vairāgya-yug-bhakti-rasa-prayatnair
apāyayan mām anabhīpsum andham |
kṛpāmbudhir yaḥ para-duḥkha-duḥkhī
sanātanaṁ taṁ prabhum āśrayāmi ||
(Vilāpa-kusumañjali: 6)
“The ocean of grace,
Sorrowful [only] because of others’ sorrow,
Who induced me,
[Although I was] Blind and unwilling,
To drink the rasa of bhakti
Combined with non-attachment (vairāgya)—
I take shelter in him,
My master
Sanātana.”
ādadānas tṛṇaṁ dantair idaṁ yāche punaḥ punaḥ |
śrīmad rūpa-padāmbhoja-dhūliḥ syāṁ janma-janmani ||
(Muktā-caritam)
“Taking a blade of grass between my teeth, I pray for this again and again, ‘May I be a speck of dust at the lotus feet of Śrīmad Rūpa birth after birth.‘”
yad yatnataḥ śama-damātma-viveka-yogair
adhyātma-lagnam avikāram abhūn mano me |
rūpasya tat-smita-sudhaṁ sadayāvalokam
āsādya mādyati hareś caritair idānīm ||
(Stavāvalī: Abhīṣṭa-sūcana, 2)
“Because of whose care my mind, through equipoise [i.e., fixity upon Bhagavān], restraint [of the senses], discernment [i.e., discrimination between the self and non-self], and yoga [i.e., meditation], became fixed in the higher self [i.e., Bhagavān] and undisturbed [by lust, anger, and so forth]—by receiving now the nectar of that Rūpa’s smile and [his] gracious glance, my mind becomes maddened by the acts of Hari!”
gurau goṣṭhe goṣṭhālayiṣu sujane bhū-sura-gaṇe
sva-mantre śrī-nāmni vraja-nava-yuva-dvandva-śaraṇe |
sadā dambhaṁ hitvā kuru ratim apūrvām atitarāṁ
aye svāntar bhrātaś caṭubhir abhiyāce dhṛta-padaḥ ||
(Stavāvalī: Manaḥ-śikṣā, 1)
“Give up your pride and constantly cultivate intense, unparalleled rati to guru, Vraja, the residents of Vraja, the Vaiṣṇavas, the brāhmaṇas, your mantra, the divine names, and the shelter of the Youthful Couple of Vraja. O mind! O brother! I implore you with kind words, grasping your feet.”
caitanyacandrera kṛpā hañāche i̐hāre |
caitanyacandrera ‘vātula’ ke rākhite pāre? ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.6.41)
[Śrī Dāsa Gosvāmī’s father tells his mother:] “Śrī Caitanyacandra’s grace has come upon him. Who can detain a man mad for Caitanyacandra?”
yaḥ sarva-lokaika-mano-‘bhirucyā
saubhāgya-bhūḥ kācid akṛṣṭa-pacyā |
yatrāyam āropaṇa-tulya-kālaṁ
tat-prema-śākhī phalavān atulyaḥ ||
(Caitanya-candrodaya-nāṭaka: 10.4; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.6.264)
“Since he [i.e., Raghunātha Dāsa Gosvāmī] is unanimously a delight to everyone, he is [like] an untilled fertile field of some [indescribable] good fortune wherein this tree of prema for him [i.e., Śrī Kṛṣṇa], from the very moment it was planted, has become incomparably fruitful.”
anārādhya rādhā-padāmbhoja-renum
anāśritya vṛndāṭavīṁ tat-padāṅkām |
asambhāṣya tad-bhāva-gambhīra-cittān
kutaḥ śyāma-sindhau rasyasyāvagāhaḥ ||
(Stavāvalī: Sva-saṅkalpa-prakāśa-stotra: 1)
“Without worshiping the pollen of the lotus of Śrī Rādhā, without taking shelter of Vṛndāvana, which bears her footprints, and without conversing with those whose hearts are deeply immersed in her bhāva, how can one swim in the rasa of the ocean of Śyāma?”
bhajāmi rādhām aravinda-netrāṁ
smarāmi rādhāṁ madhura-smitāsyām |
vadāmi rādhāṁ karuṇā-bharārdrāṁ
tato mamānyāsti gatir na kāpi ||
(Stavāvalī: Viśākhānandābhidha-stotram, 131)
“I worship Rādhā of lotus eyes. I meditate on Rādhā of sweet smiling face. I speak of Rādhā, melted [at heart] with an abundance of compassion. I have no object other than her whatsoever.”
ayi praṇaya-śālini praṇaya-puṣṭa-dāsyāptaye
prakāmam atirodanaiḥ pracura-duḥkha-dagdhātmanā |
vilāpa-kusumāñjalir hṛdi nidhāya pādāmbuje
mayā bata samarpitas tava tanotu tuṣṭiṁ manāk ||
(Vilāpa-kusuñjali: 104)
“Ayi affectionate one, may this Vilāpa-kusumāñjali [i.e., this flowering offering of lamentation]—offered by me as I hold your lotus feet to my heart and call [out to you], burned by profuse sorrow and [thus] crying intensely, for the sake of attaining servitude enriched with affection unto you as desired—produce in you some slight satisfaction.”
tvāṁ natvā yācate dhṛtvā tṛṇaṁ dantair ayaṁ janaḥ |
sva-dāsyāmṛta-sekena jīvayāmuṁ suduḥkhitam ||
na muñcec charaṇāyātam api duṣṭaṁ dayāmayaḥ |
ato gāndharvike hā hā muñcainaṁ naiva tādṛśam ||
(Stavāvalī: Premambodha-maranda-stava-rāja, 10–11)
“Bowing to you, holding straw between his teeth, this person is begging: ‘By sprinkling the nectar of your own service, please give life to this most sorrowful one.’ One who is gracious should not reject even a depraved person who has sought shelter. Therefore, O Gāndharvikā! Hā! Hā! Please do not ever reject [even] someone such as this.”
