Verses
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.15.24
"Lord Brahmā said: My dear demigods, the human form of life is of such importance that we also desire to have such life, for in the human form one can attain perfect religious truth and knowledge. If one in this human form of life does not understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His abode, it is to be understood that he is very much affected by the influence of external nature." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/15/24
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.24.36-37
"My appearance in this world is especially to explain the philosophy of Sāṅkhya, which is highly esteemed for self-realization by those desiring freedom from the entanglement of unnecessary material desires." "This path of self-realization, which is difficult to understand, has now been lost in the course of time. Please know that I have assumed this body of Kapila to introduce and explain this philosophy to human society again." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/24/36 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/24/37
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.5
"It is the duty of every conditioned soul to engage his polluted consciousness, which is now attached to material enjoyment, in very serious devotional service with detachment. Thus his mind and consciousness will be under full control." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.2-3
"One should execute his prescribed duties to the best of his ability and avoid performing duties not allotted to him. One should be satisfied with as much gain as he achieves by the grace of the Lord, and one should worship the lotus feet of a spiritual master." "One should cease performing conventional religious practices and should be attracted to those which lead to salvation. One should eat very frugally and should always remain secluded so that he can achieve the highest perfection of life." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/2 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.29.31-32
"Among human beings, the society which is divided according to quality and work is best, and in that society, the intelligent men, who are designated as brāhmaṇas, are best. Among the brāhmaṇas, one who has studied the Vedas is the best, and among the brāhmaṇas who have studied the Vedas, one who knows the actual purport of Veda is the best." "Better than the brāhmaṇa who knows the purpose of the Vedas is he who can dissipate all doubts, and better than him is one who strictly follows the brahminical principles. Better than him is one who is liberated from all material contamination, and better than him is a pure devotee, who executes devotional service without expectation of reward." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/29/31 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/29/32
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.5
"Those who are intelligent and are of purified consciousness are completely satisfied in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Freed from the modes of material nature, they do not act for sense gratification; rather, since they are situated in their own occupational duties, they act as one is expected to act." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.6-7
"By executing one’s occupational duties, acting with detachment and without a sense of proprietorship or false egoism, one is posted in one’s constitutional position by dint of complete purification of consciousness, and by thus executing so-called material duties he can easily enter into the kingdom of God." "Through the path of illumination, such liberated persons approach the complete Personality of Godhead, who is the proprietor of the material and spiritual worlds and is the supreme cause of their manifestation and dissolution." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/6 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.39-40
"Lord Kapila continued: This instruction is not meant for the envious, for the agnostics or for persons who are unclean in their behavior. Nor is it for hypocrites or for persons who are proud of material possessions." "It is not to be instructed to persons who are too greedy and too attached to family life, nor to persons who are nondevotees and who are envious of the devotees and of the Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/39 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/40
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.2.31
"The Vedas give the eternal regulative principles for auspicious advancement in human civilization which have been rigidly followed in the past. The strong evidence of this principle is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is called Janārdana, the well-wisher of all living entities." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/2/31
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.8.34
"Every man should act like this: when he meets a person more qualified than himself, he should be very pleased; when he meets someone less qualified than himself, he should be compassionate toward him; and when he meets someone equal to himself, he should make friendship with him. In this way one is never affected by the threefold miseries of this material world." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/8/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.14.15
"Those who live according to religious principles and who follow them by words, mind, body and intelligence are elevated to the heavenly kingdom, which is devoid of all miseries. Being thus rid of the material influence, they achieve unlimited happiness in life." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/14/15
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.18.4-5
"One who follows the principles and instructions enjoined by the great sages of the past can utilize these instructions for practical purposes. Such a person can very easily enjoy life and pleasures." "A foolish person who manufactures his own ways and means through mental speculation and does not recognize the authority of the sages who lay down unimpeachable directions is simply unsuccessful again and again in his attempts." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/18/4 & https://vedy.online/en/sb4/18/5