Bhagavad Gita Quotes

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• Hold on to your unmoving, duality-free state. And you’ll be free of inner turmoil, even if you’re the very worst sinner.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 4.36.

• Self-doubts arise from self-ignorance. They vanish in your pure, duality-free state, the state of true self-knowledge.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 4.42.

• By holding on to your pure, duality-free state, you gain direct knowledge of that state. That’s true self-knowledge.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 4.41.

• Renounce duality-driven thoughts & actions. You’re then in your pure state, free from self-doubts & bonds of results.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 4.41.

• Dualities come & go. But the duality-free state is eternal, immortal – unending peace, constant joy. Hold on to it.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 2.14-15.

• Causes & results, including emotional opposites, are things that come & go. This knowledge helps you endure them all.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 2.14.

• Intentionally endure all emotional opposites; i.e. don’t give in to them. You’re then in the duality-free state beyond.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 2.14.

• Your pure, duality-free state is nothing but your inner state when you’re established in the present-moment attention.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 11.32.

• Just hold on to the present-moment attention constantly. All dualities that torment you get destroyed automatically.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 11.32.

• Pure, duality-free attention is the sacrificial fire in which that attention burns up all your attachment to dualities.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 11.19.

• Pure attention is eternal, as it renounces all dualities & stays duality-free. It has no beginning, middle, end.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 11.16-11.19.

• Renounce your inner dependence on results. And stay unmoved in attention. Actions & results can’t distress you then.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 3.30-3.31.

• Yielding to dualities is the real act of cowardice. Shake off your fear of casting them off. Get up & go on fighting them.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 2.3.

• Yielding to dualities is an evil & foolish act. That won’t help you achieve inner perfection or worldly success.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 2.2.

• The real sign of weakness in anyone is yielding to dualities & running away from their overriding duty of the moment.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 2.2.

• Dualities make you shirk your worldly duties & occupy yourself with dishonourable things instead. So stay unmoved by them.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 2.33.

• Refusing to yield to dualities is your sacred duty. Do it; stay unmoved by them. Or your mind’ll be in constant turmoil.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 2.33.

• Fire turns firewood to ash. Self-knowledge turns to ash all actions of dualities on your mind & brings you inner peace.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 4.37.

• As it exists in all living beings & is the same in all, the duality-free state is the one all-pervading state there is.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 10.12.

• Don’t yield to dualities. You then remain purged of those impurities. So the duality-free state is the Supreme Purifier.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 10.12.

• The duality-free state is the impurity-free state of the self; so it’s the same in all. So it’s the Supreme Self-of-all.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 10.12.

• Learn to keep your attention focused constantly on the moment-to-moment reality around you. & you’re duality-free, calm.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 2.45.

• To perfect your mind, keep it intentionally duality-free. This is meditation on the duality-free state, the Divine in you.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 8.8.

• Every day, you do a lot to perfect your physical body. But what do you do to perfect your mind, to purge it of dualities?
- See Bhagavad Gita, 8.8.

• Verbal learning of scriptures & motivated sacrifices, penance & charity can’t show you reality as it truly is.
- See Bhagavad Gita, 11.48, 11.53.