Verses
Verse topic
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.5
"Although shadows, echoes and mirages are only illusory reflections of real things, such reflections do cause a semblance of meaningful or comprehensible perception. In the same way, although the identification of the conditioned soul with the material body, mind and ego is illusory, this identification generates fear within him even up to the moment of death." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.6-7
"The Supersoul alone is the ultimate controller and creator of this world, and thus He alone is also the created. Similarly, the Soul of all existence Himself both maintains and is maintained, withdraws and is withdrawn. No other entity can be properly ascertained as separate from Him, the Supreme Soul, who nonetheless is distinct from everything and everyone else. The appearance of the threefold material nature, which is perceived within Him, has no actual basis. Rather, you should understand that this material nature, composed of the three modes, is simply the product of His illusory potency." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.6-7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.8
"One who has properly understood the process of becoming firmly fixed in theoretical and realized knowledge, as described herein by Me, does not indulge in material criticism or praise. Like the sun, he wanders freely throughout this world." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/8
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.9
"By direct perception, logical deduction, scriptural testimony and personal realization, one should know that this world has a beginning and an end and so is not the ultimate reality. Thus one should live in this world without attachment." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/9
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.12-14
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: As long as the foolish spirit soul remains attracted to the material body, senses and vital force, his material existence continues to flourish, although it is ultimately meaningless." "Actually, the living entity is transcendental to material existence. But because of his mentality of lording it over material nature, his material existential condition does not cease, and, just as in a dream, he is affected by all sorts of disadvantages." "Although while dreaming a person experiences many undesirable things, upon awakening he is no longer confused by the dream experiences." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/12 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/13 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/14
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.15-16
"Lamentation, elation, fear, anger, greed, confusion and hankering, as well as birth and death, are experiences of the false ego and not of the pure soul." "The living entity who falsely identifies with his body, senses, life air and mind, and who dwells within these coverings, assumes the form of his own materially conditioned qualities and work. He is designated variously in relation to the total material energy, and thus, under the strict control of supreme time, he is forced to run here and there within material existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/15 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/16
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.17
"Although the false ego has no factual basis, it is perceived in many forms — as the functions of the mind, speech, life air and bodily faculties. But with the sword of transcendental knowledge, sharpened by worship of a bona fide spiritual master, a sober sage will cut off this false identification and live in this world free from all material attachment." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/17
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.18
"Real spiritual knowledge is based on the discrimination of spirit from matter, and it is cultivated by scriptural evidence, austerity, direct perception, reception of the Purāṇas’ historical narrations, and logical inference. The Absolute Truth, which alone was present before the creation of the universe and which alone will remain after its destruction, is also the time factor and the ultimate cause. Even in the middle stage of this creation’s existence, the Absolute Truth alone is the actual reality." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/18
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.19
"Gold alone is present before its manufacture into gold products, the gold alone remains after the products’ destruction, and the gold alone is the essential reality while it is being utilized under various designations. Similarly, I alone exist before the creation of this universe, after its destruction and during its maintenance." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/19
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 11.28.21-22
"That which did not exist in the past and will not exist in the future also has no existence of its own for the period of its duration, but is only a superficial designation. In My opinion, whatever is created and revealed by something else is ultimately only that other thing." "That which did not exist in the past and will not exist in the future also has no existence of its own for the period of its duration, but is only a superficial designation. In My opinion, whatever is created and revealed by something else is ultimately only that other thing." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/21 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/21
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.23
"Thus clearly understanding by discriminating logic the unique position of the Absolute Truth, one should expertly refute one’s misidentification with matter and cut to pieces all doubts about the identity of the self. Becoming satisfied in the soul’s natural ecstasy, one should desist from all lusty engagements of the material senses." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/23