Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Bhagavad-Gītā 18.2
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The giving up of activities that are based on material desire is what great learned men call the renounced order of life [sannyāsa]. And giving up the results of all activities is what the wise call renunciation [tyāga]." https://vedy.online/en/bg/18/2/
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 1.5.33-34
"O good soul, does not a thing, applied therapeutically, cure a disease which was caused by that very same thing?" "Thus when all a man’s activities are dedicated to the service of the Lord, those very activities which caused his perpetual bondage become the destroyer of the tree of work." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/5/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.6.35
"It is true that by practicing restraint of the senses by the yoga system one can get relief from the disturbances of desire and lust, but this is not sufficient to give satisfaction to the soul, for this [satisfaction] is derived from devotional service to the Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/6/35
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.53
"On the banks at Saptasrota, Dhṛtarāṣṭra is now engaged in beginning aṣṭāṅga-yoga by bathing three times daily, in the morning, noon and evening, by performing the Agni-hotra sacrifice with fire and by drinking only water. This helps one control the mind and the senses and frees one completely from thoughts of familial affection." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/53
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.54
"One who has controlled the sitting postures [the yogic āsanas] and the breathing process can turn the senses toward the Absolute Personality of Godhead and thus become immune to the contaminations of the modes of material nature, namely mundane goodness, passion and ignorance." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/54
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.6
"The highest perfection of human life, achieved either by complete knowledge of matter and spirit, by practice of mystic powers, or by perfect discharge of occupational duty, is to remember the Personality of Godhead at the end of life." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/6
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.18
"Gradually, as the mind becomes progressively spiritualized, withdraw it from sense activities, and by intelligence the senses will be controlled. The mind too absorbed in material activities can be engaged in the service of the Personality of Godhead and become fixed in full transcendental consciousness." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/18
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.20-21
"One’s mind is always agitated by the passionate mode of material nature and bewildered by the ignorant mode of nature. But one can rectify such conceptions by the relation of Viṣṇu and thus become pacified by cleansing the dirty things created by them." "One’s mind is always agitated by the passionate mode of material nature and bewildered by the ignorant mode of nature. But one can rectify such conceptions by the relation of Viṣṇu and thus become pacified by cleansing the dirty things created by them." "O King, by this system of remembrance and by being fixed in the habit of seeing the all-good personal conception of the Lord, one can very soon attain devotional service to the Lord, under His direct shelter." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/20 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/20 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/1/21
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.2.15-16
"O King, whenever the yogī desires to leave this planet of human beings, he should not be perplexed about the proper time or place, but should comfortably sit without being disturbed and, regulating the life air, should control the senses by the mind." "Thereafter, the yogī should merge his mind, by his unalloyed intelligence, into the living entity, and then merge the living entity into the Superself. And by doing this, the fully satisfied living entity becomes situated in the supreme stage of satisfaction, so that he ceases from all other activities." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/2/15 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/2/16
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.16
"Let me offer my respectful obeisances again and again unto the all-auspicious Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The highly intellectual, simply by surrendering unto His lotus feet, are relieved of all attachments to present and future existences and without difficulty progress toward spiritual existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/4/16
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.15-16
"The Vedic literatures are made by and are meant for the Supreme Lord, the demigods are also meant for serving the Lord as parts of His body, the different planets are also meant for the sake of the Lord, and different sacrifices are performed just to please Him." "All different types of meditation or mysticism are means for realizing Nārāyaṇa. All austerities are aimed at achieving Nārāyaṇa. Culture of transcendental knowledge is for getting a glimpse of Nārāyaṇa, and ultimately salvation is entering the kingdom of Nārāyaṇa." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/15 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/16