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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 167

TRANSLATION
Like the distressed crying of the cātaka birds on a cloudless day of the rainy season, or the lamenting of a flock of cakravākī birds when parted from their husbands at night, the saṅkīrtana of the Lord’s names arises when one is burdened by too much pain.

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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 157

TRANSLATION
Meditation one can successfully perform only in seclusion, but saṅkīrtana either in seclusion or in the company of many others.

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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 146

TRANSLATION
Some think that remembering, rather than chanting, is the essential means of devotional practice, the means that most effectively leads to prema, for bhakti in the form of chanting appears quickly and easily, and in only one sense, that of speech, which is not itself alive and conscious.

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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 133

TRANSLATION
You should not consider devotional service merely an activity of the body, senses, and mind. It is in fact the eternal absolute reality, manifesting itself as the most intense ecstasy, beyond the material modes.

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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 127

TRANSLATION
Yet devotees who understand the rasas of devotional service may practice all nine forms of bhakti to easily obtain the sweetness of its diverse tastes.

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