Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6-7
"The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self." "By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the world." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/6 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.17
"Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramātmā [Supersoul] in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/17
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.18-19
"By regular attendance in classes on the Bhāgavatam and by rendering of service to the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is almost completely destroyed, and loving service unto the Personality of Godhead, who is praised with transcendental songs, is established as an irrevocable fact." "As soon as irrevocable loving service is established in the heart, the effects of nature’s modes of passion and ignorance, such as lust, desire and hankering, disappear from the heart. Then the devotee is established in goodness, and he becomes completely happy." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/18 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/19
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.20-21
"Thus established in the mode of unalloyed goodness, the man whose mind has been enlivened by contact with devotional service to the Lord gains positive scientific knowledge of the Personality of Godhead in the stage of liberation from all material association." "Thus the knot in the heart is pierced, and all misgivings are cut to pieces. The chain of fruitive actions is terminated when one sees the self as master." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/20 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/21
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.22 & 1.2.25
"Certainly, therefore, since time immemorial, all transcendentalists have been rendering devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, with great delight, because such devotional service is enlivening to the self." "Previously all the great sages rendered service unto the Personality of Godhead due to His existence above the three modes of material nature. They worshiped Him to become free from material conditions and thus derive the ultimate benefit. Whoever follows such great authorities is also eligible for liberation from the material world." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/22 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/25
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.28-29
"In the revealed scriptures, the ultimate object of knowledge is Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead. The purpose of performing sacrifice is to please Him. Yoga is for realizing Him. All fruitive activities are ultimately rewarded by Him only. He is supreme knowledge, and all severe austerities are performed to know Him. Religion [dharma] is rendering loving service unto Him. He is the supreme goal of life." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.28-29
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.39
"Only by making such inquiries in this world can one be successful and perfectly cognizant, for such inquiries invoke transcendental ecstatic love unto the Personality of Godhead, who is the proprietor of all the universes, and guarantee cent-percent immunity from the dreadful repetition of birth and death." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/39
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.12
"Knowledge of self-realization, even though free from all material affinity, does not look well if devoid of a conception of the Infallible [God]. What, then, is the use of fruitive activities, which are naturally painful from the very beginning and transient by nature, if they are not utilized for the devotional service of the Lord?" https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/12
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.17
"One who has forsaken his material occupations to engage in the devotional service of the Lord may sometimes fall down while in an immature stage, yet there is no danger of his being unsuccessful. On the other hand, a nondevotee, though fully engaged in occupational duties, does not gain anything." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/17
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.18
"Persons who are actually intelligent and philosophically inclined should endeavor only for that purposeful end which is not obtainable even by wandering from the topmost planet [Brahmaloka] down to the lowest planet [Pātāla]. As far as happiness derived from sense enjoyment is concerned, it can be obtained automatically in course of time, just as in course of time we obtain miseries even though we do not desire them." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/18
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.31-32
"By that confidential knowledge, I could understand clearly the influence of the energy of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the creator, maintainer and annihilator of everything. By knowing that, one can return to Him and personally meet Him." "O Brāhmaṇa Vyāsadeva, it is decided by the learned that the best remedial measure for removing all troubles and miseries is to dedicate one’s activities to the service of the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead [Śrī Kṛṣṇa]." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/31 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/32
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.33-34
"O good soul, does not a thing, applied therapeutically, cure a disease which was caused by that very same thing?" "Thus when all a man’s activities are dedicated to the service of the Lord, those very activities which caused his perpetual bondage become the destroyer of the tree of work." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/34