ekādaśī-sahasrais tu māsopoṣaṇa-koṭibhiḥ |
tat phalaṁ prāpyate pumbhir viṣṇor naivedya-bhakṣaṇāt ||
(Unknown source; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa 9.408)
“The result of [fasting on] thousands of Ekādaśīs and fasting for tens of millions of [specified] months is attained by people just by eating [the remnants of] offerings to Viṣṇu.”
yo mamaivārcanaṁ kṛtvā tatra prāpaṇam uttamam |
śeṣam annaṁ samaśnāti tataḥ saukhyataraṁ nu kim ||
(Varāha Purāṇa; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa 9.390)
“What greater happiness is there than that of one who worships me with an excellent offering and then partakes in full of the food remnants?”
navam annaṁ phalaṁ puṣpaṁ nivedya madhusūdane |
paścād bhuṅkte svayaṁ yaś ca tasya tuṣyati keśavaḥ ||
(Viṣṇu-dharma-uttara; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 9.406)
“Keśava satisfies one who offers fresh grain, fruit, and flowers to Madhusūdana and thereafter personally partakes [of the remnants].”
tvayopabhukta-srag-gandha-vāso’laṅkāra-carcitāḥ |
ucchiṣṭa-bhojino dāsās tava māyāṁ jayema hi ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.6.46; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa 9.355 and Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.125)
[Uddhava to Kṛṣṇa:] “Adorned with garlands, fragrances, garments, and ornaments enjoyed by you, and partaking of your remnants, your servants can certainly conquer your māyā.”
yathottaraṁ munīnāṁ prāmāṇyam |
(Kaiyata, an 11th century vaiyākaraṇa; cited in Siddhānta-kaumudī on Aṣṭadhyāyī: 7.3.59)
“The authority of the sages is successive [i.e., among the three seminal sages of vyākaraṇa—Pāṇini, Kātyāyana, and Patañjali—the authority of each succeeding sage is greater than his predecessor(s), and thus Patañjali is the highest authority in all matters of Pāṇini’s vyākaraṇa].”
yatnenāpādito’py arthaḥ kuśalair anumātṛbhiḥ |
abhiyuktatarair anyair anyathaivopapādyate ||
(Vākya-padīya: 1.34; cited in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.1.46)
“Even a meaning established with assiduity by expert logicians is refuted [lit., proven to be otherwise] by others more proficient [in various forms of reasoning].”
sarva-prapañcātītānāṁ teṣāṁ vaikuṇṭha-vāsinām |
tasya vaikuṇṭha-lokasya tasya tan-nāyakasya ca ||
tāni māhātmya-jātāni prapañcāntargataiḥ kila |
dṛṣṭāntair nopayujyante na śakyante ca bhāṣitum ||
tathāpi bhavato brahman prapañcāntargatasya hi |
prapañca-parivārāntardṛṣṭi-garbhita-cetasaḥ ||
tad-dṛṣṭānta-kulenaiva tat tat syād bodhitaṁ sukham |
tathety ucyeta yat kiñcit tad-āgaḥ kṣamatāṁ hariḥ ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.4.40–43)
“The greatnesses of the residents of Vaikuṇṭha beyond the entire phenomenal world, of Vaikuṇṭhaloka, and of its master [i.e., Vaikuṇṭhanātha, who like Vaikuṇṭhaloka and its residents is so also beyond the entire phenomenal world] are certainly not fit, and not able, to be described with examples from within the phenomenal world. Still, O brāhmaṇa, for you who are within the phenomenal world and the inner vision [i.e., awareness] of whose mind is filled with the coverings of the phenomenal world, those [greatnesses] can be easily made known only through such examples [i.e., examples drawn from the phenomenal world]. ‘It may be said to be such.’ May Hari forgive the offense of whatever may be said as such [i.e., whatever may be said of those greatnesses by means of stating examples drawn from the phenomenal world, such as, ‘He [i.e., Bhagavān] is like an emperor’].”
ānanda-rūpatvam asya mahad-dhṛdaya-sākṣikaṁ yathā śrī-vigrahasya |
(Bhagavat Sandarbha: 47)
“Its [i.e., the name of Bhagavān’s] being a form of bliss like the blessed figure [of Bhagavān] is witnessed [i.e., evidenced] by the hearts of the great ones (mahats).”
sarva-pramāṇānāṁ ca madhye’nubhava-pramāṇasya śreṣṭhayāt |
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta-ṭīkā: 2.1.110)
“Amid all pramāṇas (means of knowing), the best is the pramāṇa of experience.”
māyātīta haile haya āmāra anubhava |
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.25.118)
[Bhagavān:] “[Only] When one is beyond māyā, experience of me occurs.”
