Verses
Verse topic
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.8.36
"Men provide sense gratification for women, but all these men, and even the demigods in heaven, have a beginning and an end. They are all temporary creations who will be dragged away by time. Therefore how much actual pleasure or happiness could any of them ever give to their wives?" https://vedy.online/en/sb11/8/36
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.8.39
"With devotion I accept the great benefit that the Lord has bestowed upon me. Having given up my sinful desires for ordinary sense gratification, I now take shelter of Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/8/39
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.8.41
"The intelligence of the living entity is stolen away by activities of sense gratification, and thus he falls into the dark well of material existence. Within that well he is then seized by the deadly serpent of time. Who else but the Supreme Personality of Godhead could save the poor living entity from such a hopeless condition?" https://vedy.online/en/sb11/8/41
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.8.42
"When the living entity sees that the entire universe has been seized by the serpent of time, he becomes sober and sane and at that time detaches himself from all material sense gratification. In that condition the living entity is qualified to be his own protector." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/8/42
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.8.44
"Material desire is undoubtedly the cause of the greatest unhappiness, and freedom from such desire is the cause of the greatest happiness. Therefore, completely cutting off her desire to enjoy so-called lovers, Piṅgalā very happily went to sleep." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/8/44
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.9.1
"The saintly brāhmaṇa said: Everyone considers certain things within the material world to be most dear to him, and because of attachment to such things one eventually becomes miserable. One who understands this gives up material possessiveness and attachment and thus achieves unlimited happiness." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/9/1
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.9.3
"In family life, the parents are always in anxiety about their home, children and reputation. But I have nothing to do with these things. I do not worry at all about any family, and I do not care about honor and dishonor. I enjoy only the life of the soul, and I find love on the spiritual platform. Thus I wander the earth like a child." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/9/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.9.4
"In this world two types of people are free from all anxiety and merged in great happiness: one who is a retarded and childish fool and one who has approached the Supreme Lord, who is beyond the three modes of material nature." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/9/4
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.9.11
"Having perfected the yoga sitting postures and conquered the breathing process, one should make the mind steady by detachment and the regulated practice of yoga. Thus one should carefully fix the mind on the single goal of yoga practice." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/9/11
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.9.12
"The mind can be controlled when it is fixed on the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Having achieved a stable situation, the mind becomes free from polluted desires to execute material activities; thus as the mode of goodness increases in strength, one can completely give up the modes of passion and ignorance, and gradually one transcends even the material mode of goodness. When the mind is freed from the fuel of the modes of nature, the fire of material existence is extinguished. Then one achieves the transcendental platform of direct relationship with the object of his meditation, the Supreme Lord." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/9/12
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.9.13
"Thus, when one’s consciousness is completely fixed on the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one no longer sees duality, or internal and external reality. The example is given of the arrow maker who was so absorbed in making a straight arrow that he did not even see or notice the king himself, who was passing right next to him." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/9/13
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.9.15
"When a person living in a temporary material body tries to construct a happy home, the result is fruitless and miserable. The snake, however, enters a home that has been built by others and prospers happily." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/9/15