Verses

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.5

"Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus undergoes the reactions of material miseries." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/7/5

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.6-7

"The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to him, can be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional service. But the mass of people do not know this, and therefore the learned Vyāsadeva compiled this Vedic literature, which is in relation to the Supreme Truth." "Simply by giving aural reception to this Vedic literature, the feeling for loving devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, sprouts up at once to extinguish the fire of lamentation, illusion and fearfulness." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/7/6 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/7/7

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.22-23

"Arjuna said: O my Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, You are the almighty Personality of Godhead. There is no limit to Your different energies. Therefore only You are competent to instill fearlessness in the hearts of Your devotees. Everyone in the flames of material miseries can find the path of liberation in You only." "You are the original Personality of Godhead who expands Himself all over the creations and is transcendental to material energy. You have cast away the effects of the material energy by dint of Your spiritual potency. You are always situated in eternal bliss and transcendental knowledge." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/7/22 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/7/23

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.37

"A cruel and wretched person who maintains his existence at the cost of others’ lives deserves to be killed for his own well-being, otherwise he will go down by his own actions." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/7/37

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.18-19

"Śrīmatī Kuntī said: O Kṛṣṇa, I offer my obeisances unto You because You are the original personality and are unaffected by the qualities of the material world. You are existing both within and without everything, yet You are invisible to all." "Being beyond the range of limited sense perception, You are the eternally irreproachable factor covered by the curtain of deluding energy. You are invisible to the foolish observer, exactly as an actor dressed as a player is not recognized." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/8/18 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/8/19

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.26

"My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of [material] progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/8/26

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.28

"My Lord, I consider Your Lordship to be eternal time, the supreme controller, without beginning and end, the all-pervasive one. In distributing Your mercy, You are equal to everyone. The dissensions between living beings are due to social intercourse." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/8/28

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.9.21

"Being the Absolute Personality of Godhead, He is present in everyone’s heart. He is equally kind to everyone, and He is free from the false ego of differentiation. Therefore whatever He does is free from material inebriety. He is equibalanced." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/9/21

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.9.23

"The Personality of Godhead, who appears in the mind of the devotee by attentive devotion and meditation and by chanting of the holy name, releases the devotee from the bondage of fruitive activities at the time of his quitting the material body." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/9/23

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.9.32

"Bhīṣmadeva said: Let me now invest my thinking, feeling and willing, which were so long engaged in different subjects and occupational duties, in the all-powerful Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. He is always self-satisfied, but sometimes, being the leader of the devotees, He enjoys transcendental pleasure by descending to the material world, although from Him only the material world is created." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/9/32

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.10.21-22

"They said: Here He is, the original Personality of Godhead as we definitely remember Him. He alone existed before the manifested creation of the modes of nature, and in Him only, because He is the Supreme Lord, all living beings merge, as if sleeping at night, their energy suspended." "The Personality of Godhead, again desiring to give names and forms to His parts and parcels, the living entities, placed them under the guidance of material nature. By His own potency, material nature is empowered to re-create." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/10/21 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/10/22

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.11.37-38

"The common materialistic conditioned souls speculate that the Lord is one of them. Out of their ignorance they think that the Lord is affected by matter, although He is unattached." "This is the divinity of the Personality of Godhead: He is not affected by the qualities of material nature, even though He is in contact with them. Similarly, the devotees who have taken shelter of the Lord do not become influenced by the material qualities." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/11/37 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/11/38