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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.51.45
"Śrī Mucukunda said: O Lord, the people of this world, both men and women, are bewildered by Your illusory energy. Unaware of their real benefit, they do not worship You but instead seek happiness by entangling themselves in family affairs, which are actually sources of misery." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/51/45
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.51.46
"That person has an impure mind who, despite having somehow or other automatically obtained the rare and highly evolved human form of life, does not worship Your lotus feet. Like an animal that has fallen into a blind well, such a person has fallen into the darkness of a material home." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/51/46
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.51.52
"A king who desires even greater power than he already has strictly performs his duties, carefully practicing austerity and forgoing sense enjoyment. But he whose urges are so rampant, thinking “I am independent and supreme,” cannot attain happiness." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/51/52
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.54.12
"Just as a puppet in the form of a woman dances by the desire of the puppeteer, so this world, controlled by the Supreme Lord, struggles in both happiness and misery." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/54/12
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.54.43
"The Supreme Lord’s Māyā makes men forget their real selves, and thus, taking the body for the self, they consider others to be friends, enemies or neutral parties." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/54/43
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.54.46
"O intelligent lady, the soul never undergoes contact with or separation from insubstantial, material objects, because the soul is their very origin and illuminator. Thus the soul resembles the sun, which neither comes in contact with nor separates from the sense of sight and what is seen." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/54/46
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.54.48
"As a sleeping person perceives himself, the objects of sense enjoyment and the fruits of his acts within the illusion of a dream, so one who is unintelligent undergoes material existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/54/48
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.59.30
"This is illusion: that earth, water, fire, air, ether, sense objects, demigods, mind, the senses, false ego and the total material energy exist independent of You. In fact, they are all within You, my Lord, who are one without a second." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/59/30
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.60.52
"Although I have the power to award spiritual liberation, lusty persons worship Me with penance and vows in order to get My blessings for their mundane family life. Such persons are bewildered by My illusory energy." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/60/52
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.60.53
"O supreme reservoir of love, unfortunate are they who even after obtaining Me, the Lord of both liberation and material riches, hanker only for material treasures. These worldly gains can be found even in hell. Since such persons are obsessed with sense gratification, hell is a fitting place for them." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/60/53
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.63.40-41
"Their intelligence bewildered by Your māyā, fully attached to children, wife, home and so on, persons immersed in the ocean of material misery sometimes rise to the surface and sometimes sink down." "One who has attained this human form of life as a gift from God, yet who fails to control his senses and honor Your feet, is surely to be pitied, for he is only cheating himself." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/63/40 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/63/41
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.70.28
"O Lord, with this corpselike body, always full of fear, we bear the burden of the relative happiness of kings, which is just like a dream. Thus we have rejected the real happiness of the soul, which comes by rendering selfless service to You. Being so very wretched, we simply suffer in this life under the spell of Your illusory energy." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/70/28