Verses

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.17

"Insurmountable eternal time imperceptibly overcomes those who are too much attached to family affairs and are always engrossed in their thought." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/17

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.20

"Whoever is under the influence of supreme kāla [eternal time] must surrender his most dear life, and what to speak of other things, such as wealth, honor, children, land and home." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/20

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.27

"He is certainly a first-class man who awakens and understands, either by himself or from others, the falsity and misery of this material world and thus leaves home and depends fully on the Personality of Godhead residing within his heart." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/27

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.41 & 43

"Śrī Nārada said: O pious King, do not lament for anyone, for everyone is under the control of the Supreme Lord. Therefore all living beings and their leaders carry on worship to be well protected. It is He only who brings them together and disperses them." "As a player sets up and disperses his playthings according to his own sweet will, so the supreme will of the Lord brings men together and separates them." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/41 & https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/43

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.42

"As a cow, bound through the nose by a long rope, is conditioned, so also human beings are bound by different Vedic injunctions and are conditioned to obey the orders of the Supreme." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/42

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.44

"O King, in all circumstances, whether you consider the soul to be an eternal principle, or the material body to be perishable, or everything to exist in the impersonal Absolute Truth, or everything to be an inexplicable combination of matter and spirit, feelings of separation are due only to illusory affection and nothing more." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/44

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.46

"This gross material body made of five elements is already under the control of eternal time [kāla], action [karma] and the modes of material nature [guṇa]. How then can it, being already in the jaws of the serpent, protect others?" https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/46

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.47

"Those who are devoid of hands are prey for those who have hands; those devoid of legs are prey for the four-legged. The weak are the subsistence of the strong, and the general rule holds that one living being is food for another." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/47

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.53

"On the banks at Saptasrota, Dhṛtarāṣṭra is now engaged in beginning aṣṭāṅga-yoga by bathing three times daily, in the morning, noon and evening, by performing the Agni-hotra sacrifice with fire and by drinking only water. This helps one control the mind and the senses and frees one completely from thoughts of familial affection." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/53

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.54

"One who has controlled the sitting postures [the yogic āsanas] and the breathing process can turn the senses toward the Absolute Personality of Godhead and thus become immune to the contaminations of the modes of material nature, namely mundane goodness, passion and ignorance." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/54

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.9

"Lazy human beings with paltry intelligence and a short duration of life pass the night sleeping and the day performing activities that are for naught." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/16/9

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.22

"The so-called administrators are now bewildered by the influence of this Age of Kali, and thus they have put all state affairs into disorder. Are you now lamenting this disorder? Now the general populace does not follow the rules and regulations for eating, sleeping, drinking, mating, etc., and they are inclined to perform such anywhere and everywhere. Are you unhappy because of this?" https://vedy.online/en/sb1/16/22