mūrkhā yatra na pūjyante dhānyaṁ yatra susañcitam |
dāmpatyo kalahaṁ nāsti tatra śrīḥ svayam āgataḥ ||
(Cāṇakya-nīti: 3.12)
“Where fools are not worshiped [i.e., given power, regarded as role-models, etc.],
Where grain is well-stored,
And where there is no quarrel in marital relationships,
There Śrī [i.e., Lakṣmī, prosperity] comes of her own accord.”
gatānugatiko mūrkhaḥ śāstronmādaś ca paṇḍitaḥ |
nitya-kṣībāś ca veśyānāṁ jaṅgamāḥ kalpa-pādapāḥ ||
(Samaya-mātṛkā: 5.67; cited in Mahāsubhāṣita-saṅgraha: 7755)
“A fool is an imitator [lit., ‘a goer after that which has gone,’ i.e., just an uncritical follower of what those before them have done], a scholar (paṇḍita) is crazed by śāstra [i.e., undone as a result of pedantry, excessive concern for theory that results in a lack of practical application, etc.], and the ever-debased [alt., weak-minded] are the mobile desire-trees of prostitutes.”
niśamya gītāṁ tad anaṅga-vardhanaṁ
vraja-striyaḥ kṛṣṇa-gṛhīta-mānasāḥ |
ājagmur anyonyam alakṣitodyamāḥ
sa yatra kānto java-lola-kuṇḍalāḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.29.4)
“Upon hearing that song [of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s flute] intensifying of kāma [i.e., of prema for Śrī Kṛṣṇa], the women of Vraja, their minds stolen by Kṛṣṇa, their departing [from wherever they were upon hearing the flute’s song] unseen by one another, and their earrings swinging from [the] swiftness [of their running through the forest to meet Kṛṣṇa], arrived where he, their lover, was present.”
tadīya-nāmehita-gāna-tatparā
vicitra-veśāmbara-kānti-bhūṣitāḥ |
ramātisaubhagya-mada-prahārikā
javena kṛṣṇā-taṭam āśrayanta tāḥ ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.6.53)
“Absorbed in singing his names and of his acts,
Adorned with extraordinary ornaments, garments, and embellishments,
And demolishing Ramā’s pride in her great beauty,
They swiftly converged on the bank of the Yamunā.”
rādhā-kṛṣṇa-vilāsa-vaibhava-rasaṁ śrutvā rudann apy asau
tat-tad-rūpa-prakaṭana-paro mādhurī-dhurya-sāram |
vyaktīkṛtya sa jagati punar goṣṭha-bhāvena pūrṇaḥ
sāndrānando vijayati paraṁ śrī-śacī-nandano’yam ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 4.10.23)
“Upon hearing of the rasa of the magnificence of the play of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa [in the kuñjas of Vraja] and weeping, he—this blessed Son of Śacī—became intent upon manifesting those very forms [of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa], revealed the essence of the foremost sweetness (mādhurī) in the world [i.e., self-manifested himself as Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa with the totality of their sweetness], and, becoming fulfilled and intensely blissful with the bhāva of Vraja, triumphed completely.”
śrutvā rāsa-vilāsa-vaibhava-rasaṁ śrī-gauracandro hariḥ
premonmāda-vibhinna-dhairya-nivaho mādhurya-sārojjvalaḥ |
rādhā-kṛṣṇaṁ vraja-vadhū-gaṇair veṣṭitaṁ saṁvibhāvya
prākaṭyaṁ tat svātmani tayor darśayan sambabhau sma ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 4.9.20)
“Upon hearing of the rasa of the magnificence of the play of rāsa, Hari—blessed Gauracandra—causing the severance of his composure as a result of the madness of prema, becoming effulgent with the essence of sweetness (mādhurya), and meditating on Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa surrounded by the ladies of Vraja, shined displaying a manifestation of them within his own self [i.e., causing his own form to appear as Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa].”
rādhā-mādhavayor aikyāt tat-tad-bhāva-vibhāvitaḥ |
tat-tal-līlānukaraṇaṁ gaurāṅgaḥ samadarśayat ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 4.8.10)
“Absorbed in their bhāvas on account of the unity of Rādhā and Mādhava [in him], Gaurāṅga exhibited emulation of their līlās.”
jñāto’si bhagavān sākṣāt śrī-kṛṣṇa-bhakta-rūpa-dhṛk |
śrī-rādhā-bhāvam āpanno mādhurya-rasa-lampaṭaḥ ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.15.23)
“You are known to be Bhagavān in person bearing the form of a bhakta of Śrī Kṛṣṇa—[to be] the Coveter of mādhurya-rasa possessed of the bhāva of Śrī Rādhā.”
meru-sundara-tanū rasikeśaḥ kṛṣṇa-nāma-guṇa-kīrtana-mattaḥ |
rādhikā-rasa-vinoda-gadgada-prema-vāri-paripūrita-dehaḥ ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.15.18)
“His figure beautiful like [the golden Mount] Meru, the best of relishers of rasa, inebriated by chanting the names and qualities of Kṛṣṇa, stammering with the delight of Rādhikā’s rasa, his body completely drenched by tears of prema, … ”
kāścid vidagdhāḥ sphuṭam eva cāhur
gopāṅganā-bhāva-vibhāvito’sau |
śrī-nanda-putraḥ svayam āvirāsīt
sannyāsa-veśena sva-kārya-sādhakaḥ ||
(Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-caritāmṛta: 3.1.18)
“Some astute ladies [then] clearly said, ‘Absorbed in the bhāva of the gopīs, he, the blessed Son of Nanda himself, has appeared and is accomplishing his own aims in the garb of a sannyāsī.”
