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1 " A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return "
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , The Bhagavad Gita
2 " Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. "
3 " For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters. "
4 " If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. "
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
5 " Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself. "
6 " It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. "
7 " The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul. "
8 " Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.[Trans. Purohit Swami] "
9 " For him who has conquered the min, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy. SB 6.6 "
10 " You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. "
11 " The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.They arise from sense perception,and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed. "
12 " Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and understanding, who is intent upon liberation, who has cast away desire, fear and anger, he is ever freed. "
13 " Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. "
14 " Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection. "
15 " ...where there is One, that One is me; where there are many, all are me; they see my face everywhere.The Bhagavad Gita "
16 " The embodied soul is eternal in existence, indestructible, and infinite, only the material body is factually perishable, therefore fight O Arjuna. "
17 " Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of the senses with their objects. They come and they go, never lasting long. You must accept them. "
18 " No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come "
19 " Curving back within myself I create again and again. "
20 " Hell has three hates: lust, anger and greed. "
