Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Detachment

“Contacts of the senses with their objects give rise to cold and heat, pleasure and pain. They come and go and are impermanent; endure them bravely.”

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

“One whose mind is undisturbed in sorrow, who has no craving for pleasure, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady wisdom.”

“Dwelling on sense objects, attachment to them arises; from attachment comes desire, and from desire, anger.”

“One who abandons all desires and moves about free from longing, without the sense of 'I' and 'mine', attains peace.”

“One who performs actions offering them to the Supreme, abandoning attachment, is untouched by sin, as a lotus leaf is untouched by water.”

“One who neither rejoices on obtaining the pleasant nor grieves on obtaining the unpleasant, steady-minded and undeluded, abides in the Supreme.”

“When one is not attached to sense objects or to actions, having renounced all selfish purpose, one is said to have ascended to yoga.”

“The mind is restless and hard to control, but it is restrained by practice and detachment.”

“One who is the same to friend and foe, in honour and dishonour, in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, and free from attachment, is dear to Me.”

“Non-attachment, absence of clinging to children, spouse and home, and constant even-mindedness in desirable and undesirable events — this is knowledge.”

“One whose intellect is unattached everywhere, who has conquered the self and is free from desire, attains through renunciation the supreme perfection of freedom from action.”