Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Bhagavad-Gītā 16.13-15
"The demoniac person thinks: “So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in the future, more and more. He is my enemy, and I have killed him, and my other enemies will also be killed. I am the lord of everything. I am the enjoyer. I am perfect, powerful and happy. I am the richest man, surrounded by aristocratic relatives. There is none so powerful and happy as I am. I shall perform sacrifices, I shall give some charity, and thus I shall rejoice.” In this way, such persons are deluded by ignorance." Bhagavad-Gītā 16.13-15
Bhagavad-Gītā 16.16-18
"Thus perplexed by various anxieties and bound by a network of illusions, they become too strongly attached to sense enjoyment and fall down into hell." "Self-complacent and always impudent, deluded by wealth and false prestige, they sometimes proudly perform sacrifices in name only, without following any rules or regulations." "Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demons become envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in their own bodies and in the bodies of others, and blaspheme against the real religion." https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/16/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/17/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/18/
Bhagavad-Gītā 16.21-24
"There are three gates leading to this hell – lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul." "The man who has escaped these three gates of hell, O son of Kuntī, performs acts conducive to self-realization and thus gradually attains the supreme destination." "He who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his own whims attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme destination." "One should therefore understand what is duty and what is not duty by the regulations of the scriptures. Knowing such rules and regulations, one should act so that he may gradually be elevated." https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/21/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/22/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/23/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/24/
Bhagavad-Gītā 18.48
"Every endeavor is covered by some fault, just as fire is covered by smoke. Therefore one should not give up the work born of his nature, O son of Kuntī, even if such work is full of fault." https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/48/
Bhagavad-Gītā 18.49-50
"One who is self-controlled and unattached and who disregards all material enjoyments can obtain, by practice of renunciation, the highest perfect stage of freedom from reaction." "O son of Kuntī, learn from Me how one who has achieved this perfection can attain to the supreme perfectional stage, Brahman, the stage of highest knowledge, by acting in the way I shall now summarize." https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/49/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/50/
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.1.2
"Completely rejecting all religious activities which are materially motivated, this Bhāgavata Purāṇa propounds the highest truth, which is understandable by those devotees who are fully pure in heart. The highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Such truth uproots the threefold miseries. This beautiful Bhāgavatam, compiled by the great sage Vyāsadeva [in his maturity], is sufficient in itself for God realization. What is the need of any other scripture? As soon as one attentively and submissively hears the message of Bhāgavatam, by this culture of knowledge the Supreme Lord is established within his heart." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/1/2
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 1.3.37
"The foolish with a poor fund of knowledge cannot know the transcendental nature of the forms, names and activities of the Lord, who is playing like an actor in a drama. Nor can they express such things, neither in their speculations nor in their words." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/37
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.18
"Persons who are actually intelligent and philosophically inclined should endeavor only for that purposeful end which is not obtainable even by wandering from the topmost planet [Brahmaloka] down to the lowest planet [Pātāla]. As far as happiness derived from sense enjoyment is concerned, it can be obtained automatically in course of time, just as in course of time we obtain miseries even though we do not desire them." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/18
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.31-32
"By that confidential knowledge, I could understand clearly the influence of the energy of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the creator, maintainer and annihilator of everything. By knowing that, one can return to Him and personally meet Him." "O Brāhmaṇa Vyāsadeva, it is decided by the learned that the best remedial measure for removing all troubles and miseries is to dedicate one’s activities to the service of the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead [Śrī Kṛṣṇa]." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/31 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/32
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.5
"Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus undergoes the reactions of material miseries." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/7/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.17
"Insurmountable eternal time imperceptibly overcomes those who are too much attached to family affairs and are always engrossed in their thought." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/17