Karmanye Vadhikaraste (Gita 2.47)
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।
You have the right to do your work, but never a right to its results. Do not make the hope of a reward your reason for acting…
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Yogasthah Kuru Karmani (Gita 2.48)
योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय ।
Stay steady in yoga, Dhananjaya (Arjuna), and do your work, letting go of attachment. Be the same in success and in failure. This…
Na Jayate Mriyate Va (Gita 2.20)
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः ।
This one, the self that lives in the body, is never born and never dies. It did not come into being at some time, and it will not…
Vasamsi Jirnani (Gita 2.22)
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।
As a person puts aside worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so the one who lives in the body puts aside worn-out bodies and…
Matrasparshas Tu Kaunteya (Gita 2.14)
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः ।
The touch of the senses with their objects, son of Kunti, brings cold and heat, pleasure and pain. They come and they go; they do…
Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya (Gita 4.7)
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
Whenever dharma (what is right) grows weak, Arjuna, and adharma (what is wrong) rises, then I send myself forth.
Paritranaya Sadhunam (Gita 4.8)
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
To protect the good, to put an end to the doing of wrong, and to set dharma firmly in its place, I come into being in age after…
Uddhared Atmanatmanam (Gita 6.5)
उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत् ।
Lift yourself up by your own effort; do not let yourself sink down. The self alone is its own friend, and the self alone is its…
Asamshayam Mahabaho (Gita 6.35)
असंशयं महाबाहो मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलम् ।
Without doubt, mighty-armed one, the mind is restless and hard to hold. But, son of Kunti, it can be held by practice and by…
Ananyash Chintayanto Mam (Gita 9.22)
अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जनाः पर्युपासते ।
Those people who think of Me with a single mind and worship Me, always steady in this devotion: I carry their yoga-kṣema.
Patram Pushpam Phalam Toyam (Gita 9.26)
पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति ।
Whoever offers Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water: I accept that offering made with love by one whose heart is…
Sarva Dharman Parityajya (Gita 18.66)
सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज ।
Give up all other dharmas and come to Me alone for refuge. I will free you from all wrongs. Do not grieve.
Yatra Yogeshwarah Krishno (Gita 18.78)
यत्र योगेश्वरः कृष्णो यत्र पार्थो धनुर्धरः ।
Where Krishna, the lord of yoga, is, and where Arjuna (Partha), the archer, is, there are good fortune, victory, well-being and…
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