Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.22.35
"It is the duty of every living being to perform welfare activities for the benefit of others with his life, wealth, intelligence and words." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/22/35
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.28.13
"[Lord Kṛṣṇa thought:] Certainly people in this world are wandering among higher and lower destinations, which they achieve through activities performed according to their desires and without full knowledge. Thus people do not know their real destination." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/28/13
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.80.32
"My dear friend, he who gives a person his physical birth is his first spiritual master, and he who initiates him as a twice-born brāhmaṇa and engages him in religious duties is indeed more directly his spiritual master. But the person who bestows transcendental knowledge upon the members of all the spiritual orders of society is one’s ultimate spiritual master. Indeed, he is as good as My own self." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/80/32
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.84.39
"Dear Prabhu, a member of the twice-born classes is born with three kinds of debts — those owed to the demigods, to the sages and to his forefathers. If he leaves his body without first liquidating these debts by performing sacrifice, studying the scriptures and begetting children, he will fall down into a hellish condition." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/84/39
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.2.34
"Even ignorant living entities can very easily come to know the Supreme Lord if they adopt those means prescribed by the Supreme Lord Himself. The process recommended by the Lord is to be known as bhāgavata-dharma, or devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/2/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.3.43
"Śrī Āvirhotra replied: Prescribed duties, nonperformance of such duties, and forbidden activities are topics one can properly understand through authorized study of the Vedic literature. This difficult subject matter can never be understood by mundane speculation. The authorized Vedic literature is the sound incarnation of the Personality of Godhead Himself, and thus Vedic knowledge is perfect. Even the greatest learned scholars are bewildered in their attempts to understand the science of action if they neglect the authority of Vedic knowledge." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/3/43
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.3.46
"By executing without attachment the regulated activities prescribed in the Vedas, offering the results of such work to the Supreme Lord, one attains the perfection of freedom from the bondage of material work. The material fruitive results offered in the revealed scriptures are not the actual goal of Vedic knowledge, but are meant for stimulating the interest of the performer." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/3/46
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.5.37
"Indeed, there is no higher possible gain for embodied souls forced to wander throughout the material world than the Supreme Lord’s saṅkīrtana movement, by which one can attain the supreme peace and free oneself from the cycle of repeated birth and death." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/5/37
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.7.11
"One who has transcended material good and evil automatically acts in accordance with religious injunctions and avoids forbidden activities. The self-realized person does this spontaneously, like an innocent child, and not because he is thinking in terms of material good and evil." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/7/11
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.8.10
"Just as the honeybee takes nectar from all flowers, big and small, an intelligent human being should take the essence from all religious scriptures." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/8/10
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.9.31
"Although the Absolute Truth is one without a second, the sages have described Him in many different ways. Therefore one may not be able to acquire very firm or complete knowledge from one spiritual master." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/9/31
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.10.5
"One who has accepted Me as the supreme goal of life should strictly observe the scriptural injunctions forbidding sinful activities and, as far as possible, should execute the injunctions prescribing minor regulative duties such as cleanliness. Ultimately, however, one should approach a bona fide spiritual master who is full in knowledge of Me as I am, who is peaceful, and who by spiritual elevation is not different from Me." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/10/5