Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.7.17
"Both the lowest of fools and he who is transcendental to all intelligence enjoy happiness, whereas persons between them suffer the material pangs." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/7/17
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.9.7-8
"O my Lord, persons who are bereft of the all-auspicious performance of chanting and hearing about Your transcendental activities are certainly unfortunate and are also bereft of good sense. They engage in inauspicious activities, enjoying sense gratification for a very little while." "O great actor, my Lord, all these poor creatures are constantly perplexed by hunger, thirst, severe cold, secretion and bile, attacked by coughing winter, blasting summer, rains and many other disturbing elements, and overwhelmed by strong sex urges and indefatigable anger. I take pity on them, and I am very much aggrieved for them." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/9/7 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/9/8
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.9.10
"Such nondevotees engage their senses in very troublesome and extensive work, and they suffer insomnia at night because their intelligence constantly breaks their sleep with various mental speculations. They are frustrated in all their various plans by supernatural power. Even great sages, if they are against Your transcendental topics, must rotate in this material world." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/9/10
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.24.36-37
"My appearance in this world is especially to explain the philosophy of Sāṅkhya, which is highly esteemed for self-realization by those desiring freedom from the entanglement of unnecessary material desires." "This path of self-realization, which is difficult to understand, has now been lost in the course of time. Please know that I have assumed this body of Kapila to introduce and explain this philosophy to human society again." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/24/36 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/24/37
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.12-13
"The senses for acquiring knowledge and the organs for action number ten, namely the auditory sense, the sense of taste, the tactile sense, the sense of sight, the sense of smell, and the active organs for speaking, working, traveling, generating and evacuating." "The senses for acquiring knowledge and the organs for action number ten, namely the auditory sense, the sense of taste, the tactile sense, the sense of sight, the sense of smell, and the active organs for speaking, working, traveling, generating and evacuating." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/13 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/13
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.71-72
"When a man is sleeping, all his material assets — namely the vital energy, the senses for recording knowledge, the senses for working, the mind and the intelligence — cannot arouse him. He can be aroused only when the Supersoul helps him." "Therefore, through devotion, detachment and advancement in spiritual knowledge acquired through concentrated devotional service, one should contemplate that Supersoul as present in this very body although simultaneously apart from it." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/71 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/72
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.1-3
"The Personality of Godhead said: The person who lives in the center of household life derives material benefits by performing religious rituals, and thereby he fulfills his desire for economic development and sense gratification. Again and again he acts the same way." "Such persons are ever bereft of devotional service due to being too attached to sense gratification, and therefore, although they perform various kinds of sacrifices and take great vows to satisfy the demigods and forefathers, they are not interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional service." "Such materialistic persons, attracted by sense gratification and devoted to the forefathers and demigods, can be elevated to the moon, where they drink an extract of the soma plant. They again return to this planet." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/1 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/2 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.18-19
"Such persons are called trai-vargika because they are interested in the three elevating processes. They are averse to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who can give relief to the conditioned soul. They are not interested in the Supreme Personality’s pastimes, which are worth hearing because of His transcendental prowess." "Such persons are condemned by the supreme order of the Lord. Because they are averse to the nectar of the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they are compared to stool-eating hogs. They give up hearing the transcendental activities of the Lord and indulge in hearing of the abominable activities of materialistic persons." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/18 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/19
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.2.22
"Pretentiously religious householder life, in which one is attracted to material happiness and thus also attracted to the superficial explanation of the Vedas, robs one of all intelligence and attaches one to fruitive activities as all in all." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/2/22
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.8.59-60
"Anyone who thus engages in the devotional service of the Lord, seriously and sincerely, with his mind, words and body, and who is fixed in the activities of the prescribed devotional methods, is blessed by the Lord according to his desire. If a devotee desires material religiosity, economic development, sense gratification or liberation from the material world, he is awarded these results." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.8.59-60
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.9.9
"Persons who worship You simply for the sense gratification of this bag of skin are certainly influenced by Your illusory energy. In spite of having You, who are like a desire tree and are the cause of liberation from birth and death, foolish persons, such as me, desire benedictions from You for sense gratification, which is available even for those who live in hellish conditions." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/9/9
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.20.5-6
"Those who are in full knowledge of the bodily conception of life, who know that this body is composed of nescience, desires and activities resulting from illusion, do not become addicted to the body." "How can a highly learned person who has absolutely no affinity for the bodily conception of life be affected by the bodily conception in regard to house, children, wealth and similar other bodily productions?" https://vedy.online/en/sb4/20/5 & https://vedy.online/en/sb4/20/6