Bhagavad Gita Quotes In English. “You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become”
― Bhagavad Gita
One who performs his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord, is unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus is untouched by water. —The Bhagavad Gita
What is Life
Life is an Adventure … Dare it
Life is a Beauty … Praise it
Life is a Challenge … Meet it
Life is a Duty … Perform it
Life is a Love … Enjoy it
Life is a Tragedy … Face it
Life is a Struggle … Fight it
Life is a Promise … Fulfill it
Life is a Game … Play it
Life is a Gift … Accept it
Life is a Journey … Complete it
Life is a Mystery … Unfold it
Life is a Goal … Achieve it
Life is an Opportunity … Take it
Life is a Puzzle … Solve it
Life is a Song … Sing it
Life is a Sorrow … Overcome it
Life is a Spirit … Realize it.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita Quotes
Bhagavad Gita quotes
“Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps, and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.”
― Bhagavad Gita
Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.
—The Bhagavad Gita
“Attached action is selfish work that produces Karmic bondage.”
“Detached action is unselfish work.”
“However men try to reach me, I return their love with my love; whatever path they may travel, it leads to me in the end.”
Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself on earth. I am born in every age to protect the good, to destroy evil, and to reestablish dharma.
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.
—The Bhagavad Gita
“One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.”
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Whatever happened, happened for the good. Whatever is happening, is happening for the good. Whatever will happen, will also happen for the good.
“The true nature of action is very difficult to understand. Therefore, one should know the nature of attached action, the nature of detached action, and also the nature of forbidden action.”
As they approach me, so I receive them. All paths, Arjuna, lead to me.
Bhagavad Gita quotes
Bhagavad Gita quotes in English
“A Karma-yogi performs action by body, mind, intellect, and senses, without attachment (or ego), only for self-purification.”
“Work for work’s sake, not for yourself. Act but do not be attached to your actions. Be in the world, but not of it,”
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Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the supreme goal of life. Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind.
—The Bhagavad Gita
“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.”
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You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work.
“Faith in sacrifice, charity, and austerity is also called SAT. The action for the sake of the Supreme is verily termed as SAT.”
“Whatever action, whether right or wrong, one performs by thought, word, and deed; these are its five causes.”
All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?
—The Bhagavad Gita
Whatever you do, make it an offering to me—the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.
“You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.”
― Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita quotes in English
Quotes from Bhagavad Gita
I am the beginning, middle, and end of creation.
“Even these [obligatory] works should be performed without attachment to the fruits. This is My definite supreme advice, O Arjuna.”
“When meditation is mastered,
The mind is unwavering like the
Flame of a lamp in a windless place.
In the still mind,
In the depths of meditation,
The Self reveals itself.
Beholding the Self
By means of the Self,
An aspirant knows the
Joy and peace of complete fulfillment.
Having attained that
Abiding joy beyond the senses,
Revealed in the stilled mind,
He never swerves from the eternal truth.”
― Bhagavad Gita
“I am death, which overcomes all, and the source of all beings still to be born.”
“When a man dwells on the pleasure of sense, attraction for them arises in him. From attraction arises desire, the lust of possession, and this leads to passion, to anger.From passion comes confusion of mind, then loss of remembrance, the forgetting of duty. From this loss comes the ruin of reason, and the ruin of reason leads man to destruction.”
― Bhagavad Gita
The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Those who are interested in self-realization, in terms of mind and sense control, offer the functions of all the senses, as well as the vital force (breath), as oblations into the fire of the controlled mind.
—The Bhagavad Gita
“Krishna says: “Arjuna, I am the taste of pure water and the radiance of the sun and moon. I am the sacred word and the sound heard in air, and the courage of human beings. I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the radiance of fire; I am the life in every creature and the striving of the spiritual aspirant”
― Bhagavad Gita
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Bhagavad Gita quotes on life
“Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires”
― Bhagavad Gita
What the outstanding person does, others will try to do. The standards such people create will be followed by the whole world.
He who sees Me everywhere, and sees everything in Me, I am not lost to him, nor is he lost to me.
All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer.
—The Bhagavad Gita
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is”
― Bhagavad Gita
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
“Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. The one who is motivated only by the desire for the fruits of their action, and anxious about the results, is miserable indeed.”
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“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― Bhagavad Gita
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.
Bhagavad Gita quotes on life
lord Krishna quotes Bhagavad Gita
“Just remember that I am, and that I support the entire cosmos with only a fragment of my being.”
Among animals I am the lion; among birds, the eagle Garuda. I am Prahlada, born among the demons, and of all that measures, I am time.
I am death, which overcomes all, and the source of all beings still to be born.
“I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world.”
“I am heat; I give and withhold the rain. I am immortality and I am death; I am what is and what is not.”
Just remember that I am, and that I support the entire cosmos with only a fragment of my being.
Behold, Arjuna, a million divine forms, with an infinite variety of color and shape. Behold the gods of the natural world, and many more wonders never revealed before. Behold the entire cosmos turning within my body, and the other things you desire to see.
“My true being is unborn and changeless. I am the Lord who dwells in every creature. Through the power of my own maya, I manifest myself in a finite form.”
I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world.
“You and I have passed through many births, Arjuna. You have forgotten, but I remember them all.”
“The brightness of the sun, which lights up the world, the brightness of the moon and of fire – these are my glory.”
“This divine illusion of Mine, caused by the qualities, is hard to pierce; they who come to Me, they cross over this illusion.”
That one is dear to me who runs not after the pleasant or away from the painful, grieves not, lusts not, but lets things come and go as they happen.
Just as a reservoir is of little use when the whole countryside is flooded, scriptures are of little use to the illumined man or woman, who sees the Lord everywhere.
“Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself on earth. I am born in every age to protect the good, to destroy evil, and to reestablish dharma.”
