Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.80.2
"O brāhmaṇa, how could anyone who knows the essence of life and is disgusted with endeavoring for sense gratification give up the transcendental topics of Lord Uttamaḥśloka after hearing them repeatedly?" https://vedy.online/en/sb10/80/2
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.80.34
"I, the Soul of all beings, am not as satisfied by ritual worship, brahminical initiation, penances or self-discipline as I am by faithful service rendered to one’s spiritual master." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/80/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.80.41
"This indeed is the duty of all true disciples: to repay the debt to their spiritual master by offering him, with pure hearts, their wealth and even their very lives." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/80/41
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.81.3-4
"The Supreme Lord said: O brāhmaṇa, what gift have you brought Me from home? I regard as great even the smallest gift offered by My devotees in pure love, but even great offerings presented by nondevotees do not please Me." "If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/81/3 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/81/4
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.81.19
"Devotional service to His lotus feet is the root cause of all the perfections a person can find in heaven, in liberation, in the subterranean regions and on earth." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/81/19
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.81.35
"The Lord considers even His greatest benedictions to be insignificant, while He magnifies even a small service rendered to Him by His well-wishing devotee. Thus with pleasure the Supreme Soul accepted a single palmful of the flat rice I brought Him." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/81/35
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.81.36
"The Lord is the supremely compassionate reservoir of all transcendental qualities. Life after life may I serve Him with love, friendship and sympathy, and may I cultivate such firm attachment for Him by the precious association of His devotees." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/81/36
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.83.3
"[Lord Kṛṣṇa’s relatives said:] O master, how can misfortune arise for those who have even once freely drunk the nectar coming from Your lotus feet? This intoxicating liquor pours into the drinking cups of their ears, having flowed from the minds of great devotees through their mouths. It destroys the embodied souls’ forgetfulness of the creator of their bodily existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/83/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.84.35-36
"[The sages said:] It has been definitely concluded that work is counteracted by further work when one executes Vedic sacrifices as a means of worshiping Viṣṇu, the Lord of all sacrifices, with sincere faith." "Learned authorities who see through the eye of scripture have demonstrated that this is the easiest method of subduing the agitated mind and attaining liberation, and that it is a sacred duty which brings joy to the heart." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/84/35 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/84/36
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.85.45
"Please be merciful to me so I may get out of the blind well of family life — my false home — and find the true shelter of Your lotus feet, which selfless sages always seek. Then, either alone or in the company of great saints, who are the friends of everyone, I may wander freely, finding life’s necessities at the feet of the universally charitable trees." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/85/45
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.86.46-48
"You reveal Yourself within the hearts of those persons of pure consciousness who constantly hear about You, chant about You, worship You, glorify You and converse with one another about You." "But although You reside within the heart, You are very far away from those whose minds are disturbed by their entanglement in material work. Indeed, no one can grasp You by his material powers, for You reveal Yourself only in the hearts of those who have learned to appreciate Your transcendental qualities." "Let me offer my obeisances unto You. You are realized as the Supreme Soul by those who know the Absolute Truth, whereas in Your form of time You impose death upon the forgetful souls. You appear both in Your causeless spiritual form and in the created form of this universe, thus simultaneously uncovering the eyes of Your devotees and obstructing the vision of the nondevotees." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.86.46 & 10.86.47 & 10.86.48
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.86.56-57
"Because he has realized Me, a brāhmaṇa is firmly fixed in the knowledge that everything moving and nonmoving in the universe, and also the primary elements of its creation, are all manifest forms expanded from Me." "Therefore you should worship these brāhmaṇa sages, O brāhmaṇa, with the same faith you have in Me. If you do so, you will worship Me directly, which you cannot do otherwise, even with offerings of vast riches." https://vedy.online/en/sb10/86/56 & https://vedy.online/en/sb10/86/57