sarva-śakti-cakravartinī parama-bhāsvatī kṛpā-śaktir eva bhagavac-cittaṁ navanītam iva vidrutīkṛtya … |
(Sārārtha-darśinī-ṭīkā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.9.18)
“The empresses of all [Bhagavān’s] śaktis, the supremely radiant kṛpā-śakti (potency of grace), melts Bhagavan’s heart like butter.”
māre kṛṣṇa rākhe ke? |
rākhe kṛṣṇa māre ke? ||
(Bengali proverb)
“If Kṛṣṇa wants to kill you, then who can protect you? If Kṛṣṇa wants to protect you, then who can kill you?”
taṁ sukhārādhyam ṛjubhir ananya-śaraṇair nṛbhiḥ |
kṛtajñaḥ ko na seveta durārādhyam asādhubhiḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 3.19.36′; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha: 153)
“What grateful person would not worship he who is easily propitiated by persons who are sincere and of undivided shelter yet difficult to propitiate for the unvirtuous [i.e., those who are the opposite]?”
jananī janma-bhūmiś ca jāhnavī ca janārdanaḥ |
janakaḥ pañcamaś caiva ja-kārāḥ pañca-durlabhāḥ ||
(Unknown source)
“Mother (jananī), the land of one’s birth (janma-bhūmi), the Ganges (Jāhnavī), Janārdana [i.e., Bhagavān], and fifthly, Father (janaka)—these five j’s are most precious to attain.”
oṁ namaḥ paramahaṁsāsvādita-caraṇa-kamala-cin-makarandāya bhakta-jana-mānasa-nivāsāya śrī-rāmacandrāya |
(Bhāvārtha-dīpikā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.1.1)
“Om. Obeisance unto Śrī Rāmacandra, whose dwelling place is the bhaktas’ minds and the spiritual nectar of whose lotus feet is tasted by the paramahaṁsas.”
bhakta-citte bhakta-gṛhe sadā avasthāna |
kabhu gupta, kabhu vyakta, svatantra bhagavān ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.6.124)
“Independent Bhagavān is always situated in the hearts of his devotees and the homes of his devotees, sometimes hiddenly and sometime openly.”
īśvara-svarūpa bhakta tā̐ra adhiṣṭhāna |
bhaktera hṛdaye kṛṣṇera satata viśrāma ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 1.1.61)
“A bhakta is a form of Īśvara, as a bhakta is his dwelling-place. Kṛṣṇa always resides in his bhakta’s heart.”
bhavad-vidhā bhāgavatās tīrtha-bhūtāḥ svayaṁ prabho
tīrthī-kurvanti tīrthāni svāntaḥsthena gadā-bhṛtā
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.13.10; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 1.1.63)
[Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira to Vidura:] “O master, devotees like you are themselves manifest tīrthas. They make the tīrthas tīrthas by the presence of the Club-bearer [i.e., Bhagavān] within their hearts.”
sādhavo hṛdayaṁ mahyaṁ sādhūnāṁ hṛdayaṁ tv aham |
mad-anyat te na jānanti nāhaṁ tebhyo manāg api ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 9.4.68; cited in Paramātma Sandarbha: 93, Prīti Sandarbha: 65; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 1.1.62)
[Viṣṇu to Durvāsā:] “Sādhus are my heart, and I am the sādhus’ heart. They do not know anyone other than me, and I do not know anyone other than them at all.”
visṛjati hṛdayaṁ na yasya sākṣād
dharir avaśābhihito’py aghaugha-nāśaḥ |
praṇaya-raśanayā dhṛtāṅghri-padmaḥ
sa bhavati bhāgavata-pradhāna uktaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.2.55; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 10.74, Bhakti Sandarbha: 198)
“One whose heart Hari himself, he who destroys multitudes of sins even when called unintentionally, does not leave because his lotus feet are bound [there] by a rope of love is said to be the foremost of Bhāgavatas.”
