46 Quotes About Bhagavad-gita

From anger arises delusion; from delusion, confusion of memory; from confusion of memory, loss of reason; and from loss of reason one goes to complete ruin. ( Chapter- II, Shloka- 63)

...where there is One, that One is me; where there are many, all are me; they see my face everywhere.The Bhagavad Gita

Ein großes kosmisches Spiel. Lila ist das Sanskrit-Wort dafür. Es ist Maya, eine große Illusion, denn die einzige Wirklichkeit ist DAS, vor dessen Augen sich dieses Spiel vollzieht: Atman. Unsere Essenz. (s. 64)

Maya, die Ursache von samsara, der Glaube, dass die Realität eine Dualität ist und dass die Objekte Freude in sich bergen, ist eine wunderbare, intelligente Kraft, eine machtvolle Verführerin, welche die Welt anziehend und aufregend erscheinen lässt. In der „Bhagavad Gita“ warnt Kṛṣṇa: „Diese, meine göttliche maya, bestehend aus drei gunas, ist wahrlich schwer zu begreifen. Nur jene, die sich mir ergeben, können sie überwinden.“ (Bhagavad Gita 7.14) (S. 138)

Why does Sri Krishna say in the Gita that whenever the evil forces raise their head he appears on earth to support the righteous ones? Why does he rather not bring a final end to the perpetual fight between good and evil, instead? Why should evil rise again and again? Mankind is tired of perpetually facing the onslaught of evil. Why does it not get crushed once and for all? Why does God not make it happen? This question often puzzles us.

If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendour of the Mighty One...I am become Death,The shatterer of worlds.[Quoted from the Bhagavad Gita after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.]

Lord Krishna taught Arjuna, the bhagavad gita; What might have been the teaching of Saguni to Duryodhana? Will it be the same?

Reading holy books is both the extraordinary measures of extraordinary times and the extraordinary times of extraordinary measures

Your wealth, spouse, children, relatives and friends do not follow you in the end, but Dharma does. Embrace it. Dharma is your real companion, follower, friend and relative. from the holy book Bhagavad Gita