Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.4
"The right situation for the living entities is to obey the laws of the Lord and thus be in perfect peace of mind under the protection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Manus and their laws are meant to give right direction in life. The impetus for activity is the desire for fruitive work." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/4
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.6
"The merging of the living entity, along with his conditional living tendency, with the mystic lying down of the Mahā-Viṣṇu is called the winding up of the cosmic manifestation. Liberation is the permanent situation of the form of the living entity after he gives up the changeable gross and subtle material bodies." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/6
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.7-9
"The supreme one who is celebrated as the Supreme Being or the Supreme Soul is the supreme source of the cosmic manifestation as well as its reservoir and winding up. Thus He is the Supreme Fountainhead, the Absolute Truth." "The individual person possessing different instruments of senses is called the adhyātmic person, and the individual controlling deity of the senses is called adhidaivic. The embodiment seen on the eyeballs is called the adhibhautic person." "All three of the above-mentioned stages of different living entities are interdependent. In the absence of one, another is not understood. But the Supreme Being who sees every one of them as the shelter of the shelter is independent of all, and therefore He is the supreme shelter." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/7 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/8 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/9
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.12
"One should definitely know that all material ingredients, activities, time and modes, and the living entities who are meant to enjoy them all, exist by His mercy only, and as soon as He does not care for them, everything becomes nonexistent." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/12
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.31-32
"The seven elements of the body, namely the thin layer on the skin, the skin itself, the flesh, blood, fat, marrow and bone, are all made of earth, water and fire, whereas the life breath is produced by the sky, water and air." "The sense organs are attached to the modes of material nature, and the modes of material nature are products of the false ego. The mind is subjected to all kinds of material experiences (happiness and distress), and the intelligence is the feature of the mind’s deliberation." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/31 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/32
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.33-34
"Thus by all this, the external feature of the Personality of Godhead is covered by gross forms such as those of planets, which were explained to you by me." "Therefore beyond this [gross manifestation] is a transcendental manifestation finer than the finest form. It has no beginning, no intermediate stage and no end; therefore it is beyond the limits of expression or mental speculation and is distinct from the material conception." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.36
"He, the Personality of Godhead, manifests Himself in a transcendental form, being the subject of His transcendental name, quality, pastimes, entourage and transcendental variegatedness. Although He is unaffected by all such activities, He appears to be so engaged." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/36
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.41
"According to the different modes of material nature — the mode of goodness, the mode of passion and the mode of darkness — there are different living creatures, who are known as demigods, human beings and hellish living entities. O King, even a particular mode of nature, being mixed with the other two, is divided into three, and thus each kind of living creature is influenced by the other modes and acquires its habits also." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/41
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.45
"There is no direct engineering by the Lord for the creation and destruction of the material world. What is described in the Vedas about His direct interference is simply to counteract the idea that material nature is the creator." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/45
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.2.15
"The Personality of Godhead, the all-compassionate controller of both the spiritual and material creations, is unborn, but when there is friction between His peaceful devotees and persons who are in the material modes of nature, He takes birth just like fire, accompanied by the mahat-tattva." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/2/15
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.3.23
"Every living entity is controlled by a supernatural force, and thus his sense enjoyment is also under the control of that supernatural force. No one, therefore, can put his faith in Lord Kṛṣṇa’s transcendental sense activities but one who has become a devotee of the Lord by rendering devotional service." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/3/23
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.2
"Vidura said: O great sage, everyone in this world engages in fruitive activities to attain happiness, but one finds neither satiation nor the mitigation of distress. On the contrary, one is only aggravated by such activities. Please, therefore, give us directions on how one should live for real happiness." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/5/2