Best 57 quotes in «gita quotes» category

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

This whole beautiful world will end for you the day you die, then why to bother for others, stay selfish stay happy.

Tri-guna appears in discourse of Krishna prominently, To Arjun upon the battlefield of Kurukshetra clearly; That the backdrop for the Bhagwat Gita surely be, All three gunas are held to delude the world clearly: त्रिभिर्गुणमयैर्भावैरेभिः सर्वमिदं जगत्। मोहितं नाभिजानाति मामेभ्यः परमव्ययम्॥ ७.१३॥ tribhirguṇamayairbhāvairebhiḥ sarvamidaṁ jagat | mohitaṁ nābhijānāti māmebhyaḥ paramavyayam || 7.13|| World deluded by these Three Gunas does not know Me: Who beyond these Gunas and imperishable does but be. (7.13)

A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.

For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads," and the "Bhagavad Gita.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

Sometimes, you can see more than me, but you pretend to know less so that I don’t feel intimidated by you. I do the same for you. We do not feel superior when the other is vulnerable; or inferior when we feel helpless. This is what sustains our relationship.

There is a relentless war between good and evil which has to be fought whether one likes it or not.

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

If people can understand the Lord's message in Bhagavad-gita, they can become truly happy.

I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.

The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it.

The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.

The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous