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

Pearls of Wisdom - 72

Lord Kapila to mother Devahuti,

The person who lives in the center of household life derives material benefits by performing religious rituals, and thereby fulfills his desire for economic development and sense gratification. Again and again he acts the same way.

Such persons are bereft of devotional service due to being too attached to sense gratification, and therefore, although they perform various kinds of sacrifices and take great vows to satisfy devatas and forefathers, they are not interested in Krishna Consciousness, devotional service.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 32 Verses 1-2

Srimad Bhagavatam Analogy - 22

The woman, created by the Lord, is representative of maya, and one who associates with such maya by accepting services must certainly know that this is the way to death, just like a blind well covered with grass.

Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verse 40

Pearls of Wisdom - 71

Lord Kapila to mother Devahuti: Just try to understand the mighty strength of My maya in the shape of a woman, who by the mere movement of her eyebrows can keep even the greatest conquerors of the world under her grip.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 31 Verse 38