na rādhāṁ na ca kṛṣṇaṁ vā na gaurāṅgam ahaṁ bhaje |
śrīmad-rūpa-padāmbhoje dhūlir bhūyāṁ bhave bhave ||
(Sādhana-dīpikā: 8)
“I do not worship Rādhā, or Kṛṣṇa, or Gaurāṅga. Let me become a particle of dust on the lotus feet of Śrīmad Rūpa birth after birth.”
śrīmad-rūpa-pada-dvandve hṛdi me sphuratāṁ sadā |
rāgānugādhikārī syād yat kṛpā-lava-mātrataḥ ||
(Sādhana-dīpikā: 8)
“May Śrīmad Rūpa’s two feet, by just a trace of the grace of which one can become an adhikārī for rāgānugā-bhakti, be ever manifest in my heart.”
śrīmad-rūpa-padāmbhoja-dvandvaṁ vande muhur muhuḥ |
yasya prasādād ajño’pi tan-mata-jñāna-bhāg bhavet ||
(Sādhana-dīpikā: 8)
“I offer obeisance again and again unto the two lotus feet of Śrīmad Rūpa, by whose grace even an ignorant person can become endowed with knowledge of his conception.”
durgamaṁ sugamaṁ tattvaṁ bhaved yasya prasādataḥ |
rādhā-kṛṣṇa-rase magnaṁ śrīmad-rūpaṁ namāmi tam ||
(Mukunda Dāsa Gosvāmī in his Artha-ratnālpa-dīpikā on Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.1.1)
“I offer obeisance unto him, Śrī Rūpa, who is absorbed in the rasa of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, and by whose grace difficult to understand tattva shall become easy to understand.”
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!”
kālena vṛndāvana-keli-vārttā
lupteti tāṁ khyāpayituṁ viśiṣya |
kṛpāmṛtenābhiṣiṣeca devas
tatraiva rūpaṁ ca sanātanaṁ ca ||
(Caitanyacandrodaya-nāṭaka: 9.38; cited in Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.19.119)
“In the course of time, discussion of the play [i.e., līlā of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa] in Vṛndāvana was lost. Therefore, to distinguish and disseminate this, Deva [i.e., Śrīman Mahāprabhu], specifically in this respect, anointed Rūpa and Sanātana with the nectar of his grace.”
rucim udvahatas tatra janasya bhajane hareḥ |
viṣayeṣu gariṣṭho’pi rāgaḥ prāyo vilīyate ||
(Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.254)
“For a person endowed with ruci there in bhajana of Hari, even the heaviest attachment to the sense objects largely dissolves.”
mahāśakti-vilāsātmā bhāvo’cintya-svarūpa-bhāk |
raty-ākhyā ity ayaṁ yukto na hi tarkeṇa bādhitum |
(Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 2.5.92)
“This bhāva, known as rati, by constitution an expression of the supreme potency [i.e., the hlādinī-śakti], and [thus] possessed of an inconceivable nature, is not fit to be assailed with argument.”
parisphuratu sundaraṁ caritram atra lakṣmī-pates
tathā bhuvana-nandinas tad-avatāra-vṛndasya ca |
harer api camatkṛti-prakara-vardhanaḥ kintu me
bibharti hṛdi vismayaṁ kam api rāsa-līlā-rasaḥ ||
(Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 2.1.210)
[Uddhava:] “The beautiful feats of Lakṣmīpati and his avatāras who delight the world may manifest in full here [i.e., throughout the universe], but the rasa of the rāsa-līlā, which increases the abundance of even Hari’s astonishment, continually produces some sort of [indescribable] wonder in my heart.”
