Śraddhā

ājñāyaivaṁ guṇān doṣān mayādiṣṭān api svakān

ājñāyaivaṁ guṇān doṣān mayādiṣṭān api svakān |
dharmān santyajya yaḥ sarvān māṁ bhajet sa ca sattamaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.11.32; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 10.62; Bhakti Sandarbha: 200; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.8.62)

“[Śrī Kṛṣṇa to Uddhava:] Fully understanding qualities and faults in this manner, one who shall completely relinquish all one’s own dharmas even though [they are] instituted by me and worship me is also the best of the sat.”

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bhaktyāham ekayā grāhyaḥ śraddhayātmā priyaḥ satām

bhaktyāham ekayā grāhyaḥ śraddhayātmā priyaḥ satām |
bhaktiḥ punāti man-niṣṭhā śvapākān api sambhavāt ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.14.21; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 11.602; Bhakti Sandarbha: 147, 241; Prīti Sandarbha: 1; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.20.135)

“[Śrī Kṛṣṇa:] I, the Self—the Beloved—of the sat, am attainable by means of one-pointed bhakti with śraddhā. Bhakti fixed upon me purifies even dog-cookers of their birth.”

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śuśrūṣoḥ śraddadhānasya vāsudeva-kathā-ruciḥ

śuśrūṣoḥ śraddadhānasya vāsudeva-kathā-ruciḥ |
syān mahat-sevayā viprāḥ puṇya-tīrtha-niṣevaṇāt ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.2.16)

“O learned ones, taste for discussion of Vāsudeva shall come about for one possessed of śraddhā and desirous to hear [such discussion] as a result of service to a mahat as an outcome of pilgrimage to a holy place.”

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te vai vidanty atitaranti ca deva-māyāṁ

te vai vidanty atitaranti ca deva-māyāṁ
strī-śūdra-hūṇa-śabarā api pāpa-jīvāḥ |
yady adbhuta-krama-parāyaṇa-śīla-śikṣās
tiryag-janā api kim u śruta-dhāraṇā ye ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 2.7.46)

“Even women, śūdras, Hūṇas, and Śabaras, as well as sinful living beings and even slanting creatures [i.e., animals] certainly understand Deva’s [i.e., Bhagavān’s] māyā and cross beyond [it] if they have [received] instruction about the character of those devoted to he of astonishing stride [i.e., Bhagavān], and so all the more [do] those who sustain steadiness upon what they have heard.”

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satyam uktaṁ kintv iha vā eke na manaso’ddhā viśrambham

satyam uktaṁ kintv iha vā eke na manaso’ddhā viśrambham anavasthānasya śaṭha-kirāta iva saṅgacchante |
tathā coktam—
na kuryāt karhicit sakhyaṁ manasi hy anavasthite |
yad-viśrambhāc cirāc cīrṇaṁ caskanda tapa aiśvaram ||
nityaṁ dadāti kāmasya cchidraṁ tam anu ye’rayaḥ |
yoginaḥ kṛta-maitrasya patyur jāyeva puṁścalī ||
kāmo manyur mado lobhaḥ śoka-moha-bhayādayaḥ |
karma-bandhaś ca yan-mūlaḥ svīkuryāt ko nu tad budhaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 5.6.2–5)

“[Śukadeva Gosvāmī to Parīkṣit Mahārāja:] You have spoken correctly, but here [i.e., in this world], the great do not place trust in the unstable mind, which is like a cunning kirāta. Similarly, it also said, ‘One should never make a friendship with the unstable mind, as a result of trust in which the long-standing austerity (tapas) [even] of an īśvara is lost. It [i.e., the unstable mind] always gives an opening to desire (kāma) and [other] enemies of a yogī who has made a friendship [with it] which follow from that [i.e., desire] like the promiscuous wife of a [trusting] husband. Indeed, what intelligent person would accept [as a friend] that [mind] which is the basis of the bondage of karma and [the basis of] desire, anger, mania, greed, lamentation, delusion, fear, and so forth?’”

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ayaṁ svasty-ayanaḥ panthā dvijāter gṛha-medhinaḥ

ayaṁ svasty-ayanaḥ panthā dvijāter gṛha-medhinaḥ |
yac chraddhayāpta-vittena śuklenejyeta pūruṣaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.84.37)

“This path whereby the Puruṣa [i.e., Śrī Bhagavān] shall be worshiped with śraddhā by means of purely obtained wealth is auspicious for a twice-born householder.”

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arcāyām eva haraye pūjāṁ ya śraddhayehate

arcāyām eva haraye pūjāṁ ya śraddhayehate |
na tad-bhakteṣu cānyeṣu sa bhaktaḥ prākṛtaḥ smṛtaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.2.47; cited in Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 10.26, 10.76; Bhakti Sandarbha: 190; Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.22.74)

“One who for Hari performs pūjā with śraddhā only of the Deity and not of his bhaktas or others is considered a beginning bhakta.”

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alaukika-līlā prabhura alaukika-rīti

alaukika-līlā prabhura alaukika-rīti |
śunileo bhāgya-hīnera nā haya pratīti ||
(Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.18.225)

“Prabhu’s līlā is extraordinary, and [his] manner is extraordinary. Even when they hear [of it, however], the unfortunate do not believe.”

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śrī-goloke nikhila-paramānanda-pūrāntya-sīma

śrī-goloke nikhila-paramānanda-pūrāntya-sīma-
gambhīrābdhau janani gamanaṁ sādhaya sva-prayāsaiḥ |
yasmiṁs tās tā vividha-ratayas tena nāthena sākaṁ
yātrā-mātrān madhura-madhurāḥ santataṁ saṅghaṭante ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.7.75)

“[Mahārāja Parīkṣit:] O Mother, endeavor by your own efforts to go to Śrī Goloka, the deep ocean of the ultimate reaches of the outpouring of the totality of the highest bliss, just by journeying into which those [indescribable] variegated, sweet, sweet delights together with that Nātha [i.e., Śrīmad Madana Gopāladeva] take place constantly [i.e., endeavor to journey there because only there will all your desires be fulfilled to the greatest extent].”

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sā śraddadhānasya vivardhamānā

sā śraddadhānasya vivardhamānā
viraktim anyatra karoti puṁsaḥ |
hareḥ padānusmṛti-nirvṛtasya
samasta-duḥkhāpyayam āśu dhatte ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 3.5.13)

“That [i.e., inclination (mati), meaning, taste, for discussion of Hari], upon flourishing, produces disinterest for all else in a person endowed with śraddhā. The dissolution of all suffering of one who is delighted by continuous remembrance of Hari’s feet is quickly effected.”

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