Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
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 3.36-37
"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 3.40-41
"The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust. Through them lust covers the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him." "Therefore, O Arjuna, best of the Bhāratas, in the very beginning curb this great symbol of sin [lust] by regulating the senses, and slay this destroyer of knowledge and self-realization." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/40/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/41/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.42
"The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and he [the soul] is even higher than the intelligence." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/42/
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 5.8-9
"A person in the divine consciousness, although engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving about, sleeping and breathing, always knows within himself that he actually does nothing at all. Because while speaking, evacuating, receiving, or opening or closing his eyes, he always knows that only the material senses are engaged with their objects and that he is aloof from them." Bhagavad-Gītā 5.8-9
Bhagavad-Gītā 5.22-23
"An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kuntī, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them." "Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force of desire and anger, he is well situated and is happy in this world." https://vedy.online/en/bg/5/22/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/5/23/
Bhagavad-Gītā 6.2
"What is called renunciation you should know to be the same as yoga, or linking oneself with the Supreme, O son of Pāṇḍu, for one can never become a yogī unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification." https://vedy.online/en/bg/6/2/
Bhagavad-Gītā 6.11-12
"To practice yoga, one should go to a secluded place and should lay kuśa grass on the ground and then cover it with a deerskin and a soft cloth. The seat should be neither too high nor too low and should be situated in a sacred place. The yogī should then sit on it very firmly and practice yoga to purify the heart by controlling his mind, senses and activities and fixing the mind on one point." Bhagavad-Gītā 6.11-12
Bhagavad-Gītā 8.12
"The yogic situation is that of detachment from all sensual engagements. Closing all the doors of the senses and fixing the mind on the heart and the life air at the top of the head, one establishes himself in yoga." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/12/
Bhagavad-Gītā 15.8-9
"The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another, as the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take another." "The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects." https://vedy.online/en/bg/15/8/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/15/9/
Bhagavad-Gītā 16.4 & 7-10
"Pride, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness and ignorance – these qualities belong to those of demoniac nature, O son of Pṛthā." "Those who are demoniac do not know what is to be done and what is not to be done. Neither cleanliness nor proper behavior nor truth is found in them." "They say that this world is unreal, with no foundation, no God in control. They say it is produced of sex desire and has no cause other than lust." "Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world." "Taking shelter of insatiable lust and absorbed in the conceit of pride and false prestige, the demoniac, thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent." https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/4/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/7/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/8/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/9/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/10/