Bhagavad Gita Quotes

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• The disaster-destined are self-conceited, stubborn, vain and intoxicated by wealth. Their sacrifices are empty and fraudulent.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.17.

• The disaster-destined remain trapped by the mesh of thoughts, delusion and desire for sensual pleasure. This makes their life an emotional hell.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.16.

• Material wealth and social stature often lead to self-conceit and arrogance. They make those who have no self-knowledge become disaster-destined. These people make a great show of being pious: They perform sacrifices and give charity, just to have fun.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.15.

• The disaster-destined believe that these are the marks of success and sources of happiness: Wealth, power, gratification of desires and the killing of those do not follow their example. All these make them the Lord here, they think.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.13-14.

• The disaster-destined live in bondage to hopes, desires and anger. So they can’t live according to reality. They occupy themselves all the time with piling up wealth by unfair means - for gratifying their desires. And their minds are forever restless.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.12.

• The disaster-destined are the devotees of desires based on pairs of opposites. So till they die, they’re tormented by anxiety.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.11.

• The disaster-destined are deluded fools, driven by insatiable desire - and so, by its hypocrisy, vanity, frenzy and false ideas. And so they follow pairs of opposites, the sources of all evil, and not the oppositeless.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.10.

• Being devoid of sanity-based prudence, the disaster-destined engage in cruel and violent action. And they destroy the world.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.9.

• The disaster-destined are driven by false ideas about the world and about themselves. They lack prudence - knowledge (of what they are in reality) and the firm resolve to free themselves of their false ideas. And they become lost.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.9.

• The disaster-destined deny the existence of the Lord of the world – the absolute reality existing in all as the Supreme Self-of-all. To them, the world has no ruling Lord. What has caused the world is desire, they say, and not a succession of causes and results.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.8.

• Disaster-destined people assert that there is, in the world, no reality beyond the states coloured by desire and its pairs of opposites. They deny that this oppositeless reality is the foundation of the world.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.8.

• Disaster-destined people do not understand the difference between actions based on reality and actions based on delusion. So their mind is impure. And they engage in wrongful conduct, and they’re not devoted to actions based on truth.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 16.7.

• People are of two kinds: Sanity-destined and disaster-destined. The sanity-destined are sure to achieve liberation from the bondage of good and evil and supreme success. But the disaster-destined are doomed to a life of bondage to good and evil and to disaster.
- See Bhagavad Gita, Gita 16.5-6.

• Sanity-destined people have these character traits: Vigour, patience, courage, inner and outer purity, no malice, no vanity.
- See Bhagavad Gita, Gita 16.3.

• Sanity-destined people have these character traits: Non-violence, truth, freedom from anger, renunciation, peace, no calumny, compassion, freedom from greed, gentleness, modesty, no fickleness.
- See Bhagavad Gita, Gita 16.2.

• Sanity-destined people have these character traits: Acts of charity, self-restraint, sacrifice, dedication to the study of scriptures, austerity and uprightness.
- See Bhagavad Gita, Gita 16.1.

• Sanity-destined people are fearless. They don’t occupy themselves with ego thoughts. They cling to knowledge and its discipline.
- See Bhagavad Gita, Gita 16.1.

• A deluded person is one who is ruled by ego thoughts, desires, opposing emotions - and by the delusions they produce, instead of being guided by reality. Delusion binds you to a state of constant mental torment. But devotion to reality leads to liberation.
- See Bhagavad Gita, Gita 16.5.

• As the body of the Oppositeless is made up of all the bodies in the universe, it’s full of amazing aspects and has faces turned in every direction. It’s infinite in size; its end, middle and beginning can’t be seen. It’s the universe itself.
- See Bhagavad Gita, Gita 11.11, 11.16.

• As all the living beings in the universe form the body of the one Oppositeless that pervades them all, it’s as though the Oppositeless has many mouths, eyes, arms, thighs, feet, stomachs, fangs, ornaments, weapons, garlands and robes.
- See Bhagavad Gita, Gita 11.10-11, 11.23.

• As a single whole, the universe of bodies of living beings act as the body of the one all-pervading Oppositeless. Religious rituals, penance, charity or sacrifice can’t help you see this truth. But devotion to self-knowledge can.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 11.48, 11.53-54.

• The entire universe of bodies of all moving and unmoving things (and whatever else you can think of) is a single whole, because the one macrocosmic Oppositeless pervades them all. And this single whole is the body of the one Oppositeless.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 11.7, 11.13.

• You might like another’s duty, and dislike yours. But still, do your own duty, and not another’s, even if you can do another’s duty very well. Or you’ll go on being caught up in the field of opposites. And there will be no end to your suffering.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 18.47.

• Many people might say that your duty is morally wrong, according to their moral standards. Still that’s your duty, remember. It’s the action that keeps your mind pure - beyond likes and dislikes and other pairs of opposites. So don’t give it up.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 18.47.

• Focus on your proper duty of the moment. In this way, remain devoted to the Oppositeless. And you achieve inner perfection.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 18.46.

• If you want to achieve steadiness of mind, you should remain engaged constantly in your moment-to-moment duties with attention. The discipline this attention brings makes opposing desires, thoughts and feelings powerless to affect your mind.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 18.45.

• Your worldly duties symbolize the oppositeless in the outer world. When you’re doing them with attention, your mind is beyond likes and dislikes and other pairs of opposites, the tormentors. So it’s your sacred duty to deal with your duties without fail.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 2.31.

• Everyone is terrified when they see the worldly reality. So they try to escape it: Foolishly, they act according to ego-driven desires, thoughts and emotions. And they fail to act according to the worldly reality. And they suffer.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 11.22-25.

• To stay free of inner torments, just do this: Don’t give in to your enemies - desires, attachments, thoughts and feelings.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 11.34.

• Every new moment in life is a new opportunity for you to fight against your enemies on earth: opposing desires, thoughts and emotions. It’s the door to heaven. Grab every one of these opportunities and fight. Fight for your true home – the home of reality.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 2.32.

• The Oppositeless, as a single life-giving spirit, pervades the whole universe and all living beings in it. So all living beings exist inside the Oppositeless. And, at the same time, by pervading them all, the Oppositeless exist in them all, too.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 9.4-6.

• If you, with total devotion and with a mind free of ego thoughts, sacrifice your attachment to something in order to reach the Oppositeless (the detached state), the Oppositeless rewards you well. It doesn’t matter how small the sacrifice is.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 9.26.

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