The Bhagavad Gita - verse set text Flashcards
Chapter 1 v 36
Arjuna said:
O’ Janardana, what satisfaction would there be for us, in striking down the sons of Dhrtarastra? Guilt, indeed, would trouble us after killing these aggressors.
Chapter 1 v 47
Sanjaya said:
Having spoken thus on the battlefield, Arjuna sat down on the seat of his chariot, casting aside his bow and arrows, his mind distracted by grief.
Chapter 2 v 3
Krsna said:
Do not give in to cowardice, O son of Prtha. It does not become thee. Abandoning this base weakness of heart, stand up, O tormentor of foes.
Chapter 2 v 22
just as a man, casting off old clothes puts on new ones, so the embodied one, abandoning worn out bodies, takes on others that are new.
Chapter 2 v 48
Fixed in yoga, O Dhananjaya, perform actions, giving up attachment, being unperturbed in success and failure; equanimity is called Yoga.
Chapter 2 v 65
When serenity of mind is reached, there is cessation of all sorrows. Indeed, the intelligence of the peaceful-minded soon becomes steady.
Chapter 3 v 19
Therefore, always perform the actions which should be done without attachment; for, performing action without attachment man attains the supreme.
Chapter 3 v 21
Whatever a great man does, that alone other men do; whatever example he sets people follow that.
Chapter 3 v 30
Surrendering all actions to Me, mind at rest in the Self, being free from expectation and selfish desire, freed from mental anguish, engage in battle.
Chapter 3 v 35
One’s own duty, though imperfect, is better than the duty of another successfully performed. Better is death in one’s own duty; the duty of another brings danger.
Chapter 4 v 10
Freed from passion, fear and anger, at one with Me, relying on Me, purified by the fire of wisdom, many have attained My state of being.
Chapter 4 v 19
He whose undertakings are all devoid of desirous intentions, and whose deeds are all consumed in the fire of knowledge, him, the sages call wise.
Chapter 5 v 10
Dedicating his deeds to Brahman, abandoning attachment, he who’s acts is not defiled by sin any more more than a lotus leaf by water.
Chapter 9 v 4
This entire universe is pervaded in Me in My unmanifested form; all beings rest in Me, but i am not contained in them.
Chapter 9 v 7
All beings, O Kaunteya, go to My nature at the end of Kapla. i generate them again at the beginning of the next Kalpa.
Chapter 9 v 26
Whoever offers to Me with love, a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I enjoy that offering from the faithful one whose heart is pure.
Chapter 10 v 3
He who knows Me as unborn and beginningless, the Great Lord of the Worlds, he among the mortals is undeluded and liberated from all evils.
Chapter 15 v 12
That brilliance which exists in the sun causes the whole world to shine; that which is in the moon as well as in fire - know that light to be Mine.
Chapter 18 v 53
Having given up egoism, force, conceit, desire, anger, claim on property, free from selfishness and peaceful, he is fit for becoming Brahman.
Chapter 18 v 56
Trusting in Me, even performing all actions, by My grace he reaches the eternal unchanging Abode.
