Selfish action imprisons the world. Act selflessly, without any thought of personal profit.

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Shrimad Bhagavad Gita

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita is the holy book of Hindus. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita is one of the most influential treatises in eastern philosophy. The Shrimad Bhagavad Gita is the eternal message of spiritual wisdom from ancient India. Bhagavad Gita is 5151 years old yet it is still absolutely new and relevant in today's time. Gita apart from being a religious scripture, is a scripture of life as well.

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The Gita is not a book of commandments but a book of choice.

Ashish

We behold what we are, and we are what we behold.

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The true goal of action is knowledge of the Self.

Ashish

“Tat tvam asi”: “Thou art That”: “Atman is Brahman”: The Self in each person is not different from the Godhead.

Ashish

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. We are made of our thoughts; we are molded by our thoughts.

Ashish

Reshape yourself through the power of your will; never let yourself be degraded by self-will. The will is the only friend of the Self, and the will is the only enemy of the Self.

Ashish

The Gita places human destiny entirely in human hands. Its world is not deterministic, but neither is it an expression of blind chance: we shape ourselves and our world by what we believe and think and act on, whether for good or for ill.

Ashish

Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.

Ashish

Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.

Ashish

There is more to life than the everyday experience of our senses.

Ashish

They live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Ashish

When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.

Ashish

The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.

Ashish

How can you truly love the one you're with when you can't forget the one who got away?

Ashish

Lust, anger, and greed are the three doors to hell.

Ashish

The very heart of the Gita’s message is to see the Lord in every creature and act accordingly.

Ashish

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world and lost your soul. Was it worth it

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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