Verses

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.25

"For one who has properly realized My personal identity as the Supreme Godhead, what credit is there if his senses — mere products of the material modes — are perfectly concentrated in meditation? And on the other hand, what blame is incurred if his senses happen to become agitated? Indeed, what does it mean to the sun if the clouds come and go?" https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/25

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.26

"The sky may display the various qualities of the air, fire, water and earth that pass through it, as well as such qualities as heat and cold, which continually come and go with the seasons. Yet the sky is never entangled with any of these qualities. Similarly, the Supreme Absolute Truth is never entangled with the contaminations of goodness, passion and ignorance, which cause the material transformations of the false ego." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/26

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.27-28

"Nevertheless, until by firmly practicing devotional service to Me one has completely eliminated from his mind all contamination of material passion, one must very carefully avoid associating with the material modes, which are produced by My illusory energy." "Just as an improperly treated disease recurs and gives repeated distress to the patient, the mind that is not completely purified of its perverted tendencies will remain attached to material things and repeatedly torment the imperfect yogī." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/27 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/28

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.29

"Sometimes the progress of imperfect transcendentalists is checked by attachment to family members, disciples or others, who are sent by envious demigods for that purpose. But on the strength of their accumulated advancement, such imperfect transcendentalists will resume their practice of yoga in the next life. They will never again be trapped in the network of fruitive work." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/29

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.30

"An ordinary living entity performs material work and is transformed by the reaction to such work. Thus he is driven by various desires to continue working fruitively up to the very moment of his death. A wise person, however, having experienced his own constitutional bliss, gives up all material desires and does not engage in fruitive work." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/30

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.31

"The wise man, whose consciousness is fixed in the self, does not even notice his own bodily activities. While standing, sitting, walking, lying down, urinating, eating or performing other bodily functions, he understands that the body is acting according to its own nature." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/31

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.32

"Although a self-realized soul may sometimes see an impure object or activity, he does not accept it as real. By logically understanding impure sense objects to be based on illusory material duality, the intelligent person sees them to be contrary to and distinct from reality, in the same way that a man awakening from sleep views his fading dream." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/32

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.33-34

"Material nescience, which expands into many varieties by the activities of the modes of nature, is wrongly accepted by the conditioned soul to be identical with the self. But through the cultivation of spiritual knowledge, My dear Uddhava, this same nescience fades away at the time of liberation. The eternal self, on the other hand, is never assumed and never abandoned." "When the sun rises it destroys the darkness covering men’s eyes, but it does not create the objects they then see before them, which in fact were existing all along. Similarly, potent and factual realization of Me will destroy the darkness covering a person’s true consciousness." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/34

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.35

"The Supreme Lord is self-luminous, unborn and immeasurable. He is pure transcendental consciousness and perceives everything. One without a second, He is realized only after ordinary words cease. By Him the power of speech and the life airs are set into motion." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/35

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.36-37

"Whatever apparent duality is perceived in the self is simply the confusion of the mind. Indeed, such supposed duality has no basis to rest upon apart from one’s own soul." "The duality of the five material elements is perceived only in terms of names and forms. Those who say this duality is real are pseudoscholars vainly proposing fanciful theories without basis in fact." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/36 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/37

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.41-42

"By various methods, some yogīs free the body from disease and old age and keep it perpetually youthful. Thus they engage in yoga for the purpose of achieving material mystic perfections." "This mystic bodily perfection is not valued very highly by those expert in transcendental knowledge. Indeed, they consider endeavor for such perfection useless, since the soul, like a tree, is permanent, but the body, like a tree’s fruit, is subject to destruction." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/41 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/42

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.28.43-44

"Although the physical body may be improved by various processes of yoga, an intelligent person who has dedicated his life to Me does not place his faith in the prospect of perfecting his physical body through yoga, and in fact he gives up such procedures." "The yogī who has taken shelter of Me remains free from hankering because he experiences the happiness of the soul within. Thus while executing this process of yoga, he is never defeated by obstacles." https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/43 & https://vedy.online/en/sb11/28/44