Bhagavad Gita

What is work? and what is not work? are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

There is no purifier like knowledge in this world: / time makes man find himself in his heart.

When he has no lust, no hatred, / A man walks safely among the things of lust and hatred

All mankind / Is born for perfection / And each shall attain it / Will he but follow / His nature’s duty.

He knows peace who has forgotten desire.

The raft of knowledge ferries the worst sinner to safety.

Wisdom is prevented by ignorance, and delusion is the result.

A man consists of the faith that is in him. Whatever his faith is, he is.

Renunciation and activity both liberate, / but to work is better than to renounce.

Unreal is action without discipline, charity without sympathy, ritual without devotion.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart when we expect nothing in return.

Only by love can men see me, and know me, and come unto me.

I [Krishna] am all-powerful Time which destroys all things, and I have come here to slay these men. Even if thou does not fight, all the warriors facing thee shall die. ch. 11, v. 32; see Oppenheimer 253:17

If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die.

textual translations are those of J. Mascaro, 1978

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