Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Bhagavad-Gītā 18.14-16
"The place of action [the body], the performer, the various senses, the many different kinds of endeavor, and ultimately the Supersoul – these are the five factors of action." "Whatever right or wrong action a man performs by body, mind or speech is caused by these five factors." "Therefore one who thinks himself the only doer, not considering the five factors, is certainly not very intelligent and cannot see things as they are." https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/14/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/15/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/16/
Bhagavad-Gītā 18.17
"One who is not motivated by false ego, whose intelligence is not entangled, though he kills men in this world, does not kill. Nor is he bound by his actions." https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/17/
Bhagavad-Gītā 18.18
"Knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the knower are the three factors that motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer are the three constituents of action." https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/18/
Bhagavad-Gītā 18.48
"Every endeavor is covered by some fault, just as fire is covered by smoke. Therefore one should not give up the work born of his nature, O son of Kuntī, even if such work is full of fault." https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/48/
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.20-21
"Thus established in the mode of unalloyed goodness, the man whose mind has been enlivened by contact with devotional service to the Lord gains positive scientific knowledge of the Personality of Godhead in the stage of liberation from all material association." "Thus the knot in the heart is pierced, and all misgivings are cut to pieces. The chain of fruitive actions is terminated when one sees the self as master." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/20 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/21
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.30
"In the beginning of the material creation, that Absolute Personality of Godhead [Vāsudeva], in His transcendental position, created the energies of cause and effect by His own internal energy." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/30
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.12
"Knowledge of self-realization, even though free from all material affinity, does not look well if devoid of a conception of the Infallible [God]. What, then, is the use of fruitive activities, which are naturally painful from the very beginning and transient by nature, if they are not utilized for the devotional service of the Lord?" https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/12
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.33-34
"O good soul, does not a thing, applied therapeutically, cure a disease which was caused by that very same thing?" "Thus when all a man’s activities are dedicated to the service of the Lord, those very activities which caused his perpetual bondage become the destroyer of the tree of work." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.37
"A cruel and wretched person who maintains his existence at the cost of others’ lives deserves to be killed for his own well-being, otherwise he will go down by his own actions." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/7/37
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.28
"My Lord, I consider Your Lordship to be eternal time, the supreme controller, without beginning and end, the all-pervasive one. In distributing Your mercy, You are equal to everyone. The dissensions between living beings are due to social intercourse." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/8/28
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.46
"This gross material body made of five elements is already under the control of eternal time [kāla], action [karma] and the modes of material nature [guṇa]. How then can it, being already in the jaws of the serpent, protect others?" https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/46
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.17.19-20
"Some of the philosophers, who deny all sorts of duality, declare that one’s own self is responsible for his personal happiness and distress. Others say that superhuman powers are responsible, while yet others say that activity is responsible, and the gross materialists maintain that nature is the ultimate cause." "There are also some thinkers who believe that no one can ascertain the cause of distress by argumentation, nor know it by imagination, nor express it by words. O sage amongst kings, judge for yourself by thinking over all this with your own intelligence." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/17/19 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/17/20