Pearls of Wisdom - 78

Lord Shiva to Mother Parvati: One who is conducted by false ego and thus always distressed, both mentally and sensually, cannot tolerate the opulence of self-realized persons. Being unable to rise to the standard of self-realization, he envies such persons as much as demons envy the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 3 Verse 21

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 23

If one is hurt by the arrows of an enemy, one is not aggrieved as when cut by the unkind words of a relative or friend, for such grief continues to rend one's heart day and night.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 3 Verse 19

Pearls of Wisdom - 77

Lord Shiva to Mother Parvati: One should not go to anyone's house, even on the consideration of his being a relative or friend, when the man is disturbed in his mind and looks upon the guest with raised eyebrows and angry eyes.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 3 Verse 18

Pearls of Wisdom - 76

Lord Shiva to Mother Parvati: Although the six qualities education, austerity, wealth, beauty, youth and heritage are for the highly elevated, one who is proud of possessing them becomes blind, and thus he loses his good sense and cannot appreciate the glories of great personalities.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 3 Verse 17

Pearls of Wisdom - 75

Lord Shiva to Mother Parvati: "My dear beautiful wife, it is true that one may go to a friend's house without an invitation. But this is true only if such a friend does not find fault with one and become angry, due to being in bodily conception of life."

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 4 Chapter 3 Verse 16

Pearls of Wisdom - 74

By executing one's occupational duties, acting with detachment and without a sense of proprietorship or false egoism, one is posted in one's constitutional position by dint of complete purification of consciousness, and by thus executing so-called material duties he can enter into the kingdom of God.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 32 Verse 6

Pearls of Wisdom - 73

Those who are intelligent and are of purified consciousness are completely satisfied in Krishna consciousness. Freed from all the modes of material nature, they do not act for sense gratification; rather, since they are situated in their own occupational duties, they act as one is expected to act.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 32 Verse 5