Juan Mascaró

'The Bhagavad Gita' is an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry. It describes how, at the beginning of a mighty battle between the Pandava and Kaurava armies, the god Krishna gives spiritual enlightenment to the warrior Arjuna, who realizes that the true battle is for his own soul.

The Bhagavad Gita

Laura Mei

One should remember man's spirit as the guide, the primordial poet, smaller than an atom, granter of all things, in form inconceivable, the color of the sun beyond darkness.

Our bodies are known to end, but the embodied self is enduring, indestructible, and immeasurable; therefore, Arjuna, fight the battle!

When he gives up desires in his mind, is content with the self within himself, then he is said to be a man whose insight is sure.

When ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the self, then, like the sun, knowledge illumines ultimate reality.

He should elevate himself by the self, not degrade himself; for the self is its own friend and its own worst foe. The self is a friend of a man who masters himself through the self, but for a man without self-mastery, the self is like an enemy at war.

Indestructible is the presence that pervades all this — the self embodied in the body of every being; no one can destroy this unchanging reality.

The Bhagavad Gita quotes

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