80 Quotes by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Mahabharata – whatever is not contained in this is not to be found anywhere.

When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently, Arjuna. Those who are not affected by these changes, who are the same in pleasure and pain, are truly wise and fit for immortality.

Your own duty done imperfectly is better than another man’s done well.

Therefore “yoga is skill in action,” because this kind of detachment is required if one is to act in freedom, rather than merely react to events compelled by conditioning.

Guna means strand, and in the Gita the gunas are described as the very fabric of existence, the veil that hides unity in a covering of diversity.

If our eyes were sensitive to a much finer spectrum, we might see the world as a continuous field of matter and energy.

When your mind has overcome the confusion of duality, you will attain the state of holy indifference to things you hear and things you have heard.

Earth, water, fire, air, akasha, mind, intellect, and ego – these are the eight divisions of my prakriti.

In profound meditation, they found, when consciousness is so acutely focused that it is utterly withdrawn from the body and mind, it enters a kind of singularity in which the sense of a separate ego disappears. In this state, the supreme climax of meditation, the seers discovered a core of consciousness beyond time and change. They called it simply Atman, the Self.