One who is engaged in my pure devotional service. free from the contaminations of previous activities and from mental speculation, who is friendly to every living entity, certainly comes to me
The Bhagavad GitaThere are three gates leading to this hell - lust, anger, and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul
The Bhagavad GitaOne who is not envious but who is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor, who is free from false ego and equal both in happiness and distress, who is always satisfied and engaged in devotional service with determination and whose mind and intelligence are in agreement with me - he is very dear to me
The Bhagavad GitaFoods in the mode of goodness increase duration of life, purify one’s existence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such nourishing foods are sweet, juicy, fattening, and palatable
The Bhagavad GitaOne who is beyond duality and doubt, whose mind is engaged within, who is always busy working for the welfare of all sentient beings, and who is free from all sins, achieves liberation in the Supreme
The Bhagavad GitaThe mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well
The Bhagavad GitaA person is said to be still further advanced when he regards all the honest well-wisher, friends, and enemies, the envious, the pious, the sinner and those who are indifferent and impartial with an equal mind
The Bhagavad GitaHe should live alone in a secluded place and should always carefully control his mind. He should be free from desires and feelings of possessiveness
The Bhagavad GitaHumility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bonafide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness and self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification, absence of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; non attachment to children, wife, home and the rest, and even mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to me, resorting to solitary places, detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth - all these I thus declare to be knowledge, and what is contrary to these is ignorance
The Bhagavad GitaEvery endeavor is covered by some sort of fault, just as fire is covered by smoke. Therefore one should not give up the work which is born of his nature, O son of Kunti, men of such work is full of fault
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