The Bhagavad Gita Quotes

“If devotees do not progress, it is because they discard their weapons of self-control;”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita (Self-Realization Fellowship): Royal Science of God Realization - The immortal dialogue between soul and Spirit

“within the soul is a source of infinite”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita (Self-Realization Fellowship): Royal Science of God Realization - The immortal dialogue between soul and Spirit

“The grasping power of intuition is the fixity of the mind (dhriti) in soul perception—the soul’s direct realization of or connection with truth or Reality.22 Even the sleeping consciousness in the stone and the semi-awake consciousness in the animal never loses its connection with its true nature. Man, the being in whom discrimination awakens, begins in lesser and greater degree to draw on his innate intuition, the underlying source of all his mental powers. The fully awakened divine man, anchored in his true Self, becomes all-knowing through the omniscience of pure soul intuition.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita: Royal Science of God-Realization

“An evenminded individual is like a mirror of discretion that reflects the true nature and appearances of favorable and unfavorable events; thus he holds himself in readiness to act wisely and properly without being misled by emotional distortions.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita (Self-Realization Fellowship): Royal Science of God Realization - The immortal dialogue between soul and Spirit

“Wisdom is the vehicle of the yogi who has conquered his senses.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita: Royal Science of God-Realization

“Yoga meditation is the process of cultivating and stabilizing the awareness of one’s real nature, through definite spiritual and psychophysical methods and laws by which the narrow ego, the flawed hereditary human consciousness, is displaced by the consciousness of the soul.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita: Royal Science of God-Realization

“When life force is shut off from the sensory organs, material sensations cannot reach the brain to snatch away the meditator’s attention from God.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita: Royal Science of God-Realization

“proper breathing exercises of pranayama, the venous blood is purified and man’s body is directly supplied with cosmic energy. Decay in the body is arrested, and the heart receives a welcome rest from the usually unceasing task of oxygenating and nourishing the body through blood circulation, and of directing the life force to the”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita: Royal Science of God-Realization

“Krishna reminded Arjuna that the cosmic consciousness of all-pervading Spirit should be retained within himself under all circumstances, whether during a physical or an inner battle or any other experience...For example, if a person is greedy and eats too much, he may suffer from indigestion; if by self-control he abstains from overeating, he is initially only suppressing greed. But if he transmutes his greed for physical food into greed for continuous communion with God, he does not destroy his excessive appetite but changes it from an evil agent into a medium for good.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita

“The devotee who realizes the personal God in a form will eventually realize Him also as the Omnipresent Formless Infinite. Arjuna, with the frontal vision of his two physical eyes, saw his divine guru Krishna standing before him on the field of Kurukshetra. Sri Krishna then opened the all-seeing spiritual eye of Arjuna. Being at one with the cosmic consciousness of Spirit, Krishna transferred his omnipresent vision to Arjuna, whose spiritual advancement had now prepared him to receive the awakening touch of the Guru’s bestowal of God-realization. It was then that Arjuna beheld the very form of Krishna metamorphose into an omnipotent image of the oneness of Krishna’s consciousness with the Infinite.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita: Royal Science of God-Realization

“O MAN! Offer Thy labyrinthine longings into a monotheistic bonfire consecrated to the unparalleled God.
Burn desire for human affection in the fire of aspiration for GOD alone, a love solitary because omnipresent!
Throw faggot of ignorance to incandesce the blaze of insight! Devour all sorrows in the sorrow for God's absence.
Consume all regrets in meditative bliss!”
― Paramahamsa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita

“Peace (shanti) is a divine quality. A true yogi, one united to "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, is like a lovely rose, spreading around him the fragrance of tranquility and harmony.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita