Quotes by Bhagavad Gita

Bhagavad Gita

Indian Hindu storybook

  • All mankind 
 Is born for perfection 
 And each shall attain it 
 Will he but follow 
 His nature's duty.
  • When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.
  • As person abandons worn-out  clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

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  • Action should culminate in wisdom.
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  • All mankind
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  • He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.
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  • 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.
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  • Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
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  • Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
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  • Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.
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  • 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.
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  • As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
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  • As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.
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  • Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
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  • But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
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  • Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
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  • Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
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  • For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.
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  • For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.
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  • Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
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  • I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.
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  • If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies.
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  • If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One.
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The two most famous quotes from Bhagavad Gita are:

  • "Action should culminate in wisdom."
  • "All mankind
    Is born for perfection
    And each shall attain it
    Will he but follow
    His nature's duty."