Verses
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.9.32
"Bhīṣmadeva said: Let me now invest my thinking, feeling and willing, which were so long engaged in different subjects and occupational duties, in the all-powerful Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. He is always self-satisfied, but sometimes, being the leader of the devotees, He enjoys transcendental pleasure by descending to the material world, although from Him only the material world is created." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/9/32
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.10.21-22
"They said: Here He is, the original Personality of Godhead as we definitely remember Him. He alone existed before the manifested creation of the modes of nature, and in Him only, because He is the Supreme Lord, all living beings merge, as if sleeping at night, their energy suspended." "The Personality of Godhead, again desiring to give names and forms to His parts and parcels, the living entities, placed them under the guidance of material nature. By His own potency, material nature is empowered to re-create." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/10/21 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/10/22
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.11.37-38
"The common materialistic conditioned souls speculate that the Lord is one of them. Out of their ignorance they think that the Lord is affected by matter, although He is unattached." "This is the divinity of the Personality of Godhead: He is not affected by the qualities of material nature, even though He is in contact with them. Similarly, the devotees who have taken shelter of the Lord do not become influenced by the material qualities." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/11/37 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/11/38
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.27
"He is certainly a first-class man who awakens and understands, either by himself or from others, the falsity and misery of this material world and thus leaves home and depends fully on the Personality of Godhead residing within his heart." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/27
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.41 & 43
"Śrī Nārada said: O pious King, do not lament for anyone, for everyone is under the control of the Supreme Lord. Therefore all living beings and their leaders carry on worship to be well protected. It is He only who brings them together and disperses them." "As a player sets up and disperses his playthings according to his own sweet will, so the supreme will of the Lord brings men together and separates them." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/41 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/43
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.42
"As a cow, bound through the nose by a long rope, is conditioned, so also human beings are bound by different Vedic injunctions and are conditioned to obey the orders of the Supreme." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/42
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.17.19-20
"Some of the philosophers, who deny all sorts of duality, declare that one’s own self is responsible for his personal happiness and distress. Others say that superhuman powers are responsible, while yet others say that activity is responsible, and the gross materialists maintain that nature is the ultimate cause." "There are also some thinkers who believe that no one can ascertain the cause of distress by argumentation, nor know it by imagination, nor express it by words. O sage amongst kings, judge for yourself by thinking over all this with your own intelligence." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/17/19 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/17/20
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.17.23
"Thus it is concluded that the Lord’s energies are inconceivable. No one can estimate them by mental speculation or by word jugglery." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/17/23
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.18.14
"The Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa [Govinda], is the exclusive shelter for all great living beings, and His transcendental attributes cannot even be measured by such masters of mystic powers as Lord Śiva and Lord Brahmā. Can anyone who is expert in relishing nectar [rasa] ever be fully satiated by hearing topics about Him?" https://vedy.online/en/sb1/18/14
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.12
"What is the value of a prolonged life which is wasted, inexperienced by years in this world? Better a moment of full consciousness, because that gives one a start in searching after his supreme interest." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/12
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.24
"This gigantic manifestation of the phenomenal material world as a whole is the personal body of the Absolute Truth, wherein the universal resultant past, present and future of material time is experienced." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/24
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.39
"One should concentrate his mind upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who alone distributes Himself in so many manifestations just as ordinary persons create thousands of manifestations in dreams. One must concentrate the mind on Him, the only all-blissful Absolute Truth. Otherwise one will be misled and will cause his own degradation." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/39