Bhagavad Gita Quotes

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond the reach of darkness.

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.

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

Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.

For when the mind becomes bound to a passion of the wandering senses, this passion carries away man's wisdom, even as the wind drives a vessel on the waves.

For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.

Arise, slay thy enemies, enjoy a prosperous kingdom,

Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.[Trans. Purohit Swami]

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.

There is no wisdom for a man without harmony, and without harmony there is no contemplation. Without contemplation there cannot be peace, and without peace can there be joy?

Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krsna is manifested by physical representations.

Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

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.

For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.

The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return