bhagwat geeta chap2-3
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Krishna Gita
Wisdom of Bhagvad Gita. Perennial Hindu Philosophy for Guidance
and Better Living.
Selected Verse Messages from Chapter 2 & 3
A Dialogue between Lord Krishna and Disciple Friend Arjuna.
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While you speak words of wisdom like a Pandit, you aremourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are
wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.
Gita 2/11
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Just as in this body, the embodied soul continuously passes,
from boyhood to youth and to old age, the soul similarlypasses into another body at death. A sober person is not
bewildered by such a change.
Gita 2/13
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the impermanent appearance of pain and pleasure, and their
disappearance in due course, is like the appearance and disappearance
of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception.
Therefore one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.
Gita 2/14
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The person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and
is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation.
Gita 2/15
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One who has taken birth is sure to die, and after death one issure to take birth again. In that period of time between birth
and death there are certain unavoidable duties which you must
discharge not sadly and unwillingly but happily, mindfully and
with vigour.
Gita 2/27
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Your right is to perform your duty, but you are not entitled
to its fruits. Never consider yourself the cause of the resultsof your activities, and never be attached to not doing your
duty.
Gita 2/47
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Maintain your equanimity towards success or failure. Such
equanimity is called yoga.
Gita 2/ 48
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One should keep a far distant from abominableactivities. Those who want to enjoy the fruits of
their good work are also misers.
Gita 2/49
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When a man gives up all sensual desire which arise
from mental concoction, and his mind findssatisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be a
man of steady intellect established in pure
transcendental consciousness.
Gita 2/55
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He who is free from
attachment, who does
not rejoice when heobtains good, nor lament
when he obtains evil, is
firmly fixed in perfect
knowledge.
Gita 2/57
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The embodied soul may
be restricted from
sensuous enjoyment
because of illness or
weakness, but the longingfor sense objects remains.
But this longing can also
cease by experiencing a
higher taste of realizing
the Supreme.
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But the sensual desires are so strong and impetuous, that theyforcibly carry away the mind even of a wise-man who is endeavoring
to control them. But still he should strive to control them
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While contemplating the objects of the senses, a persondevelops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust
develops, and from lust (when not fulfilled) anger arises.
Gita 2/62
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From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion
bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered,
intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls
down again into the destruction pool and perishes.
Gita 2/ 63
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One whose senses are restrained from
their objects is certainly of steady
intelligence.
Gita 2/68
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A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of
desiresthat enter like rivers into the ocean. Ocean
being filled with water but remains unmovedcan
alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to
satisfy such desires.
Gita 2/70
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Verily, all men are forced to act helplessly according to the
impulses born of the modes of material nature; therefore no
one can refrain from doing something, not even for a
moment
Gita 3/5
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He who, restrains his organs of action but dwellsmentally in the sense objects is of deluded
understanding and is a hypocrite.
Gita 3/6
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Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction.
A man cannot even maintain his physical body without work.
Gita 3/8
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A self-realized man has
no purpose to fulfill in
the discharge of his
prescribed duties, nor
has he any reason not
to perform such work.
He depends on no one
for the fulfillment of
any selfish purpose.
Gita 3/18
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Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of
activities, one should act as a matter of duty; for by
working without attachment, man attains the Supreme.
Gita 3/19
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Whatever action is performed by a great man, common
men follow in his footsteps. And whatever standards he
sets by exemplary acts, all the world (people) follows.
Gita 3/21
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As the ignorantperform their duties
with attachment to
results, similarly the
learned may also act,but without
attachment, for the
sake of leading
people on the right
path.
Gita 3/25
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The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the threemodes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of
activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature.
Gita 3/27
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Attraction and repulsion for sense objects are felt by embodied
beings, but one should not fall under the control of senses andsense objects because they are stumbling blocks on the path of
self-realization.
Gita 3/34
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Therefore, O Arjuna, in
the very beginning curb
this great symbol of sin
[lust] by regulating the
senses, and kill this
destroyer of knowledge
and wisdom.
Gita 3/41