Divine Quotes

Sharing Quotes from Divine Books

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O son of Kunti, either you will be killed on the battlefield and attain the heavenly planets, or you will conquer and enjoy the earthly kingdom. Therefore, get up with determination and fight.

- bhagavad gita, 2:37

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He who is everywhere without attachment, on meeting with anything good or bad, who neither rejoices nor hates, his wisdom is fixed.

- bhagavad gita, 2:57

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All 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?

- bhagavad gita, 2:28

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The Blessed Lord said: You grieve for those who should not be grieved for, yet you speak words of wisdom. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.

- bhagavad gita, 2:11

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Therefore, O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence.

- bhagavad gita, 2:68

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Perform your duty equipoised, O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.

- bhagavad gita, 2:48

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One cannot attain freedom from action without action itself; no one can maintain life by inaction.

- bhagavad gita, 3:3

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What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.

- bhagavad gita, 2:69

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Those who are on this path are resolute in purpose, and their aim is one. O beloved child of the Kurus, the intelligence of those who are irresolute is many-branched.

- bhagavad gita, 2:41

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But those who, full of disdain, do not practice my teachings, know them to be confused in all knowledge and doomed.

- bhagavad gita, 3:32

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The senses are so strong and impetuous, O Arjuna, that they forcibly carry away the mind even of a man of discrimination who is endeavoring to control them.

- bhagavad gita, 2:60

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If I did not perform duties, all these worlds would be in ruin, and I would be the cause of confusion and destruction.

- bhagavad gita, 3:23

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Krishna explains that it is desire and anger, born from passion, which are the all-consuming sinful enemies.

- bhagavad gita, 3:37

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Everyone is compelled to act by the qualities born of nature; perfect inaction is impossible.

- bhagavad gita, 3:5

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While performing all actions, the wise should remain unattached, thinking, 'The senses are acting on their objects.'

- bhagavad gita, 3:26

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Therefore, cut off this doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge; observe yoga and stand up, O Bharata.

- bhagavad gita, 4:42

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Therefore, always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment, for by doing duty without attachment one attains the Supreme.

- bhagavad gita, 3:19

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Some offer hearing and other senses in the fires of restraint, while some offer sound and other objects of the senses.

- bhagavad gita, 4:26

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Those deluded by the gunas are attached to guna actions; the wise should not disturb the minds of such ignorant.

- bhagavad gita, 3:29

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Thus far I have declared to you the analytical knowledge of Sankhya philosophy. Now listen to the knowledge of yoga, endowed with which you will release the bonds of action.

- bhagavad gita, 2:39