Bhagavad Gita Quotes

“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

“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.”
― Anonymous, BHAGAVAD GITA: EL CANTO DEL SEÑOR

“He who has let go of hatred
who treats all beings with kindness
and compassion, who is always serene,
unmoved by pain or pleasure,

free of the "I" and "mine,"
self-controlled, firm and patient,
his whole mind focused on me ---
that is the man I love best.”
― anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“The man who sees me in everything
and everything within me
will not be lost to me, nor
will I ever be lost to him.

He who is rooted in oneness
realizes that I am
in every being; wherever
he goes, he remains in me.

When he sees all being as equal
in suffering or in joy
because they are like himself,
that man has grown perfect in yoga.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.”
― Aldous Huxley

“For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendour of the Mighty One...
I am become Death,
The shatterer of worlds.

[Quoted from the Bhagavad Gita after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.]”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

“In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.”
― Rudolf Steiner

“Krishna taught in the Bhadavad Gita: ‘karmanyeva-adhikaraste ma phalesu kadachana’, which means, ‘Be active, never be inactive, and don’t react to the outcome of the work.”
― Anonymous, Buddhist Scriptures

“It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, mankind harbors the perception that says "I did it" (paraphrased)”
― Veda Vyasa, Bhagvad Gita: English

“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it.”
― Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavad Gita

“Your right is to work only and never to the fruit thereof. Do not consider yourself to be the cause of the fruit of action; nor let your attachment be to inaction.”
― Gita Press, श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता पदच्छेद, अन्वय, साधारण भाषाटीकासहित

“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“All beings are born to delusion... overcome by the dualities which arise from wish and hate....But those men of virtuous deedsin whom sin has come to an end, freed from the delusion of dualities, worship Me steadfast in their vows.”
― Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“Sri Krishna said: Arjuna, when one thoroughly casts off all cravings of the mind, and is satisfied in the Self through the joy of the Self, he is then called stable of mind. ( Chapter- II, Shloka- 55)”
― Gita Press, श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता पदच्छेद, अन्वय, साधारण भाषाटीकासहित

“Your right is to work only and never to the fruit thereof. Do not consider yourself to be the cause of the fruit of action; nor let your attachment be to inaction.”
― Gita Press, Gorakhpur, Gita, Code 0502,Sanskrit, Gita Press Gorakhpur (Official)

“We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the future.”
― Sri Aurobindo, Bhagavad Gita and Its Message

“Ein großes kosmisches Spiel. Lila ist das Sanskrit-Wort dafür. Es ist Maya, eine große Illusion, denn die einzige Wirklichkeit ist DAS, vor dessen Augen sich dieses Spiel vollzieht: Atman. Unsere Essenz. (s. 64)”
― Ralph Skuban, Die Bhagavad Gita

“Transformation ist ein innerer Vorgang. Der Weise handelt moralisch, nicht weil er äußeren Zwängen gehorcht, sondern weil er erwacht ist, weil der Dharma, die Vernunft des Alls, ihn durchflutet. Nur existenzielle Erkenntnis transformiert. So konnte Saulus zu Paulus werden. Auch im Bösen leuchtet Atman. Er weiß es nur nicht. Das Feuer der Erkenntnis verbrennt den Schleier der Dunkelheit. (S. 75)”
― Ralph Skuban, Die Bhagavad Gita

“Yoga ist der Weg der Reinigung. Er beginnt mit dem Körper und führt zum Geist. Wenn der Geist rein ist wie ein Kristall, dann durchstrahlt ihn das innere Licht, das ist Samadhi. Buddha nannte diesen Zustand Nirvana. Im Zen heißt er Satori oder Kensho. Jesus nennt ihn Himmelreich. (S. 76)”
― Ralph Skuban, Die Bhagavad Gita

“Das Augenbrauenzentrum gilt als Sitz von Ajna Chakra, dem sechsten von sieben Energiezentren des Menschen. Es ist der Ort der Weisheit und Intuition oder Trikuti, das dritte Auge. Es ist energetisch sehr sensibel und kann von allen Chakras am leichtesten erfühlt werden. Jeder, der sich regelmäßig darauf ausrichtet, kann das für sich selbst erfahren. (s. 86)”
― Ralph Skuban, Die Bhagavad Gita

“We should always remember that we read Bhagavad Gita as scripture, and whatever is spoken in Bhagavad Gita must be accepted, otherwise there is no reason in reading it.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, On the Way to Krsna

“There are some who have actually looked upon the Atman, and understood It, in all Its wonder. Others can only speak of It as wonderful beyond their understanding. Others know of Its wonder by hearsay. And there are others who are told about It and do not understand a word.”
― Prabhavananda, The Bhagavad Gita

“Often times in Life, your efforts may not bring you the results that you want. That’s when you feel frustrated and defeated. But think about it deeply: Life never gave you any guarantees. It never promised you that your efforts will be rewarded instantaneously. So, in reality, it is not Life that is frustrating you. It is your expectation that your effort must immediately yield you a certain result that is frustrating you. Drop that expectation and learn to be non-frustrated. Only then will you be happy. Now, employ your Happiness in working harder. Work smarter. Make your effort unputdownable. And leave the outcome to Life. Enjoy the process of making the effort meaningful instead of craving for the reward that you believe you deserve.”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“The human mind is a battlefield. It is your personal, and the real, Kurukshetra. This is where you can – and must – gain complete control of your daily Life; no matter what your circumstances are. And taming the mind, and training it, requires that you practice daily silence periods, doing only what you love doing. This a daily process. And there’s no one-time achievement of mastery over your mind that you can claim. It is not like a course that you complete and receive a certification upon completion. You must actively engage in this practice – daily, every single day. Each day you must train your mind. You must train it again, and again, and again. Only this non-negotiable process holds the key to your inner peace and Happiness.”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“peace (or śānti as it is known amongst yogīs) is a state of consciousness and not a condition relative to the external affairs of the material world. Peace is an internal experience.”
― Swami b g narasingha

“The Absolute Truth contains all things known, knowable and unknown – before the universe, within the universe, after the universe and beyond the universe.”
― Swami B G Narasingha

“As Hindu thought and metaphysical experiences evolved even further (as I said, the Hindu lineage is very long), the two previous focuses of exploration—nature and the individual—were combined. You could find the Eternal by either means, they discovered, and they combined the two in the form of a summary of all previous findings. This summary was called the Bhagavad Gita.”
― Matthew Barnes, The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 101: a modern, practical guide, plain and simple.

“Per colui che mi vede ovunque e che vede [il] Tutto in me, io non sono [mai] perduto, né [mai] egli è perduto per me.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita