Verses
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Bhagavad-Gītā 16.11-12
"They believe that to gratify the senses is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus until the end of life their anxiety is immeasurable. Bound by a network of hundreds of thousands of desires and absorbed in lust and anger, they secure money by illegal means for sense gratification." Bhagavad-Gītā 16.11-12
Bhagavad-Gītā 16.16-18
"Thus perplexed by various anxieties and bound by a network of illusions, they become too strongly attached to sense enjoyment and fall down into hell." "Self-complacent and always impudent, deluded by wealth and false prestige, they sometimes proudly perform sacrifices in name only, without following any rules or regulations." "Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demons become envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in their own bodies and in the bodies of others, and blaspheme against the real religion." https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/16/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/17/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/18/
Bhagavad-Gītā 18.18
"Knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the knower are the three factors that motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer are the three constituents of action." https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/18/
Bhagavad-Gītā 18.51-53
"Being purified by his intelligence and controlling the mind with determination, giving up the objects of sense gratification, being freed from attachment and hatred, one who lives in a secluded place, who eats little, who controls his body, mind and power of speech, who is always in trance and who is detached, free from false ego, false strength, false pride, lust, anger, and acceptance of material things, free from false proprietorship, and peaceful – such a person is certainly elevated to the position of self-realization." Bhagavad-Gītā 18.51-53
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.10
"Life’s desires should never be directed toward sense gratification. One should desire only a healthy life, or self-preservation, since a human being is meant for inquiry about the Absolute Truth. Nothing else should be the goal of one’s works." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/10
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.27
"Those who are in the modes of passion and ignorance worship those in the same category — namely the forefathers, other living beings and the demigods who are in charge of cosmic activities — for they are urged by a desire to be materially benefited with women, wealth, power and progeny." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/2/27
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
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.9
"Lazy human beings with paltry intelligence and a short duration of life pass the night sleeping and the day performing activities that are for naught." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/16/9
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.22
"The so-called administrators are now bewildered by the influence of this Age of Kali, and thus they have put all state affairs into disorder. Are you now lamenting this disorder? Now the general populace does not follow the rules and regulations for eating, sleeping, drinking, mating, etc., and they are inclined to perform such anywhere and everywhere. Are you unhappy because of this?" https://vedy.online/en/sb1/16/22
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.2-3
"Those persons who are materially engrossed, being blind to the knowledge of ultimate truth, have many subject matters for hearing in human society, O Emperor." "The lifetime of such an envious householder is passed at night either in sleeping or in sex indulgence, and in the daytime either in making money or maintaining family members." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/2 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.2.2-3
"The way of presentation of the Vedic sounds is so bewildering that it directs the intelligence of the people to meaningless things like the heavenly kingdoms. The conditioned souls hover in dreams of such heavenly illusory pleasures, but actually they do not relish any tangible happiness in such places." "For this reason the enlightened person should endeavor only for the minimum necessities of life while in the world of names. He should be intelligently fixed and never endeavor for unwanted things, being competent to perceive practically that all such endeavors are merely hard labor for nothing." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/2/2 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/2/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.25-26
"Lord Brahmā said: O Personality of Godhead, You are situated in every living entity’s heart as the supreme director, and therefore You are aware of all endeavors by Your superior intelligence, without any hindrance whatsoever." "In spite of that, my Lord, I am praying to You to kindly fulfill my desire. May I please be informed how, in spite of Your transcendental form, You assume the mundane form, although You have no such form at all." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/9/25 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/9/26