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Bhagavad Gita Quotes

«With senses, mind, and intellect under control; having liberation as the prime goal; free from lust, anger, and fear; such a sage is verily liberated.»
«The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | About: Yoga | Keywords: severance
«Karma-yoga is a supreme secret indeed.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | About: Yoga | Keywords: karma
«Endowed with purified intellect, subduing the mind with resolve, turning away from sound and other objects of the senses, giving up likes and dislikes.»
«Having enjoyed the wide world of heavenly sense pleasures they return to the mortal world upon exhaustion of their good Karma.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | Keywords: heavenly, karma
«Karma does not bind one who has renounced work.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | Keywords: karma
«That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me / with such a one I am in love.»
«Work done with selfish motives is inferior by far to the selfless service or Karma-yoga. Therefore be a Karma-yogi, O Arjuna. Those who seek [to enjoy] the fruits of their work are verily unhappy [because one has no control over the results].»
«For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the Thou shouldst not grieve.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | About: Birth, Death | Keywords: for certain, grieve
«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.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | About: Desire, Fire, Wisdom | Keywords: embryo, Embryos, in embryo, obscured, womb