Verses
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.27
"He is certainly a first-class man who awakens and understands, either by himself or from others, the falsity and misery of this material world and thus leaves home and depends fully on the Personality of Godhead residing within his heart." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/27
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.44
"O King, in all circumstances, whether you consider the soul to be an eternal principle, or the material body to be perishable, or everything to exist in the impersonal Absolute Truth, or everything to be an inexplicable combination of matter and spirit, feelings of separation are due only to illusory affection and nothing more." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/44
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.9
"Lazy human beings with paltry intelligence and a short duration of life pass the night sleeping and the day performing activities that are for naught." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/16/9
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.17.23
"Thus it is concluded that the Lord’s energies are inconceivable. No one can estimate them by mental speculation or by word jugglery." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/17/23
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 2.1.12
"What is the value of a prolonged life which is wasted, inexperienced by years in this world? Better a moment of full consciousness, because that gives one a start in searching after his supreme interest." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/12
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.2.2-3
"The way of presentation of the Vedic sounds is so bewildering that it directs the intelligence of the people to meaningless things like the heavenly kingdoms. The conditioned souls hover in dreams of such heavenly illusory pleasures, but actually they do not relish any tangible happiness in such places." "For this reason the enlightened person should endeavor only for the minimum necessities of life while in the world of names. He should be intelligently fixed and never endeavor for unwanted things, being competent to perceive practically that all such endeavors are merely hard labor for nothing." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/2/2 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/2/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.2.6
"Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/2/6
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.2.7
"Who else but the gross materialists will neglect such transcendental thought and take to the nonpermanent names only, seeing the mass of people fallen in the river of suffering as the consequence of accruing the result of their own work?" https://vedy.online/en/sb2/2/7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.2.27
"In that planet of Satyaloka, there is neither bereavement, nor old age nor death. There is no pain of any kind, and therefore there are no anxieties, save that sometimes, due to consciousness, there is a feeling of compassion for those unaware of the process of devotional service, who are subjected to unsurpassable miseries in the material world." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/2/27
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.2
"The illusioned living entity appears in so many forms offered by the external energy of the Lord. While enjoying in the modes of material nature, the encaged living entity misconceives, thinking in terms of “I” and “mine.”" https://vedy.online/en/sb2/9/2
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.3
"As soon as the living entity becomes situated in his constitutional glory and begins to enjoy the transcendence beyond time and material energy, he at once gives up the two misconceptions of life [I and mine] and thus becomes fully manifested as the pure self." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/9/3