Inspirational Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

Inspirational Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

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

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

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?
—The Bhagavad Gita

What the outstanding person does, others will try to do. The standards such people create will be followed by the whole world.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart—a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water—I accept with joy.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Gratitude

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

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

Offer unto me that which is very dear to thee—which thou holdest most covetable. Infinite are the results of such an offering.
—The Bhagavad Gita

The actions of a great man are an inspiration for others. Whatever he does becomes a standard for others to follow.
—The Bhagavad Gita

As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Discovery, Self-Discovery

The end of birth is death; the end of death
Is birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou,
Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befalls
Which could not otherwise befall?
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Death

It is both near and far, both within and without every creature; it moves and is unmoving. In its subtlety it is beyond comprehension. It is invisible, yet appears divided in separate creatures. Know it to be the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer. Dwelling in every heart, it is beyond darkness. It is called the light of the lights, the object and goal of knowledge, and knowledge itself.
—The Bhagavad Gita

He who has faith has wisdom;
Who lives in self-harmony,
Whose faith is his life;
And he who finds wisdom,
Soon finds the peace Supreme.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule—these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Navy, The Military, Army

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

The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.
—The Bhagavad Gita

One who performs his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord, is unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus is untouched by water.
—The Bhagavad Gita

But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death’s vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Thought

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

Karma does not bind one who has renounced work.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Karma

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

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

Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the supreme goal of life. Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind.
—The Bhagavad Gita

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

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Discovery, Patience, The Mind

Your right is only to perform your duty. You do not have right to expect any consequences there of.You should neither be motivated by the fruits of your action, nor should they encourage you to be inactive.
—The Bhagavad Gita

That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me—with such a one I am in love.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Hate, Hatred

Action should culminate in wisdom.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Wisdom

Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Spirit, Spirituality

O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Spirit, Spirituality

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