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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.20.41
"The ghosts and hobgoblins took possession of the body thrown off in the form of yawning by Brahmā, the creator of the living entities. This is also known as the sleep which causes drooling. The hobgoblins and ghosts attack men who are impure, and their attack is spoken of as insanity." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/20/41
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.7-10
"Devahūti said: I am very sick of the disturbance caused by my material senses, for because of this sense disturbance, my Lord, I have fallen into the abyss of ignorance." "Your Lordship is my only means of getting out of this darkest region of ignorance because You are my transcendental eye, which, by Your mercy only, I have attained after many, many births." "You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the origin and Supreme Lord of all living entities. You have arisen to disseminate the rays of the sun in order to dissipate the darkness of the ignorance of the universe." "Now be pleased, my Lord, to dispel my great delusion. Due to my feeling of false ego, I have been engaged by Your māyā and have identified myself with the body and consequent bodily relations." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/7 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/8 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/9 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/10
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.16-17
"When one is completely cleansed of the impurities of lust and greed produced from the false identification of the body as “I” and bodily possessions as “mine,” one’s mind becomes purified. In that pure state he transcends the stage of so-called material happiness and distress." "At that time the soul can see himself to be transcendental to material existence and always self-effulgent, never fragmented, although very minute in size." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/16 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/17
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.20
"Every learned man knows very well that attachment for the material is the greatest entanglement of the spirit soul. But that same attachment, when applied to the self-realized devotees, opens the door of liberation." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/20
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.23-24
"The influence of material nature has covered the living entity, and thus it is as if the living entity were always in a blazing fire. But by the process of seriously discharging devotional service, this influence can be removed, just as wooden sticks which cause a fire are themselves consumed by it." "By discovering the faultiness of his desiring to lord it over material nature and by therefore giving it up, the living entity becomes independent and stands in his own glory." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/23 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/24
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.25-27
"In the dreaming state one’s consciousness is almost covered, and one sees many inauspicious things, but when he is awakened and fully conscious, such inauspicious things cannot bewilder him." "The influence of material nature cannot harm an enlightened soul, even though he engages in material activities, because he knows the truth of the Absolute, and his mind is fixed on the Supreme Personality of Godhead." "When a person thus engages in devotional service and self-realization for many, many years and births, he becomes completely reluctant to enjoy any one of the material planets, even up to the highest planet, which is known as Brahmaloka; he becomes fully developed in consciousness." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/25 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/26 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/27
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.39-40
"Because of great affection for family and wealth, one accepts a son and some money as his own, and due to affection for the material body, one thinks that it is his. But actually, as one can understand that his family and wealth are different from him, the liberated soul can understand that he and his body are not the same." "The blazing fire is different from the flames, from the sparks and from the smoke, although all are intimately connected because they are born from the same blazing wood." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/39 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/40
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.43-44
"As fire is exhibited in different forms of wood, so, under different conditions of the modes of material nature, the pure spirit soul manifests itself in different bodies." "Thus the yogī can be in the self-realized position after conquering the insurmountable spell of māyā, who presents herself as both the cause and effect of this material manifestation and is therefore very difficult to understand." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/43 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/44
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.29.5
"My dear Lord, You are just like the sun, for You illuminate the darkness of the conditional life of the living entities. Because their eyes of knowledge are not open, they are sleeping eternally in that darkness without Your shelter, and therefore they are falsely engaged by the actions and reactions of their material activities, and they appear to be very fatigued." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/29/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.30.1
"The Personality of Godhead said: As a mass of clouds does not know the powerful influence of the wind, a person engaged in material consciousness does not know the powerful strength of the time factor, by which he is being carried." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/30/1
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.30.2-3
"Whatever is produced by the materialist with great pain and labor for so-called happiness, the Supreme Personality, as the time factor, destroys, and for this reason the conditioned soul laments." "The misguided materialist does not know that his very body is impermanent and that the attractions of home, land and wealth, which are in relationship to that body, are also temporary. Out of ignorance only, he thinks that everything is permanent." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/30/2 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/30/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.30.4-6
"The living entity, in whatever species of life he appears, finds a particular type of satisfaction in that species, and he is never averse to being situated in such a condition." "The conditioned living entity is satisfied in his own particular species of life; while deluded by the covering influence of the illusory energy, he feels little inclined to cast off his body, even when in hell, for he takes delight in hellish enjoyment." "Such satisfaction with one’s standard of living is due to deep-rooted attraction for body, wife, home, children, animals, wealth and friends. In such association, the conditioned soul thinks himself quite perfect." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/30/4 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/30/5 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/30/6