He by whom the world is not agitated, and who cannot be agitated by the world, who is free from joy, envy, fear and anxiety — he is dear to Me.
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Out of mere compassion for them, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy the darkness born of ignorance with the luminous lamp of knowledge.
Whatever state of being a man remembers at the end, when he leaves the body, to that state he goes, absorbed in the thought of it.
To those who are constantly devoted and who worship Me with love, I give the yoga of understanding, by which they come to Me.
At the end of many births, the man of wisdom takes refuge in Me, realising that the Divine is all; such a great soul is very rare.
Whoever, at the time of death, leaves the body remembering Me alone, attains to My being; there is no doubt of this.
He who, by comparison with himself, sees the same in all beings, whether in pleasure or in pain — he is considered the highest yogi.
Of all yogis, he who worships Me with faith, his innermost self abiding in Me, is considered by Me to be the most united.
As a lamp in a windless place does not flicker, so is compared the yogi of controlled mind, practising union with the Self.
That state should be known as yoga, the disconnection from union with pain; this yoga must be practised with firm determination and with an ungrieving heart.
He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illumined within — that yogi attains freedom in Brahman, himself becoming Brahman.
To the sages who are free from desire and anger, who have controlled their minds and realised the Self, freedom in Brahman lies near at hand on all sides.
Let the yogi constantly engage himself in yoga, remaining in a secret place by himself, with mind and self controlled, free from hope and from possessions.
Brahman is the offering, Brahman the oblation; by Brahman is the oblation poured into the fire of Brahman; Brahman alone shall be reached by him who meditates on Brahman in his action.
He who can endure here, even before liberation from the body, the impulse born of desire and anger — he is a yogi, he is a happy man.
In whatsoever way men approach Me, in that same way I reward them; men follow My path in every way.
Abandoning attachment to the fruits of action, ever content, and depending on nothing, though engaged in action he does nothing at all.
They say the senses are high; higher than the senses is the mind; higher than the mind is the intellect; and higher still is He.
Freed from attachment, fear and anger, absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many have been purified by the fire of knowledge and have attained My being.
The self-controlled man, moving among objects with the senses under control and free from attraction and repulsion, attains to tranquillity.
In tranquillity all his sorrows are destroyed; for the intellect of the tranquil-minded soon becomes steadfast.
There is no intelligence for the unsteady, and no meditation for the unsteady; for the unmeditative there is no peace, and for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?
When, like a tortoise that withdraws its limbs on all sides, he withdraws the senses from the objects of sense, his wisdom is firmly fixed.
The objects of sense turn away from the abstinent man, but the taste for them remains; even the taste turns away when the Supreme is seen.
He whose mind is unshaken in sorrow, who has lost the craving for pleasure, who is free from attachment, fear and anger — he is called a sage of steady wisdom.
He who is unattached everywhere, who neither rejoices on obtaining good nor hates on obtaining evil — his wisdom is firmly fixed.
Just as in this body the embodied soul passes through childhood, youth and old age, so too it passes into another body; the wise are not deluded by this.
He who thinks that the soul kills, and he who thinks that it is killed, both do not know; it neither kills nor is killed.
The soul dwelling in the bodies of all is eternally indestructible; therefore you should not grieve for any creature.
Wherever there is Krishna, the Lord of Yoga, and wherever there is Arjuna the archer, there are surely fortune, victory, prosperity and sound policy.
You grieve for those who should not be grieved for, yet you speak words of wisdom; the wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.
Take refuge in Him alone with all your being; by His grace you shall attain supreme peace and the eternal abode.
Abandoning all duties, take refuge in Me alone; I shall liberate you from all sins. Do not grieve.
By worshipping, through his own natural work, Him from whom all beings arise and by whom all this is pervaded, man attains perfection.
The Lord dwells in the hearts of all beings, and by His power causes all beings to revolve, as if mounted upon a machine.
This body is called the Field, and he who knows it is called the Knower of the Field by the sages.
Neither the sun nor the moon nor fire illumines that abode; those who reach it do not return. That is My supreme abode.
He who hates no creature, who is friendly and compassionate, free from the sense of mine and from ego, the same in pain and pleasure, forbearing — he is dear to Me.
Contented, ever steadfast, self-controlled and firm in conviction, with mind and understanding dedicated to Me — that devotee of Mine is dear to Me.
The same to foe and friend, the same in honour and dishonour, the same in cold and heat, in pleasure and in pain, and free from attachment — he is dear to Me.
I am the Self, seated in the hearts of all beings; I am the beginning, the middle, and also the end of all beings.
I am Time, the great destroyer of the worlds, and I have come forth to engage all men.
Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer, whatever you give away, whatever austerity you perform, do that as an offering unto Me.
Fix your mind on Me, be devoted to Me, sacrifice to Me, bow down to Me; uniting yourself with Me, you shall reach Me.
Therefore at all times remember Me; with mind and understanding fixed on Me, you shall surely come to Me.
To those who are ever steadfast and who worship Me with devotion, I carry what they lack and preserve what they have.
Doubtless the mind is restless and hard to curb, but by practice and by detachment it may be restrained.
There is nothing higher than Me; all this universe is strung upon Me, as a row of pearls upon a thread.
The mind is restless, turbulent, powerful and obstinate; to control it seems harder than controlling the wind.
From wherever the restless and unsteady mind wanders away, from there restrain it, and bring it back under the control of the Self alone.
Let a man raise himself by his own self; let him not debase himself. For the self alone is the friend of the self, and the self alone is the enemy of the self.
To him who has conquered the self by the Self, the Self is a friend; but to the unconquered, the Self remains hostile, like an enemy.
Yoga becomes the destroyer of pain for him who is moderate in eating and in recreation, moderate in exertion in his actions, moderate in sleep and in waking.
The wise see the same in a learned and humble Brahmin, in a cow, in an elephant, and even in a dog and an eater of dogs.
He whose self is unattached to external contacts finds the joy that is in the Self; united with the Eternal, he enjoys undecaying happiness.
In this world there is nothing so purifying as knowledge; the one perfected in Yoga finds it in the Self in due course of time.
He who acts, placing all actions in the Eternal and abandoning attachment, is not tainted by evil, as a lotus leaf is not tainted by water.
Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and a rising of unrighteousness, then I manifest Myself.
For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and for the establishment of righteousness, I am born from age to age.
He who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is wise among men; he is united, he has accomplished all action.