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Bhagavad Gita Quotes in English: The Bhagavad Gita, often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Sanskrit scripture that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata (chapters 23–40 of Bhishma Parva).
The Bhagavad Gita presents a synthesis of Hindu ideas about dharma, theistic bhakti, and the yogic ideals of moksha. The text covers jnana, bhakti, karma, and Raja Yoga (spoken of in the 6th chapter) incorporating ideas from the Samkhya-Yoga philosophy.
Numerous commentaries have been written on the Bhagavad Gita with widely differing views on the essentials. Vedanta commentators read varying relations between Self and Brahman in the text: Advaita Vedanta sees the non-dualism of Atman (soul) and Brahman as its essence, whereas Bhedabheda and Vishishtadvaita see Atman and Brahman as both different and non-different, while Dvaita Vedanta sees dualism of Atman (soul) and Brahman as its essence. The setting of the Gita in a battlefield has been interpreted as an allegory for the ethical and moral struggles of the human life.
The Bhagavad Gita is the best known and most famous of Hindu texts, with a unique pan-Hindu influence. The Gita’s call for selfless action inspired many leaders of the Indian independence movement including Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi; the latter referred to it as his “spiritual dictionary”.
Bhagavad Gita Quotes For Students & Children
Bhagavad Gita Quotes in English
- There is neither this world nor the world beyond nor happiness for the one who doubts. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- The wise sees knowledge and action as one; they see truly. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- There is nothing lost or wasted in this life. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- One gradually attains tranquility of mind by keeping the mind fully absorbed in the Self by means of a well-trained intellect, and thinking of nothing else. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and in honor and dishonor; and is ever steadfast with the Supreme Self. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- 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. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy? ~ Bhagavad Gita
- The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- A person is said to have achieved yoga, the union with the Self, when the perfectly disciplined mind gets freedom from all desires, and becomes absorbed in the Self alone. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- People will talk about your disgrace forever. To the honored, dishonor is worse than death. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Fix your mind on Me, be devoted to Me, offer service to Me, bow down to Me, and you shall certainly reach Me. I promise you because you are very dear to Me. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- A Karma-yogi performs action by body, mind, intellect, and senses, without attachment (or ego), only for self-purification. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- One can become whatever one wants to be [if one constantly contemplates on the object of desire with faith]. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. ~ Bhagavad Gita
- Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart – a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water – I accept with joy. ~ Bhagavad Gita
