0 Bhagavad Gita selected verses

The children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 8:12

Trivia: What did Jesus say you should you do if your right eye offends you?

Bhagavad Gita: Selected Verses

  1. O Krishna, ... My limbs fail and my mouth is parched, my body quivers, and my hair stands on end, ... my skin burns all over, I am not able to stand, my mind is whirling.   1:29
  2. Owing to predominance of lawlessness, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupt; women corrupted, O Vârshneya, there ariseth caste confusion; This confusion draggeth to hell the slayers of the family.   1:41
  3. By these caste-confusing misdeeds of the slayers of the family, the everlasting caste customs and family customs are abolished.   1:43
  4. The abode of the men whose family customs are extinguished, O Janârdana, is everlastingly in hell.   1:44
  5. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.   2:11
  6. Nor at any time verily was I not, nor thou ... nor verily shall we ever cease to be, hereafter.   2:12
  7. The dweller in the body ... passeth he on to another body; the steadfast one grieveth not thereat.   2:13
  8. These bodies of the embodied One, who is eternal, indestructible and immeasurable, are known as finite. Therefore fight.   2:18
  9. He who regardeth this as a slayer, and he who thinketh he is slain, both of them are ignorant. He slayeth not, nor is he slain.   2:19
  10. He ... is not slain when the body is slaughtered.   2:20
  11. As a man, casting off worn-out garments, taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, casting off worn-out bodies, entereth into others that are new.   2:22
  12. Thou shouldst not grieve.   2:25
  13. Certain is birth for the dead; therefore over the inevitable thou shouldst not grieve.   2:27
  14. Thou shouldst not grieve for any creature.   2:30
  15. There is nothing more welcome to a Kshattriya [warrior caste] than righteous war.   2:31
  16. Happy the Kshattriyas [members of the warrior caste] ... who obtain such a fight, offered unsought as an open door to heaven.   2:32
  17. If thou wilt not carry on this righteous warfare, ... many unseemly words will be spoken by thine enemies, slandering thy strength; what more painful than that?   2:33
  18. If thou wilt not carry on this righteous warfare, ... The great car-warriors will think thee fled from the battle from fear.   2:33
  19. If thou wilt not carry on this righteous warfare, then casting away thine own duty and thine honour, thou wilt incur sin.   2:33
  20. If thou wilt not carry on this righteous warfare, ... men will recount thy perpetual dishonour, and, to one highly esteemed, dishonour exceedeth death.   2:33
  21. Slain, thou wilt obtain heaven; victorious, thou wilt enjoy the earth; therefore stand up, O son of Kuntî, resolute to fight.   2:37
  22. Gird thee for the battle; thus thou shalt not incur sin.   2:38
  23. United to the Pure Reason one abandoneth here both good and evil deeds.   2:50
  24. Nourish ye the Shining Ones, and may the Shining Ones nourish you; thus nourishing one another ye shall reap the supremest good.   3:11
  25. The righteous, who eat the remains of the sacrifice, are freed from all sins; but the impious, who dress food for their own sakes, they verily eat sin.   3:13
  26. If I [Krishna] did not perform action; I should be the author of confusion of castes, and should destroy these creatures.   3:24
  27. The wise act without attachment, desiring the welfare of the world.   3:25
  28. Who carp at My teaching and act not thereon, senseless, deluded in all knowledge, know thou these mindless ones as fated to be destroyed.   3:32
  29. Though unborn ... yet I [Krishna] am born through My own Power.   4:6
  30. Whenever there is decay of righteousness ... then I [Krishna] Myself come forth.   4:7
  31. They who long after success in action on earth worship the Shining Ones.   4:12
  32. The four castes were emanated by Me ... know Me to be the author of them.   4:13
  33. Renounce all actions and rest in the nine-gated city.   5:13
  34. Sages look equally on a Brâhmana adorned with learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, and even a dog and an outcaste.   5:18
  35. The Self the friend of the self, and also the Self the self's enemy.   6:5
  36. Let the Yogî constantly engage himself ... on a fixed seat of his own, neither very much raised nor very low, made of a cloth, a black antelope skin, and kusha grass, one over the other.   6:10
  37. There is nothing more here needeth to be known.   7:2
  38. Earth, water, fire, air, ether, Mind, and Reason also and Egoism—these are the eightfold division of My nature.   7:4
  39. I the sapidity in waters, ... and virility in men.   7:8
  40. Whosoever at the end abandoneth the body, thinking upon any being, to that being only he goeth.   8:6
  41. "Aum!" the one syllabled Eternal, reciting, thinking upon Me, he who goeth forth, abandoning the body, he goeth on the highest path.   8:13
  42. He who constantly thinketh upon Me, not thinking ever of another, of him I am easily reached, O Pârtha, of this ever-harmonised Yogî.   8:14
  43. The foolish disregard Me ... Empty of hope, empty of deeds, empty of wisdom, senseless, partaking of the deceitful, brutal and demoniacal nature.   9:11
  44. They who take refuge with Me, O Partha, though of the womb of sin, women, Vaishyas, even Shûdras, they also tread the highest path.   9:32
  45. I am the gambling of the cheat.   10:36
  46. O God, the Gods I see ... With mouths, eyes, arms, breasts multitudinous.   11:15
  47. Thy mighty Form, with many mouths and eyes, Long armed, with thighs and feet innumerate, Vast-bosomed, set with many fearful teeth.   11:23
  48. Into Thy gaping mouths they hurrying rush, Tremendous-toothed and terrible to see; Some caught within the gaps between Thy teeth Are seen, their heads to powder crushed and ground.   11:27
  49. On every side, all-swallowing, fiery-tongued, Thou lickest up mankind, devouring all.   11:30
  50. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. (J. Robert Oppenheimer quote)   11:32
  51. Time am I, laying desolate the world, Made manifest on earth to slay mankind!   11:32
  52. Therefore stand up! win for thyself renown, Conquer thy foes, enjoy the wealth filled realm, By Me they are already overcome.   11:33
  53. All the other warriors here, Are slain by Me. Destroy them fearlessly. Fight! thou shalt crush thy rivals in the field.   11:34
  54. Put on again Thy four-armed shape, O Lord, O thousand-armed.   11:46
  55. They who with mind fixed on Me [Krishna] ... these, in My opinion, are best in yoga.   12:2
  56. He who neither loveth nor hateth, nor grieveth, nor desireth, renouncing good and evil, full of devotion, he is dear to Me.   12:17
  57. He who thus knoweth Spirit and Matter ..., he shall not be born again.   13:24
  58. My womb is the great Eternal.   14:3
  59. In whatsoever wombs mortals are produced ... the great Eternal is their womb, I their generating father.   14:4
  60. I digest the four kinds of food.   15:14
  61. Twofold is the animal creation in this world, the divine and the demoniacal.   16:6
  62. These haters, evil, pitiless, vilest among men in the world, I ever throw down into demoniacal wombs.   16:19
  63. Cast into demoniacal wombs, deluded birth after birth, attaining not to Me ... they sink into the lowest depths.   16:20
  64. He who is free from the egoistic notion, whose Reason is not affected, though he slay these peoples, he slayeth not.   18:17
  65. Congenital duty ... ought not to be abandoned.   18:48
  66. If from egoism thou wilt not listen, thou shalt be destroyed utterly.   18:58
  67. Merge thy mind in Me [Krishna], be my devotee, sacrifice to Me, prostrate thyself before Me   18:65
  68. Sanjaya said: I heard this marvellous dialogue of Vâsudeva, and of the great-souled Partha, causing my hair to stand on end.   18:74
  69. Wherever is Krishna, Yoga's Lord, wherever is Pârtha, the archer, assured are there prosperity, victory and happiness. So I think.   18:78

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