Srimad Bhagavad Gita Quotes and Status

Hell has three gates: lust, anger and greed.

I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.

The Gita is not a book of commandments but a book of choices.

I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world.

Truth can never be destroyed. One should not be afraid of doing good.

Whatever happened was good.

God is always with us and around us no matter what we are doing.

You are what you believe in, You become that which you believe you can become

The wise work for the welfare of the world, without thought for themselves.

Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction.

There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.

He who is deluded by the ego thinks, I am the doer.

The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

Arise, slay thy enemies, enjoy a prosperous kingdom.

You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

The spirit is beyond destruction. No one can bring an end to the spirit which is everlasting.

Better than mechanical practice is knowledge.Better than knowledge is meditation.

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

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

Curving back within myself I create again and again.

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.

I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

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

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

Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The true goal of action is knowledge of the Self.

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

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.

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

death is no more traumatic than taking off an old coat

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Earth, water, fire, air, akasha, mind, intellect, and ego – these are the eight divisions of my Prakriti.

Your own duty done imperfectly is better than another man’s done well.