Verses
Verse topic
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.5.14
"Those sinful persons who are ignorant of actual religious principles, yet consider themselves to be completely pious, without compunction commit violence against innocent animals who are fully trusting in them. In their next lives, such sinful persons will be eaten by the same creatures they have killed in this world." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/5/14
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.7.37
"A sober person, even when harassed by other living beings, should understand that his aggressors are acting helplessly under the control of God, and thus he should never be distracted from progress on his own path. This rule I have learned from the earth." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/7/37
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.8.1
"The saintly brāhmaṇa said: O King, the embodied living entity automatically experiences unhappiness in heaven or hell. Similarly, happiness will also be experienced, even without one’s seeking it. Therefore a person of intelligent discrimination does not make any endeavor to obtain such material happiness." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/8/1
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.9.22
"If out of love, hate or fear an embodied soul fixes his mind with intelligence and complete concentration upon a particular bodily form, he will certainly attain the form that he is meditating upon." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/9/22
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.9.23
"O King, once a wasp forced a weaker insect to enter his hive and kept him trapped there. In great fear the weak insect constantly meditated upon his captor, and without giving up his body, he gradually achieved the same state of existence as the wasp. Thus one achieves a state of existence according to one’s constant concentration." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/9/23
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.9.26
"A man attached to the body accumulates money with great struggle to expand and protect the position of his wife, children, property, domestic animals, servants, homes, relatives, friends, and so on. He does all this for the gratification of his own body. As a tree before dying produces the seed of a future tree, the dying body manifests the seed of one’s next material body in the form of one’s accumulated karma. Thus assuring the continuation of material existence, the material body sinks down and dies." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/9/26
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.10.17
"Although the performer of fruitive activities desires perpetual happiness, it is clearly observed that materialistic workers are often unhappy and only occasionally satisfied, thus proving that they are not independent or in control of their destiny. When a person is always under the superior control of another, how can he expect any valuable results from his own fruitive actions?" https://vedy.online/en/sb11/10/17
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.10.18
"It is observed within the material world that sometimes even an intelligent person is not happy. Similarly, sometimes even a great fool is happy. The concept of becoming happy through expertly performing material activities is simply a useless exhibition of false egotism." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/10/18
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.10.32
"As long as the living entity thinks that the modes of material nature have separate existences, he will be obliged to take birth in many different forms and will experience varieties of material existence. Therefore, the living entity remains completely dependent on fruitive activities under the modes of nature." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/10/32
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.10.33
"The conditioned soul who remains dependent on fruitive activities under the material modes of nature will continue to fear Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, since I impose the results of one’s fruitive activities. Those who accept the material concept of life, taking the variegatedness of the modes of nature to be factual, devote themselves to material enjoyment and are therefore always absorbed in lamentation and grief." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/10/33
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.12.21
"Just as woven cloth rests on the expansion of lengthwise and crosswise threads, similarly the entire universe is expanded on the lengthwise and crosswise potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and is situated within Him. The conditioned soul has been accepting material bodies since time immemorial, and these bodies are like great trees sustaining one’s material existence. Just as a tree first blossoms and then produces fruit, similarly the tree of material existence, one’s material body, produces the various results of material existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/12/21
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.19.16
"Commencement, termination and maintenance are the stages of material causation. That which consistently accompanies all these material phases from one creation to another and remains alone when all material phases are annihilated is the one eternal." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/19/16