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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.30
"When a perfect yogī’s attention is no longer attracted to the by-products of mystic powers, which are manifestations of the external energy, his progress towards Me becomes unlimited, and thus the power of death cannot overcome him." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/30
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.2-3
"One should execute his prescribed duties to the best of his ability and avoid performing duties not allotted to him. One should be satisfied with as much gain as he achieves by the grace of the Lord, and one should worship the lotus feet of a spiritual master." "One should cease performing conventional religious practices and should be attracted to those which lead to salvation. One should eat very frugally and should always remain secluded so that he can achieve the highest perfection of life." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/2 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.4-5
"One should practice nonviolence and truthfulness, should avoid thieving and be satisfied with possessing as much as he needs for his maintenance. He should abstain from sex life, perform austerity, be clean, study the Vedas and worship the supreme form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." "One must observe silence, acquire steadiness by practicing different yogic postures, control the breathing of the vital air, withdraw the senses from sense objects and thus concentrate the mind on the heart." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/4 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.6-7
"Fixing the vital air and the mind in one of the six circles of vital air circulation within the body, thus concentrating one’s mind on the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is called samādhi, or samādhāna, of the mind." "By these processes, or any other true process, one must control the contaminated, unbridled mind, which is always attracted by material enjoyment, and thus fix himself in thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/6 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.8-9
"After controlling one’s mind and sitting postures, one should spread a seat in a secluded and sanctified place, sit there in an easy posture, keeping the body erect, and practice breath control." "The yogī should clear the passage of vital air by breathing in the following manner: first he should inhale very deeply, then hold the breath in, and finally exhale. Or, reversing the process, the yogi can first exhale, then hold the breath outside, and finally inhale. This is done so that the mind may become steady and free from external disturbances." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/8 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/9
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.10.-12
"The yogīs who practice such breathing exercises are very soon freed from all mental disturbances, just as gold, when put into fire and fanned with air, becomes free from all impurities." "By practicing the process of prāṇāyāma, one can eradicate the contamination of his physiological condition, and by concentrating the mind one can become free from all sinful activities. By restraining the senses one can free himself from material association, and by meditating on the Supreme Personality of Godhead one can become free from the three modes of material attachment." "When the mind is perfectly purified by this practice of yoga, one should concentrate on the tip of the nose with half-closed eyes and see the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/10 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/11 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/12
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.29.33-35
"Therefore I do not find a greater person than he who has no interest outside of Mine and who therefore engages and dedicates all his activities and all his life — everything — unto Me without cessation." "Such a perfect devotee offers respects to every living entity because he is under the firm conviction that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has entered the body of every living entity as the Supersoul, or controller." "My dear mother, O daughter of Manu, a devotee who applies the science of devotional service and mystic yoga in this way can achieve the abode of the Supreme Person simply by that devotional service." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/29/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/29/34 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/29/35
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.5
"Those who are intelligent and are of purified consciousness are completely satisfied in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Freed from the modes of material nature, they do not act for sense gratification; rather, since they are situated in their own occupational duties, they act as one is expected to act." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.6-7
"By executing one’s occupational duties, acting with detachment and without a sense of proprietorship or false egoism, one is posted in one’s constitutional position by dint of complete purification of consciousness, and by thus executing so-called material duties he can easily enter into the kingdom of God." "Through the path of illumination, such liberated persons approach the complete Personality of Godhead, who is the proprietor of the material and spiritual worlds and is the supreme cause of their manifestation and dissolution." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/6 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.10
"The yogīs who become detached from the material world by practice of breathing exercises and control of the mind reach the planet of Brahmā, which is far, far away. After giving up their bodies, they enter into the body of Lord Brahmā, and therefore when Brahmā is liberated and goes to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Supreme Brahman, such yogīs can also enter into the kingdom of God." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/10
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.27
"The greatest common understanding for all yogīs is complete detachment from matter, which can be achieved by different kinds of yoga." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/32/27
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.33.11
"My dear mother, those who are actually transcendentalists certainly follow My instructions as I have given them to you. You may rest assured that if you traverse this path of self-realization perfectly, surely you shall be freed from fearful material contamination and shall ultimately reach Me. Mother, persons who are not conversant with this method of devotional service certainly cannot get out of the cycle of birth and death." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/33/11