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.

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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.

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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

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