Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.24
"A candidate for spiritual advancement must be nonviolent, must follow in the footsteps of great ācāryas, must always remember the nectar of the pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, must follow the regulative principles without material desire and, while following the regulative principles, should not blaspheme others. A devotee should lead a very simple life and not be disturbed by the duality of opposing elements. He should learn to tolerate them." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/24
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.25
"The devotee should gradually increase the culture of devotional service by constant hearing of the transcendental qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. These pastimes are like ornamental decorations on the ears of devotees. By rendering devotional service and transcending the material qualities, one can easily be fixed in transcendence in the Supreme Personality of Godhead." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/25
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.26
"Upon becoming fixed in his attachment to the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the grace of the spiritual master and by awakening knowledge and detachment, the living entity, situated within the heart of the body and covered by the five elements, burns up his material surroundings exactly as fire, arising from wood, burns the wood itself." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/26
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.27
"When a person becomes devoid of all material desires and liberated from all material qualities, he transcends distinctions between actions executed externally and internally. At that time the difference between the soul and the Supersoul, which was existing before self-realization, is annihilated. When a dream is over, there is no longer a distinction between the dream and the dreamer." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/27
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.28
"When the soul exists for sense gratification, he creates different desires, and for that reason he becomes subjected to designations. But when one is in the transcendental position, he is no longer interested in anything except fulfilling the desires of the Lord." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/28
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.29
"Only because of different causes does a person see a difference between himself and others, just as one sees the reflection of a body appearing differently manifested on water, on oil or in a mirror." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/29
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.30
"When one deviates from his original consciousness, he loses the capacity to remember his previous position or recognize his present one. When remembrance is lost, all knowledge acquired is based on a false foundation. When this occurs, learned scholars consider that the soul is lost." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/31
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.31
"When one deviates from his original consciousness, he loses the capacity to remember his previous position or recognize his present one. When remembrance is lost, all knowledge acquired is based on a false foundation. When this occurs, learned scholars consider that the soul is lost." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/31
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.32
"There is no stronger obstruction to one’s self-interest than thinking other subject matters to be more pleasing than one’s self-realization." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/32
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.33
"For human society, constantly thinking of how to earn money and apply it for sense gratification brings about the destruction of everyone’s interests. When one becomes devoid of knowledge and devotional service, he enters into species of life like those of trees and stones." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/33
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.34
"Those who strongly desire to cross the ocean of nescience must not associate with the modes of ignorance, for hedonistic activities are the greatest obstructions to realization of religious principles, economic development, regulated sense gratification and, at last, liberation." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/34
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.22.36
"We accept as blessings different states of higher life, distinguishing them from lower states of life, but we should know that such distinctions exist only in relation to the interchange of the modes of material nature. Actually these states of life have no permanent existence, for all of them will be destroyed by the supreme controller." https://vedy.online/en/sb4/22/36