bhakti-viśeṣa-mātreṇaivodaya-viśeṣa-niyamāt |
(Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha: 149)
“[Kṛṣṇa became the son of Droṇa and Dharā] Because of the rule that a particular manifestation [of him] is a result of a particular [corresponding] form of bhakti.”
anya-kāmī yadi kare kṛṣṇera bhajana |
nā māgileo kṛṣṇa tāre dena sva-caraṇa ||
kṛṣṇa kahe—āmā bhaje, māge viṣaya-sukha |
amṛta chāḍi’ viṣa māge—ei baḍa mūrkha ||
āmi vijña, ei mūrkhe viṣaya kene diba? |
sva-caraṇāmṛta diyā viṣaya bhulāiba ||
(Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.22.37–39)
“If someone with other desires [i.e., someone who desires anything other than Kṛṣṇa] engages in worship of Kṛṣṇa, then Kṛṣṇa gives them his own feet even though they did not ask [for them]. Kṛṣṇa says [i.e., considers], ‘They worship me but ask for the pleasure of sense objects; they reject nectar and ask for poison. They are a great fool. I [on the contrary] am wise. [So,] Why should I give this fool objects of the senses? I will give them the nectar of my own feet and make them forget about objects of the senses.’”
yad yad icchati yāvac ca phalam ārādhite’cyute |
tat tad āpnoti rāgendra bhūri svalpam athāpi vā ||
(Viṣṇu Purāṇa: 3.8.7)
“When Acyuta is propitiated, one attains whatever result one desires, and to whatever extent, O emperor, be it great or small.”
sṛṣṭy-ādikaṁ harir naiva prayojanam apekṣya tu |
kurute kevalānandād yathā mattasya nartanam ||
pūrṇānandasya tasyeha prayojana-matiḥ kutaḥ |
muktā apy āpta-kāmāḥ syuḥ kim utāsyākhilātmanaḥ ||
(Nārāyaṇa-saṁhitā; cited in Bhagavat Sandarbha: 47; Paramātma Sandarbha: 93; Govinda-bhāṣya on Vedānta-sūtra: 2.1.33)
“Hari does not require any motive for emanation and so forth [of the material universes]. He acts purely out of bliss, like the dancing of an intoxicated person. Since he is full of bliss, how can he have any thought of a motive? Even liberated beings are of satisfied desire, so how much more so must be the Ātmā of all?”
na śakyaḥ sa tvayā draṣṭum asmābhir vā bṛhaspate |
yasya prasādaṁ kurute sa vai taṁ draṣṭum arhati ||
(Mahābhārata: 12.323.18; cited in Laghu Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.419, Bhagavat Sandarbha: 34)
“O Bṛhaspati, he [i.e., Bhagavān] cannot be seen by you or by us. Only someone whom he has graced is able to see him.”
lokasya mithyābhimater acakṣuṣaś
ciraṁ prasuptasya tamasy anāśraye |
śrāntasya karmasv anuviddhayā dhiyā
tvam āvirāsīḥ kila yoga-bhāskaraḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 3.29.5)
[Devahūti to Kapiladeva:] “You, the sun of yoga [i.e., the illuminator of yoga, that is, the sun who nourishes the lotus of yoga], have appeared for the people who are eyeless [i.e., ignorant], [thus] possessed of identification with the unreal [i.e., the body and so on], [thus] exhausted because of their minds being entangled in karma, [thus] shelterless, and [thus] slumbering for a long time in darkness [i.e., saṁsāra; that is, you have appeared to teach the wisdom of yoga which resembles the sun in that it brings light to the eyes of the ignorant, removes the numbness of false identity, dispels the sleep and darkness of saṁsāra, and dries up the pool of exhaustion produced by the mind being attached to karma].”
evaṁ sva-citte svata eva siddha
ātmā priyo’rtho bhagavān anantaḥ |
taṁ nirvṛto niyatārtho bhajeta
saṁsāra-hetūparamaś ca yatra ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 2.2.6; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha: 2)
“As such [i.e., being detached from mundanity], resolute and fulfilled, one should engage in worship of him [Hari], [since he is] self-existent within one’s own consciousness, the Self, beloved, real, glorious, and without end, wherein [i.e., within such worship] there is cessation of the cause of saṁsāra and so forth [i.e., attainment of him.”
nāyam ātmā pravacanena labhyo
na medhayā na bahunā śrutena |
yam evaiṣa vṛṇute tena labhyaḥ
tasyaiṣa ātmā vivṛṇute tanūṁ svām ||
(Kaṭha Upaniṣad: 1.2.23; cited in Bhagavat Sandarbha: 121)
“The Ātmā is attainable neither by exposition, nor by intellect, nor by extensive hearing [of śāstra]. The Ātmā is attainable by one whom he chooses. To him [who is so chosen] the Ātmā reveals his own form.”
yathā hi bhagavān ekaḥ śrī-kṛṣṇo bahu-mūrtibhiḥ |
bahu-sthāneṣu varteta tathā tat-sevakā vayam ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.5.52)
“Just as Bhagavān, the one Śrī Kṛṣṇa, exists with many forms in many places [i.e., just as he exists simultaneously in multiple places in different forms], so do we, [since we are] his servants.”
yasya śrī-bhagavat-prāptāv utkaṭecchā yato bhavet |
sa tatraiva labhetāmuṁ na tu vāso’sya lābha-kṛt ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.4.34)
[Prahlāda to Nārada:] “Where one may develop intense desire to attain Śrī Bhagavān, there itself [i.e., only there] one can attain him, and his residence, on the contrary, does not cause attainment [of him].”
