Bhagavad-Gita As It Is Quotes

“Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ultimate abode, the purest, the Absolute Truth. You are the eternal, transcendental, original person, the unborn, the greatest. All the great sages such as Nārada, Asita, Devala and Vyāsa confirm this truth about You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me. O Kṛṣṇa, I totally accept as truth all that You have told me.”
― Anonymous, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

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― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“Kṛṣṇa conscious man does not take shelter of any person – man or demigod. Whatever he does in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is sufficient in the discharge of his obligation.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“As a blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“Even if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“Food prepared more than three hours before being eaten, food that is tasteless, decomposed and putrid, and food consisting of remnants and untouchable things is dear to those in the mode of darkness.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“He thus makes all things complicated, and he is always in trouble.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“Those who want to enjoy the fruits of their work are misers.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“This material nature is My inferior prakṛti, but beyond this is another prakṛti – jīva-bhūtām, the living entities.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“The living being cannot be supremely conscious at any stage of his perfection, and the theory that he can be so is a misleading theory. Conscious he may be, but he is not perfectly or supremely conscious.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“we stated that of the five items (īśvara, jīva, prakṛti, time and karma) four are eternal, whereas karma is not eternal.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“O day of darkness! What evil spirit moved our minds when for the sake of an earthly kingdom we came to this field of battle ready to kill our own people?”
― Anonymous, Bagavad Gita

“You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is

“loss of mental equilibrium take place in persons who are too affected by material conditions”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“Therefore the process of devotional service is always a success.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“Modern man has struggled very hard to reach the moon, but he has not tried very hard to elevate himself spiritually.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“When we are materially contaminated, we are called conditioned. False consciousness is exhibited under the impression that I am a product of material nature. This is called false ego.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“Therefore those who begin to question why they are suffering or where they came from and where they shall go after death are proper students for understanding Bhagavad-gītā.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“As children are very prone to be misled, women are similarly very prone to degradation. Therefore, both children and women require protection by the elder members of the family. By being engaged in various religious practices, women will not be misled into adultery. According to Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, women are generally not very intelligent and therefore not trustworthy. So the different family traditions of religious activities should always engage them, and thus their chastity and devotion will give birth to a good population eligible for participating in the varṇāśrama”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“One cannot have a taste of honey unless one opens the bottle. Similarly, the mysticism of the Bhagavad-gītā can be understood only by devotees, and no one else can taste it, as it is stated in the Fourth Chapter of the book. Nor can the Gītā be touched by persons who envy the very existence of the Lord.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception,”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“In the Vedānta-sūtras the living entity is qualified as light because he is part and parcel of the supreme light. As sunlight maintains the entire universe, so the light of the soul maintains this material body.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“The soul is full of knowledge, or full always with consciousness. Therefore, consciousness is the symptom of the soul. Even if one does not find the soul within the heart, where he is situated, one can still understand the presence of the soul simply by the presence of consciousness. Sometimes we do not find the sun in the sky owing to clouds, or for some other reason, but the light of the sun is always there, and we are convinced that it is therefore daytime. As soon as there is a little light in the sky early in the morning, we can understand that the sun is in the sky. Similarly, since there is some consciousness in all bodies – whether man or animal – we can understand the presence of the soul.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“Lord Kṛṣṇa blew His conchshell, called Pāñcajanya; Arjuna blew his, the Devadatta; and Bhīma, the voracious eater and performer of herculean tasks, blew his terrific conchshell, called Pauṇḍra.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“King Yudhiṣṭhira, the son of Kuntī, blew his conchshell, the Ananta-vijaya, and Nakula and Sahadeva blew the Sughoṣa and Maṇipuṣpaka. That great archer the King of Kāśī, the great fighter Śikhaṇḍī, Dhṛṣṭadyumna, Virāṭa, the unconquerable Sātyaki, Drupada, the sons of Draupadī, and others, O King, such as the mighty-armed son of Subhadrā, all blew their respective conchshells.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“A person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is pure in his existence, and consequently he has nothing to do with any work which depends upon five immediate and remote causes: the doer, the work, the situation, the endeavor and fortune.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“One who takes shelter of the Supreme Lord has nothing to fear, even in the midst of the greatest calamity.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“Those who are beyond the dualities that arise from doubts, whose minds are engaged within, who are always busy working for the welfare of all living beings, and who are free from all sins achieve liberation in the Supreme.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“But the devotees of the Lord are more kind than the Lord because they understand the purpose of the Lord. Consequently they undertake all kinds of risks, even to the point of approaching ignorant men to try to engage them in the acts of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which are absolutely necessary for the human being.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-gita As It Is