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Srimad BhagavatamReferences to text SB 5.18.12 |
SB 5.18.12: All the demigods and their exalted qualities, such as religion, knowledge and renunciation, become manifest in the body of one who has developed unalloyed devotion for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, VÄsudeva. On the other hand, a person devoid of devotional service and engaged in material activities has no good qualities. Even if he is adept at the practice of mystic yoga or the honest endeavor of maintaining his family and relatives, he must be driven by his own mental speculations and must engage in the service of the Lord’s external energy. How can there be any good qualities in such a man?
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| Arjuna said: My dear Kṛṣṇa, seeing my friends and relatives present before me in such a ï¬ghting spirit, I feel the limbs of my body quivering and my mouth drying up. Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra |
| BG 1.28 |
| Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona ï¬de spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratiï¬cation; absence of false ego; the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest; even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me; aspiring to live in a solitary place; detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth – all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance. Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness |
| BG 13.8-12 |