Verses
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.27
"Thus by not engaging in the service of the modes of material nature but by developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness, knowledge in renunciation, and by practicing yoga, in which the mind is always fixed in devotional service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one achieves My association in this very life, for I am the Supreme Personality, the Absolute Truth." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/27
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.33,44
"Bhakti, devotional service, dissolves the subtle body of the living entity without separate effort, just as fire in the stomach digests all that we eat." "Therefore persons whose minds are fixed on the Lord engage in the intensive practice of devotional service. That is the only means for attainment of the final perfection of life." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/44
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.37
"Thus because he is completely absorbed in thought of Me, the devotee does not desire even the highest benediction obtainable in the upper planetary systems, including Satyaloka. He does not desire the eight material perfections obtained from mystic yoga, nor does he desire to be elevated to the kingdom of God. Yet even without desiring them, the devotee enjoys, even in this life, all the offered benedictions." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/37
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.39-40
"Thus the devotee who worships Me, the all-pervading Lord of the universe, in unflinching devotional service, gives up all aspirations to be promoted to heavenly planets or to become happy in this world with wealth, children, cattle, home or anything in relationship with the body. I take him to the other side of birth and death." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.39-40
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.1-2
"The Personality of Godhead, Kapila, continued: My dear mother, now I shall describe unto you the different categories of the Absolute Truth, knowing which any person can be released from the influence of the modes of material nature." "Knowledge is the ultimate perfection of self-realization. I shall explain that knowledge unto you by which the knots of attachment to the material world are cut." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/1 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/2
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.6-8
"One has to become faithful by practicing the controlling process of the yoga system and must elevate himself to the platform of unalloyed devotional service by chanting and hearing about Me." "In executing devotional service, one has to see every living entity equally, without enmity towards anyone yet without intimate connections with anyone. One has to observe celibacy, be grave and execute his eternal activities, offering the results to the Supreme Personality of Godhead." "For his income a devotee should be satisfied with what he earns without great difficulty. He should not eat more than what is necessary. He should live in a secluded place and always be thoughtful, peaceful, friendly, compassionate and self-realized." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/6 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/7 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/8
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.21-22
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: One can get liberation by seriously discharging devotional service unto Me and thereby hearing for a long time about Me or from Me. By thus executing one’s prescribed duties, there will be no reaction, and one will be freed from the contamination of matter." "This devotional service has to be performed strongly in perfect knowledge and with transcendental vision. One must be strongly renounced and must engage in austerity and perform mystic yoga in order to be firmly fixed in self-absorption." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/21 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/22
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.23-24
"The influence of material nature has covered the living entity, and thus it is as if the living entity were always in a blazing fire. But by the process of seriously discharging devotional service, this influence can be removed, just as wooden sticks which cause a fire are themselves consumed by it." "By discovering the faultiness of his desiring to lord it over material nature and by therefore giving it up, the living entity becomes independent and stands in his own glory." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/23 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/24
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.25-27
"In the dreaming state one’s consciousness is almost covered, and one sees many inauspicious things, but when he is awakened and fully conscious, such inauspicious things cannot bewilder him." "The influence of material nature cannot harm an enlightened soul, even though he engages in material activities, because he knows the truth of the Absolute, and his mind is fixed on the Supreme Personality of Godhead." "When a person thus engages in devotional service and self-realization for many, many years and births, he becomes completely reluctant to enjoy any one of the material planets, even up to the highest planet, which is known as Brahmaloka; he becomes fully developed in consciousness." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/25 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/26 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/27
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.28-29
"My devotee actually becomes self-realized by My unlimited causeless mercy, and thus, when freed from all doubts, he steadily progresses towards his destined abode, which is directly under the protection of My spiritual energy of unadulterated bliss. That is the ultimate perfectional goal of the living entity. After giving up the present material body, the mystic devotee goes to that transcendental abode and never comes back." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.28-29
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.29.39
"No one is dear to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, nor is anyone His enemy or friend. But He gives inspiration to those who have not forgotten Him and destroys those who have." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/29/39
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.23-24
"Engagement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and application of devotional service unto Kṛṣṇa make it possible to advance in knowledge and detachment, as well as in self-realization." "The exalted devotee’s mind becomes equipoised in sensory activities, and he is transcendental to that which is agreeable and not agreeable." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/23 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/24