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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.23-24
"The influence of material nature has covered the living entity, and thus it is as if the living entity were always in a blazing fire. But by the process of seriously discharging devotional service, this influence can be removed, just as wooden sticks which cause a fire are themselves consumed by it." "By discovering the faultiness of his desiring to lord it over material nature and by therefore giving it up, the living entity becomes independent and stands in his own glory." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/23 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/24
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.25-27
"In the dreaming state one’s consciousness is almost covered, and one sees many inauspicious things, but when he is awakened and fully conscious, such inauspicious things cannot bewilder him." "The influence of material nature cannot harm an enlightened soul, even though he engages in material activities, because he knows the truth of the Absolute, and his mind is fixed on the Supreme Personality of Godhead." "When a person thus engages in devotional service and self-realization for many, many years and births, he becomes completely reluctant to enjoy any one of the material planets, even up to the highest planet, which is known as Brahmaloka; he becomes fully developed in consciousness." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/25 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/26 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/27
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.28-29
"My devotee actually becomes self-realized by My unlimited causeless mercy, and thus, when freed from all doubts, he steadily progresses towards his destined abode, which is directly under the protection of My spiritual energy of unadulterated bliss. That is the ultimate perfectional goal of the living entity. After giving up the present material body, the mystic devotee goes to that transcendental abode and never comes back." Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.28-29
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.30
"When a perfect yogī’s attention is no longer attracted to the by-products of mystic powers, which are manifestations of the external energy, his progress towards Me becomes unlimited, and thus the power of death cannot overcome him." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/27/30
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.2-3
"One should execute his prescribed duties to the best of his ability and avoid performing duties not allotted to him. One should be satisfied with as much gain as he achieves by the grace of the Lord, and one should worship the lotus feet of a spiritual master." "One should cease performing conventional religious practices and should be attracted to those which lead to salvation. One should eat very frugally and should always remain secluded so that he can achieve the highest perfection of life." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/2 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/3
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.4-5
"One should practice nonviolence and truthfulness, should avoid thieving and be satisfied with possessing as much as he needs for his maintenance. He should abstain from sex life, perform austerity, be clean, study the Vedas and worship the supreme form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." "One must observe silence, acquire steadiness by practicing different yogic postures, control the breathing of the vital air, withdraw the senses from sense objects and thus concentrate the mind on the heart." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/4 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/5
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.6-7
"Fixing the vital air and the mind in one of the six circles of vital air circulation within the body, thus concentrating one’s mind on the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is called samādhi, or samādhāna, of the mind." "By these processes, or any other true process, one must control the contaminated, unbridled mind, which is always attracted by material enjoyment, and thus fix himself in thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/6 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/7
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.8-9
"After controlling one’s mind and sitting postures, one should spread a seat in a secluded and sanctified place, sit there in an easy posture, keeping the body erect, and practice breath control." "The yogī should clear the passage of vital air by breathing in the following manner: first he should inhale very deeply, then hold the breath in, and finally exhale. Or, reversing the process, the yogi can first exhale, then hold the breath outside, and finally inhale. This is done so that the mind may become steady and free from external disturbances." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/8 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/9
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.10.-12
"The yogīs who practice such breathing exercises are very soon freed from all mental disturbances, just as gold, when put into fire and fanned with air, becomes free from all impurities." "By practicing the process of prāṇāyāma, one can eradicate the contamination of his physiological condition, and by concentrating the mind one can become free from all sinful activities. By restraining the senses one can free himself from material association, and by meditating on the Supreme Personality of Godhead one can become free from the three modes of material attachment." "When the mind is perfectly purified by this practice of yoga, one should concentrate on the tip of the nose with half-closed eyes and see the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/10 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/11 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/12
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.39-40
"Because of great affection for family and wealth, one accepts a son and some money as his own, and due to affection for the material body, one thinks that it is his. But actually, as one can understand that his family and wealth are different from him, the liberated soul can understand that he and his body are not the same." "The blazing fire is different from the flames, from the sparks and from the smoke, although all are intimately connected because they are born from the same blazing wood." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/39 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/40
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.41-42
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Parambrahma, is the seer. He is different from the jīva soul, or individual living entity, who is combined with the senses, the five elements and consciousness." "The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Parambrahma, is the seer. He is different from the jīva soul, or individual living entity, who is combined with the senses, the five elements and consciousness." "A yogi should see the same soul in all manifestations, for all that exists is a manifestation of different energies of the Supreme. In this way the devotee should see all living entities without distinction. That is realization of the Supreme Soul." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/41 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/41 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/42
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.43-44
"As fire is exhibited in different forms of wood, so, under different conditions of the modes of material nature, the pure spirit soul manifests itself in different bodies." "Thus the yogī can be in the self-realized position after conquering the insurmountable spell of māyā, who presents herself as both the cause and effect of this material manifestation and is therefore very difficult to understand." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/43 & https://vedy.online/en/sb3/28/44