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King inquired: Sanjaya, please tell me,
in details, what did my people and the
Pandavas do in the battlefield
before the war started? (1.01)
Sanjaya said: O King, Lord Krishna spoke
these words to Arjuna whose eyes were tearful and downcast, and who was
overwhelmed with compassion and despair. (2.01)
Lord Krishna said: You grieve for those
who are not worthy of grief, and yet speak words of wisdom. The wise
grieves neither for the living nor for the dead. (2.11)
Just as the soul acquires a childhood
body, a youth body, and an old age body during this life; similarly, the
soul acquires another body after death. This should not delude the wise.
(2.13)
Just as a person puts on new garments
after discarding the old ones; similarly, the living entity or the
individual soul acquires new bodies after casting away the old bodies. (2.22)
Treating pleasure and pain, gain and
loss, and victory and defeat alike, engage yourself in your duty. By
doing your duty this way you will not incur sin. (2.38)
You have control over doing your
respective duty only, but no control or claim over the results. The
fruits of work should not be your motive, and you should never be
inactive. (2.47)
A Karma-yogi or the selfless person
becomes free from both vice and virtue in this life itself. Therefore,
strive for selfless service. Working to the best of one’s abilities
without becoming selfishly attached to the fruits of work is called
Karma-yoga or Seva. (2.50)
Because the mind, when controlled by the
roving senses, steals away the intellect as a storm takes away a boat on
the sea from its destination ¾ the spiritual shore of peace and
happiness. (2.67)
The forces of Nature do all works. But
due to delusion of ignorance people assume themselves to be the doer. (3.27)
Thus, knowing the Self to be superior to
the intellect, and controlling the mind by the intellect that is
purified by spiritual practices, one must kill this mighty enemy, lust,
O Arjuna. (3.43)
Whenever there is a decline of Dharma Righteousness)
and a predominance of Adharma Unrighteousness),
O Arjuna, then I manifest Myself. I appear from time to time for
protecting the good, for transforming the wicked, and for establishing
world order Dharma). (4.07-08)
I created the four divisions of human
society based on aptitude and vocation. Though I am the author of this
system of the division of labor, one should know that I do nothing
directly and I am eternal. (4.13)
The one who sees inaction in action, and
action in inaction, is a wise person. Such a person is a yogi and has
accomplished everything. (4.18)
Spirit shall be realized by the one who
considers everything as a manifestation or an act of the Spirit. (4.24)
Verily, there is no purifier in this
world like the true knowledge of the Supreme Being. One discovers this
knowledge within, naturally, in course of time when one's mind is
cleansed of selfishness by Karma-yoga. (4.38)
But, true renunciation, O Arjuna, is
difficult to attain without Karma-yoga. A sage equipped with Karma-yoga
quickly attains Nirvana. (5.06)
One who does all work as an offering to
God — abandoning selfish attachment to the results — remains
untouched by Karmic reaction or sin as a lotus leaf never gets wet by
water. (5.10)
Those who perceive Me in everything and
behold everything in Me, are not separated from Me, and I am not
separated from them. (6.30)
Four types of virtuous ones worship or
seek Me, O Arjuna. They are: The distressed, the seeker of
Self-knowledge, the seeker of wealth, and the enlightened one who has
experienced the Supreme. (7.16)
After many births the enlightened one
resorts to Me by realizing that everything is, indeed, My or
Supreme Being’s)
manifestation. Such a great soul is very rare. (7.19)
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