Bhagavad-Gita Quotes (355 Quotes)

Restless senses, O Arjuna, forcibly carry away the mind of even a wise person striving for perfection.

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.

Consider that all beings remain in Me without any contact or without producing any effect as the mighty wind, moving everywhere, eternally remains in space.

You should perform your duty with apathetic frame of mind with a view to guide people and for the universal welfare.

I am the goal, the supporter, the Lord, the witness, the abode, the refuge, the friend, the origin, the dissolution, the foundation, the substratum, and the imperishable seed.

Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor the dead.

Whosoever offers Me a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water with devotion I accept and eat the offering of devotion by the pure-hearted.

The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.

One's inferior natural work is better than superior unnatural work. Death in carrying out one's natural work is useful. Unnatural work produces too much stress.

Filled with insatiable desires, hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance holding wrong views due to delusion they act with impure motives.

The unsuccessful yogi is reborn, after attaining heaven and living there for many years, in the house of the pure and prosperous.

But great souls, who possess divine qualities know Me as the cause of creation and imperishable, and worship Me single-mindedly.

Death is as sure for that which is born, As birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Using My nature I create, again and again, the entire multitude of beings that are helpless, being under the control of nature.

Thus the creation as well as the knowledge and the object of knowledge have been briefly described. Understanding this, My devotee attains Me.

Sitting and concentrating the mind on a single object, controlling the thoughts and the activities of the senses, let the yogi practice meditation for self-purification.

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Some offer their wealth, their austerity, and their practice of yoga as sacrifice, while the ascetics with strict vows offer their study of scriptures and knowledge as sacrifice.

The wise see knowledge and action as one they see truly.

The light that comes from the sun illuminates the whole world and that which is in the moon, and in the fire know that light to be Mine.

If due to ego you think I shall not fight this resolve of yours is vain. Your own nature will compel you.

The mind, intellect, ego, ether, air, fire, water, and earth are the eightfold transformation of My nature.

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.

He who knows me as his own divine Self breaks through the belief that he is the body and is not reborn as a separate creature. Such a one is united with me. Delivered from selfish attachment, fear, and anger, filled with me, surrendering themselves to me, purified in the fire of my being, many have reached the state of unity in me.

Having hands and feet everywhere having eyes, head, and face everywhere having ears everywhere the creator exists in the creation by pervading everything.

You are the father of this animate and inanimate world, and the greatest guru to be worshipped.

Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise.

Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.

I shall be the cause of confusion and destruction of all these people.

Charity performed at an improper place and time and given to unworthy persons without respect and with contempt is charity in the mode of ignorance.

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

Some offer their hearing and other senses as sacrifice in the fires of restraint, others offer sound and other objects of the senses as sacrifice in the fires of the senses.

But their knowledge, whose ignorance is destroyed by the Self-knowledge, reveals the Supreme like the sun (reveals the beauty of objects of the world).

O Creator and Lord of all beings, God of all gods, Supreme person and Lord of the universe, You alone know Yourself by Yourself.

Renunciation of the fruit of work is better than meditation.

Do your duty, to the best of your abilities, for the Lord without any selfish motive, and remember God at all times - before starting a work, at the completion of a task, and while inactive.

Seeing fathers-in-law, all those kinsmen, and other dear ones standing in the ranks of the two armies, Arjuna was overcome with great compassion and sorrowfully said O Krishna, seeing my kinsmen standing with a desire to fight, My limbs fail and my mouth becomes dry. My body quivers and my hairs stand on end.

I give the knowledge, to those who are ever united with Me and lovingly adore Me.

All these (seekers) are indeed noble, but I regard the wise as My very Self, because the one who is steadfast becomes one with the Supreme Being.

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my separted material energies

Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.

Na Hanyate Hanyamane SarireConsciousness is eternal it is not vanquished with the destruction of the temporary body

(Arjuna saw the Universal Form of the Lord) with many mouths and eyes, and many visions of marvel, with numerous divine ornaments, and holding divine weapons.

After many births the wise seek refuge in me, seeing me everywhere and in everything. Such great souls are very rare.

There are two types of human beings in this world the divine, and the demonic.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

After attaining Me the great souls do not incur rebirth, the impermanent home of misery, because they have attained the highest perfection.

Even if the most sinful person resolves to worship Me with single-minded loving devotion, such a person must be regarded as a saint because of making the right resolution.

Your enemies will speak many unmentionable words and scorn your ability. What could be more painful than this You will go to heaven if killed, or you will enjoy the earth if victorious. Therefore, get up with a determination to fight, O Arjuna.

... the beginningless Brahman, ... can be called neither being nor nonbeing. 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 indivisible, 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 lights, the object and goal of knowledge, and knowledge itself.