of the wish-fulfilling tree of the Vedas, which has fallen from the mouth of Śuka [i.e., Śukadeva Gosvāmī] and is constituted of liquid nectar.”
āyur harati vai puṁsām udyann astaṁ ca yann asau |
tasyarte yat kṣaṇo nīta uttamaḥ-śloka-vārttayā ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 2.3.17)
“Rising and setting, the revolving sun takes away the life of people, except those who spend their time talking about he of highest praise.”
asyāvatāreṣu gaṇanā tu svayaṁ bhagavān apy asau svarūpa-stha eva nija-parijana-vṛndānām ānanda-viśeṣa-camatkārāya kim api mādhuryaṁ nija-janmādi-līlayā puṣṇan, kadācit sakala-loka-dṛśyo bhavatīty apekṣayaivety āyātam |
(Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha: 28.3)
“His [i.e., Kṛṣṇa’s] being listed among the avatāras [i.e., the general list of avatāras given in the third chapter of the First Canto of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam] even though he is Svayaṁ Bhagavān is because he, ever-situated in his svarūpa (intrinsic nature), sometimes becomes visible to all beings [i.e., the world at large] and exhibits some special mādhurya through the līlā of his own birth, etc. so as to bestow an astonishing form of bliss upon his personal associates.”
tat-tad-bhaktānāṁ tat-prīti-manoratha evopādeyaḥ | tad anyas tu sarvo’pi heyaḥ |
(Prīti Sandarbha: 43)
“For all bhaktas [of Bhagavān], only desire (manoratha) for prīti [for Bhagavān] is to be accepted, while everything other than that is verily to be rejected.”
