(464 quotes found)
“I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.”
Bhagavad Gita
“For he who has no tranquility there is no concentration.”
“Living in solitude, eating lightly, controlling the thought, word, and deed; ever absorbed in yoga of meditation, and taking refuge in detachment.”
“Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.”
“He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger is a saint and is happy.”
“An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.”
“The desire for sensual pleasures fades away if one abstains from sense enjoyment, but the craving [for sense enjoyment] remains. The craving also disappears from the one who has seen [or known] the Supreme.”
“Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my separted material energies”
“The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.”
“Karma-yoga is a supreme secret indeed.”
