Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.23
"One has to make progress in spiritual life by not associating with persons who are simply interested in sense gratification and making money. Not only such persons, but one who associates with such persons should be avoided. One should mold his life in such a way that he cannot live in peace without drinking the nectar of the glorification of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari. One can be thus elevated by being disgusted with the taste for sense enjoyment." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/23
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.28
"When the soul exists for sense gratification, he creates different desires, and for that reason he becomes subjected to designations. But when one is in the transcendental position, he is no longer interested in anything except fulfilling the desires of the Lord." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/28
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.30
"When one deviates from his original consciousness, he loses the capacity to remember his previous position or recognize his present one. When remembrance is lost, all knowledge acquired is based on a false foundation. When this occurs, learned scholars consider that the soul is lost." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/31
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.32
"There is no stronger obstruction to one’s self-interest than thinking other subject matters to be more pleasing than one’s self-realization." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/32
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.33
"For human society, constantly thinking of how to earn money and apply it for sense gratification brings about the destruction of everyone’s interests. When one becomes devoid of knowledge and devotional service, he enters into species of life like those of trees and stones." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/33
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.34
"Those who strongly desire to cross the ocean of nescience must not associate with the modes of ignorance, for hedonistic activities are the greatest obstructions to realization of religious principles, economic development, regulated sense gratification and, at last, liberation." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.24.64
"My dear Lord, after creating by Your own potencies, You enter within the creation in four kinds of forms. Being within the hearts of the living entities, You know them and know how they are enjoying their senses. The so-called happiness of this material creation is exactly like the bees’ enjoyment of honey after it has been collected in the honeycomb." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/24/64
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.18-20
"Nārada Muni continued: What I referred to as the chariot was in actuality the body. The senses are the horses that pull that chariot. As time passes, year after year, these horses run without obstruction, but in fact they make no progress. Pious and impious activities are the two wheels of the chariot. The three modes of material nature are the chariot’s flags. The five types of life air constitute the living entity’s bondage, and the mind is considered to be the rope. Intelligence is the chariot driver. The heart is the sitting place in the chariot, and the dualities of life, such as pleasure and pain, are the knotting place. The seven elements are the coverings of the chariot, and the working senses are the five external processes. The eleven senses are the soldiers. Being engrossed in sense enjoyment, the living entity, seated on the chariot, hankers after fulfillment of his false desires and runs after sense enjoyment life after life." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.18-20
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.47
"My dear King Barhiṣmān, you should never out of ignorance take to the Vedic rituals or to fruitive activity, which may be pleasing to hear about or which may appear to be the goal of self-interest. You should never take these to be the ultimate goal of life." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/29/47
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.63
"One can understand the mental or conscious position of a living entity by the activities of two kinds of senses — the knowledge-acquiring senses and the executive senses. Similarly, by the mental condition or consciousness of a person, one can understand his position in the previous life." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/29/63
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.73
"When the living entity dreams, the sense objects are not actually present. However, because one has associated with the sense objects, they become manifest. Similarly, the living entity with undeveloped senses does not cease to exist materially, even though he may not be exactly in contact with the sense objects." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/29/73
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.29.78
"As long as we desire to enjoy sense gratification, we create material activities. When the living entity acts in the material field, he enjoys the senses, and while enjoying the senses, he creates another series of material activities. In this way the living entity becomes entrapped as a conditioned soul." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/29/78