Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.42-43
"Men of small knowledge are very much attached to the flowery words of the Vedas, which recommend various fruitive activities for elevation to heavenly planets, resultant good birth, power, and so forth. Being desirous of sense gratification and opulent life, they say that there is nothing more than this." Bhagavad-Gītā 2.42-43
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.44
"In the minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and material opulence, and who are bewildered by such things, the resolute determination for devotional service to the Supreme Lord does not take place." https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/44/
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.58
"One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is firmly fixed in perfect consciousness." https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/58/
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.59
"Though the embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness." https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/59/
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.60
"The senses are so strong and impetuous, O Arjuna, that they forcibly carry away the mind even of a man of discrimination who is endeavoring to control them." https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/60/
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.61
"One who restrains his senses, keeping them under full control, and fixes his consciousness upon Me, is known as a man of steady intelligence." https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/61/
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.62-64
"While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises." "From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls down again into the material pool." "But a person free from all attachment and aversion and able to control his senses through regulative principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord." https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/62/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/63/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/64/
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.67
"As a strong wind sweeps away a boat on the water, even one of the roaming senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man’s intelligence." https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/67/
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.70
"A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires – that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still – can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires." https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/70/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.6-7
"One who restrains the senses of action but whose mind dwells on sense objects certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender." "On the other hand, if a sincere person tries to control the active senses by the mind and begins karma-yoga [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness] without attachment, he is by far superior." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/6/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/7/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.13
"The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/13/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.15-16
"Regulated activities are prescribed in the Vedas, and the Vedas are directly manifested from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Consequently the all-pervading Transcendence is eternally situated in acts of sacrifice." "My dear Arjuna, one who does not follow in human life the cycle of sacrifice thus established by the Vedas certainly leads a life full of sin. Living only for the satisfaction of the senses, such a person lives in vain." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/15/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/16/