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Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita – Adi Lila Krishnadas Kabiraj bengali 1915

kshāntir avyartha-kālatvam
viraktir māna-śūnyatā
āśā-bandhah samutkanthā
nāma-gāne sadā rucih

āsaktis tad-gunākhyāne
prītis tad-vasati-sthale
ity-ādayo 'nubhāvāh syur
jāta-bhāvāńkure jane


“‘When the seed of ecstatic emotion for Krishna fructifies, the following nine symptoms manifest in one’s behavior: forgiveness, concern that time should not be wasted, detachment, absence of false prestige, hope, eagerness, a taste for chanting the holy name of the Lord, attachment to descriptions of the transcendental qualities of the Lord, and affection for those places where the Lord resides — that is, a temple or a holy place like Vrindāvana. These are all called anubhāva, subordinate signs of ecstatic emotion. They are visible in a person in whose heart the seed of love of God has begun to fructify.’

(CC.23.m 18-19)

Uddharana Datta was the best of the Bhagavatas, who served Nityananda’s lotus feet in every way possible.
Chaitanya Charitamrita 1.11.41

Whenever the Supreme Divinity, Nandanandan Sri Krishna, adopts the devotional mood and bodily luster of Srimati Radharani in order to become Sri Krishna Chaitanya, He is always accompanied by His eternal associates, who join Him in order to enrich His pastimes. Thus, Krishna’s primary expansion or prakasa, Baladev, accepts the attitude of a devotee as Sri Nityananda Prabhu, appearing in Ekachakra village in order to embellish Mahaprabhu’s lila. He too has his entourage of personal confidantes who descend to this earth to assist him in playing his role. Nityananda is Baladeva Tattva: he is none other than Lord Sesa, the source of three purusavataras, Maha Sankarshan’s causal form or mula Sankarshan. His chief companions are known as the Dvadasa-gopalas or twelve cowherds. Thus it is stated in the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (129):

Subahur yo vraje gopo data uddharanakhyakah
The Cowherd Named Subahu Became Uddharan

Uddharana Datta Thakur is thus one of the Twelve Gopals.
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Uddhava-Gita

TEXT 17.42|| SB 11.23.42 ||

dvija uvāca
nāyaṁ jano me sukha-duḥkha-hetur
na devatātmā graha-karma-kālāḥ
manaḥ paraṁ kāraṇam āmananti
saṁsāra-cakraṁ parivartayed yat

The brahmana said: These people are not the cause of my happiness and distress. Neither are the demigods, my own body, the positions of the planets, my karma, or time. Rather, it is the mind alone that causes happiness and distress and perpetuates one’s bondage to the vicious cycle of repeated birth and death.

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ambhodhih sthalatam sthalam jaladhitam dhuli-lavah shailatam
shailo mrit-kanatam trinam kulishatam vajram trina-kshinatam
vahnih shitalatam himam dahanatam ayati yasyecchaya
lila-durlalitadbhuta-vyasanine krishnaya tasmai namah

I offer my respectful obeisances to wonderful, playful, mischievous Krishna who, if He desires, can make an ocean dry land, dry land an ocean, a blade of grass a thunderbolt, a thunderbolt an insignificant blade of grass, fire cool, or snow a blazing fire.

Shri Krishnasya mahima – The Glory of Krishna

Sri Padyavali,Text 6

vyadhasyacaranam dhruvasya ca vayo vidya gajendrasya ka
kubjayah kim u nama rupam adhikam kim tat sudamno dhanam
vamsah ko vidurasya yadava-pater ugrasya kim paurusham
bhaktya tushyati kevalam na ca gunair bhakti-priyo madhava

Where were the hunter Dharma’s piety, Dhruva’s maturity, and Gajendra’s knowledge? Where was Kubja’s beauty?
Where was Sudama’s wealth? Where was Vidura’s noble birth? Where was Ugrasena’s chivalrous strength? Lord Madhava is pleased only by devotional service and not by material qualifications.

Bhajana-mahatmya The Glory of Devotional Service

Shri Dakshinatya Sri Padyavali, text 8