Source of all miseries

Expressions researched:
"source of all miseries" |"source of miseries" |"sources of misery" |"source of misery

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 1 - 6

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses.

BG 5.22, Translation: An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kuntī, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Srimad-Bhagavatam

SB Canto 1

The conditioned soul will gradually be promoted to the transcendental position and easily cross the ocean of nescience, the source of all miseries.

SB 1.6.34, Purport: No one can check the thinking activities of a living being, nor the feeling, willing or working processes. But if one wants actual happiness, one must change the subject matter only. Instead of talking of the politics of a dying man, one might discuss the politics administered by the Lord Himself. Instead of relishing activities of the cinema artists, one can turn his attention to the activities of the Lord with His eternal associates like the gopīs and Lakṣmīs. The almighty Personality of Godhead, by His causeless mercy, descends on the earth and manifests activities almost on the line of the worldly men, but at the same time extraordinarily, because He is almighty. He does so for the benefit of all conditioned souls so that they can turn their attention to transcendence. By doing so, the conditioned soul will gradually be promoted to the transcendental position and easily cross the ocean of nescience, the source of all miseries. This is stated from personal experience by such an authority as Śrī Nārada Muni. And we can have the same experience also if we begin to follow in the footsteps of the great sage, the dearmost devotee of the Lord.