Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Bhagavad-Gītā 13.34
"O son of Bharata, as the sun alone illuminates all this universe, so does the living entity, one within the body, illuminate the entire body by consciousness." https://vedy.online/en/bg/13/34/
Bhagavad-Gītā 13.35
"Those who see with eyes of knowledge the difference between the body and the knower of the body, and can also understand the process of liberation from bondage in material nature, attain to the supreme goal." https://vedy.online/en/bg/13/35/
Bhagavad-Gītā 15.7
"The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind." https://vedy.online/en/bg/15/7/
Bhagavad-Gītā 15.8-9
"The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another, as the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take another." "The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects." https://vedy.online/en/bg/15/8/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/15/9/
Bhagavad-Gītā 16.19-20
"Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among men, I perpetually cast into the ocean of material existence, into various demoniac species of life." "Attaining repeated birth amongst the species of demoniac life, O son of Kuntī, such persons can never approach Me. Gradually they sink down to the most abominable type of existence." https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/19/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/20/
Bhagavad-Gītā 18.61
"The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy." https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/61/
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.31-32
"Clouds and dust are carried by the air, but less intelligent persons say that the sky is cloudy and the air is dirty. Similarly, they also implant material bodily conceptions on the spirit self." "Beyond this gross conception of form is another, subtle conception of form which is without formal shape and is unseen, unheard and unmanifest. The living being has his form beyond this subtlety, otherwise he could not have repeated births." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/31 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/32
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
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.46
"This gross material body made of five elements is already under the control of eternal time [kāla], action [karma] and the modes of material nature [guṇa]. How then can it, being already in the jaws of the serpent, protect others?" https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/46
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.4-5
"Persons devoid of ātma-tattva do not inquire into the problems of life, being too attached to the fallible soldiers like the body, children and wife. Although sufficiently experienced, they still do not see their inevitable destruction." "O descendant of King Bharata, one who desires to be free from all miseries must hear about, glorify and also remember the Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul, the controller and the savior from all miseries." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/4 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.15
"At the last stage of one’s life, one should be bold enough not to be afraid of death. But one must cut off all attachment to the material body and everything pertaining to it and all desires thereof." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/15
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.1
"Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, unless one is influenced by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no meaning to the relationship of the pure soul in pure consciousness with the material body. That relationship is just like a dreamer’s seeing his own body working." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/9/1