“The battlefield is a perfect backdrop, but the Gita’s subject is the war within, the struggle for self-mastery that every human being… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Life 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… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“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 Dreams 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… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Happiness Copy Share Image
“(hatha yoga) it connotes in the West; it refers” — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Hatha yoga 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… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Freedom 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… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Kindness 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… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Birth and death 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… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Knowledge 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,… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Power 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… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Life Copy Share Image
“The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“... Krishna, the great Lord of Yoga, revealed to Arjuna his majestic, transcendent, limitless form. With innumerable mouths and eyes, faces too… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa God Copy Share Image
“Krishna introduces the idea that it is not enough to master all selfish desires; it is also necessary to subdue possessiveness and… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“without ego-involvement and without getting entangled in whether things work out the way we want; only then will we not fall into… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Karma Copy Share Image
“The very heart of the Gita’s message is to see the Lord in every creature and act accordingly,” — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Act Accordingly Copy Share Image
“In sleep a person passes in and out of two stages, dreaming and dreamless sleep. In the first, consciousness is withdrawn from… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Dreams Copy Share Image
“In the Gita, maya becomes the creative power of the Godhead, the primal creative energy that makes unity appear as the world… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Creative energy Copy Share Image
“The man or woman who realizes God has everything and lacks nothing: having this, “they desire nothing else, and cannot be shaken… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Life Copy Share Image
“Having no knowledge of models other than what they meet with in their own tongue, the standard they have formed of purity… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Copy Share Image
“Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Anxiety Copy Share Image
“we never really encounter the world; all we experience is our own nervous system. When” — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Nervous system 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… — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Anger Copy Share Image
“Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.” — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Biology Copy Share Image
