Friday, April 30, 2021

Aside: Verses we come along that we might want to memorize next

 1) śrūyatāṁ śrūyatāṁ nityaṁ gīyatāṁ gīyatāṁ mudācintyatāṁ cintyatāṁ bhaktaś-caitanya-caritāmṛtam

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā (12.1)

o  devotees!  Just  listen  to  it  –  listen  to  it  for  all time!  Sing  it  and  chant  it  to  your  hearts’  delight! Forever  meditate  and  contemplate Śrī  Caitanya-caritāmṛtam,  the  nectarean  anthology  of  the  life and teachings of Śrī caitanya, the embodiment of the awakening of ecstatic consciousness through śrī kṛṣṇa-kīrtana  (from end of Knowledge and Feeling by Bhakti Saranga Goswami Maharaj)


2) SB 7.1.31 , Madhya lila 22.152-3, From Srila Guru Maharaj Srila Bhakti Pramode Puri Maharaj's article on Rupa Goswami's summary of Bhakti which Madhukar Prabhu read

3) devarsi-bhutapta-nrnam pitrnam
na kinkaro nayam rni ca rajan
sarvatmana yah saranam saranyam
gato mukundam parihrtya kartam
["Anyone who has taken shelter of the lotus feet of Mukunda, the giver of liberation, giving up all kinds of obligation, and has taken to the path in all seriousness, owes neither duties nor obligations to the demigods, sages, general living entities, family members, humankind or forefathers." Such obligations are automatically fulfilled by performance of devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead." SB 11.5.41 suggested by Lavanga Manjari Didi from the Sraddha verse


4)

ŚB 4.20.25

स उत्तमश्लोक महन्मुखच्युतो
भवत्पदाम्भोजसुधा कणानिल: ।
स्मृतिं पुनर्विस्मृततत्त्ववर्त्मनां
कुयोगिनां नो वितरत्यलं वरै: ॥ २५ ॥
sa uttamaśloka mahan-mukha-cyuto
bhavat-padāmbhoja-sudhā kaṇānilaḥ
smṛtiṁ punar vismṛta-tattva-vartmanāṁ
kuyogināṁ no vitaraty alaṁ varaiḥ

Synonyms

saḥ — that; uttama-śloka — O Lord, who are praised by selected verses; mahat — of great devotees; mukha-cyutaḥ — delivered from the mouths; bhavat — Your; pada-ambhoja — from the lotus feet; sudhā — of nectar; kaṇa — particles; anilaḥ — soothing breeze; smṛtim — remembrance; punaḥ — again; vismṛta — forgotten; tattva — to the truth; vartmanām — of persons whose path; ku-yoginām — of persons not in the line of devotional service; naḥ — of us; vitarati — restores; alam — unnecessary; varaiḥ — other benedictions.

Translation

My dear Lord, You are glorified by the selected verses uttered by great personalities. Such glorification of Your lotus feet is just like saffron particles. When the transcendental vibration from the mouths of great devotees carries the aroma of the saffron dust of Your lotus feet, the forgetful living entity gradually remembers his eternal relationship with You. Devotees thus gradually come to the right conclusion about the value of life. My dear Lord, I therefore do not need any other benediction but the opportunity to hear from the mouth of Your pure devotee.

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CC Madhya 19.149
kṛṣṇa-bhakta — niṣkāma, ataeva ‘śānta’
bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kāmī — sakali ‘aśānta’
“Because a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa is desireless, he is peaceful. Fruitive workers desire material enjoyment, jñānīs desire liberation, and yogīs desire material opulence; therefore they are all lusty and cannot be peaceful.
 

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SB 10.14.8
 tat te 'nukampāṁ su-samīkṣamāṇo
bhuñjāna evātma-kṛtaṁ vipākam
hṛd-vāg-vapurbhir vidadhan namas te
jīveta yo mukti-pade sa dāya-bhāk
tat

My dear Lord, one who earnestly waits for You to bestow Your causeless mercy upon him, all the while patiently suffering the reactions of his past misdeeds and offering You respectful obeisances with his heart, words and body, is surely eligible for liberation, for it has become his rightful claim.

 
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But when one is freed from such a concept of life, he is no longer subjected to designations, and he envisions everything as spiritual in connection with the Supreme Lord. This is explained by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī in his Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.255):
anāsaktasya viṣayān
yathārham upayuñjataḥ
nirbandhaḥ kṛṣṇa-sambandhe
yuktaṁ vairāgyam ucyate
The liberated person has no attachment for anything material or for sense gratification. He understands that everything is connected with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that everything should be engaged in the service of the Lord. Therefore he does not give up anything. There is no question of renouncing anything because the paramahaṁsa knows how to engage everything in the service of the Lord. Originally everything is spiritual; nothing is material. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 8.274) also it is explained that a mahā-bhāgavata, a highly advanced devotee, has no material vision:
sthāvara-jaṅgama dekhe, nā dekhe tāra mūrti
sarvatra haya nija iṣṭa-deva-sphūrti
Although he sees trees, mountains, and other living entities moving here and there, he sees all as the creation of the Supreme Lord and, with reference to the context, sees only the creator and not the created. In other words, he no longer distinguishes between the created and the creator. He sees only the Supreme Personality of Godhead in everything. He sees Kṛṣṇa in everything and everything in Kṛṣṇa. This is oneness.
Purport 4.22.28
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tyaktvā sva-dharmaṁ caraṇāmbujaṁ harer
bhajann apakvo 'tha patet tato yadi
yatra kva vābhadram abhūd amuṣya kiṁ
ko vārtha āpto 'bhajatāṁ sva-dharmataḥ
(Bhāg. 1.5.17)
Quoted in Purport to SB 4.22.38

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SB 2.3.24
tad aśma-sāraṁ hṛdayaṁ batedaṁ
yad gṛhyamāṇair hari-nāma-dheyaiḥ
na vikriyetātha yadā vikāro
netre jalaṁ gātra-ruheṣu harṣaḥ

Certainly that heart is steel-framed which, in spite of one's chanting the holy name of the Lord with concentration, does not change when ecstasy takes place, tears fill the eyes and the hairs stand on end.

Quoted in HoK.4
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etāvān eva loke 'smin
puṁsaḥ svārthaḥ paraḥ smṛtaḥ
ekānta-bhaktir govinde
yat sarvatra tad-īkṣaṇam
etāvān
 — 
this much
eva
 — 
certainly
loke asmin
 — 
in this material world
puṁsaḥ
 — 
of the living entity
sva-arthaḥ
 — 
the real self-interest
paraḥ
 — 
transcendental
smṛtaḥ
 — 
regarded
ekānta-bhaktiḥ
 — 
unalloyed devotional service
govinde
 — 
to Govinda
yat
 — 
which
sarvatra
 — 
everywhere
tat-īkṣaṇam
 — 
seeing the relationship with Govinda, Kṛṣṇa
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In this material world, to render service to the lotus feet of Govinda, the cause of all causes, and to see Him everywhere, is the only goal of life. This much alone is the ultimate goal of human life, as explained by all the revealed scriptures.
SB 7.7.55 
(A favorite verse of Srila Gour Govinda Maharaj, via Srila Bhaktivedanta Ashram Maharaj on Nrsimhadev Caturdasi 2021)

CC.M.21.101 from HoK

Padma Purana verse aboutnot mistaking sacred things as ordinary from HoK. Arcye visnau siladhir. 

Verses from HoK that wasn't translated.

 "If a meat-eater becomes a devotee 
of the Supreme Lord Hari, he is far superior to a Brahmin, but if a Brahmin has no devotion, he is 
worse than a meat-eater "k


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From purport.to SB 4.30.19
As stated by Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja:

kṛṣṇa-bhajane yāhā haya anukūla
viṣaya baliyā tyāge tāhā haya bhūla
“If one is so expert that he can engage everything or dovetail everything in the service of the Lord, to give up the material world would be a great blunder.” One should learn how to dovetail everything in the service of the Lord, for everything is connected to Kṛṣṇa. That is the real purpose of life and secret of success.

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https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/31/14/



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