“Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do. 50 When consciousness is unified, however, all vain anxiety is left behind. There is… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“When you keep thinking about sense objects, attachment comes. Attachment breeds desire, the lust of possession that burns to anger. Anger clouds the judgment; you can no longer learn from past mistakes. Lost is the power to choose between what… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“The battlefield is a perfect backdrop, but the Gita’s subject is the war within, the struggle for self-mastery that every human being must wage… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“said, 'While the (Kuru) host was shaken by the grandson of Sini in these places (through which he proceeded), the son of Bharadwaja covered him with a dense shower of arrows. The encounter that then took place between Drona and Satwata in the very sight of all the troops was extremely fierce, like that between Vali and Vasava (in days… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share
“Those unacquainted with any language but their own are generally very exclusive in matters of taste.” — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“His judgment will be better and his vision clear if he is not emotionally entangled in the outcome of what he does.” — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“Therefore “yoga is skill in action,” because this kind of detachment is required if one is to act in freedom, rather than merely react… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“Just as a seed can grow into only one kind of tree, thoughts can produce effects only of the same nature. Kindness to others,… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“the Upanishads agree on their central ideas: Brahman, the Godhead; Atman, the divine core of personality; dharma, the law that expresses and maintains the… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“18 The wise see that there is action in the midst of inaction and inaction in the midst of action. Their consciousness is unified,… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“You have the right to action, but not to the fruits of action”: each of us has the obligation to act rightly, but no… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“Guna means strand, and in the Gita the gunas are described as the very fabric of existence, the veil that hides unity in a… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
