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praṇata-dehināṁ pāpa-karṣaṇaṁ

praṇata-dehināṁ pāpa-karṣaṇaṁ
tṛṇa-carānugaṁ śrī-niketanam |
phaṇi-phaṇārpitaṁ te padāmbujaṁ
kṛṇu kuceṣu naḥ kṛndhi hṛc-chayam ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.31.7)

“Please put upon our breasts

Your lotus feet,

Which remove the sins of the embodied who have taken shelter,

Which follow the animals [of Vraja],

Which are the abode of śrī [i.e., beauty, or, Lakṣmī],

And which were placed on the hoods of the serpent [i.e., Kālīya].

Please cut away our lust [lit., ‘that which lies in the heart’].”

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saṁsāra-sindhum ati-dustaram uttitīrṣor

saṁsāra-sindhum ati-dustaram uttitīrṣor
nānyaḥ plavo bhagavato puruṣottamasya |
līlā-kathā-rasa-niṣevanam antareṇa
puṁso bhaved vividha-duḥkha-davārditasya ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 12.4.40; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha: 86)

“For a person tormented by the forest fire of various miseries who is desirous of crossing over the exceedingly difficult to cross ocean of saṁsāra, there is no vessel other than honoring the rasa of the narrations of the līlā of Bhagavān Puruṣottama.”

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śīlaṁ saṁvasatā jñeyaṁ śaucaṁ saṁvyavahārataḥ

śīlaṁ saṁvasatā jñeyaṁ śaucaṁ saṁvyavahārataḥ |
prajñā saṁkathanāj jñeyā tribhiḥ pātraṁ parīkṣyate ||
(Unknown source)

“Character is to be known by living together, cleanliness [is to be known] by working together, and wisdom is to be known by conversing together. A recipient is to be examined in these three ways.”

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anāyāsena maraṇaṁ vinā dainyena jīvanam

anāyāsena maraṇaṁ vinā dainyena jīvanam |
anārādhita-govinda-caraṇasya kathaṁ bhavet ||
(Caitanya-bhāgavata: 1.7.136, 2.1.237)

“How can one by whom Govinda’s feet are not worshiped have a death without distress and a life without destitution?”

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yathā caturbhiḥ kanakaṁ parīkṣyate

yathā caturbhiḥ kanakaṁ parīkṣyate
nigharṣaṇa-cchedana-tāpa-tāḍanaiḥ |
tathā caturbhiḥ puruṣaḥ parīkṣyate
tyāgena śīlena guṇena karmaṇā ||
(Cāṇakya-nīti-darpaṇa)

“As gold is to be examined in four ways—by rubbing, cutting, heating, and hitting, so a person is to be examined in four respects: renunciation, character, qualities, and actions.”

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punaḥ pulinam āgatya kalindyāḥ kṛṣṇa-bhāvanāḥ

punaḥ pulinam āgatya kalindyāḥ kṛṣṇa-bhāvanāḥ |
samavetā jaguḥ kṛṣṇaṁ tad-āgamana-kāṅkṣitāḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.30.44)

“After coming back to the shore of the Kālindī, they who were absorbed in thought of Kṛṣṇa [i.e., the gopīs] assembled and sang about Kṛṣṇa, longing for his return.”

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tan-manaskās tad-alāpās tad-viceṣṭās tad-ātmikāḥ

tan-manaskās tad-alāpās tad-viceṣṭās tad-ātmikāḥ |
tad-guṇān eva gāyantyo nātmāgārāṇi sasmaruḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.30.43)

“Minds upon him, speaking about him, acting like him, and identifying as him, they sang of his qualities and did not remember their own houses.”

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śrī-vṛndā-vipinaṁ suramyam api tac chrīmān sa govardhanaḥ

śrī-vṛndā-vipinaṁ suramyam api tac chrīmān sa govardhanaḥ
sā rāsa-sthalikāpy alaṁ rasamayī kiṁ tāvad anya-sthalam |
yasyāpy aṁśa-lavena nārhati manāk sāmyaṁ mukundasya tat
prāṇebhyo’py adhika-priyeva dayitaṁ tat-kuṇḍam evāśraye ||
(Stavāvalī: Vraja-vilāsa-stava, 53)

“I take shelter in her kuṇḍa [i.e., Śrī Rādhā Kuṇḍa]—

Dear to Mukunda

Like [Śrī Rādhā,] she who is dearer [to him]

Then even his prāṇas—

[Her kuṇḍa] To even a minute portion of which

The beautiful, greatly charming forest of Vṛndā,

Beautiful Govardhana,

And the rasa-laden Rāsa-sthalī,

Much less any other place,

Do not merit [being considered to possess even] slight equivalence.”

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yasya śrīmac-caraṇa-kamale komale komalāpi

yasya śrīmac-caraṇa-kamale komale komalāpi
śrī-rādhoccair nija-sukha-kṛte sannayantī kucāgre |
bhītāpy ārād atha nahi dadhāty asya kārkaśya-doṣāt
sa śrī-goṣṭhe prathayatu sadā śeṣa-śāyī sthitiṁ naḥ ||
(Stavāvalī: Vraja-vilāsa-stava, 91)

“He whose beautiful, tender lotus feet

Śrī Rādhā intently raised for her own pleasure,

But even then became fearful

Because of the [imagined] fault of hardness

And did not hold atop the tips of her breasts

Although she is [most] tender [in figure]—

May [he,] Śeṣa-śāyī,

Extend to us

Eternal residence in beautiful Vraja.”

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yadā tava sarovaraṁ sarasa-bhṛṅga-saṅghollasat

yadā tava sarovaraṁ sarasa-bhṛṅga-saṅghollasat-
saroruha-kulojjvalaṁ madhura-vāri-sampūritam |
sphuṭat-sarasijākṣi he nayana-yugma-sākṣād babhau
tadaiva mama lālasājani tavaiva dāsye rase ||
(Vilāpa-kusumāñjali: 15)

“O you of blossoming lotus eyes! When your pond appeared before my eyes brimming with sweet water and splendid with clusters of lotuses shining amid swarms of enamored bumblebees, then only did my longing for the rasa of servitude exclusively unto you arise.”

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