No work stains an individual who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all.
No work stains an individual who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all.
They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego-cage of ‘I’, ‘me’, and ‘mine’ to be united with the Lord. Attain to this, and pass from death to immortality.
The true nature of action is very difficult to understand. Therefore, one should know the nature of attached, detached and forbidden actions.
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
Whenever there is a decline of righteousness, O Arjuna, and the rise of unrighteousness, then I manifest myself.
That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me – with such a one I am in love.
Concerned alone with the upholding of the world, you should act. Whatever the best man does, others do that also. The world follows the standard he sets for himself.
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
By this attitude of complete renunciation you shall be freed from bondage, good and bad, of karma. You shall be liberated, and come to Me.
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense - world into the sea of peace that is the sage.