Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.47.6-8
"Birds abandon a tree when its fruits are gone, guests a house after they have eaten, animals a forest that has burnt down, and a lover the woman he has enjoyed, even though she remains attached to him." "Prostitutes abandon a penniless man, subjects an incompetent king, students their teacher once they have finished their education, and priests a man who has remunerated them for a sacrifice." "Birds abandon a tree when its fruits are gone, guests a house after they have eaten, animals a forest that has burnt down, and a lover the woman he has enjoyed, even though she remains attached to him." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/47/8 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/47/7 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/47/8
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.49.23-25
"A fool indulges in sin to maintain his life, wealth and children and other relatives, for he thinks, “These things are mine.” In the end, however, these very things all abandon him, leaving him frustrated." "Abandoned by his so-called dependents, ignorant of the actual goal of life, indifferent to his real duty, and having failed to fulfill his purposes, the foolish soul enters the blindness of hell, taking his sinful reactions with him." "Therefore, O King, looking upon this world as a dream, a magician’s illusion or a flight of fancy, please control your mind with intelligence and become equipoised and peaceful, my lord." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/49/23 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/49/24 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/49/25
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.60.45
"A woman who fails to relish the fragrance of the honey of Your lotus feet becomes totally befooled, and thus she accepts as her husband or lover a living corpse covered with skin, whiskers, nails, head-hair and body-hair and filled with flesh, bones, blood, parasites, feces, mucus, bile and air." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/60/45
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.70.39
"The living being caught in the cycle of birth and death does not know how he can be delivered from the material body, which brings him so much trouble. But You, the Supreme Lord, descend to this world in various personal forms, and by performing Your pastimes You illumine the soul’s path with the blazing torch of Your fame. Therefore I surrender unto You." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/70/39
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.72.20
"He indeed is to be censured and pitied who, though able to do so, fails to achieve with his temporary body the lasting fame glorified by great saints." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/72/20
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.82.19
"Friends and family members — even children, brothers and parents — forget a dear one whom Providence no longer favors." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/82/19
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.85.15
"They are truly ignorant who, while imprisoned within the ceaseless flow of this world’s material qualities, fail to know You, the Supreme Soul of all that be, as their ultimate, sublime destination. Because of their ignorance, the entanglement of material work forces such souls to wander in the cycle of birth and death." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/85/15
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.87.20
"The individual living entity, while inhabiting the material bodies he has created for himself by his karma, actually remains uncovered by either gross or subtle matter. This is so because, as the Vedas describe, he is part and parcel of You, the possessor of all potencies. Having determined this to be the status of the living entity, learned sages become imbued with faith and worship Your lotus feet, to which all Vedic sacrifices in this world are offered, and which are the source of liberation." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/87/20
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.3.6-7
"Impelled by deep-rooted material desires, the embodied living entity engages his active sense organs in fruitive activities. He then experiences the results of his material actions by wandering throughout this world in so-called happiness and distress." "Thus the conditioned living entity is forced to experience repeated birth and death. Impelled by the reactions of his own activities, he helplessly wanders from one inauspicious situation to another, suffering from the moment of creation until the time of cosmic annihilation." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/3/6 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/3/7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.3.21
"Therefore any person who seriously desires real happiness must seek a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of the bona fide guru is that he has realized the conclusions of the scriptures by deliberation and is able to convince others of these conclusions. Such great personalities, who have taken shelter of the Supreme Godhead, leaving aside all material considerations, should be understood to be bona fide spiritual masters." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/3/21
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.3.44
"Childish and foolish people are attached to materialistic, fruitive activities, although the actual goal of life is to become free from such activities. Therefore, the Vedic injunctions indirectly lead one to the path of ultimate liberation by first prescribing fruitive religious activities, just as a father promises his child candy so that the child will take his medicine." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/3/44
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.3.45
"If an ignorant person who has not conquered the material senses does not adhere to the Vedic injunctions, certainly he will engage in sinful and irreligious activities. Thus his reward will be repeated birth and death." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/3/45