Inspirational Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

Inspirational Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.
—The Bhagavad Gita

For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Focus, Concentration

I am ever present to those who have realized me in every creature. Seeing all life as my manifestation, they are never separated from me. They worship me in the hearts of all, and all their actions proceed from me. Wherever they may live, they abide in me.
—The Bhagavad Gita

The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Choice

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Reality

Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline, arise.
—The Bhagavad Gita

To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Possessions, Property

He who sees Me everywhere, and sees everything in Me, I am not lost to him, nor is he lost to me.
—The Bhagavad Gita

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Work

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Meditation, Knowledge

All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Ego

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Government, Freedom

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Meditation

Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.
—The Bhagavad Gita

I desire neither victory nor pleasure nor kingdom, O Krishna. What is the use of the kingdom, or enjoyment, or even life?
—The Bhagavad Gita

The mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate, and very strong. To subdue it is more difficult than controlling the wind, but it is possible by constant practice and attachment. He who strives by right means is assured of success.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all; not for him who is overmuch addicted to sleep, nor for him who is always awake.
—The Bhagavad Gita

One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and in honor and dishonor; and is ever steadfast with the Supreme Self.
—The Bhagavad Gita

There are two ways of passing from this world – one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Those who are interested in self-realization, in terms of mind and sense control, offer the functions of all the senses, as well as the vital force (breath), as oblations into the fire of the controlled mind.
—The Bhagavad Gita

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: The Mind, Mind

Let a man lift himself by his own self alone, let him not lower himself; for this self alone is the friend of oneself and this self alone is the enemy of oneself.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Delusion arises from anger.
The mind is bewildered by delusion.
Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered.
One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.
—The Bhagavad Gita

If you perform the sacrifice of doing your duty, you do not have to do anything else. Devoted to duty, man attains perfection.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Perfection, Doing, Failure, Perfect

This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.
—The Bhagavad Gita

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.
—The Bhagavad Gita

In Karma-yoga no effort is ever lost, and there is no harm. Even a little practice of this discipline protects one from great fear [of birth and death].
—The Bhagavad Gita

Salvation of the Dawn
Look to this day,
For it is life,
The very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the truths
And realities of your existence;
The bliss of growth
The glory of action, and
The splendor of beauty;
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
Such is the salvation of the dawn.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Future, Morning, Tomorrow, The Present, Vision, Dreams, Prophecy, Happiness

The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Karma-yoga is a supreme secret indeed.
—The Bhagavad Gita

We have been told, O Krishna, that people whose family traditions are destroyed necessarily dwell in hell for a long time.
—The Bhagavad Gita

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.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Life and Living

He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor shrinking from the other – take it that such a one has attained Perfection.
—The Bhagavad Gita

It is better to perform one’s own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another. By fulfilling the obligations he is born with, a person never comes to grief.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Purpose, Vision

There are two aspects in Nature: the perishable and the imperishable. All life in this world belongs to the former, the unchanging element belongs to the latter.
—The Bhagavad Gita

There are two aspects in Nature: the perishable and the imperishable. All life in this world belongs to the former, the unchanging element belongs to the latter.
—The Bhagavad Gita

O Krishna, I have heard from You in detail about the origin and dissolution of beings, and Your imperishable glory.
—The Bhagavad Gita

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one’s own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Danger

It is better to strive in one’s own dharma than to succeed in the dharma of another. Nothing is ever lost in following one’s own dharma. But competition in another’s dharma breeds fear and insecurity.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Wondering Whom to Read Next?

• The Upanishads Sacred Books of Hinduism
• The Mahabharata Hindu Religious Text
• Adhyatma Ramayana Hindu Religious Text
• The Ramayana Hindu Religious Text
• Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Indian Hindu Religious Leader
• George Harrison English Singer
• The Panchatantra Indian Collection of Fables
• The Hitopadesha Indian Collection of Fables
• Bhartrihari Hindu Philosopher, Grammarian
• Subhashita Manjari Sanskrit Anthology of Proverbs