bhaktir dūre’stu tasmin me nāparādhā bhavanti cet |
bahu manye tad ātmānaṁ nāham āgaḥsu rudravat ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.2.66)
“[Brahmādeva to Nārada:] Let alone bhakti, if I do not have any offenses to him [viz., Bhagavān], then I consider myself great [i.e., well]. I am not like Rudra in the case of offenses [i.e., Bhagavān does not forgive my offenses as he does Śiva’s].”
kiṁ durāpaṁ mayi prīte tathāpi vibudharṣabhāḥ |
mayy ekānta-matir nānyan matto vāñchati tattva-vit ||
na veda kṛpaṇaḥ śreya ātmano guṇa-vastu-dṛk |
tasya tān icchato yacched yadi so’pi tathā-vidhaḥ ||
svayaṁ niḥśreyasaṁ vidvān na vakty ajñāya karma hi |
na rāti rogiṇo’pathyaṁ vāñchato’pi bhiṣaktamaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 6.9.47–49)
“[Bhagavān Viṣṇu:] O best of the devatās! What is difficult to attain when I am pleased? [Nothing]. Still, a knower of the essence—one whose mind is one-pointed upon me—does not desire anything other than me. A pitiable seer of substance in [worldly] objects does not understand his own good. If at will someone shall give those [i.e., essenceless worldly objects] to him, [then] he too is of such sort [i.e., then that giver of worldly objects is also ignorant just like the desirer of them is]. One who has knowledge of the highest good himself certainly does not speak of karma to one who is ignorant. An excellent doctor does not administer that which is unsalutary for a patient even if [the patient is] desirous [of that].”
akiñcanasya dāntasya śāntasya sama-cetasaḥ |
mayā santuṣṭa-manasaḥ sarvāḥ sukha-mayā diśaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.14.13)
[Kṛṣṇa:] “All directions are filled with happiness for one who is disinterested, controlled, peaceful, equanimous, and of mind fully satisfied by me.”
śrīmac-caitanya-devāya tasmai bhagavate namaḥ |
yad-rūpa-maṇim āśritya citraṁ nṛtyaty ayaṁ jaḍaḥ ||
(Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā on Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.1.1)
“Obeisance unto him, Bhagavān,
Śrīmac Caitanyadeva,
By taking shelter in the jewel of whose form
[Even] This fool dances wonderfully.”
śṛṇvantu vaiṣṇavāḥ śāstram idaṁ bhāgavatāmṛtam |
sugopyaṁ prāha yat premṇā jaiminir janamejayam ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.1.12)
“May the Vaiṣṇavas hear this highly confidential śāstra, [entitled] Bhāgavatāmṛtam, which Jaimini spoke to Janamejaya out of prema.”
bhagavad-bhakti-śāstrāṇām ayaṁ sārasya saṅgrahaḥ |
anubhūtasya caitanyadeve tat-priya-rūpataḥ ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.1.11)
“This [text] is a compilation of the essence of the śāstras related to Bhagavad-bhakti [which has been] perceived [by me] in Caitanyadeva [i.e., in Śrī Kṛṣṇa, or, in Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu] by reason of his beloved form [alt., by reason of his beloved bhakta Śrī Rūpa].”
jayati jayati kṛṣṇa-prema-bhaktir yad-aṅghriṁ
nikhila-nigama-tattvaṁ gūḍham ājñāya muktiḥ |
bhajati śaraṇa-kāmā vaiṣṇavais tyajyamānā
japa-yajana-tapasya-nyāsa-niṣṭhāṁ vihāya ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.1.8)
“Kṛṣṇa-prema-bhakti—
Whose foot
Mukti,
Being shunned by the Vaiṣṇavas
And [thus] desirous of shelter,
Worships
Having determined [it] to be the esoteric essence
Of all the Vedas
And utterly rejected perfection in japa, yajña, tapasya, and sannyāsa—
Triumphs!
Triumphs!”
govardhano jayati śaila-kulādhirājo
yo gopikābhir udito hari-dāsa-varyaḥ |
kṛṣṇena śakra-makha-bhaṅga-kṛtārcito yaḥ
saptāham asya kara-padma-tale’py avātsīt ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.1.7)
“Govardhana—
The emperor of mountains,
Who is said by the gopikās
To be the best of Hari’s servants,
And who was worshiped by Kṛṣṇa
After he abolished the sacrifice for Indra
And remained for a week
In the palm of his lotus hand—
Triumphs!”
jayati taraṇi-putrī dharma-rāja-svasā yā
kalayati mathurāyāḥ sakhyam atyeti gaṅgām |
murahara-dayitā tat-pāda-padma-prasūtaṁ
vahati ca makarandaṁ nīra-pūra-cchalena ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.1.6)
“The daughter of Sūrya—
The sister of Dharmarāja,
Who fosters friendship with Mathurā,
Surpasses the Gaṅgā,
Is beloved to Murahara,
And carries the nectar
Emanating from his lotus feet
In the guise of a stream of water—
Triumphs!”
jayati jayati vṛndāraṇyam etan murāreḥ
priyatamam ati-sādhu-svānta-vaikuṇṭha-vāsāt |
ramayati sa sadā gāḥ pālayan yatra gopīḥ
svarita-madhura-veṇur vardhayan prema rāse ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.1.5)
“This Vṛndāvana—
Which is dearmost to Murāri,
More so than the hearts of great sādhus
And [more so than even] residence in Vaikuṇṭha,
And in which he,
Tending the cows,
Sweetly playing the flute,
And increasing prema for rāsa,
Ever delights the gopīs—
Triumphs!
Triumphs!”
