Verses
Verse topic
Verse source
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.3-5
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O sinless Arjuna, I have already explained that there are two classes of men who try to realize the self. Some are inclined to understand it by empirical, philosophical speculation, and others by devotional service." "Not by merely abstaining from work can one achieve freedom from reaction, nor by renunciation alone can one attain perfection." "Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he has acquired from the modes of material nature; therefore no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/3/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/4/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/5/
Bhagavad-Gītā 3.43
"Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to the material senses, mind and intelligence, O mighty-armed Arjuna, one should steady the mind by deliberate spiritual intelligence [Kṛṣṇa consciousness] and thus – by spiritual strength – conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/43/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.42
"Therefore the doubts which have arisen in your heart out of ignorance should be slashed by the weapon of knowledge. Armed with yoga, O Bhārata, stand and fight." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/42/
Bhagavad-Gītā 5.3
"One who neither hates nor desires the fruits of his activities is known to be always renounced. Such a person, free from all dualities, easily overcomes material bondage and is completely liberated, O mighty-armed Arjuna." https://vedy.online/en/bg/5/3/
Bhagavad-Gītā 5.11
"The yogīs, abandoning attachment, act with body, mind, intelligence and even with the senses, only for the purpose of purification." https://vedy.online/en/bg/5/11/
Bhagavad-Gītā 5.20
"A person who neither rejoices upon achieving something pleasant nor laments upon obtaining something unpleasant, who is self-intelligent, who is unbewildered, and who knows the science of God is already situated in transcendence." https://vedy.online/en/bg/5/20/
Bhagavad-Gītā 5.27-28
"Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping the eyes and vision concentrated between the two eyebrows, suspending the inward and outward breaths within the nostrils, and thus controlling the mind, senses and intelligence, the transcendentalist aiming at liberation becomes free from desire, fear and anger. One who is always in this state is certainly liberated." Bhagavad-Gītā 5.27-28
Bhagavad-Gītā 6.1
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: One who is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligated is in the renounced order of life, and he is the true mystic, not he who lights no fire and performs no duty." https://vedy.online/en/bg/6/1/
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 6.3
"For one who is a neophyte in the eightfold yoga system, work is said to be the means; and for one who is already elevated in yoga, cessation of all material activities is said to be the means." https://vedy.online/en/bg/6/3/
Bhagavad-Gītā 6.4
"A person is said to be elevated in yoga when, having renounced all material desires, he neither acts for sense gratification nor engages in fruitive activities." https://vedy.online/en/bg/6/4/
Bhagavad-Gītā 6.7
"For one who has conquered the mind, the Supersoul is already reached, for he has attained tranquillity. To such a man happiness and distress, heat and cold, honor and dishonor are all the same." https://vedy.online/en/bg/6/7/