Bhagavid Gita Quotes

“A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.”

“Amongst thousands of persons, hardly one strives for perfection; and amongst those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows me in truth.”

“Arise, slay thy enemies, enjoy a prosperous kingdom.”

“Be focused on action and not on the fruits of action.”

“Curving back within myself I create again and again.”

“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.”

“Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of the senses with their objects. They come and they go, never lasting long. You must accept them.”

“For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.”

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”

“Hell has three hates: lust, anger and greed.”

“If one offers me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it.”

“In the dark night of all beings awakes to Light the tranquil man. But what is day to other beings is night for the sage who sees.”

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”

“It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says 'I did it'.”

“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”

“No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.”

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

“One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.”

“Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.”

“Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness.

The one who is motivated only by the desire for the fruits of their action, and anxious about the results, is miserable indeed.”

“Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.”

“The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar – this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's own mind.”

“The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.”

“The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.”

“The spirit is beyond destruction. No one can bring an end to spirit which is everlasting.”

“The whole world is an illusion, however you must treat the illusion as if it is real.”

“The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There was never a time when you and I and all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.”

“They say that life is an accident, driven by sexual desire, that the universe has no moral order, no truth, no God.

Driven by insatiable lusts, drunk on the arrogance of power, hypocritical, deluded, their actions foul with self-seeking, tormented by a vast anxiety that continues until their death, convinced that the gratification of desire is life's sole aim, bound by a hundred shackles of hope, enslaved by their greed, they squander their time dishonestly piling up mountains of wealth.”

“Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires.”

“We are not cabin-dwellers, born to a life cramped and confined; we are meant to explore, to seek, to push the limits of our potential as human beings.

The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality.”