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2.14“The senses meeting the world bring cold and heat, comfort and pain. They come, and they go. They never last. Meet them, and let them pass.”Bhagavad Gita 2.14Read →2.48“Evenness of mind is called yoga.”Bhagavad Gita 2.48Read →2.70“As rivers pour into the sea, which stays full and unmoved, so the one whom all desires enter, yet who stays still, comes to peace.”Bhagavad Gita 2.70Read →6.19“Like a lamp in a windless place, the steady mind does not flicker.”Bhagavad Gita 6.19Read →For calm
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2.47“You have a right to your work, but never to its fruits. Let the fruit not be your motive, and do not cling to inaction either.”Bhagavad Gita 2.47Read →2.50“Yoga is skill in action.”Bhagavad Gita 2.50Read →3.5“No one can stay still for even a moment without acting. Everyone is driven to act, helplessly, by the forces of their own nature.”Bhagavad Gita 3.5Read →8.7“So at all times remember me, and fight on.”Bhagavad Gita 8.7Read →For work and worry
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2.62“Dwell on the things of the senses and attachment is born; from attachment comes desire, and from desire, anger. From anger comes confusion, from confusion a wandering memory; memory gone, the mind is lost, and the mind lost, the person is lost.”Bhagavad Gita 2.62–2.63Read →3.27“All actions are carried out by the forces of nature. But the self, fooled by ego, thinks, ‘I am the doer.’”Bhagavad Gita 3.27Read →3.37“It is desire, it is anger, born of the restless force in us, all-devouring and all-corrupting. Know this as the enemy here.”Bhagavad Gita 3.37Read →3.43“Knowing the Self to be higher than the mind, steady yourself by your own self, and strike down this enemy, so hard to defeat, that wears the face of desire.”Bhagavad Gita 3.43Read →6.5“Lift yourself by your own self. Never let yourself sink.”Bhagavad Gita 6.5Read →6.6“For the one who has mastered the self, the self is a friend.”Bhagavad Gita 6.6Read →For the spiral
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2.11“You grieve for those who need no grief, and yet you speak as the wise do. The wise grieve for neither the living nor the dead.”Bhagavad Gita 2.11Read →2.20“It is never born, and it never dies. Unborn, lasting, ancient and ever the same, it is not slain when the body is slain.”Bhagavad Gita 2.20Read →11.32“I am Time, grown vast, the destroyer of worlds, set in motion here to gather the worlds in. Even without you, none of these warriors arrayed in the opposing ranks will remain.”Bhagavad Gita 11.32Read →18.66“Let everything go, and come to me alone for refuge.”Bhagavad Gita 18.66Read →1.2.18“The knowing self is not born, and it does not die.”Katha Upanishad 1.2.18Read →For grief and fear
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1.29“My limbs give way and my mouth goes dry. My body shakes, and the hair lifts on my skin.”Bhagavad Gita 1.29Read →1.30“The bow slips from my hand, my skin is on fire, I cannot keep standing, and my mind is reeling.”Bhagavad Gita 1.30Read →1.47“So saying, in the middle of the battlefield, Arjuna let his bow and his arrows fall, and sank down onto the floor of his chariot, his heart sinking into grief.”Bhagavad Gita 1.47Read →2.7“My courage has failed me, and I cannot see what is right. So I am asking you, plainly: tell me what is good. I am your student. I have come to you. Teach me.”Bhagavad Gita 2.7Read →For the day you cannot go on
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3.35“Better your own path walked imperfectly than another’s walked to perfection. Even to fail on your own road is better; another’s road is full of fear.”Bhagavad Gita 3.35Read →4.7“Whenever dharma fades, I come forth.”Bhagavad Gita 4.7Read →4.38“Nothing in this world purifies like knowledge.”Bhagavad Gita 4.38Read →9.22“Those who hold me in single-minded thought, I carry and I keep.”Bhagavad Gita 9.22Read →1.2.2“The good and the pleasant both come to a person. The wise look at the two, and tell them apart.”Katha Upanishad 1.2.2Read →For your own path
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1.3.3“Know the self as the rider, and the body as the chariot.”Katha Upanishad 1.3.3Read →1.3.14“Arise. Awake. Seek out the great ones, and understand.”Katha Upanishad 1.3.14Read →6.8.7“That which is the finest essence, this whole world has it as its self. That is the truth. That is the self. You are that, Svetaketu.”Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7Read →ॐ“We hold in mind the radiant light of the life-giving sun. May it brighten our thinking.”The Gayatri · Rigveda 3.62.10Read →