Great Throughts Treasury
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Bhagavad Gītā, simply known as Gita NULL
Sanskrit for "Song of God," also more simply known as Gita, is a sacred Hindu scripture, though its philosophies and insights are intended to reach beyond the scope of religion and to humanity as a whole, referred to as the "manual for mankind"
"When he has no lust, no hatred, a man walks safely among the things of lust and hatred."
"When he perceivith the diversified existence of being as rooted in One, and spreading forth from it, then he reaches the Eternal."
"Your sorrow is for nothing. The truly wise mourn neither for the living nor for the dead. There never was a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor any of these kings. Nor is there any future in which we shall cease to be... That Reality which pervades the universe is indestructible. No one has power to change the Changeless... Death is certain for the born. Rebirth is certain for the dead. You should not grieve for what is unavoidable."
"You grieve for those beyond grief and you speak words of insight; but learned men do not grieve for the dead or the living."
"If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive."
"Wisdom is prevented by ignorance, and delusion is the result."
"When one sees Eternity in things that pass away and Infinity in finite things then one has pure knowledge."
"[Soul] It is not born, it does not die; having been, it will never not be; unborn, enduring, constant, and primordial, it is not killed when the body is killed."
"This [Self] is never born, nor does It die, nor after once having been, does it go into non-being. This [Self] is unborn, eternal, changeless, ancient. It is never destroyed even when the body is destroyed."
"God abides in the heart of all beings, but due to our ignorance, He seems so far, so unreal, and we move here and there in search of God like a lifeless doll mounted on a machine."