QUOTES FROM BHAGWAT GITA

Bhagwat Gita Quotes | Bhagwat Gita Quotes In Hindi | Bhagwat Gita Quotes In English:

• We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal. 

• It is better to perform one’s own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another. 

• No one should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke. 

• Reshape yourself through the power of your will….

• It is better to strive in one’s own dharma than to succeed in the dharma of another. Nothing is ever lost in following one’s own dharma. 

• Abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. 

• When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering, like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. 

• Strive to still your thoughts. Make your mind one-pointed in meditation. The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice. 

• When a person is devoted to something with complete faith, I unify his faith in that. Then, when his faith his completely unified, he gains the object of his devotion. 

• Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work, one attains the supreme goal of life. Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind.

• As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. 

• Free from anger and selfish desire, unified in mind, those who follow the path of yoga and realize the Self are established forever in that supreme state. 

• No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. 

• 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. 

• It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says “I did it”. One has to learn tolerance in the face of dualities such as happiness and distress, or cold and warmth, and by tolerating such dualities become free from anxieties regarding gain and loss. 

• Ignorance is the cause of sinful life, and sinful life is the cause of one’s dragging gain material existence.

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

• A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action has understanding among men and discipline in all actions he performs. 

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

• The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument. 

भगवान की शक्ति हर समय आपके साथ है; मन, इंद्रियों, श्वास और भावनाओं की गतिविधियों के माध्यम से; और लगातार केवल एक साधन के रूप में आप का उपयोग कर सभी काम कर रहा है।

• There are three gates to this self-destructive hell — lust, anger, and greed. Renounce these three. 

• The offering of wisdom is better than any material offering. 

• You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction.

• Those who are motivated only by the desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do. 

• Actions do not cling to me because I’m not attached to their results. Those who understand this and practice it live in freedom. 

• The wise work for the welfare of the world, without thought for themselves. 

• Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery.

• Even if you were the most sinful of sinners, you could cross beyond all sin by the raft of spiritual wisdom. 

• Calmness, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and purity: these are the disciplines of the mind. 

• Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. 

• If you want to see the brave, look to those who can return love for hatred. If you want to see heroic, look to those who can forgive. 

• Faith means unflinching trust in something sublime. 

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

• 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 live in the wisdom of the Self. 

• Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self. 

• He alone sees truly who sees the Lord the same in every creature… seeing the same Lord everywhere, he does not harm himself or others. 

• Why do you worry unnecessarily? Whom do you fear? Who can kill you? The soul is neither born nor dies. 

• Whatever happened was good, what’s happening, it’s going well, whatever will happen, will also be good. You need not have any regrets from the past. Do not worry about the future. Live in the present.

• What have you lost that you cry for? What did you bring, that you have lost? What did you create that was destroyed? What you have taken has been from here, what you gave has been given here. What belongs to you today belonged to someone yesterday and will be someone else’s tomorrow. Change is the law of the universe. 

• The meaning of Karma is in the intention. The intention behind the action is what matters. 

• Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. 

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

• Only when a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.