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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)

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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