Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.28
"When the soul exists for sense gratification, he creates different desires, and for that reason he becomes subjected to designations. But when one is in the transcendental position, he is no longer interested in anything except fulfilling the desires of the Lord." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/28
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.30
"When one deviates from his original consciousness, he loses the capacity to remember his previous position or recognize his present one. When remembrance is lost, all knowledge acquired is based on a false foundation. When this occurs, learned scholars consider that the soul is lost." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/31
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.31
"When one deviates from his original consciousness, he loses the capacity to remember his previous position or recognize his present one. When remembrance is lost, all knowledge acquired is based on a false foundation. When this occurs, learned scholars consider that the soul is lost." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/31
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.32
"There is no stronger obstruction to one’s self-interest than thinking other subject matters to be more pleasing than one’s self-realization." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/32
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.23.28
"Any person who engages himself within this material world in performing activities that necessitate great struggle, and who, after obtaining a human form of life — which is a chance to attain liberation from miseries — undertakes the difficult tasks of fruitive activities, must be considered to be cheated and envious of his own self." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/23/28
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.24.75
"In this material world there are different types of achievement, but of all of them the achievement of knowledge is considered to be the highest because one can cross the ocean of nescience only on the boat of knowledge. Otherwise the ocean is impassable." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/24/75
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.25.6
"Those who are interested only in a so-called dutiful life — namely remaining as a householder entangled by sons and a wife and searching after wealth — think that such things are life’s ultimate goal. Such people simply wander in different types of bodies throughout this material existence without finding out the ultimate goal of life." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/25/6
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.28.59
"My dear friend, when you enter such a body along with the woman of material desires, you become overly absorbed in sense enjoyment. Because of this, you have forgotten your spiritual life. Due to your material conceptions, you are placed in various miserable conditions." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/28/59
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.28.61
"Sometimes you think yourself a man, sometimes a chaste woman and sometimes a neutral eunuch. This is all because of the body, which is created by the illusory energy. This illusory energy is My potency, and actually both of us — you and I — are pure spiritual identities. Now just try to understand this. I am trying to explain our factual position." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/28/61
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.5
"The great sage Nārada continued: The word pramadā mentioned in this regard refers to material intelligence, or ignorance. It is to be understood as such. When one takes shelter of this kind of intelligence, he identifies himself with the material body. Influenced by the material consciousness of “I” and “mine,” he begins to enjoy and suffer through his senses. Thus the living entity is entrapped." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/29/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.17
"Formerly it was explained that the Queen is one’s intelligence. While one is awake or asleep, that intelligence creates different situations. Being influenced by contaminated intelligence, the living entity envisions something and simply imitates the actions and reactions of his intelligence." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/29/17
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.18-20
"Nārada Muni continued: What I referred to as the chariot was in actuality the body. The senses are the horses that pull that chariot. As time passes, year after year, these horses run without obstruction, but in fact they make no progress. Pious and impious activities are the two wheels of the chariot. The three modes of material nature are the chariot’s flags. The five types of life air constitute the living entity’s bondage, and the mind is considered to be the rope. Intelligence is the chariot driver. The heart is the sitting place in the chariot, and the dualities of life, such as pleasure and pain, are the knotting place. The seven elements are the coverings of the chariot, and the working senses are the five external processes. The eleven senses are the soldiers. Being engrossed in sense enjoyment, the living entity, seated on the chariot, hankers after fulfillment of his false desires and runs after sense enjoyment life after life." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.18-20