The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.

When the mind constantly runs after the wandering senses, it drives away wisdom, like the wind blowing a ship off course.

The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature and who is fully situated in transcendental knowledge merges entirely into transcendence.

When your mind has overcome the confusion of duality, you will attain the state of holy indifference to things you hear and things you have heard.

Actions do not cling to me because I am not attached to their results. Those who understand this and practise it live in freedom.

This does not mean, however, that the phenomenal world is an illusion or unreal. The illusion is the sense of separateness.

Krishna introduces the idea that it is not enough to master all selfish desires; it is also necessary to subdue possessiveness and egocentricity.

His judgment will be better and his vision clear if he is not emotionally entangled in the outcome of what he does.

The very heart of Gita’s message is to see the Lord in every creature and act accordingly,

Just as the dweller in this body passes through childhood, youth and old age, so at death, he merely passes into another kind of body. The wise are not deceived by that.

death is no more traumatic than taking off an old coat

Those established in Self-realization control their senses instead of letting their senses control them.

There was never a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor any of these kings. Nor is there any future in which we shall cease to be.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. We are made of our thoughts; we are moulded by our thoughts.

The true goal of action is knowledge of the Self.

The wise unify their consciousness and abandon attachment to the fruits of action.

Selfish action imprisons the world. Act selflessly, without any thought of personal profit.

Reshape yourself through the power of your will; never let yourself be degraded by self-will.

we never really encounter the world; all we experience is our own nervous system.