Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.18.26
"One should never see as ultimate reality those material things which obviously will perish. With consciousness free from material attachment, one should retire from all activities meant for material progress in this life and the next." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/18/26
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.18.33-35
"If at times one does not obtain proper food one should not be depressed, and when one obtains sumptuous food one should not rejoice. Being fixed in determination, one should understand both situations to be under the control of God." "If required, one should endeavor to get sufficient foodstuffs, because it is always necessary and proper to maintain one’s health. When the senses, mind and life air are fit, one can contemplate spiritual truth, and by understanding the truth one is liberated." "A sage should accept the food, clothing and bedding — be they of excellent or inferior quality — that come of their own accord." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/18/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/18/34 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/18/35
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.18.37
"A realized soul no longer sees anything as separate from Me, for his realized knowledge of Me has destroyed such illusory perception. Since the material body and mind were previously accustomed to this kind of perception, it may sometimes appear to recur; but at the time of death the self-realized soul achieves opulences equal to Mine." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/18/37
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.18.38-39
"One who is detached from sense gratification, knowing its result to be miserable, and who desires spiritual perfection, but who has not seriously analyzed the process for obtaining Me, should approach a bona fide and learned spiritual master." "Until a devotee has clearly realized spiritual knowledge, he should continue with great faith and respect and without envy to render personal service to the guru, who is nondifferent from Me." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/18/38 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/18/39
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.18.44
"One who worships Me by his prescribed duty, having no other object of worship, and who remains conscious of Me as present in all living entities, achieves unflinching devotional service unto Me." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/18/44
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.19.1
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: A self-realized person who has cultivated scriptural knowledge up to the point of enlightenment and who is free from impersonal speculation, understanding the material universe to be simply illusion, should surrender unto Me both that knowledge and the means by which he achieved it." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/19/1
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.19.2
"For learned, self-realized philosophers I am the only object of worship, the desired goal of life, the means for achieving that goal, and the settled conclusion of all knowledge. Indeed, because I am the cause of their happiness and their freedom from unhappiness, such learned souls have no effective purpose or dear object in life except Me." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/19/2
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.19.15
"When one no longer sees the twenty-eight separated material elements, which arise from a single cause, but rather sees the cause itself, the Personality of Godhead — at that time one’s direct experience is called vijñāna, or self-realization." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/19/15
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.20.25
"If, because of momentary inattention, a yogī accidentally commits an abominable activity, then by the very practice of yoga he should burn to ashes the sinful reaction, without at any time employing any other procedure." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/20/25
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.23.59-60
"No other force besides his own mental confusion makes the soul experience happiness and distress. His perception of friends, neutral parties and enemies and the whole material life he builds around this perception are simply created out of ignorance." "My dear Uddhava, fixing your intelligence on Me, you should thus completely control the mind. This is the essence of the science of yoga." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/23/59 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/23/60
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.25.34-36
"A wise sage, free from all material association and unbewildered, should subdue his senses and worship Me. He should conquer the modes of passion and ignorance by engaging himself only with things in the mode of goodness." "Then, being fixed in devotional service, the sage should also conquer the material mode of goodness by indifference toward the modes. Thus pacified within his mind, the spirit soul, freed from the modes of nature, gives up the very cause of his conditioned life and attains Me." "Freed from the subtle conditioning of the mind and from the modes of nature born of material consciousness, the living entity becomes completely satisfied by experiencing My transcendental form. He no longer searches for enjoyment in the external energy, nor does he contemplate or remember such enjoyment within himself." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/25/34 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/25/35 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/25/36
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.23
"Thus clearly understanding by discriminating logic the unique position of the Absolute Truth, one should expertly refute one’s misidentification with matter and cut to pieces all doubts about the identity of the self. Becoming satisfied in the soul’s natural ecstasy, one should desist from all lusty engagements of the material senses." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/23