Bhagavad Gita

“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become”

“Now seeing the armiesyour own skillful student.”

“[Duryodhana said:]is bounded.”

“Hrishikesha blew the conch shell named Panchajanya and Dhananjaya blew the conch shell named Devadatta. Vrikodara, whose deeds give rise to fear, blew the giant conch shell named Poundra.”

“all thoseare here to die”

“And even if, because their minds are overwhelmed by greed, they cannot see the evil incurred by destroying one's own family, and the degradation involved in the betrayal of a friend,How can we be so ignorant as not to recoil from this wrong? The evil incurred by destroying one's own family is plain to see, Janardana.”

“What is this crimeSo greedy for greatness?”

“If me unresisting,That would be a safer course for me.”

“Thus speaking Arjuna in the battleHis heart smitten with grief.”

“My dear Arjuna, how have these impurities come upon you? They are not at all befitting a man who knows the progressive values of life. They do not lead to higher planets, but to infamy. O son of Prtha, do not yield to this degrading impotence. It does not become you. Give up such petty weakness of heart and arise, O chastiser of the enemy.”

“My Lord! How can I, when the battle rages, send an arrow through Bheeshma and Drona, who should receive my reverence?”

“The senses, moving toward their appropriate objects, are producers of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, which come and go and are brief and changeable; these do thou endure, O son of Bharata!”

“As you put on fresh new clothes and take off those you've worn,You'll replace your body with a fresh one, newly born.”

“Swords cut him not, nor may fire burn him, O son of Bharata, waters wet him not, nor dry winds parch.He is called unmanifest, unimaginable, unchanging; therefore, knowing him thus, deign not to grieve!”

“One sees This as a wonder; another speaks of This as a wonder; another hears of This as a wonder; yet, having heard none understands This at all!”

“Either slain thou shalt go to heaven; or victorious thou shalt enjoy the earth. Therefore arise, O Son of Kuntī (Arjuna), resolved on battle.”

“You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits. Do not let the fruits of action be your motive, but do not attach yourself to nonaction.”

“When your intellect transcends the mire of delusion, then you will attain to disgust of what has been heard and what is yet to be heard.When, perplexed by what you have heard, you stand immovable in samadhi, with steady intellect, then you will attain yoga.”

“When one's mind dwells on the objects of Senses, fondness for them grows on him, from fondness comes desire, from desire anger. Anger leads to bewilderment, bewilderment to loss of memory of true Self, and by that intelligence is destroyed, and with the destruction of intelligence he perishes”

“To him [the Sage], what seemeth the bright things of day to the mass, are known to be the things of darkness and ignorance—and what seemeth dark as night to the many, he seeth suffused with the light of noonday.”

“If thou deemest that (the path of) understanding is more excellent than (the path of) action, O Janardana (Krishna), why then dost thou urge me to do this savage deed, O Kesava (Krishna)?”

“Not by not acting in this worldby the nature-born qualities.”

“From food come forth beings; from rain food is produced; from sacrifice arises rain, and sacrifice is born of action.Know you that action comes from BRAHMAJI (the Creator) and BRAHMAJI come from the Imperishable. Therefore, the all-pervading BRAHMAN (God-principle) ever rests in sacrifice.”

“not for me, partha, is there any duty in the threealways at work.”

“All actions are performed by the gunas of prakriti.thinks, "I am the doer."”

“One's own duty, even if imperfectly performed, is better than being done by other even if well performed. Death in (performance of) one's own duty is preferable. (The adoption of) the duty of another carries fear (with it).”

“I explained this eternal science of yoga to Vivasvān. Vivasvān shared it with Manu, then Manu imparted it to Ikṣvāku.This science was taught and handed down in succession, but in time it was broken and the science of yoga seems to be lost.”

“Whensoever there is the fading of the Dharma and the uprising of unrighteousness, then I loose myself forth into birth.For the deliverance of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the enthroning of the Right, I am born from age to age.”

“However men try to reach me,it leads to me in the end.”

“The four divisions of human order were created by me according to differences in quality, activities, and aptitude; although the creator of this, know me as the non-doer being immutable.”

“Works do not stain me, nor in me is there longing for fruit of works; who recognizes this to be my state, he is not bound by works.”

“For verily (the true nature) of 'right action' should be known; also (that) of 'forbidden (or unlawful) action' and of 'inaction'; imponderable is the nature (path) of action.He who recognises inaction in action and action in inaction is wise among men; he is a YOGI and a true performer of all actions.”

“Kill therefore with the sword of wisdom the doubt born of ignorance that lies in thy heart. Be one in self-harmony, in Yoga, and arise, great warrior, arise.”

“You commend, O Krishna, the renunciation of action and you also praise yoga. Tell me definitely which is the better of the two.”

“Both renunciation and the yoga of action lead to the supreme good. But of these two, performance of action is superior to the renunciation of action.”

“He is unaffected by Karma, although engaged in action, who has yoked himself to the way of Yoga, whose mind is purified, whose self has triumphed and whose senses have been subdued, and whose self has, indeed, become the self of all beings. Although acting he remains unaffected by Karma.”

“As enjoyments, born of contacts (with external objects), have a beginning and an end, they become the cause of unhappiness. The wise man, O Kaunteya! does not find happiness in them.”

“To the sage who wishes to rise to devotion, action is said to be a means, and to him, when he has risen to devotion, tranquillity is said to be a means.”

“Use the atman to raise the atman. Do not lower the atman. The atman is the atman’s friend and the atman is the atman’s enemy.The atman, which has been used to conquer the atman, is the atman’s friend. For someone who has failed to control the atman, the atman harms like an enemy.”

“O Madhusūdana, the mind is an unsteady thing. Hence it is unrealistic to expect evenness out of it as your system of yoga demands.O, Keśava, it is easier to control the wind than to try and control the fickle, unsettling, dominant, and stubborn mind.”

“o strong armed arjunaundifference”

“The yogin is greater than the ascetic; he is considered to be greater than the man of knowledge, greater than the man of ritual works, therefore do thou become a yogin, O Arjuna.”

“Among thousands of men hardly one strives after perfections; among those who strive hardly one knows Me in truth.”

“This divine illusion of Mine, caused by the qualities, is hard to pierce; they who come to Me, they cross over this illusion.”

“Men without wisdom consider Me, the Unmanifest, as assuming embodiment (like a mortal being taking a form)—not understanding My unsurpassable state, My unchangeable unutterable nature.”

“I am not plain to all, being cloaked by my yogamaya;this foolish world does not know me: un-born, immortal.”

“I know all past and all present and future existences, O Arjuna, but Me none yet knows.”

“Yogis not yet free from the world revolve back again (to the world) even from the high sphere of Brahma (union with God in samadhi). But on entering into Me (the transcendental Spirit) there is no rebirth, O son of Kunti (Arjuna)!”

“As an eon ends, all creatureshelpless in the force of my nature.”

“But those acts do not affect Me, Arjuna –I am neutral, unattached.”

“For Nature while I supervisethe cosmos is revolving.”

“Fools scorn me when I dwell in human form: my higher being they know not as Great Lord of beings.”

“Even those who are devotees of other gods and sacrifice to them with faith, they too worship me — but in the wrong way”

“I take upon Myself the concern for the welfare of those who worship Me with undistracted mind, and have thereby yoked themselves permanently to Divine Spirit.”

“For even if the greatest sinner worships me with all his soul, he must be considered righteous, because of his righteous will.And he shall soon become pure and reach everlasting peace. For this is my word of promise, that he who loves me shall not perish.”

“Worlds of flesh and spirit both originate with Me.Speaking of Me makes their lives delightful and sublime.”

“Of the Vrishnis, I am Vasudeva; of the sons of Pandu, Arjuna; of the sages, moreover, I am Vyasa; of poets, the poet Ushana.”

“Saying thus to Arjuna, Krishna revealed again his own familiar form. Having thus assumed that gentle form, the Exalted One comforted the awe-struck Arjuna over again.”

“This My form, which you have seen, is very difficult to see. Even the gods always desire to see this form.O Arjuna! only by exclusive devotion, is it possible to thus acquire knowledge of Me, and O Parantapa! to enter Me essentially.”

“Which is considered to be more perfect, those who are properly engaged in Your devotional service, or those who worship the impersonal Brahman, the unmanifested?”

“The Blessed Lord said: Those who, fixing their minds on Me, adore Me, ever united to Me with supreme devotion, are in My eyes the perfect knowers of yoga.”

“This body, O Kaunteya, is called the Field; he who knows itknower of the Field, I hold, is true knowledge.”

“O Arjuna! The Supreme Self, having no beginning, (no ending,) and no attributes, even though it dwells in a body (as a realized master), neither acts nor is touched by any action.”

“Those who live in Sattva go upwards; thosethe gunas, they enter into union with me.”

“There is a fig treeKnows all the Vedas.”

“It is I who remain seated in the heart of all creatures as the inner controller of all; and it is I who am the source of memory, knowledge and the ratiocinative faculty. Again, I am the only object worth knowing through the Vedas; I alone am the origin of Vedānta and the knower of the Vedas too.”

“There are two Beings (Purushas) in the cosmos, the destructible and the indestructible. The creatures are the destructible, the Kutastha is the indestructible.But there exists Another, the Highest Being, designated the "Supreme Spirit"—the Eternal Lord who, permeating the three worlds, upholds them.”

“Since I am wholly beyond the perishable world of matter or Ksetra, and am superior even to the imperishable soul, Jivatma, hence I am known as the Purushottama, the Supreme Self, in the world as well as in the Vedas.”

“These cruel and wretched haters, the vilest of men, I continually cast into demoniac wombs in mortal worlds.Fallen into demoniac wombs, deluded birth after birth, O son of Kunti, they, instead of attaining to Me, tread the lowest path.”

“Hell has three gates – lust, anger, and greed;for your own sake, Arjuna, give up these three.”

“Pure men worship the Shining Ones; the passionate the gnomes and giants; the others, the dark folk, worship ghosts and troops of nature-spirits.”

“what's the naturedifferent”

“asceticism is giving upfruits of action”

“Acts of sacrifice, charity and austerity should not be abandoned, but should be performed; worship, charity, and also austerity, are the purifiers of even the 'wise'.But even these actions should be performed leaving aside attachment and the fruits, O Partha; this is my certain and best belief.”

“Better is one's own duty though performed faultily than another's duty well-performed. Performing the duty prescribed by (one's own) nature, one incurreth no sin. One must not abandon, O son of Kunti, one's natural duty though tainted with evil, for all actions are enveloped by evil like fire by smoke.”

“If, having recourse to self-conceit, thou thinkest--I will not fight,--that resolution of thine would be vain, (for) Nature will constrain thee. That which, from delusion, thou dost not wish to do, thou wilt do involuntarily, bound by thy own duty springing from (thy own) nature.”

“O Arjuna, God resides in the hearts of all beings, directing their wanderings by the magical power of Māyā, on which they are seated as if it were a machine.”

“In him alone seek refuge with all thy being, Bharata; by his grace shalt thou win to peace supreme, the eternal resting place.”

“all duty abandoning, to me, the sole refuge, come;i will liberate you from every sin, do not grieve.”

“Never share these truths with one who is without self-control or devotion, nor with one who won't share with others in a spirit of service, nor give them to one who is indifferent to them, or who finds fault with Me.”

“Krishna, my delusion is destroyed,ready to act on your words.”

“I heard by grace of Vyasaexplaining personally.”

“Where Krishna is the Master of combinations, where Partha is the wielder of the bow, there, I am convinced, would be glory, victory, growth and firm morality.”