"It is true that one should know the difference between good and evil, if one is to seek good and shun evil, but this knowledge should soak into every thought and influence every act in one's life. Then indeed knowledge becomes virtue."

"A man should never despise himself, for brilliant success never attends on the man who is contemned by himself."

"In this world, righteousness is the highest good; let no man, therefore, cease from acts of piety and virtue."

"All this is rooted in Time, to be or not to be, to be happy or not to be happy."

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection."

"“Mighty brawn is no match for a nimble brain.”"

"Repeated sin destroys the understanding And he whose reason is impaired repeats His sins. The constant practising of virtue Strengthens the mental faculties, and he Whose judgment stronger grows acts always right."

"Just as the track of birds that cleave the air Is not discovered, nor yet the path of fish That skim the water, so the course of those Who do good actions is not always seen."

"“If you read scriptures completely, at the end you will get no conclusions of right and wrong, no rules to live life. You will become free from all mental structures. Then everything you do will be right because the Supreme Power shall work through you.”"

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

"a son renounces sex so that his old father can remarry a daughter is a prize in an archery contesta teacher demands half a kingdom as his tuition feea student is turned away because of his castea mother asks her sons to share a wifea father curses his son-in-law to be old and impotenta husband lets another man make his wife pregnanta wife blindfolds herself to share her husband's blindnessa forest is destroyed for a new citya family is divided over inheritancea king gambles away his kingdoma queen is forced to serve as a maida man is stripped of his manhood for a yeara woman is publicly disrobeda war is fought where all rules are brokena shift in sexuality secures victorythe vanquished go to paradisethe victors lose their childrenthe earth is bathed in bloodGod is curseduntil wisdom prevails"

"Dharma is that which upholds and supports the world."

"The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument."

"The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument."

"One should never give up on truth and justice, even if it seems difficult to achieve them."

"Our best wisdom is vain against fate, and if destiny is kind, our very follies turn to our advantage."

"Peace comes from within. When one conquers his inner enemies, peace will come automatically."

"“A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative, to be loving, to be blissful, without any comparison with the other..A real education will not teach you to be the first. It will tell you to enjoy whatsoever you are doing, not for the result but for the act itself. Just like a painter or a dancer or a musician….You can paint in two ways. You can paint to compete with other painters; you want to be the greatest painter in the world, you want to be a Picasso or a Van Gogh. Then your painting will be second-rate, because your mind is not interested in painting itself; it is interested in being the first, the greatest painter in the world. You are not going deep into the art of painting. You are not enjoying it, you are only using it as a stepping- stone. You are on an ego trip.And the problem is: to really be a painter, you have to drop the ego completely. To really be a painter, the ego has to be put aside. Only then can God flow through you.Only then can he use your hands and your fingers and your brush. Only then something of superb beauty can be born.It is never BY you but only THROUGH you. Existence flows; you become only a passage. You allow it to happen, that's all; you don't hinder, that's all.But if you are too interested in the result, the ultimate result - that you have to become famous, that you have to win the Nobel Prize, that you have to be the first painter in the world, that you have to defeat all other painters hitherto - then your interest is not in painting; painting is secondary. And of course, with a secondary interest in painting you can't paint something original; it will be ordinary.Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer.And so is the case with everybody.In the Gita, Krishna says: Don't think of the result at all. It is a message of tremendous beauty and significance and truth. Don't think of the result at all. Just do what you are doing with your totality. Get lost into it. Lose the doer in the doing. Don't be - let your creative energies flow unhindered.That's why he said to Arjuna, "Don't escape from the war... because I can see this is just an ego trip, this escape. The way you are talking simply shows that you are calculating: that you are thinking that by escaping from the war you will become a great mahatma.Rather than surrendering to God, to the whole, you are taking yourself too seriously: as if, if you are not there, there will be no war."Krishna says to Arjuna, "Listen to me. Just be in a state of let-go. Say to God, 'Use me in whatsoever way you want to use me. Use me! I am available, unconditionally available.'Then whatsoever happens through you will have a great authenticity about it. It will have intensity, it will have depth. It will have the impact of the eternal on it. It will be signed by God, not by you. And you will rejoice because God has chosen you to be a vehicle.”"

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"Those who are driven by desire know neither fear nor shame."