Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.37
"The foolish with a poor fund of knowledge cannot know the transcendental nature of the forms, names and activities of the Lord, who is playing like an actor in a drama. Nor can they express such things, neither in their speculations nor in their words." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/37
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 1.3.40
"This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the literary incarnation of God, and it is compiled by Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of God. It is meant for the ultimate good of all people, and it is all-successful, all-blissful and all-perfect." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/3/40
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 1.5.20
"The Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is Himself this cosmos, and still He is aloof from it. From Him only has this cosmic manifestation emanated, in Him it rests, and unto Him it enters after annihilation. Your good self knows all about this. I have given only a synopsis." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/20
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
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.35-36
"Whatever work is done here in this life for the satisfaction of the mission of the Lord is called bhakti-yoga, or transcendental loving service to the Lord, and what is called knowledge becomes a concomitant factor." "While performing duties according to the order of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one constantly remembers Him, His names and His qualities." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/35 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/36
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.6.23
"By service of the Absolute Truth, even for a few days, a devotee attains firm and fixed intelligence in Me. Consequently he goes on to become My associate in the transcendental world after giving up the present deplorable material worlds." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/6/23
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.6.34
"It is personally experienced by me that those who are always full of cares and anxieties due to desiring contact of the senses with their objects can cross the ocean of nescience on a most suitable boat — the constant chanting of the transcendental activities of the Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/6/34