Verses

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.33,44

"Bhakti, devotional service, dissolves the subtle body of the living entity without separate effort, just as fire in the stomach digests all that we eat." "Therefore persons whose minds are fixed on the Lord engage in the intensive practice of devotional service. That is the only means for attainment of the final perfection of life." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/33 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/44

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.37

"Thus because he is completely absorbed in thought of Me, the devotee does not desire even the highest benediction obtainable in the upper planetary systems, including Satyaloka. He does not desire the eight material perfections obtained from mystic yoga, nor does he desire to be elevated to the kingdom of God. Yet even without desiring them, the devotee enjoys, even in this life, all the offered benedictions." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/37

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.39-40

"Thus the devotee who worships Me, the all-pervading Lord of the universe, in unflinching devotional service, gives up all aspirations to be promoted to heavenly planets or to become happy in this world with wealth, children, cattle, home or anything in relationship with the body. I take him to the other side of birth and death." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.39-40

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.41-42

"The terrible fear of birth and death can never be forsaken by anyone who resorts to any shelter other than Myself, for I am the almighty Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original source of all creation, and also the Supreme Soul of all souls." "It is because of My supremacy that the wind blows, out of fear of Me; the sun shines out of fear of Me, and the lord of the clouds, Indra, sends forth showers out of fear of Me. Fire burns out of fear of Me, and death goes about taking its toll out of fear of Me." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/41 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/25/42

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.1-2

"The Personality of Godhead, Kapila, continued: My dear mother, now I shall describe unto you the different categories of the Absolute Truth, knowing which any person can be released from the influence of the modes of material nature." "Knowledge is the ultimate perfection of self-realization. I shall explain that knowledge unto you by which the knots of attachment to the material world are cut." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/1 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/2

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.3

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Supreme Soul, and He has no beginning. He is transcendental to the material modes of nature and beyond the existence of this material world. He is perceivable everywhere because He is self-effulgent, and by His self-effulgent luster the entire creation is maintained." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/3

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.5-6

"Divided into varieties by her threefold modes, material nature creates the forms of the living entities, and the living entities, seeing this, are illusioned by the knowledge-covering feature of the illusory energy." "Because of his forgetfulness, the transcendental living entity accepts the influence of material energy as his field of activities, and thus actuated, he wrongly applies the activities to himself." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/5 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/6

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.7-8

"Material consciousness is the cause of one’s conditional life, in which conditions are enforced upon the living entity by the material energy. Although the spirit soul does not do anything and is transcendental to such activities, he is thus affected by conditional life." "The cause of the conditioned soul’s material body and senses, and the senses’ presiding deities, the demigods, is the material nature. This is understood by learned men. The feelings of happiness and distress of the soul, who is transcendental by nature, are caused by the spirit soul himself." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/7 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/8

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.12-13

"The senses for acquiring knowledge and the organs for action number ten, namely the auditory sense, the sense of taste, the tactile sense, the sense of sight, the sense of smell, and the active organs for speaking, working, traveling, generating and evacuating." "The senses for acquiring knowledge and the organs for action number ten, namely the auditory sense, the sense of taste, the tactile sense, the sense of sight, the sense of smell, and the active organs for speaking, working, traveling, generating and evacuating." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/13 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/13

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.16

"The influence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is felt in the time factor, which causes fear of death due to the false ego of the deluded soul who has contacted material nature." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/16

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.17-18

"My dear mother, O daughter of Svāyambhuva Manu, the time factor, as I have explained, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, from whom the creation begins as a result of the agitation of the neutral, unmanifested nature." "By exhibiting His potencies, the Supreme Personality of Godhead adjusts all these different elements, keeping Himself within as the Supersoul and without as time." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/17 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/18

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.71-72

"When a man is sleeping, all his material assets — namely the vital energy, the senses for recording knowledge, the senses for working, the mind and the intelligence — cannot arouse him. He can be aroused only when the Supersoul helps him." "Therefore, through devotion, detachment and advancement in spiritual knowledge acquired through concentrated devotional service, one should contemplate that Supersoul as present in this very body although simultaneously apart from it." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/71 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/26/72