Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Bhagavad-Gītā 1.42
"By the evil deeds of those who destroy the family tradition and thus give rise to unwanted children, all kinds of community projects and family welfare activities are devastated." https://vedy.online/en/bg/1/42/
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.11-12
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor for the dead." "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be." https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/11/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/12/
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.14
"O son of Kuntī, 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, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed." https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/14/
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.42-43
"Men of small knowledge are very much attached to the flowery words of the Vedas, which recommend various fruitive activities for elevation to heavenly planets, resultant good birth, power, and so forth. Being desirous of sense gratification and opulent life, they say that there is nothing more than this." Bhagavad-Gītā 2.42-43
Bhagavad-Gītā 2.44
"In the minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and material opulence, and who are bewildered by such things, the resolute determination for devotional service to the Supreme Lord does not take place." https://vedy.online/en/bg/2/44/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.6-7
"One who restrains the senses of action but whose mind dwells on sense objects certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender." "On the other hand, if a sincere person tries to control the active senses by the mind and begins karma-yoga [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness] without attachment, he is by far superior." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/6/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/7/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.27
"The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/27/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.33-34
"Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes. What can repression accomplish?" "There are principles to regulate attachment and aversion pertaining to the senses and their objects. One should not come under the control of such attachment and aversion, because they are stumbling blocks on the path of self-realization." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/33/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/34/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.36-37
"Arjuna said: O descendant of Vṛṣṇi, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force?" "The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/36/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/37/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.23-24
"The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature and who is fully situated in transcendental knowledge merges entirely into transcendence." "A person who is fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is sure to attain the spiritual kingdom because of his full contribution to spiritual activities, in which the consummation is absolute and that which is offered is of the same spiritual nature." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/23/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/24/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.35-36
"Having obtained real knowledge from a self-realized soul, you will never fall again into such illusion, for by this knowledge you will see that all living beings are but part of the Supreme, or, in other words, that they are Mine." "Even if you are considered to be the most sinful of all sinners, when you are situated in the boat of transcendental knowledge you will be able to cross over the ocean of miseries." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/35/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/36/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.40
"But ignorant and faithless persons who doubt the revealed scriptures do not attain God consciousness; they fall down. For the doubting soul there is happiness neither in this world nor in the next." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/40/