भक्तिस्तु भगवद्भक्तसङ्गेन परिजायते ।
सत्सङ्गः प्राप्यते पुंभिः सुकृतैः पूर्वसञ्चितैः ॥
bhaktis tu bhagavad-bhakta-saṅgena parijāyate |
sat-saṅgaḥ prāpyate puṁbhiḥ sukṛtaiḥ pūrva-sañcitaiḥ ||
(Bṛhan Nāradīya Purāṇa; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 10.279)
“Bhakti, however, manifests from association with bhaktas of Bhagavān, and [such] association with sādhus is attained by human beings by previously accumulated sukṛti.”
Commentary
bhagavad-bhakta-saṅgasya daurlabhyam āha—sat-saṅga iti |
(Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā)
“The author describes the rarity of the association of bhaktas of Bhagavān with this verse (sat-saṅga …).”