ataḥ sarvato’pi sāndrānanda-camatkāra-kara-śrī-kṛṣṇa-prakāśe śrī-vṛndāvane’pi paramādbhuta-prakāśaḥ śrī-rādhayā yugalitas tu śrī-kṛṣṇa iti |
(Kṛṣṇa Sandarbha: 189)
“Therefore, even among all the intensely blissful and astonishing prakāśas (manifestations) of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and even within [those found in] Śrī Vṛndāvana, the supremely wondrous prakāśa is that of Śrī Kṛṣṇa coupled with Śrī Rādhā.”
kṛṣṇa-pāda-padma-gandha yei-jana pāya |
brahmaloka-ādi sukha tāre nāhi bhāya ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.6.136)
”The happiness of Brahmaloka and so forth do not appeal to one who experiences the fragrance of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet.”
brahmānanda haite pūrṇānanda līlā-rasa |
brahma-jñānī ākarṣiyā kare ātma-vaśa ||
brahmānanda haite pūrṇānanda kṛṣṇa-guṇa |
ataeva ākarṣaye ātmārāmera mana ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.17.137, 139)
“Līlā-rasa is full in bliss in comparison to the bliss of Brahman, attracts Brahma-jñānīs, and brings them under its own control. … Kṛṣṇa’s qualities are full in bliss in comparison to the bliss of Brahman and thus attract the minds of ātmārāmas [i.e., those who are (otherwise) satisfied within the self].”
alaukika līlā ei parama nigūḍha |
viśvāse pāiye—tarke haya bahu-dūra ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.8.308)
“This otherworldly līlā is highly esoteric. With faith, it is attained. With tarka, it remains very far.”
naiva vācā na manasā prāptuṁ śakyo na cakṣuṣā |
astīti bruvato’nyatra kathaṁ tad-upalabhyate ||
(Kaṭha Upaniṣad: 2.3.12)
“He [i.e., the Supreme Puruṣa] is attainable neither by speech, nor by the mind, nor by the eye. How can he be realized other than by one who says, ‘He is’ [i.e., who first of all has śraddhā in his existence]?”
eka-kṣaṇa prabhura yadi pāiye darśana |
koṭi-cintāmaṇi-lābha nahe tāra sama ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.9.95)
“If I could have darśana of Prabhu [i.e., Śrīman Mahāprabhu] for one moment, then the attainment of a crore of thought-jewels would not equal that.”
preme kṛṣṇāsvāda haile bhava nāśa pāya |
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.20.141)
“When one has a taste of Kṛṣṇa through prema, then worldly existence gets destroyed.”
yad yat prītikaraṁ puṁsāṁ vastu maitreya jāyate |
tad eva duḥkha-vṛkṣasya bījatvam upagacchati ||
kalatra-putra-mitrārtha-gṛha-kṣetra-dhanādikaiḥ |
kriyeta na tathā bhūri sukhaṁ puṁsāṁ yathāsukham ||
(Viṣṇu Purāṇa: 6.5.55–56)
“O Maitreya, indeed every object pleasing to a person that comes about [in the course of saṁsāra] becomes [later] a seed of the tree of suffering. Not so much happiness is produced by one’s wife, children, friends, possessions, houses, lands, wealth, and so forth as is unhappiness [i.e., these aforementioned aspects of saṁsāras produce more unhappiness than happiness].”
nirastātiśayāhlāda-sukha-bhāvaika-lakṣaṇā |
bheṣajaṁ bhagavat-prāptir ekāntātyantikī matā ||
(Viṣṇu Purāṇa: 6.5.59; cited in Prīti Sandarbha: 1)
“Attainment of Bhagavān, which is characterized purely by a state of happiness filled with superlative delight [i.e., a delight that surpasses all other forms of happiness and neither contains nor causes any form of suffering], is the medicine [to cure the disease of suffering in saṁsāra] and is accepted as exclusive [i.e., free from any admixture of suffering] and absolute [i.e., everlasting].”
eko vaśī sarva-bhūtāntarātmā
ekaṁ rūpaṁ bahudhā yaḥ karoti |
tam ātma-sthaṁ ye’nupaśyanti dhīrās
teṣāṁ sukhaṁ śāśvataṁ netareṣām ||
(Kaṭha Upaniṣad: 2.2.12)
“The one Ruler, the Inner Ātmā of all beings, who makes his one form manifold—the sagacious (dhīra) who perceive him situated within the ātmā [i.e., within their own self] experience eternal happiness; others do not.”
