Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of the senses with their objects. They come and they go, everlasting long. You must accept them.

Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of the senses with their objects. They come and they go, everlasting long. You must accept them.

Bhagavad Gita Quotes

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

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.

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.

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 true goal of action is knowledge of the Self.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Performing the duty prescribed by nature, one incurred no sin.

Performing the duty prescribed by nature, one incurred no sin.

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbours the perception that says “I did it”

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbours the perception that says “I did it”

Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.

Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.

We behold what we are, and we are what we behold.

We behold what we are, and we are what we behold.

Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.

Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.

I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

Curving back within myself I create again and again.

Curving back within myself I create again and again.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.