yadṛcchā-lābha-tuṣṭasya tejo viprasya vardhate |
tat praśāmyaty asantoṣād ambhasevāśuśukṣaṇiḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 8.19.26)
“[Vāmanadeva to Bali Mahārāja:] The potency of a brāhmaṇa who is satisfied with that which is attained of its own accord increases, and that [i.e., that potency] is extinguished because of dissatisfaction like fire by water.”
puṁso’yaṁ saṁsṛter hetur asantoṣo’rtha-kāmayoḥ |
yadṛcchayopapannena santoṣo muktaye smṛtaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 8.19.25)
“[Vāmanadeva to Bali Mahārāja:] This dissatisfaction with objects and enjoyment [of them] is the cause of a living being’s saṁsāra, and satisfaction with that which is attained of its own accord is known to lead to mukti.”
santoṣo daiva-labdhenālaṁ-buddhiḥ |
(Bhāvārtha-dīpikā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 7.11.9)
“Satisfaction is the sense of enough [i.e., sufficiency] with that which is attained by destiny.”
santoṣaḥ svatas tṛptiḥ |
(Krama-sandarbha-ṭīkā and Sārārtha-darśinī-ṭīkā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.16.27)
“Satisfaction is satiety within the self.”
santoṣo’laṁ-buddhiḥ |
(Bhāvārtha-dīpikā on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.16.27)
“Satisfaction is the sense of enough [i.e., of there being sufficiency].”
manasaitāni bhūtāni praṇamed bahu-mānayan |
īśvaro jīva-kalayā praviṣṭo bhagavān iti ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 3.29.34; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha 106)
“Within the mind one should offer obeisance to and greatly honor [all] these beings, [considering,] ‘Bhagavān, Īśvara, has entered [all these beings] by means of impelling the jīvas [i.e., by virtue of his being the Inner Regulator (Antaryāmī), meaning, the Īśvara, within them].”
atha māṁ sarva-bhūteṣu bhūtātmānaṁ kṛtālayam |
arhayed dāna-mānābhyāṁ maitryābhinnena cakṣuṣā ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 3.29.27; cited in Bhakti Sandarbha 106)
[Translation as per the Krama-sandarbha-ṭīkā:] “Therefore, with charity, respect, friendship, and eyes of non-difference, one should worship me, the Ātma of all beings, who have made my abode in all beings.”
ei se vaiṣṇava-dharma sabāre praṇati |
sei dharma-dhvajī yāra ithe nāhi rati ||
(Caitanya-bhāgavata: 3.3.29)
“Offering obeisances to everyone—this is Vaiṣṇava-dharma. One who has no affinity for this is [just] a dharma–flag-bearer [i.e., a pseudo follower of dharma who merely makes a show of following it but actually does not follow it at all].”
uttama hañā vaiṣṇava habe nirabhimāna |
jīve sammāna dibe jāni’ kṛṣṇa-adhiṣṭhāna ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.20.25)
“Although exalted, a Vaiṣṇava should be prideless and give respect to all jīvas, knowing them to be dwelling places of Kṛṣṇa.”
ātmā nadī saṁyama-puṇya-tīrthā
satyodakā śīla-taṭā dayormiḥ |
tatrābhiṣekaṁ kuru pāṇḍu-putra
na vāriṇā śuṣyati cāntarātmā ||
(Hitopadeśa: Sandhi, 93)
“The self is a river: discipline is its auspicious bathing places, truth its water, character its banks, and compassion its waves. Bath there, O son of Pāṇḍu. The inner self is not purified by water.”
