Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam - Fifth Canto: The Creative Impetus
After wasting time for too long, I finally took up Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam again… now at the 5th Canto (1), which immediately starts off with the big question: how to integrate spirituality - i.e. Kṛṣṇa Consciousness (2) - in your day-to-day life. Some quotes. Chapter SB 5.1: The Activities of Mahārāja Priyavrata Just as a bull is controlled by a rope tied to its nose, so all conditioned souls are forced to work under the spells of the modes of nature. Even in materialistic life, no one is free to act. Everyone is compelled to accept a certain type of body offered by the Supreme Lord and thus be allotted different grades of happiness and distress. Therefore even if one artificially leaves home and goes to the forest, he again becomes attached to materialistic life. Family life is compared to a fortress for practicing sense control. When the senses are controlled. one may live either at home or in the forest; there is no difference. One may argue, "Why is it wrong to enj...