Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada'
nandanandana-kaisora lilamrta-mahambudhau
nimagnanam kim asmakam nirvana-lavanambhasa
We have now plunged into the great nectar-ocean of the transcendental youthful pastimes of Maharaja Nanda's son, Krishna. Of what use to us is the saltwater of impersonal liberation? (Sri Yadavendra Puri, quoted in Padyavali, 42)
bhavantu tatra janmani yatra te murali-kalah
karna-peyatvam ayati kim me nirvana-vartaya
O Lord, I pray that I may take birth again and again in a place where my ears may drink the sweet music of your flute. What is the use of talking to me about impersonal liberation? (Sri Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya, quoted in Padyavali, 92)
jnanavalambakah kecit kecit karmavalambakah
vayam tu hari-dasanam pada-tranavalambakah
Some are inclined to carry the load of speculative knowledge and others are inclined to carry the loads of fruitive work. We, however, are inclined to carry on our heads the slippers that decorate the lotus feet of Lord Hari's servants. (Unknown author, quoted in Padyavali, 58)
na vayam kavayo na tarkika
na ca vedanta-nitanta-paragah
na ca vadi-nivarakah param
kapatabhira-kisora-kinkarah
We are not poets. We are not logicians. We are not philosophers who have crossed to the farther shore of Vedanta. We are not eloquent debaters. We are the servants of a rascal cowherd boy. (Sri Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya, quoted in Padyavali, 72)
advaita-vithi-pathikair upqasyah
svananda-simhasana-labdha-diksah
sathena kenapi vayam hathena
dasi-krta gopa-vadhu-vitena
Commuters on the path of impersonal liberation worshipped us, as we were situated comfortably on the throne of one who is called atmarama, a person who takes delight only in the self. Yet some rascal lover of the gopis forcibly turned us into his maidservants. (Sri Bilvamangala Thakura, quoted in Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 3.1.44)
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