Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 14
TRANSLATION
But I refused their offer, and instead, by their influence, my own body born in Govardhana assumed qualities and beauty like theirs.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 10-11
sarvam anyādṛśaṁ dṛṣṭvā
vismitaḥ svasthatāṁ gataḥ
pārśve ’paśyaṁ purā dṛṣṭāṁs
tān evātma-priyaṁ-karān
TRANSLATION
At that moment the associates of the Lord arrived in an airplane to take me to Vaikuṇṭha. They at once put me on that plane and carried me away, and when I opened my eyes I saw that everything was different. Shocked, I returned to full consciousness and saw them beside me, the same benefactors I had met before.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 184
TRANSLATION
Dearer to the Lord than even His own beautiful form, His easily worshiped holy name benefits the entire world. Indeed, nothing is as full of nectar as the holy name of the Lord.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 184
TRANSLATION
Dearer to the Lord than even His own beautiful form, His easily worshiped holy name benefits the entire world. Indeed, nothing is as full of nectar as the holy name of the Lord.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 168
TRANSLATION
The wonderfully varied sweetness of saṅkīrtana emerges only by the mercy shown in various wonderful ways by the Lord, the wonderful ocean of the varied rasas of pastimes. This sweetness one can never truly achieve by one’s own endeavor.
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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 162
TRANSLATION
When the nectar of the Lord’s name appears in just one sense, all the senses are flooded with their own sweet tastes.
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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 150
TRANSLATION
If those attached to meditation on the Lord still insist that remembering is of greater importance, with their intelligence they should make the following distinction: In meditation the Lord reveals Himself fully with His particular qualities, but in remembrance the mind merely comes in contact with the Lord.
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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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