- कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।
- मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥ (2.47)
- "You have a right to perform your actions, but never to the fruits of your actions. Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction."
- समः शत्रौ च मित्रे च तथा मानापमानयोः ।
- शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु समः सङ्गविवर्जितः ॥ (6.9)
- "He who is equal to friend and foe, in honor and dishonor, in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and free from attachment, such a person is dear to Me."
- स्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेयः परधर्मो भयावहः ॥ (3.35)
- "It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection."
- दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमना: सुखेषु विगतस्पृह: ।
- वीतरागभयक्रोध: स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते ॥ (2.56)
- "One whose mind remains undisturbed amid sorrow, free from craving in pleasure, and free from attachment, fear, and anger, such a person is of steady wisdom."
- त्यक्त्वा कर्मफलासङ्गं नित्यतृप्तो निराश्रयः ।
- कर्मण्यभिप्रवृत्तोऽपि नैव किञ्चित्करोति सः ॥ (4.20)
- "Abandoning attachment to the results of his actions, ever content and independent, he acts but does not engage in selfish action."
- त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः ।
- कामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत् ॥ (16.21):
- Desire, anger, and greed, these three are the gates of hell, leading to the destruction of the soul. Therefore, one should abandon them.
- Closing:
- The Gita doesn’t romanticize emotions, it refines them. Love is not defined by the height of passion, but by the depth of steadiness. It does not demand perfection, because it is not built on illusion. It can wait, because it is not afraid. And it gives, because it does not need to take.
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- "नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः।
- उभयोरपि दृष्टोऽन्तस्त्वनयोस्तत्त्वदर्शिभिः॥"
- (Bhagavad Gita 2.16)
- "The unreal has no existence; the real never ceases to be. The seers of truth have concluded the same about both."The Gita doesn’t diminish your feelings. It only asks: were you loving them, or the version of them in your head? There’s a difference. One is grounded. The other is wishful thinking with great lighting. One is rooted. The other is imagined. And illusions, no matter how beautiful, don’t survive time.
- "अशोच्यानन्वशोचस्त्वं प्रज्ञावादांश्च भाषसे।
- गतासूनगतासूंश्च नानुशोचन्ति पण्डिताः॥"
- (Bhagavad Gita 2.11)
- "You grieve for those who should not be grieved for, and yet speak words of wisdom. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead."
- "देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा।
- तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति॥"
- (Bhagavad Gita 2.13)
- "Just as the boyhood, youth and old age come to the embodied Soul in this body, in the same manner, is the attaining of another body; the wise man is not deluded at that."
- "कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
- मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥"
- (Bhagavad Gita 2.47)
- "You have the right to perform your actions, but never to the fruits. Do not be motivated by the fruits of actions, nor attach yourself to inaction."
- "यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत।
- अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्॥"
- (Bhagavad Gita 4.7)
- "Whenever there is decline of righteousness and rise of unrighteousness, O Arjuna, then I manifest Myself."
- "विहाय कामान्यः सर्वान्पुमांश्चरति निःस्पृहः।
- निर्ममो निरहङ्कारः स शान्तिमधिगच्छति॥"
- (Bhagavad Gita 2.71)
- "That person who abandons all desires, who lives free from longing, without the sense of 'I' and 'mine', he attains peace."
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