Verses
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.7.41-42
"A materialistic person, thinking himself very advanced in intelligence, continually acts for economic development. But again and again, as enunciated in the Vedas, he is frustrated by material activities, either in this life or in the next. Indeed, the results one obtains are inevitably the opposite of those one desires." "In this material world, every materialist desires to achieve happiness and diminish his distress, and therefore he acts accordingly. Actually, however, one is happy as long as one does not endeavor for happiness; as soon as one begins his activities for happiness, his conditions of distress begin." https://vedy.online/en/sb7/7/41 & https://vedy.online/en/sb7/7/42
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.13.31
"Materialistic activities are always mixed with three kinds of miserable conditions — adhyātmika, adhidaivika and adhibautika. Therefore, even if one achieves some success by performing such activities, what is the benefit of this success? One is still subjected to birth, death, old age, disease and the reactions of his fruitive activities." https://vedy.online/en/sb7/13/31
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.14.8
"One may claim proprietorship to as much wealth as required to maintain body and soul together, but one who desires proprietorship over more than that must be considered a thief, and he deserves to be punished by the laws of nature." https://vedy.online/en/sb7/14/8
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.19.24
"One should be satisfied with whatever he achieves by his previous destiny, for discontent can never bring happiness. A person who is not self-controlled will not be happy even with possessing the three worlds." https://vedy.online/en/sb8/19/24
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.19.25
"Material existence causes discontent in regard to fulfilling one’s lusty desires and achieving more and more money. This is the cause for the continuation of material life, which is full of repeated birth and death. But one who is satisfied by that which is obtained by destiny is fit for liberation from this material existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb8/19/25
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.22.25
"While rotating in the cycle of birth and death again and again in different species because of his own fruitive activities, the dependent living entity, by good fortune, may happen to become a human being. This human birth is very rarely obtained." https://vedy.online/en/sb8/22/25
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.22.26-27
"If a human being is born in an aristocratic family or a higher status of life, if he performs wonderful activities, if he is youthful, if he has personal beauty, a good education and good wealth, and if he is nonetheless not proud of his opulences, it is to be understood that he is especially favored by the Supreme Personality of Godhead." "Although aristocratic birth and other such opulences are impediments to advancement in devotional service because they are causes of false prestige and pride, these opulences never disturb a pure devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb8/22/26 & https://vedy.online/en/sb8/22/27
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.24.48
"One who wants to be free of material entanglement should take to the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and give up the contamination of ignorance, involving pious and impious activities. Thus one regains his original identity, just as a block of gold or silver sheds all dirt and becomes purified when treated with fire. May that inexhaustible Supreme Personality of Godhead become our spiritual master, for He is the original spiritual master of all other spiritual masters." https://vedy.online/en/sb8/24/48
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.19.20
"One who knows that material happiness, whether good or bad, in this life or in the next, on this planet or on the heavenly planets, is temporary and useless, and that an intelligent person should not try to enjoy or even think of such things, is the knower of the self. Such a self-realized person knows quite well that material happiness is the very cause of continued material existence and forgetfulness of one’s own constitutional position." https://vedy.online/en/sb9/19/20
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.21.12
"I do not pray to the Supreme Personality of Godhead for the eight perfections of mystic yoga, nor for salvation from repeated birth and death. I want only to stay among all the living entities and suffer all distresses on their behalf, so that they may be freed from suffering." https://vedy.online/en/sb9/21/12
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.1.44
"Therefore, since envious, impious activities cause a body in which one suffers in the next life, why should one act impiously? Considering one’s welfare, one should not envy anyone, for an envious person must always fear harm from his enemies, either in this life or in the next." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/1/44
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.1.51
"When a fire, for some unseen reason, leaps over one piece of wood and sets fire to the next, the reason is destiny. Similarly, when a living being accepts one kind of body and leaves aside another, there is no other reason than unseen destiny." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/1/51