The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Vols 1–3 (The End of Sorrow, Like a Thousand Suns, To Love Is to Know Me) (The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, 1)

Agitation, particularly the form that follows the precept “Express your anger; explode your anger on society,” is infectious, and this chain of retribution will eventually bring our agitation back to us.

In the language of the Gita, not only elation and depression, not only pleasure and pain, but everything in life is a duality; and in order to attain samadhi, one of the magnificent disciplines taught by Sri Krishna is evenness of mind.

as long as you are vulnerable to praise, you will be vulnerable to condemnation also. Most

it is by extending our capacity to love and support to a widening circle of friends that we transform our life into a permanent force for good in the world.

throw all our weight, all our energy, and all our will on the side of what is patient, forgiving, and selfless in ourselves and others.

The mystics say that it is time that is an illusion; eternity is the reality.

The capacity to forget our own personal pleasures, and to bless those who curse us – these are what mark a human being.

This despair and self-pity in a time of crisis is mean and unworthy of you, Arjuna. How have you fallen into a state so far from the path to liberation?

This war is continually raging within every one of us, and the two armies in conflict are all that is selfish in us pitted against all that is selfless in us. It is a lifelong struggle between the demonic and the divine.