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Bhagavad Gita Quotes

Twelve timeless teachings from Krishna. Follow each quote to its complete Sanskrit verse, translation, and commentary.

Selected teachings

2.14

The contact of the senses with the objects, O son of Kunti, which causes heat and cold, pleasure and pain, has a beginning and an end; they are impermanent; endure them bravely, O Arjuna.

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2.47

Your right is only to work, but not to its results; do not let the results of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.

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2.48

Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in success and failure; evenness of mind is called Yoga.

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2.56

He whose mind is not shaken by adversity, who does not long for pleasures, and is free from attachment, fear, and anger, is called a sage of steady wisdom.

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2.70

He attains peace into whom all desires enter, just as waters enter the ocean which, filled from all sides, remains unmoved; but not the man who is full of desires.

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3.19

Therefore, without attachment, always perform the actions that should be done; for by performing actions without attachment, one reaches the Supreme.

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4.7

Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and an increase of unrighteousness, O Arjuna, then I manifest Myself.

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4.8

For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and for the establishment of righteousness, I am born in every age.

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6.5

One should raise oneself by one's own self alone; let not one lower oneself; for the self alone is one's own friend, and the self alone is one's own enemy.

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6.26

From whatever cause the restless and unsteady mind wanders away, let him restrain it from that and bring it under the control of the Self alone.

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9.22

For those men who worship Me alone, thinking of no one else, for those ever-united, I secure what they have not already possessed and preserve what they already possess.

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18.66

Abandon all duties and take refuge in Me alone; I will liberate you from all sins; do not grieve.

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