Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.4.34
"My dear Parīkṣit, when the illusory false ego that binds the soul has been cut off with the sword of discriminating knowledge and one has developed realization of Lord Acyuta, the Supreme Soul, this is called the ātyantika, or ultimate, annihilation of material existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/4/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.4.35
"Experts in the subtle workings of nature, O subduer of the enemy, have declared that there are continuous processes of creation and annihilation that all created beings, beginning with Brahmā, constantly undergo." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/4/35
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.4.36-37
"All material entities undergo transformation and are constantly and swiftly eroded by the mighty currents of time. The various stages of existence that material things exhibit are the perpetual causes of their generation and annihilation." "These stages of existence created by beginningless and endless time, the impersonal representative of the Supreme Lord, are not visible, just as the infinitesimal momentary changes of position of the planets in the sky cannot be directly seen." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/4/36 & https://vedy.online/en/sb12/4/37
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.4.40
"For a person who is suffering in the fire of countless miseries and who desires to cross the insurmountable ocean of material existence, there is no suitable boat except that of cultivating devotion to the transcendental taste for the narrations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s pastimes." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/4/40
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.5.2-3
"O King, give up the animalistic mentality of thinking, “I am going to die.” Unlike the body, you have not taken birth. There was not a time in the past when you did not exist, and you are not about to be destroyed." "You will not take birth again in the form of your sons and grandsons, like a sprout taking birth from a seed and then generating a new seed. Rather, you are entirely distinct from the material body and its paraphernalia, in the same way that fire is distinct from its fuel." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/5/2 & https://vedy.online/en/sb12/5/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.5.4
"In a dream one can see his own head being cut off and thus understand that his actual self is standing apart from the dream experience. Similarly, while awake one can see that his body is a product of the five material elements. Therefore it is to be understood that the actual self, the soul, is distinct from the body it observes and is unborn and immortal." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/5/4
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.5.5
"When a pot is broken, the portion of sky within the pot remains as the element sky, just as before. In the same way, when the gross and subtle bodies die, the living entity within resumes his spiritual identity." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/5/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.5.6
"The material bodies, qualities and activities of the spirit soul are created by the material mind. That mind is itself created by the illusory potency of the Supreme Lord, and thus the soul assumes material existence." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/5/6
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.5.7
"A lamp functions as such only by the combination of its fuel, vessel, wick and fire. Similarly, material life, based on the soul’s identification with the body, is developed and destroyed by the workings of material goodness, passion and ignorance, which are the constituent elements of the body." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/5/7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.5.8
"The soul within the body is self-luminous and is separate from the visible gross body and invisible subtle body. It remains as the fixed basis of changing bodily existence, just as the ethereal sky is the unchanging background of material transformation. Therefore the soul is endless and without material comparison." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/5/8
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.6.25-26
"The life and death of an embodied soul and his destination in the next life are all caused by himself through his own activity. Therefore, O King, no other agent is actually responsible for creating one’s happiness and distress." "When a conditioned soul is killed by snakes, thieves, fire, lightning, hunger, disease or anything else, he is experiencing the reaction to his own past work." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/6/25 & https://vedy.online/en/sb12/6/26
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.6.29
"This is indeed the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu’s illusory energy, which is unstoppable and difficult to perceive. Although the individual spirit souls are part and parcel of the Lord, through the influence of this illusory energy they are bewildered by their identification with various material bodies." https://vedy.online/en/sb12/6/29