“In sleep a person passes in and out of two stages, dreaming and dreamless sleep. In the first, consciousness is withdrawn from the body and senses but still engaged in the mind. In dreamless sleep, however, consciousness is withdrawn from… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image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
“said, 'While the (Kuru) host was shaken by the grandson of Sini in these places (through which he proceeded), the son of Bharadwaja covered… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share
“... Krishna, the great Lord of Yoga, revealed to Arjuna his majestic, transcendent, limitless form. With innumerable mouths and eyes, faces too marvelous to… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share
“Krishna introduces the idea that it is not enough to master all selfish desires; it is also necessary to subdue possessiveness and egocentricity.” — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share
