Sanjaya said: To him, who was thus overcome with pity, despondent, with eyes ful...
The Blessed Lord said, "From whence has this perilous strait come upon you, this...
Do not yield to impotence, O Arjuna, son of Pritha. It does not befit you. Cast ...
Arjuna said, "O Madhusudana, how can I fight in battle with arrows against Bhish...
Better it is, indeed, in this world to accept alms than to slay the most noble t...
I can hardly tell which would be better, that we should conquer them or that the...
My heart is overpowered by the taint of pity; my mind is confused as to my duty....
I do not see that this sorrow that burns up my senses would be removed, even if ...
Sanjaya said: Having spoken thus to Hrishikesha, the Lord of the senses, Arjuna,...
To him who was despondent in the midst of the two armies, Krishna, smiling, O Bh...
The Blessed Lord said, "You have grieved for those who should not be grieved for...
Nor, at any time, was I not, nor thou, nor these rulers of men; nor, verily, sha...
Just as the embodied soul passes through childhood, youth, and old age in this b...
The contact of the senses with the objects, O son of Kunti, which causes heat an...
That firm man, whom surely these afflictions do not, O chief among men, to whom ...
The unreal has no being; there is no non-being of the real; the truth about both...
Know that to be indestructible, by which all this is pervaded. No one can cause ...
These bodies of the embodied Self, which are eternal, indestructible, and immeas...
He who takes the Self to be the slayer and he who thinks it is slain, neither of...
It is not born, nor does it ever die; after having been, it again does not cease...
Whoever knows it to be indestructible, eternal, unborn, and inexhaustible, how c...
Just as a man casts off worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so too the embodi...
Weapons cannot cut it, fire cannot burn it, water cannot wet it, wind cannot dry...
This Self cannot be cut, burned, wetted, nor dried up; it is eternal, all-pervas...
This Self is said to be unmanifested, unthinkable, and unchangeable. Therefore, ...
But even if thou thinkest of It as constantly being born and constantly dying, e...
For the born, death is certain, and for the dead, birth is certain; therefore, y...
Beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their middle state, O Arju...
One sees this (the Self) as a wonder; another speaks of it as a wonder; another ...
This indweller in the body of everyone is ever indestructible, O Arjuna; therefo...
Further, having regard to your duty, you should not waver, for there is nothing ...
Happy are the Kshatriyas, O Arjuna! who are called to fight in such a battle tha...
But if you will not fight this righteous war, then having abandoned your own dut...
People will also recount your everlasting dishonor; and for one who has been hon...
The great chariot-warriors will think that you have withdrawn from the battle ou...
Your enemies, scoffing at your power, will speak many abusive words—what could b...
Slain, you will obtain heaven; victorious, you will enjoy the earth; therefore, ...
Having made pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat equal, engage i...
This, which has been taught to you, is wisdom concerning Sankhya. Now listen to ...
In this, there is no loss of effort, nor is there any harm produced, nor any tra...
Here, O joy of the Kurus, there is only one single-pointed determination; many-b...
The unwise, taking pleasure in the eulogizing words of the Vedas, utter flowery ...
Full of desires, with heaven as their goal, (they speak words that are directed ...
For those who are attached to pleasure and power, whose minds are drawn away by ...
The Vedas deal with the three attributes; be thou above these three attributes. ...
To the Brahmana who has known the Self, all the Vedas are of as much use as a re...
Your right is only to work, but not to its results; do not let the results of ac...
Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and bal...
Far lower than the Yoga of wisdom is action, O Arjuna. Seek thou refuge in wisdo...
Endowed with wisdom and evenness of mind, one casts off in this life both good a...
The wise, possessing knowledge, having abandoned the fruits of their actions, an...
When your intellect passes beyond the mire of delusion, then you will attain ind...
When your intellect, which is perplexed by the Vedic texts you have read, stands...
Arjuna said, "O Krishna, what is the description of one who has steady wisdom an...
The Blessed Lord said, "When a man completely casts off, O Arjuna, all the desir...
He whose mind is not shaken by adversity, who does not long for pleasures, and i...
He who is everywhere without attachment, upon encountering anything good or bad,...
When, like the tortoise which withdraws all its limbs on all sides, he withdraws...
The objects of the senses turn away from the abstinent man, leaving the longing ...
The turbulent senses, O Arjuna, can violently carry away the mind of a wise pers...
Having restrained them all, he should sit steadfast, intent on Me; his wisdom is...
When one thinks of objects, attachment to them arises; from attachment, desire i...
Anger leads to delusion, which causes loss of memory; this, in turn, leads to th...
But the self-controlled man, moving among objects with the senses restrained and...
In that peace, all pains are destroyed; for the intellect of the tranquil-minded...
There is no knowledge of the Self for the unsteady, and no meditation is possibl...
For the mind, which follows in the wake of the wandering senses, carries away hi...
Therefore, O mighty-armed Arjuna, his knowledge is steady whose senses are compl...
That which is night to all beings, in that the self-controlled man is awake; whe...
He attains peace into whom all desires enter, just as waters enter the ocean whi...
That person attains peace who, abandoning all desires, moves about without longi...
O son of Pritha, this is the eternal state, the Brahmic seat. Attaining this, on...