The Bhagavad Gita Quotes

“51 Unerring in discrimination, sovereign of the senses and passions, free from the clamor of likes and dislikes, 52 such a one leads a simple, self-reliant life based on meditation, controlling speech, body, and mind. 53 Free from self-will, aggressiveness, arrogance, anger, and the lust to possess people or things, they are at peace with themselves and others and enter into the unitive state. 54 United with Brahman, ever joyful, beyond the reach of desire and sorrow, they have equal regard for every living creature and attain supreme devotion to me. 55 By loving me they come to know me truly; then they know my glory and enter into my boundless being. 56 All their acts are performed in my service, and through my grace they win eternal life.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita

“45 By devotion to one’s own particular duty, everyone can attain perfection. Let me tell you how. 46 By performing one’s own work, one worships the Creator who dwells in every creature. Such worship brings that person to fulfillment. 47 It is better to perform one’s own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita

“16 In this world there are two orders of being: the perishable, separate creature and the changeless spirit. 17 But beyond these there is another, the supreme Self, the eternal Lord, who enters into the entire cosmos and supports it from within. 18 I am that supreme Self, praised by the scriptures as beyond the changing and the changeless. 19 Those who see in me that supreme Self see truly. They have found the source of all wisdom, Arjuna, and they worship me with all their heart.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita

“12 The brightness of the sun, which lights up the world, the brightness of the moon and of fire – these are my glory. 13 With a drop of my energy I enter the earth and support all creatures. Through the moon, the vessel of life-giving fluid, I nourish all plants. 14 I enter breathing creatures and dwell within as the life-giving breath. I am the fire in the stomach which digests all food. 15 Entering into every heart, I give the power to remember and understand; it is I again who take that power away. All the scriptures lead to me; I am their author and their wisdom.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita

“7 Those who know truly are free from pride and deceit. They are gentle, forgiving, upright, and pure, devoted to their spiritual teacher, filled with inner strength, and self-controlled. 8 Detached from sense objects and self-will, they have learned the painful lesson of separate birth and suffering, old age, disease, and death. 9 Free from selfish attachment, they do not get compulsively entangled even in home and family. They are even-minded through good fortune and bad. 10 Their devotion to me is undivided. Enjoying solitude and not following the crowd, they seek only me. 11 This is true knowledge, to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita

“12 I will tell you of the wisdom that leads to immortality: the beginningless Brahman, which can be called neither being nor non-being. 13 It dwells in all, in every hand and foot and head, in every mouth and eye and ear in the universe. 14 Without senses itself, it shines through the functioning of the senses. Completely independent, it supports all things. Beyond the gunas, it enjoys their play. 15 It is both near and far, both within and without every creature; it moves and is unmoving. 16 In its subtlety it is beyond comprehension. It is indivisible, yet appears divided in separate creatures. Know it to be the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer. 17 Dwelling in every heart, it is beyond darkness. It is called the light of light, the object and goal of knowledge, and knowledge itself.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita

“11 The immature do not look beyond physical appearances to see my true nature as the Lord of all creation. 12 The knowledge of such deluded people is empty; their lives are fraught with disaster and evil, and their work and hopes are all in vain. 13 But truly great souls seek my divine nature. They worship me with a one-pointed mind, having realized that I am the eternal source of all.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita

“8 When you make your mind one-pointed through regular practice of meditation, you will find the supreme glory of the Lord. 9 The Lord is the supreme poet, the first cause, the sovereign ruler, subtler than the tiniest particle, the support of all, inconceivable, bright as the sun, beyond darkness. 10 Remembering him in this way at the time of death, through devotion and the power of meditation, with your mind completely stilled and your concentration fixed in the center of spiritual awareness between the eyebrows, you will realize the supreme Lord.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita

“31 True sustenance is in service, and through it a man or woman reaches the eternal Brahman. But those who do not seek to serve are without a home in this world.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita

“37 Death means the attainment of heaven; victory means the enjoyment of the earth. Therefore rise up, Arjuna, resolved to fight! 38 Having made yourself alike in pain and pleasure, profit and loss, victory and defeat, engage in this great battle and you will be freed from sin.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita

“Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not,” says Meister Eckhart, “secretly Nature seeks and hunts and tries to ferret out the track in which God may be found.” The whole purpose of every experience, every activity, every faculty, is to turn the human being inward and lead each of us back to our divine source.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita