“One’s own dharma, however imperfect, is a safer guide than the dharma of another, however perfect.”
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The Bhagavad Gita
June 2, 2008“The joy which is first poison but in the end nectar, the joy enjoyed almost as a habit by the transparent mind is sattvika.
The joy of sense pleasures, first nectar, then poison, is rajasika.
The joy of self-delusion, bred by sloth and folly, is tamasika.”
The Bhagavad Gita
June 2, 2008“The discipline that organizes the mind, the life-breath, and the senses is sattvika.
The discipline that leads to wealth, success, and honor is rajasika.
And that which breeds sloth, fear, grief, worry, and conceit is tamasika.”
The Bhagavad Gita
June 1, 2008“When a clod of earth, stone, and gold become alike, serenity is achieved. Serenity is achieved by a man who considers impartially his friends, his lovers, enemies, judges, kinsmen, even the wicked.”
The Bhagavad Gita
June 1, 2008“Restlessness is the product of sensual joys, joys that are impermanent, joys that begin and end. The wise do not seek pleasure in them.”
The Bhagavad Gita
June 1, 2008“Even this world is not for the man without discipline; how will he gain a better one, Arjuna?”
The Bhagavad Gita
June 1, 2008“There is no constancy in the man who runs after pleasure and power, whose reason is robbed by the fool’s flattery.”
The Bhagavad Gita
June 1, 2008“For death is sure of that which is born, and of that which is dead, birth is certain. Why do you grieve over the inevitable? All beings are unmanifest in the beginning, manifest in the middle, and again unmanifest at the end. Is this a cause for grief?”
The Bhagavad Gita
June 1, 2008“Heat, cold, pain, pleasure – these spring from sensual contact, Arjuna. They begin, and they end. They exist for the time being. Endure them. The man who these cannot distract, the man who is steady in pain and pleasure, is the man who achieves serenity.”
The Bhagavad Gita
June 1, 2008“In killing my brothers, Krishna, I cannot see anything noble – I do not want this victory, this glory, this happiness. What is glory to us, Krishna, what are pleasures and life, if those who from us deserve glory, pleasure, and life, are ready to fight us, having given up the world’s delights – our uncles, our sons and our grandfathers, our eldest kinsmen, acharyas, our fathers-in-law and our grandsons.
I would not kill them, not for the three worlds, let alone the earth. I had rather they killed me, Krishna.”
