Famous Quotes from Bhagavad Gita
Explore the timeless wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita through these famous verses that have inspired millions around the world for thousands of years.
You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 47
Perform your duty equipoised, O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 48
Whenever there is a decline in righteousness and an increase in unrighteousness, O Arjuna, at that time I manifest myself.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4, Verse 7
It is better to perform one's own duties imperfectly than to master another's duties. By fulfilling the obligations born of one's nature, a person never comes to grief.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 3, Verse 35
Always think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 65
Abandon all varieties of dharma and simply surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 66
I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who fully know this engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 10, Verse 8
A person should elevate himself by his own mind, not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 6, Verse 5
Those who always worship Me with exclusive devotion, meditating on My transcendental form, to them I carry what they lack, and I preserve what they have.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 9, Verse 22
The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 23
Penance performed out of foolishness, with self-torture or to destroy or injure others, is said to be in the mode of ignorance.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 17, Verse 19
For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 6, Verse 30
The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 5, Verse 18
After many births and deaths, one who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7, Verse 19
Even if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 9, Verse 30
The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 3, Verse 27
I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge, both phenomenal and numinous. This being known, nothing further shall remain for you to know.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7, Verse 2
There are three gates leading to this hell—lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 16, Verse 21
By worship of the Lord, who is the source of all beings and who is all-pervading, a man can attain perfection through performing his own work.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 46
One who performs his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord, is unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus is untouched by water.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 5, Verse 10
One who neither rejoices nor grieves, neither longs for nor rejects, who renounces both good and evil, and who is full of devotion to Me—such a person is very dear to Me.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 17
One who engages in full devotional service, unfailing in all circumstances, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 14, Verse 26
One who is not envious but is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor and is free from false ego, who is equal in both happiness and distress, who is forbearing...
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 13
Those who are free from false prestige, illusion and false association, who understand the eternal, who are done with material lust, freed from the dualities of happiness and distress, and who, unbewildered, know how to surrender unto the Supreme Person attain to that eternal kingdom.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 15, Verse 5
Austerity of speech consists in speaking words that are truthful, pleasing, beneficial, and not agitating to others, and also in regularly reciting Vedic literature.
— Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 17, Verse 15