Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.8-9
"Perform your prescribed duty, for doing so is better than not working. One cannot even maintain one’s physical body without work." "Work done as a sacrifice for Viṣṇu has to be performed; otherwise work causes bondage in this material world. Therefore, O son of Kuntī, perform your prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way you will always remain free from bondage." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/8/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/9/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.10-12
"In the beginning of creation, the Lord of all creatures sent forth generations of men and demigods, along with sacrifices for Viṣṇu, and blessed them by saying, “Be thou happy by this yajña [sacrifice] because its performance will bestow upon you everything desirable for living happily and achieving liberation.”" "The demigods, being pleased by sacrifices, will also please you, and thus, by cooperation between men and demigods, prosperity will reign for all." "In charge of the various necessities of life, the demigods, being satisfied by the performance of yajña [sacrifice], will supply all necessities to you. But he who enjoys such gifts without offering them to the demigods in return is certainly a thief." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/10/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/11/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/12/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.17-19
"But for one who takes pleasure in the Self, whose human life is one of self-realization, and who is satisfied in the Self only, fully satiated – for him there is no duty." "A self-realized man has no purpose to fulfill in the discharge of his prescribed duties, nor has he any reason not to perform such work. Nor has he any need to depend on any other living being." "Therefore, 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." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/17/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/18/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/19/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.25-26
"As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, the learned may similarly act, but without attachment, for the sake of leading people on the right path." "So as not to disrupt the minds of ignorant men attached to the fruitive results of prescribed duties, a learned person should not induce them to stop work. Rather, by working in the spirit of devotion, he should engage them in all sorts of activities [for the gradual development of Kṛṣṇa consciousness]." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/25/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/26/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.28
"One who is in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O mighty-armed, does not engage himself in the senses and sense gratification, knowing well the differences between work in devotion and work for fruitive results." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/28/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.30-32
"Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me, with full knowledge of Me, without desires for profit, with no claims to proprietorship, and free from lethargy, fight." "Those persons who execute their duties according to My injunctions and who follow this teaching faithfully, without envy, become free from the bondage of fruitive actions." "But those who, out of envy, disregard these teachings and do not follow them regularly are to be considered bereft of all knowledge, befooled, and ruined in their endeavors for perfection." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/30/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/31/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/32/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.1-3
"The Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, said: I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun-god, Vivasvān, and Vivasvān instructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Ikṣvāku." "This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that way. But in course of time the succession was broken, and therefore the science as it is appears to be lost." "That very ancient science of the relationship with the Supreme is today told by Me to you because you are My devotee as well as My friend and can therefore understand the transcendental mystery of this science." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/1/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/2/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/3/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.11
"As all surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/11/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.19-22
"One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker for whom the reactions of work have been burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge." "Abandoning all attachment to the results of his activities, ever satisfied and independent, he performs no fruitive action, although engaged in all kinds of undertakings." "Such a man of understanding acts with mind and intelligence perfectly controlled, gives up all sense of proprietorship over his possessions and acts only for the bare necessities of life. Thus working, he is not affected by sinful reactions." "He who is satisfied with gain which comes of its own accord, who is free from duality and does not envy, who is steady in both success and failure, is never entangled, although performing actions." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/19/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/20/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/21/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/22/
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 4.25-32
"Some yogīs perfectly worship the demigods by offering different sacrifices to them, and some offer sacrifices in the fire of the Supreme Brahman." "Some [the unadulterated brahmacārīs] sacrifice the hearing process and the senses in the fire of mental control, and others [the regulated householders] sacrifice the objects of the senses in the fire of the senses." "Others, who are interested in achieving self-realization through control of the mind and senses, offer the functions of all the senses, and of the life breath, as oblations into the fire of the controlled mind." "Having accepted strict vows, some become enlightened by sacrificing their possessions, and others by performing severe austerities, by practicing the yoga of eightfold mysticism, or by studying the Vedas to advance in transcendental knowledge." "Still others, who are inclined to the process of breath restraint to remain in trance, practice by offering the movement of the outgoing breath into the incoming, and the incoming breath into the outgoing, and thus at last remain in trance, stopping all breathing. Others, curtailing the eating process, offer the outgoing breath into itself as a sacrifice." "All these performers who know the meaning of sacrifice become cleansed of sinful reactions, and, having tasted the nectar of the results of sacrifices, they advance toward the supreme eternal atmosphere." "O best of the Kuru dynasty, without sacrifice one can never live happily on this planet or in this life: what then of the next?" "All these different types of sacrifice are approved by the Vedas, and all of them are born of different types of work. Knowing them as such, you will become liberated." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/25/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/26/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/27/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/28/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/29/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/30/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/31/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/32/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.34
"Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/34/