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" The one for whom
enemy and friend,
honour and infamy,
cold and heat,
pleasure and pain,
are the same,
who has moved away
from clinging,
the one whom
curse and praise are equal,
who keeps silent,
content with whatsoever
comes his way,
without home, with steady mind,
full of devotion,
that one is dear to me. "
― Laurie L. Patton, , The Bhagavad Gita
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" When men seek after the Immutable, the Indeterminable, the Unmanifest, the All-Pervading, the Unthinkable, the Summit Self, the Immobile, the Permanent, — equal in mind to all,
intent on the good of all beings, it is to Me that they come. "
― , The Bhagavad Gita
38
" They say that life is an accident, driven by sexual desire, that the universe has no moral order, no truth, no God.
Driven by insatiable lusts, drunk on the arrogance of power, hypocritical, deluded, their actions foul with self-seeking, tormented by a vast anxiety that continues until their death, convinced that the gratification of desire is life's sole aim, bound by a hundred shackles of hope, enslaved by their greed, they squander their time dishonestly piling up mountains of wealth.
"Today I got this desire, and tomorrow I will get that one; all these riches are mine, and soon I will have even more. Already I have killed these enemies, and soon I will kill the rest. I am the lord, the enjoyer, successful, happy, and strong, noble, and rich, and famous. Who on earth is my equal? "
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , The Bhagavad Gita