Bhagavad Gita for Dummies Quotes

“Our Life: There are three types of people , number one, person always looking at survival, for them life is all about living in that short period, anything they will do to survive.  Number two, Comparative person, his life is always driven by the environment, social happenings and others. They just see others and try to compete and achieve results and again they start comparing. Number three, Leading person, for them in life there is no comparison, they want to lead/initiate something and they do it for themselves. ”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Krishna told Arjuna, the duty of a warrior is to fight. By not fulfilling his duty, he will end up living in sin. The world will not appreciate the one, who has turned down his duty, and people may think because of fear he left the battlefield.”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“We don’t have the guts to think, that one side are my impure characteristics and the other side are my pure characteristics and God has placed the chariot in between them, and wanting me to see both the sides of me. Let us try to do that and carry out the stocktaking!!”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Krishna told Arjuna that the Vedas talk about a banyan tree, which is upside down, where the roots are grown up, and the branches are coming down, the upper part of roots are the Vedas and the branches are the three characteristics (Gunas) and the roots which are growing downward reaches the human society, none of the people are aware it’s start and end, but one has to understand that they have to cut the branches of these tree with the weapon called detachment to reach the supreme god. Krishna”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“the morning, and I realize the entire life, which”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Krishna told Arjuna that a yogin is the one, who performs action without depending on the results, and not the one who does not perform any action at all.”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“when we are subjected to the senses and allow them to dominate, the attachments come, from the attachments we get the desire , from unfulfilled desire/broken desire the anger comes, from anger the delusion comes, from delusion we get confused in memory and we lose reasoning and that leads to ruin.”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“The sad part of human is, unless he understands something, he believes they are not true.”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“We pray to God always bless us with favorable conditions. The other fact is, we do not know, how to manage an unfavorable condition or an event. Our parents or elder in our life do not teach us, how to manage a death/lose/fear, but they only tell us to think always in favorable positives. In an unfavorable condition, most of us fail or get anxious/ worried/ or stressed and not able to come out of it. Basically we have never been taught on how to manage the loss of something (everything is taken from here and one day, they will go off).”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

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― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“about a monkey, you will die...again you will think.. It's because of fear. ... Fear of change/impact is a major reason to think adversely...Why do we have fear? Because we like the current position with us and we don’t want change from it...more than that we are very much attached to the elements, body, relationship, etc.. So we don’t want change, so fear creeps in, when fear is there - we don’t need logic, our knowledge breaks... in that situation, we can act as ill, superstitious, cry and lower our stability. So we have to keep using the question "why", but when we don’t use it, it means there is something that we need to take care of it.. At the same time, we take little information about a logic (which we can understand) and we store them as knowledge. (Fire will burn! We don’t test it, we just take this information as knowledge) ... So the knowledge have to be complete even about our body, attachments, senses and everything... If we don’t have it, then senses (like fear, happiness, etc.) will start controlling”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Our life: We all know, every day new cells are born and old cells die in our body. The birth and death take place in our brain, heart, hand and everywhere. Yet, we are not aware of! Because it has taken care by the supreme power! For many of us, it is science! (Now if your friend or wife says, that you are not the same as of yesterday, you can accept with smile)" ”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“There is nothing more beautiful than you in god's creation and there is nothing holier than you in god's creation!”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“The mind lays out branches for us to travel, but it’s up to us to cut those branches and live in the present and be determined only about the supreme power or connected to our soul and perform actions without expectation on result”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“For something born here, death is certain. For something dead here, birth is certain.”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“We talk about what happens in Srilanka and in Delhi, but we do not talk and take action on what happens in the nearby community or street. Beyond this, how many of us think that we need to keep the environment clean outside our house, how many of us dare to question a person who is polluting the society/economy/politics/health/environment, etc... Rare...But we all are duty conscious... We run for our bus, we run for our work, we run for our sleep and we run for everything...but only for us and  only for what we need !!!”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Our life: We like to imagine India-Pakistan, US-Russia, and ourselves and an unfriendly neighbor or colleague in the workplace and imagine that we are the good ones and others are our opponents. We don’t have the guts to think, that one side is my impure characteristics and the other side is my pure characteristics and god has placed the cart in between them, and asking me to see both the sides of me. Let’s try to do that and perform the stock taking!”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Ignorance, fear, politicizing, identity crisis and egoism, all of them is creating their own illusions to human mind, by thus we see people fight and safeguarding their gods… Yes... That is what we believe... We are the one, who safe guard our god and religion, by fighting with evil (all other forms, which we can’t accept is evil for us…Krishna with any other name is also evil for us), if this is the belief we have means, then we should read Gita once again or many more times….”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Our Life: For most of us, peace is something important. According to us, ' peace' is something, which is normal life without any change and not getting into any new position, or it is a position of making no decision. The fact is, being ignorant of most of the happenings in the surroundings and self is what many a time we do for this peace. If we do not raise our voice against social discrimination, discrimination, family or any level, we live in peace, if this is our way of peace, then it is called "ignorance". We like to do that, because we do not want to take decisions in our life and we do not want to lose anything in life (attachment & relationship to something). This is exactly what Arjuna felt.”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Krishna went ahead and told Arjuna,  when we are subjected to the senses and allow them to predominate, the attachments come, from the attachments we get the desire , from unfulfilled desire/broken desire the anger comes, from anger the delusion comes, from delusion we get confused in memory and we lose reasoning and that leads to ruin.”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Why should God make me born in this world here and suffer, and what is he trying to prove here, if I am not born here I would have been happy.... Hmm... I never got any proper answer from anyone and I don't believe an answer logically (the logic here, to the extend, I and you can understand) can be given here! God performs his duty of creation, sustenance and destruction of living organisms in a materialistic environment, without any attachment and without any results in his intellect, he is keeping doing it.”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Krishna told Arjuna that Veda’s (holy rules) can guide a person to reach the demigods (Sun, moon, other forms of gods) and to get a good life, however the one who has attained the Yogic state is not pleased with them  nor impressed by the power it gives. He who is in Yogic state can control the senses and still be living a normal life. When he meets the supreme power, he also loses the worldly interests and reaches the god without any obstacles. For that yogic person, Veda’s serve no purpose. "Our Life: We have seen, most of us don’t understand Veda’s clearly and their purpose. There are few, who has learnt Veda’s, but I am not including them here... Most of us do lots of ceremonies/rituals in our house/temple without knowing the purpose, but with the belief it’s god's language or ceremony and he will be pleased with that. We always forget, that solely thinking about him in our mind/heart and perform our duty, will please him more than anything! But the truth is, we believe rituals alone will bring peace and harmony to us and our kin. How untrue this is! We also see, there are some VIP's/rich people who enter in to temple/church/mosque and get high priority for them and get some recommendations from the priests and they think that god has blessed them. God is equal of every living being here and no need of any mediator here (the concept of Guru is different) and the importance given to them is a manual happening and it’s not from god. The first thing, believe your god is knowledgeable. Don’t think he can be fooled! Similarly we see some temples/churches/mosques getting high donations; I am sure more the money comes from Sin and as part of the share for the Sin. We believe God will reduce our punishment, if we give him some share :)”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

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― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

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― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

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― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“However the changes”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Bhagavad Gita as a great”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies

“Bhagavad Gita - For many it’s highly respected life science or way of living or simply a fictional book or a Hindu’s guidebook for life, "hmm",  there are tons of such perspectives and everyone like to see it in the way in they wants to see it. There have been many books published on this with adequate details and various perspectives presented by various saints & scholars. Even here, in front of you - one more thought! As a common man, who lives among 5000 million  people, searching still”
― Vishnuvarthanan Moorthy, Bhagavad Gita for Dummies