Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.35-36
"Whatever work is done here in this life for the satisfaction of the mission of the Lord is called bhakti-yoga, or transcendental loving service to the Lord, and what is called knowledge becomes a concomitant factor." "While performing duties according to the order of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one constantly remembers Him, His names and His qualities." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/35 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/36
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.6.23
"By service of the Absolute Truth, even for a few days, a devotee attains firm and fixed intelligence in Me. Consequently he goes on to become My associate in the transcendental world after giving up the present deplorable material worlds." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/6/23
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.6.34
"It is personally experienced by me that those who are always full of cares and anxieties due to desiring contact of the senses with their objects can cross the ocean of nescience on a most suitable boat — the constant chanting of the transcendental activities of the Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/6/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.6-7
"The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to him, can be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional service. But the mass of people do not know this, and therefore the learned Vyāsadeva compiled this Vedic literature, which is in relation to the Supreme Truth." "Simply by giving aural reception to this Vedic literature, the feeling for loving devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, sprouts up at once to extinguish the fire of lamentation, illusion and fearfulness." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/7/6 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/7/7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.26
"My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of [material] progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/8/26
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.9.21
"Being the Absolute Personality of Godhead, He is present in everyone’s heart. He is equally kind to everyone, and He is free from the false ego of differentiation. Therefore whatever He does is free from material inebriety. He is equibalanced." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/9/21
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.9.23
"The Personality of Godhead, who appears in the mind of the devotee by attentive devotion and meditation and by chanting of the holy name, releases the devotee from the bondage of fruitive activities at the time of his quitting the material body." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/9/23
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.11.37-38
"The common materialistic conditioned souls speculate that the Lord is one of them. Out of their ignorance they think that the Lord is affected by matter, although He is unattached." "This is the divinity of the Personality of Godhead: He is not affected by the qualities of material nature, even though He is in contact with them. Similarly, the devotees who have taken shelter of the Lord do not become influenced by the material qualities." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/11/37 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/11/38
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.18.4
"This was so because those who have dedicated their lives to the transcendental topics of the Personality of Godhead, of whom the Vedic hymns sing, and who are constantly engaged in remembering the lotus feet of the Lord, do not run the risk of having misconceptions even at the last moment of their lives." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/18/4
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.18.13
"The value of a moment’s association with the devotee of the Lord cannot even be compared to the attainment of heavenly planets or liberation from matter, and what to speak of worldly benedictions in the form of material prosperity, which are for those who are meant for death." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/18/13
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.18.22
"Self-controlled persons who are attached to the Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa can all of a sudden give up the world of material attachment, including the gross body and subtle mind, and go away to attain the highest perfection of the renounced order of life, by which nonviolence and renunciation are consequential." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/18/22
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.18.50
"Generally the transcendentalists, even though engaged by others in the dualities of the material world, are not distressed. Nor do they take pleasure [in worldly things], for they are transcendentally engaged." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/18/50