• 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.
  
  
• Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.
  
  
• The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.
  
  
• Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
  
  
• Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.
  
  
• Action is greater than inaction. Perform therefore thy task in life. Even the life of the body could not be if there were no action
  
  
• No work stains a man who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
  
  
• Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy.
  
  
• The faith of each is in accordance with one's own nature.
  
  
• Hypocrisy, arrogance, pride, anger, harshness, and ignorance; these are the marks of those who are born with demonic qualities, O Arjuna.
  
  
• There are two classes of men who try to realise the self. Some are inclined to understand it by empirical, philosophical speculation, and others by devotional service.
  
  
• Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental specultation.
  
  
• Without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty, for by working without attachment one attains the Supreme.
  
  
• Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to the material senses, mind and intelligence, one should steady the mind by deliberate spiritual intelligence and thus—by spiritual strength—conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust.
  
  
• All living beings are but part of the Supreme, or, in other words, they are mine.
  
  
• I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.
  
  
• Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
  
  
• Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
  
  
• The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.
  
  
• What is the need for this detailed knowledge, O Arjuna? I continually support the entire universe by a small fraction of My energy.
  
  
• The mind, intellect, ego, ether, air, fire, water, and earth are the eightfold transformation of My nature.
  
  
• That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me -- with such a one I am in love.

|| Jai Shri Krishna ||