Verses

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 3.29

"Bewildered by the modes of material nature, the ignorant fully engage themselves in material activities and become attached. But the wise should not unsettle them, although these duties are inferior due to the performers’ lack of knowledge." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/29/

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 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 3.35

"It is far better to discharge one’s prescribed duties, even though faultily, than another’s duties perfectly. Destruction in the course of performing one’s own duty is better than engaging in another’s duties, for to follow another’s path is dangerous." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/35/

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 3.38

"As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, the living entity is similarly covered by different degrees of this lust." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/38/

Bhagavad-Gītā 3.39

"Thus the wise living entity’s pure consciousness becomes covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and which burns like fire." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/39/

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 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 4.1-3

"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/