Bhagavad Gita Quotes

“You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself the cause of the results, and never be attached to inaction.”

“Perform your duty with an even mind, abandoning attachment to success and failure. Such equanimity is called Yoga.”

“Therefore, always perform the work that must be done, without attachment. For one who works without attachment attains the Supreme.”

“Better is one's own dharma, though imperfectly performed, than the dharma of another well performed. Better is death in one's own dharma; another's dharma is fraught with danger.”

“The Self is never born, nor does it ever die. Unborn, eternal, ever-existing, and primeval, it is not slain when the body is slain.”

“Of the unreal there is no being; of the real there is no non-being. The final truth of both has been seen by the knowers of the essence of things.”

“There is nothing in this world as purifying as knowledge. One who is perfected in Yoga finds it in oneself in due time.”

“One who has faith, who is devoted to it, and who has mastered the senses, obtains knowledge. Having obtained knowledge, one quickly attains supreme peace.”

“One into whom all desires enter as waters enter the ocean — which, though ever filled, remains unmoved — attains peace; not the desirer of desires.”

“Knowing Me as the enjoyer of all sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all worlds, and the friend of all beings, one attains peace.”

“The serene one who has conquered the self abides in the Supreme — alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour.”

“There is no wisdom for the unsteady, and no meditation for the unsteady; and for the unmeditative there is no peace. For one without peace, how can there be happiness?”

“Lift yourself by yourself; do not let yourself fall. The self alone is the friend of the self, and the self alone is the enemy of the self.”

“The mind is indeed restless and difficult to restrain, O mighty-armed one; but by practice and by detachment, it can be controlled.”

“From contemplation of objects arises attachment; from attachment, desire; from desire, anger is born.”

“Wherever the restless and unsteady mind wanders, there let one bring it back and place it under the control of the Self.”

“Abandoning all dharmas, take refuge in Me alone. I will liberate you from all sins; do not grieve.”

“Whoever offers Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water — that offering of love, from a pure heart, I accept.”

“To those who worship Me with undivided devotion, meditating on Me always, I secure what they lack and preserve what they have.”

“To those who are ever devoted and worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they come to Me.”

“Do not yield to unmanliness, O son of Pritha. It does not befit you. Cast off this faint-heartedness and arise, O scorcher of foes.”

“Therefore arise and win glory; conquer your foes and enjoy a prosperous kingdom. They are already slain by Me; be merely the instrument, O Savyasachin.”

“Whenever there is a decline of dharma and a rise of adharma, O descendant of Bharata, then I manifest Myself.”

“To protect the good, to destroy the wicked, and to establish dharma, I take birth in age after age.”