Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.18
"Gradually, as the mind becomes progressively spiritualized, withdraw it from sense activities, and by intelligence the senses will be controlled. The mind too absorbed in material activities can be engaged in the service of the Personality of Godhead and become fixed in full transcendental consciousness." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/18
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.39
"One should concentrate his mind upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who alone distributes Himself in so many manifestations just as ordinary persons create thousands of manifestations in dreams. One must concentrate the mind on Him, the only all-blissful Absolute Truth. Otherwise one will be misled and will cause his own degradation." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/39
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.7.6-7
"The Lord, as the Supersoul, is situated in every living being’s heart. Why then do the living entities’ activities result in misfortune and misery?" "O great and learned one, my mind is greatly illusioned by the distress of this nescience, and I therefore request you to clear it up." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/7/6 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/7/7
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 4.29.66
"O King, all good fortune unto you! The mind is the cause of the living entity’s attaining a certain type of body in accordance with his association with material nature. According to one’s mental composition, one can understand what the living entity was in his past life as well as what kind of body he will have in the future. Thus the mind indicates the past and future bodies." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/29/66
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.67-68
"Sometimes in a dream we see something never experienced or heard of in this life, but all these incidents have been experienced at different times, in different places and in different conditions." "The mind of the living entity continues to exist in various gross bodies, and according to one’s desires for sense gratification, the mind records different thoughts. In the mind these appear together in different combinations; therefore these images sometimes appear as things never seen or never heard before." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/29/67 & https://vedy.online/en/sb4/29/68
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.6.5
"The mind is the root cause of lust, anger, pride, greed, lamentation, illusion and fear. Combined, these constitute bondage to fruitive activity. What learned man would put faith in the mind?" https://vedy.online/en/sb5/6/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.11.4
"As long as the mind of the living entity is contaminated by the three modes of material nature (goodness, passion and ignorance), his mind is exactly like an independent, uncontrolled elephant. It simply expands its jurisdiction of pious and impious activities by using the senses. The result is that the living entity remains in the material world to enjoy and suffer pleasures and pains due to material activity." https://vedy.online/en/sb5/11/4
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.11.5
"Because the mind is absorbed in desires for pious and impious activities, it is naturally subjected to the transformations of lust and anger. In this way, it becomes attracted to material sense enjoyment. In other words, the mind is conducted by the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance. There are eleven senses and five material elements, and out of these sixteen items, the mind is the chief. Therefore the mind brings about birth in different types of bodies among demigods, human beings, animals and birds. When the mind is situated in a higher or lower position, it accepts a higher or lower material body." https://vedy.online/en/sb5/11/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.11.6
"The materialistic mind covering the living entity’s soul carries it to different species of life. This is called continued material existence. Due to the mind, the living entity suffers or enjoys material distress and happiness. Being thus illusioned, the mind further creates pious and impious activities and their karma, and thus the soul becomes conditioned." https://vedy.online/en/sb5/11/6
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.11.7
"The mind makes the living entity within this material world wander through different species of life, and thus the living entity experiences mundane affairs in different forms as a human being, demigod, fat person, skinny person and so forth. Learned scholars say that bodily appearance, bondage and liberation are caused by the mind." https://vedy.online/en/sb5/11/7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.11.8
"When the living entity’s mind becomes absorbed in the sense gratification of the material world, it brings about his conditioned life and suffering within the material situation. However, when the mind becomes unattached to material enjoyment, it becomes the cause of liberation. When the flame in a lamp burns the wick improperly, the lamp is blackened, but when the lamp is filled with ghee and is burning properly, there is bright illumination. Similarly, when the mind is absorbed in material sense gratification, it causes suffering, and when detached from material sense gratification it brings about the original brightness of Kṛṣṇa consciousness." https://vedy.online/en/sb5/11/8