śrutasya puṁsāṁ sucira-śramasya
nanv añjasā sūribhir īḍito’rthaḥ |
tat-tad-guṇānuśravaṇaṁ mukunda-
pādāravindaṁ hṛdayeṣu yeṣām ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 3.13.4)
“Certainly the result truly extolled by the wise of a person engaging in the labor of hearing [śāstra from a guru] for a long time is repeated hearing of the qualities of those in whose hearts are present the lotus feet of Mukunda.”
duravagamātma-tattva-nigamāya tavātta-tanoś
carita-mahāmṛtābdhi-parivarta-pariśramaṇāḥ |
na parilaṣanti kecid apavargam apīśvara te
caraṇa-saroja-haṁsa-kula-saṅga-visṛṣṭa-gṛhāḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.87.21)
“O Īśvara, some [i.e., a rare few]—who have become free from suffering [alt., fatigue] by swimming in the vast ocean of the nectar of the activities of the form you have revealed to teach the difficult to understand nature of yourself, and who have given up household life by virtue of the association of the flock of swans at your lotus feet—do not desire whatsoever even liberation [i.e., let alone Svarga or the pleasures of earthly life].”
yo dustyajān dāra-sutān suhṛd-rājyaṁ hṛdi-spṛśaḥ |
jahau yuvaiva mala-vad uttama-śloka-lālasaḥ ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 5.14.43; cited in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.3.31; Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.23.25, 3.6.137)
“Longing for he of highest praise [i.e., Bhagavān], Bharata Mahārāja even in his youth abandoned like stool his most difficult to give up and heart-touching wife, sons, friends, and kingdom ”
pṛthos tat sūktam ākarṇya sāraṁ suṣṭhu mitaṁ madhu |
smayamāna iva prītyā kumāraḥ pratyuvāca ha ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 4.22.17)
“Hearing the fine speech of Pṛthu, which was sound, superlative, concise, and sweet, the Kumāras, mildly smiling, replied thus with satisfaction.”
diṣṭyā saṁsāra-cakre’smin vartamānaḥ punar-bhavaḥ |
upalabdho bhavān adya durlabhaṁ priya-darśanam ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.5.24)
[Vasudeva to Nanda Mahārāja just after Kṛṣṇa’s birth:] “Meeting you by good fortune today I am reborn [i.e., I felt as though dead without seeing you], as within this wheel of saṁsāra meeting with dear ones is most precious.”
na hy asatyāt paro’dharma iti hovāca bhūr iyam |
sarvaṁ soḍhum alaṁ manye ṛte’līka-paraṁ naram ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.20.4)
[Bali Mahārāja to Śukrācārya:] “The earth said, ‘There is no greater adharma than untruthfulness.‘ I think I can verily tolerate everything except an untruthful person.”
ṛtaṁ ca sūnṛtā vāṇī kavibhiḥ parikīrtitā |
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 11.19.38)
“Ṛtam is praised by the kavis as sūnṛtā speech.”
itthaṁ sma pṛṣṭaḥ sa tu bādarāyaṇis
tat-smāritānanta-hṛtākhilendriyaḥ |
kṛcchrāt punar labdha-bahir-dṛśiḥ śanaiḥ
pratyāha taṁ bhāgavatottamottama ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.12.44)
[Sūta Gosvāmī to Śaunaka Ṛṣi:] “O best of the best of the bhāgavatas, so questioned, that Bādrarāyaṇi [i.e., Śukadeva Gosvāmī], all his senses seized by Ananta [i.e., Śrī Kṛṣṇa] as he was reminded [of Ananta] thereby, with difficulty gradually regained external awareness and spoke to him [i.e., Parīkṣit Mahārāja].”
pariniṣṭhito’pi nairguṇya uttama-śloka-līlayā |
gṛhīta-cetā rājarṣe ākhyānaṁ yad adhītavān ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 2.1.9)
“O royal sage! Although I was completely immersed in that which is beyond the guṇas, my consciousness was captivated by the līlā of he of highest praise [i.e., Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa], and [thus] I studied this narration [i.e., Śrīmad Bhāgavatam]”
