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Inspirational Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

Inspirational Quotations by The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

The Bhagavad Gītā, literally “Blessed Lord’s Song,” often referred to as merely the Gītā, is a Hindu scripture rendered in Sanskrit. Considered the most pleasing and profound religious writing in India, it is consulted more than any other Hindu text as a source of spiritual truth and wisdom.

The Bhagavad Gītā is a compilation of 700 verses (divided into eighteen sections) presented as a discourse rendered by the divine charioteer Kṛṣṇa, an incarnation of Viṣṇu, one of the central deities of Hinduism, to the warrior Arjuna at the onset of the legendary battle of Kurukshetra between Arjuna and his brothers on one side and their cousins on the other. The Arjuna has abruptly been overwhelmed by questions about the mass killing that the battle will occasion. Kṛṣṇa answers that Arjuna must abide by his proper social role or dharma as a member of the warrior caste, without considering the outcome.

The Bhagavad Gītā stresses the importance of doing one’s duty and faith in God. Like the great scriptures of the other religions, the Gītā discusses various beliefs, values, and disciplines central to the conduct of a good and meaningful life: devotion, attachment, conflict of motives, ethical actions and consequences, sense of duty, and misgivings from right actions.

Scholars believe that the poem was composed sometime between the 2nd century BCE and the 2nd century CE, and part of Book VI of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata. Popular translations and commentaries include the writings of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya (Bhagavadgītābhāṣya,) Rāmānuja, Madhvācārya, Eknath Easwaran, Annie Besant, Sri Aurobindo and Prabhūpada. Sir Edwin Arnold’s renowned Victorian rendering, The Song Celestial (1885,) introduced Mahatma Gandhi to the Bhagavad Gita.

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Inspirational Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

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

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

One should strive and employ oneself to uplift oneself. One should never dishonor oneself. The self is one’s friend as well as one’s enemy.
—The Bhagavad Gita

The egoistic man thinks, “I am the doer”. In reality Prakriti does everything. A Jnani who remains as a silent witness and who knows the essence of the division of the quality and functions is not bound.
—The Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Dying, Death

When a person is devoted to something with complete faith, I unify his faith in that. Then, when his faith his completely unified, he gains the object of his devotion.”
—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

When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: The Mind

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

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

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

For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Those who live in accordance with the divine laws
without complaining, firmly established in faith,
are released from karma. Those who violate these laws,
criticizing and complaining, are utterly deluded,
and are the cause of their own suffering.
—The Bhagavad Gita

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

In this world three gates lead to hell—the gates of passion, anger and greed. Released from these three qualities one can succeed in attaining salvation and reaching the highest goal.
—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

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

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

There is more happiness in doing one’s own (path) without excellence than in doing another’s (path) well.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Strive to still your thoughts. Make your mind one-pointed in meditation.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps, and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Topics: Greatness

I am the goal of life, the Lord and support of all, the inner witness, the abode of all. I am the only refuge, the one true friend; I am the beginning, the staying, and the end of creation; I am the womb and the eternal seed. I am heat; I give and withhold the rain. I am immortality and I am death; I am what is and what is not.
—The Bhagavad Gita

Faithful, intent, his senses subdued, he gains knowledge; gaining knowledge, he soon finds perfect peace.
—The Bhagavad Gita

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

We all have been for all time…and we shall be for all time…As the Spirit of our mortal body wanders on in childhood, and youth and old age, the Spirit wanders on to a new body: of this the sage has no doubts.
—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: Dreams, The Present, Vision, Morning, Tomorrow, Future, Happiness

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 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

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

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

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

Because the fool wants to become God, He never finds him. The master is already God, Without ever wishing to be.
—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

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

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

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

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

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