Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.1.14
"Living beings who are entangled in the complicated meshes of birth and death can be freed immediately by even unconsciously chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa, which is feared by fear personified." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/1/14
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.13-15
"O best among the twice-born, it is therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve by discharging the duties prescribed for one’s own occupation according to caste divisions and orders of life is to please the Personality of Godhead." "Therefore, with one-pointed attention, one should constantly hear about, glorify, remember and worship the Personality of Godhead, who is the protector of the devotees." "With sword in hand, intelligent men cut through the binding knots of reactionary work [karma] by remembering the Personality of Godhead. Therefore, who will not pay attention to His message?" https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/13 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/14 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/15
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.17
"Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramātmā [Supersoul] in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/17
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.22 & 1.2.25
"Certainly, therefore, since time immemorial, all transcendentalists have been rendering devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, with great delight, because such devotional service is enlivening to the self." "Previously all the great sages rendered service unto the Personality of Godhead due to His existence above the three modes of material nature. They worshiped Him to become free from material conditions and thus derive the ultimate benefit. Whoever follows such great authorities is also eligible for liberation from the material world." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/22 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/25
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.23
"The transcendental Personality of Godhead is indirectly associated with the three modes of material nature, namely passion, goodness and ignorance, and just for the material world’s creation, maintenance and destruction He accepts the three qualitative forms of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva. Of these three, all human beings can derive ultimate benefit from Viṣṇu, the form of the quality of goodness." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/23
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.28-29
"In the revealed scriptures, the ultimate object of knowledge is Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead. The purpose of performing sacrifice is to please Him. Yoga is for realizing Him. All fruitive activities are ultimately rewarded by Him only. He is supreme knowledge, and all severe austerities are performed to know Him. Religion [dharma] is rendering loving service unto Him. He is the supreme goal of life." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.28-29
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.30
"In the beginning of the material creation, that Absolute Personality of Godhead [Vāsudeva], in His transcendental position, created the energies of cause and effect by His own internal energy." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/30
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.32-34
"The Lord, as Supersoul, pervades all things, just as fire permeates wood, and so He appears to be of many varieties, though He is the absolute one without a second." "The Supersoul enters into the bodies of the created beings who are influenced by the modes of material nature and causes them to enjoy the effects of these modes by the subtle mind." "Thus the Lord of the universes maintains all planets inhabited by demigods, men and lower animals. Assuming the roles of incarnations, He performs pastimes to reclaim those in the mode of pure goodness." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/32 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.1
"Sūta said: In the beginning of the creation, the Lord first expanded Himself in the universal form of the puruṣa incarnation and manifested all the ingredients for the material creation. And thus at first there was the creation of the sixteen principles of material action. This was for the purpose of creating the material universes." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/1
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.3
"It is believed that all the universal planetary systems are situated on the extensive body of the puruṣa, but He has nothing to do with the created material ingredients. His body is eternally in spiritual existence par excellence." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.24
"Then, in the beginning of Kali-yuga, the Lord will appear as Lord Buddha, the son of Añjanā, in the province of Gayā, just for the purpose of deluding those who are envious of the faithful theist." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/24
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.33-34
"Whenever a person experiences, by self-realization, that both the gross and subtle bodies have nothing to do with the pure self, at that time he sees himself as well as the Lord." "If the illusory energy subsides and the living entity becomes fully enriched with knowledge by the grace of the Lord, then he becomes at once enlightened with self-realization and thus becomes situated in his own glory." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/34