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As fire, though one, entering the world takes a different form in each thing it burns, so the one Self, the inner soul of all beings, takes a differen

Some embodied beings enter a womb to take a new body. Others go into inorganic matter — each according to their deeds and their understanding.

The wise person who knows that the senses each have their separate nature, that they rise and set individually, that they do not arise with the Self —

It would be better to live as a beggar in this world than to kill these revered elders. Even if they are motivated by desire for wealth, they are stil

My heart is overcome by a weakness that feels like compassion, and my mind is confused about what my duty is. I am asking you to tell me clearly what

Just as a person in the same body passes through childhood, youth, and old age, the soul passes into another body at death. A wise person is not confu

The unreal has no existence. The real never ceases to be. Those who see the truth have understood the nature of both.

Know that what pervades all of this is indestructible. No one can bring about the destruction of what is imperishable.

These bodies of the eternal, indestructible, and incomprehensible soul are said to have an end. Therefore fight, Arjuna.

He who thinks the soul kills, and he who thinks the soul can be killed, both of them are mistaken. The soul does not kill, nor is it killed.

The soul is never born and never dies. It has not come into being and will not cease to be. It is unborn, eternal, ancient, and undecaying. It is not

When someone knows the soul to be indestructible, eternal, unborn, and unchanging, how does that person cause killing, or kill anyone?

Just as a person discards worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, the soul discards worn-out bodies and takes on new ones.

Weapons cannot cut it. Fire cannot burn it. Water cannot wet it. Wind cannot dry it.

It cannot be cut, burned, wetted, or dried. It is eternal, all-pervading, stable, immovable, and changeless.

This soul is said to be unmanifest, inconceivable, and unchanging. Knowing this, you should not grieve.

Even if you believe the soul is constantly being born and constantly dying, even then, there is no reason for you to grieve.

One person sees the soul as a wonder. Another speaks of it as a wonder. Another hears of it as a wonder. And even after hearing, most people do not tr

The soul that dwells in every body can never be killed. So you have no reason to grieve for any being.

Objects fall away from one who practices restraint, but the taste for them lingers. Even that taste disappears when the person realizes what is beyond

All actions are being carried out by the qualities of nature. But the person whose mind is clouded by ego thinks, I am the one doing this.

Dedicating all your actions to me, with your mind focused on the self, free from desire and selfishness, fight without any inner agitation.

The senses are greater than the body, the mind is greater than the senses, the intellect is greater than the mind, and what is greater than the intell

Knowing this, even the ancient seekers of liberation kept on acting. You too should act, just as those who came before you did.

Learn this through humility, through questioning, through service. Those who have seen the truth will teach you what they know.

Once you know this, you will not fall into confusion again. You will see all beings without exception in yourself, and then in me.

The one who has no knowledge, no faith, and a doubting mind is lost. For the person of doubt there is no happiness in this world or the next.

One who is united in yoga, pure in mind, master of the body, master of the senses, and who sees their self as the self of all beings, is not tainted e

One who is steady gives up the results of action and attains lasting peace. One who is not steady, driven by desire and attached to results, becomes b

One should lift oneself up by oneself. One should not bring oneself down. The self alone is the friend of the self, and the self alone is the enemy of

For one who has conquered the self and is at peace, the supreme self is steady in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honor and dishonor.

That yogi who, established in unity, worships me as present in all beings, lives in me, whatever their condition.

O mighty-armed one, this is my lower nature. But know my other, higher nature, which has become the living beings and which holds this entire world.

All of them are noble. But I regard the person of wisdom as my very self. With a steady mind, that person is set on me alone as the supreme goal.

At the end of many births, the one who has wisdom comes to me, knowing that Vasudeva is all. Such a great soul is very rare.

Whatever form a devotee wishes to worship with faith, I make that very faith of theirs steady and firm.

What exists in the physical realm is the perishable. What exists in the divine realm is the Person. O best of the embodied, I myself am the one presen

whoever departs from the body while uttering Om, the single syllable that is Brahman, and thinking of me, that person reaches the supreme goal.

Having reached me, the great souls who have attained the highest perfection do not come back to rebirth, which is the home of suffering and is imperma

But O son of Prtha, the great souls who have taken on the divine nature worship me with undivided minds, knowing me as the imperishable source of all

Always glorifying me, striving with firm vows, bowing to me with devotion, they worship me with constant dedication.

O Gudakesha, I am the self seated in the heart of all beings. I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.

Arjuna said: I wish to know about nature and the individual soul, and about the field and the knower of the field, and about knowledge and what is wor

It has hands and feet everywhere, eyes, heads, and mouths everywhere, ears everywhere. It stands in the world pervading everything.

It appears to have the functions of all the senses, yet it is without any senses. It is unattached, yet it supports everything. It is without qualitie

Though undivided, it appears to exist as divided in all beings. It is the sustainer of all beings. It is also the one that absorbs and gives rise to a

Know that both nature and the individual soul are without beginning. Know that all modifications and all qualities are born of nature.

Nature is said to be the cause in the production of body and the organs. The individual soul is said to be the cause in the experience of pleasure and

Since the individual soul is seated in nature, it experiences the qualities born of nature. Attachment to these qualities is the cause of its birth in

The supreme person in this body is said to be the witness, the permitter, the sustainer, the experiencer, the great lord, and also the supreme self.