Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 9
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I then saw my body change into a form transcendental to the five material elements. And as I traveled upward, breaking through the sphere of the sun, I saw all the planetary systems.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 234
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The blessed Lord said: Go to Mathurā, to your dearest pasturing grounds, to the land adorned with many places of My varied supreme pastimes.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 231
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Śrī Gopa-kumāra said: O Mathurā brāhmaṇa, these words of the scriptures greatly strengthened my devotion for the Supreme Lord, and this thought was born in my heart:
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Texts 223-224
tadā nijaṁ mahā-mantraṁ
tam eva bhajatāṁ param
atrāpīdaṁ mahā-gūḍhaṁ
śṛṇotu hṛdayaṅ-gamam
TRANSLATION
If you have indeed realized the pettiness of liberation and want to attain the treasure of firm faith in pure devotional service to the Lord, then simply worship your transcendental mantra. And please hear this great secret, which is pleasing to the heart:
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 218
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Although Lord Viṣṇu is always one and unchanging, at every moment He brings forth hundreds of newer and newer varieties of transcendental charm, both in Himself and in His devotional service. He does this by His personal energy, inconceivable to everyone else.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 217
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That extraordinary happiness is always one, yet it assumes many features. It stands in contrast to the happiness of impersonal liberation. Devotional happiness is made of the intense sweetness of sporting pastimes in the highest devotional service to the Lord. Persons unfamiliar with this pleasure cannot even imagine what it is like.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 215
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The happiness felt in impersonal samādhi is plain, isolated, vague, and limited because in that samādhi the functions of the mind have ceased. But when the object of meditation appears in the active mind, that object is more vividly manifest, like sunlight reflected on a crystal mountain.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 209
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Even though liberation and its effects are natural by-products of devotional service, devotees do not regard satisfaction in the self as worth taking, for it obstructs pure love of God.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 207
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The Lord’s personal energy grants those liberated souls spiritual bodies of eternity, knowledge, and bliss. And with the spiritual senses thus acquired, those souls worship Lord Hari.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 2 Text 193
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That happiness increases endlessly. It is limitless and supremely great. In contrast, the happiness of Brahman found in liberation never increases, because it is limited.
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