Verses
Verse topic
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.23.59-60
"No other force besides his own mental confusion makes the soul experience happiness and distress. His perception of friends, neutral parties and enemies and the whole material life he builds around this perception are simply created out of ignorance." "My dear Uddhava, fixing your intelligence on Me, you should thus completely control the mind. This is the essence of the science of yoga." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/23/59 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/23/60
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.26.23
"Because the mind is not disturbed by that which is neither seen nor heard, the mind of a person who restricts the material senses will automatically be checked in its material activities and become pacified." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/26/23
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.20
"The material mind manifests in three phases of consciousness — wakefulness, sleep and deep sleep — which are products of the three modes of nature. The mind further appears in three different roles — the perceiver, the perceived and the regulator of perception. Thus the mind is manifested variously throughout these threefold designations. But it is the fourth factor, existing separately from all this, that alone constitutes the Absolute Truth." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/20
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.27-28
"Nevertheless, until by firmly practicing devotional service to Me one has completely eliminated from his mind all contamination of material passion, one must very carefully avoid associating with the material modes, which are produced by My illusory energy." "Just as an improperly treated disease recurs and gives repeated distress to the patient, the mind that is not completely purified of its perverted tendencies will remain attached to material things and repeatedly torment the imperfect yogī." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/27 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/28
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.7.21
"Either automatically or because of one’s regulated spiritual practice, one’s mind may stop functioning on the material platform of waking consciousness, sleep and deep sleep. Then one understands the Supreme Soul and withdraws from material endeavor." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/7/21
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā 5.35
"“As through devotion to the Lord one can attain His abode, many have attained that goal by abandoning their sinful activities and absorbing their minds in the Lord through lust, envy, fear or affection.”" Śrī caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 5.35