Laurie L. Patton Biography & Quotes

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“When you have made pleasure and pain the same - also gain and loss, and victory and defeat, then join yourself to battle; and in this way, you will not cause harm.”

Pain Pleasure Harm

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“One who has no hatred for any being, a compassionate friend, without the sense of 'mine', without making an 'I', one who is patient, for whom pain and pleasure are the same,”

Pain Pleasure Compassion

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Clinging is born to someone who dwells on the spheres of the senses; desire is born from clinging; and anger is born from desire.”

Desire Anger Clinging

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Son of Kunti, the wisdom of the wise is covered by this eternal enemy; covered by a fire in the shape of desire, a fire which is always hungry.”

Desire

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Even if you are the most evil among all doers of evil, you will cross beyond all wickedness by the boat od wisdom.”

Wisdom Evil

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Even if you are the most evil among all doers of evil, you will cross beyond all wickedness by the boat of wisdom.”

Wisdom Evil

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“One who stands firm, and does not stir, one who is seated as if sitting apart,”

Soul Body

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Looking at all his relatives come together in both armies, the son of Kunti broke down with deep compassion and said, 'Krishna, now that I have seen my own people here, coming near and longing to fight, my legs collapse my mouth is parched, my body trembles, and my hair bristles; the Gandiva bow drops from my hand, my skin is burned, and I find no rest; my mind seems to wander; I see perverse omens; and before me I see no good in killing my people in battle, Lovely-Haired Krishna!”

Compassion Killing Warrior

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“They say that the senses are crucial; and the mind more crucial than the senses; and even more crucial than the mind is insight; and much more crucial than insight, in this (self).”

Mind Self Insight Senses

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Arjuna, the lord of all beings dwells in the place of the heart, and causes all beings to wander in illusion, as if following a great cosmic map.”

Heart God Cosmos

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“If a thousand suns had risen in the sky all at once, such brilliance would be the brilliance of that great self.”

Self Brilliance

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Weapons do not cut the self, nor does fire burn it, nor do waters drench it, nor does wind dry it.”

Self

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“In this world, there is no purifier like wisdom; in time, one who is oneself perfected by yoga finds that wisdom in the self.”

Self Wisdom

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“One should lift up the self through the self, and one should not make the self sink; only the self is friend to the self, and only the self is enemy to the self.”

Self

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“The highest self of the victorious one, the peaceful one, is composed in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, so also in pride and disgrace.”

Self

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Food is also dear to everyone in three ways; as sacrifice, as heat and also as gift.”

Food

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“The one who lets go of an action because of difficulty, or fear of bodily pain, thus carries out letting go in a rajasic way, and will not attain the fruit of that letting go.”

Action Pain Letting Go Difficulty

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Your authority is in action alone, and never in its fruits; motive should never be in the fruits of action, nor should you cling to inaction.”

Action Fruits Of Actions

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Son of Kunti, through that which arises out of your own nature, bound by your own action in confusion you will do even that which you do not want to do.”

Action Nature

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

“Strong-Armed One, the one who neither hates nor desires should be known as the eternal renouncer - the one for whom opposites are the same, easily freed from bondage.”

Desire Hate

Book:The Bhagavad Gita

Source: The Bhagavad Gita

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