mantratas tantrataś chidraṁ deśa-kālārha-vastutaḥ |
sarvaṁ karoti niśchidram anusaṅkīrtanaṁ tava ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 8.23.16; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.376; Bhakti Sandarbha: 97)
“Continuous saṅkīrtana of you makes flawless all flaws [in yajñas] related to mantras, procedure, place, time, eligibility, and ingredients.”
sarvapārādha-bhañjanatvam
viṣṇu-yāmale śrī-bhagavad-uktau—
mama nāmāni loke’smin śraddhayā yas tu kīrtayet |
tasyāparādha-koṭīs tu kṣamāmy eva na saṁśayaḥ ||
(Viṣṇu-yāmala; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.375; Bhakti Sandarbha: 265; Krama-sandarbha-ṭikā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 2.1.11)
“The name of Śrī Bhagavān’s being a destroyer of all offenses [is described as follows] in a statement of Śrī Bhagavān in Viṣṇu-yāmala: ‘I certainly forgive even crores of offenses (aparādhas) of someone in this world who can chant my names with śraddhā. There is no doubt [about this].’”
yadṛcchayā kenāpi parama-svatantra-bhagavad-bhakta-saṅga-tat-kṛpā-jāta-maṅgalodayena |
(Bhakti Sandarbha: 171)
“‘Yadṛcchayā’ means by the appearance, somehow or other, of good fortune born of the association and grace of bhaktas of Bhagavān, who are supremely independent [of the constraints of karma and so forth, both in general, and specifically in regard to bestowing grace].”
yathā hi puruṣasyeha viṣṇoḥ pādopasarpaṇam |
yad eṣa sarva-bhūtānāṁ priya ātmeśvaraḥ suhṛt ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 7.6.2)
“[Prahlāda Mahārāja:] Here [i.e., in human life], a person’s approaching the feet of Viṣṇu is certainly appropriate, since he is the beloved, the Self, the Lord, and the well-wisher of all beings.”
nṛpo na hari-sevitā vyaya-kṛtī na hary-arpakaḥ
kavir na hari-varṇakaḥ śrita-gurur na hary-āśritaḥ |
guṇī na hari-tatparaḥ sarala-dhīr na kṛṣṇāśrayaḥ
sa na vraja-ramānugaḥ sva-hṛdi sapta-śalyāni me ||
(Gopāla-campū: 1.33.178)
“A king who is not a servant of Hari,
A spender who is not an offerer to Hari,
A poet who is not a narrator of Hari,
A disciple of a guru who is not sheltered in Hari,
A virtuous person who is not devoted to Hari,
A simple [alt., sincere, unpretentious] person who is not sheltered in Hari,
And he [i.e., one who is sheltered in Hari] who is not a follower of the beautiful ladies of Vraja—
[These seven types of persons] Are seven spears in my own heart.”
taṁ durārādhyam ārādhya satām api durāpayā |
ekānta-bhaktyā ko vāñchet pāda-mūlaṁ vinā bahiḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 4.24.55; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha: 165)
“Having propitiated you [i.e., Bhagavān], who are difficult to propitiate, through one-pointed bhakti, which is difficult to attain even for sādhus [i.e., jñānīs], who would desire an external [i.e., any form of happiness, such as that found in Svarga] in lieu of the soles of your feet?”
atra maraṇe sarveṣāṁ dainyādayo’pi śrī-bhagavat-kṛpātiśaya-dvāram iti draṣṭavyam |
(Bhakti Sandarbha: 162)
“Here [i.e., in regard to Ajāmila chanting the name of Bhagavān at the time of death], it is to be observed that even the humility and so forth everyone has at the time of death is the foremost door to [receiving] Śrī Bhagavān’s grace.”
karma-kartari karma-vad ātmapadādi |
(Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa: 940)
“In karma-kartari [prayoga], [the verb] takes ātmapada [endings] and so on just as in karma [i.e., in karmaṇi prayoga].”
kriyamāṇas tu yat karma svayaṁ siddhaṁ pratīyate |
atyanta-sukaratvena karma-karteti tad viduḥ ||
(Vṛtti on Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa: 939)
“That karma which, although being done [by a kartā], seems to be self-accomplished because of its being very easy to be done is known as a karma-kartā [i.e., a karma which is figuratively said to be a kartā, e.g., saying, ‘The cooking is done quickly’].”
kriyā-viśeṣaṇaṁ karma, tac ca brahmaika-vacanaṁ sadānuktaṁ ca |
(Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa: 938)
“The viśeṣaṇa (modifier) of a kriyā is [considered] a karma, and it is neuter (brahma-liṅga), singular in number (vacana), and always anukta.”
