Verses
Verse topic
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.14.9
"O best among men, the intelligence of human beings is bewildered by My illusory potency, and thus, according to their own activities and whims, they speak in innumerable ways about what is actually good for people." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/14/9
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.17.52
"A householder taking care of many dependent family members should not become materially attached to them, nor should he become mentally unbalanced, considering himself to be the lord. An intelligent householder should see that all possible future happiness, just like that which he has already experienced, is temporary." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/17/52
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.17.53-54
"The association of children, wife, relatives and friends is just like the brief meeting of travelers. With each change of body one is separated from all such associates, just as one loses the objects one possesses in a dream when the dream is over." "Deeply considering the actual situation, a liberated soul should live at home just like a guest, without any sense of proprietorship or false ego. In this way he will not be bound or entangled by domestic affairs." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/17/53 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/17/54
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.17.56
"But a householder whose mind is attached to his home and who is thus disturbed by ardent desires to enjoy his money and children, who is lusty after women, who is possessed of a miserly mentality and who unintelligently thinks, “Everything is mine and I am everything,” is certainly bound in illusion." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/17/56
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.17.57-58
"“O my poor elderly parents, and my wife with a mere infant in her arms, and my other young children! Without me they have absolutely no one to protect them and will suffer unbearably. How can my poor relatives possibly live without me?”" "Thus, because of his foolish mentality, a householder whose heart is overwhelmed by family attachment is never satisfied. Constantly meditating on his relatives, he dies and enters into the darkness of ignorance." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/17/57 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/17/58
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.18.27
"One should logically consider the universe, which is situated within the Lord, and one’s own material body, which is composed of mind, speech and life air, to be ultimately products of the Lord’s illusory energy. Thus situated in the self, one should give up one’s faith in these things and should never again make them the object of one’s meditation." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/18/27
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.21.24-25
"Simply by material birth, human beings become attached within their minds to personal sense gratification, long duration of life, sense activities, bodily strength, sexual potency and friends and family. Their minds are thus absorbed in that which defeats their actual self-interest." "Those ignorant of their real self-interest are wandering on the path of material existence, gradually heading toward darkness. Why would the Vedas further encourage them in sense gratification if they, although foolish, submissively pay heed to Vedic injunctions?" https://vedy.online/en/sb11/21/24 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/21/25
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.21.31
"Just as a foolish businessman gives up his real wealth in useless business speculation, foolish persons give up all that is actually valuable in life and instead pursue promotion to material heaven, which although pleasing to hear about is actually unreal, like a dream. Such bewildered persons imagine within their hearts that they will achieve all material blessings." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/21/31
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.22.41
"Just as a person experiencing a dream or daydream does not remember his previous dreams or daydreams, a person situated in his present body, although having existed prior to it, thinks that he has only recently come into being." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/22/41
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.22.51
"An unintelligent man, failing to distinguish himself from material nature, thinks nature to be real. By contact with it he becomes completely bewildered and enters into the cycle of material existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/22/51
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.22.56
"For one who is meditating on sense gratification, material life, although lacking factual existence, does not go away, just as the unpleasant experiences of a dream do not." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/22/56
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.23.19
"Theft, violence, speaking lies, duplicity, lust, anger, perplexity, pride, quarreling, enmity, faithlessness, envy and the dangers caused by women, gambling and intoxication are the fifteen undesirable qualities that contaminate men because of greed for wealth. Although these qualities are undesirable, men falsely ascribe value to them. One desiring to achieve the real benefit of life should therefore remain aloof from undesirable material wealth." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.23.18-19