Recommended Reading
- ‘The Bhagavad Gita‘ by Eknath Easwaran
- ‘Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation‘ by Stephen Mitchell
- ‘Bhagavad-Gita As It Is‘ by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- ‘God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita‘ by Paramahansa Yogananda
- ‘Mahabharata‘ by C. Rajagopalachari
Inspirational Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)
Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Attachment
The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Difficulty, Obstacles
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
The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.
—The Bhagavad Gita
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
Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.
—The Bhagavad Gita
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.
—The Bhagavad Gita
If due to ego you think: I shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. Your own nature will compel you.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Ego
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
Karma does not bind one who has renounced work.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Karma
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
—The Bhagavad Gita
What is Life
Life is an Adventure … Dare it
Life is a Beauty … Praise it
Life is a Challenge … Meet it
Life is a Duty … Perform it
Life is a Love … Enjoy it
Life is a Tragedy … Face it
Life is a Struggle … Fight it
Life is a Promise … Fulfill it
Life is a Game … Play it
Life is a Gift … Accept it
Life is a Journey … Complete it
Life is a Mystery … Unfold it
Life is a Goal … Achieve it
Life is an Opportunity … Take it
Life is a Puzzle … Solve it
Life is a Song … Sing it
Life is a Sorrow … Overcome it
Life is a Spirit … Realize it.
—The Bhagavad Gita
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
Wherever is Krishna, the lord of yoga; and wherever is Arjuna, the archer; there will be everlasting prosperity, victory, happiness, and morality. This is my conviction.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Strive to still your thoughts. Make your mind one-pointed in meditation.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Wisdom, Desire, Selfishness
The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Serenity
For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Honor
The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Mankind, Body, Man
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Religion
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
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
—The Bhagavad Gita
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
A man’s own self is his friend. A man’s own self is his foe.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Conflict
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
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
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
He alone sees truly who sees the Lord the same in every creature…seeing the same Lord everywhere, he does not harm himself or others.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Love
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Accomplishment
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Ignorance
The reward of all action is to be found in enlightenment.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Wisdom
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
This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.
—The Bhagavad Gita
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.
—The Bhagavad Gita
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
Every day, we all do battle on the field of sacred duty. Our obligation is to make the truly wisest choices.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Set thy heart upon thy work but never its reward.
—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
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
If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one—
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Death
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