Bhagavad Gita 2.47 · Karma Yoga

"You have a right to your actions, but never to the fruits of your actions. Let not the fruits be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction."

Bhagavad Gita 2.48 · Equanimity

"Perform your duty established in yoga, abandoning attachment, even-minded in success and failure. This evenness of mind is called yoga."

Bhagavad Gita 3.35 · Dharma

"Better one's own dharma, though imperfect, than the dharma of another well performed."

Bhagavad Gita 6.5 · Self-mastery

"Lift yourself by your own self; do not let yourself sink. For the self alone is the friend of the self, and the self alone is its enemy."

Bhagavad Gita 6.35 · Practice

"Without doubt the mind is restless and hard to restrain; but through practice and dispassion it can be controlled."

Bhagavad Gita 2.62 · Attachment

"Brooding on the objects of the senses, a man develops attachment to them; from attachment comes desire, from desire, anger."

Bhagavad Gita 2.20 · The Self

"The Self is never born nor does it die at any time. It is unborn, eternal, permanent and ancient; it is not killed when the body is killed."

Bhagavad Gita 2.22 · The Self

"As a person casts off worn-out garments and puts on others that are new, so the embodied Self casts off worn-out bodies and enters into new ones."

Bhagavad Gita 2.14 · Impermanence

"Contacts with their objects give rise to cold and heat, pleasure and pain. They come and go and are impermanent. Endure them bravely."

Bhagavad Gita 12.15 · Bhakti

"One by whom the world is not agitated and who is not agitated by the world, freed from joy, envy, fear and anxiety — such a one is dear to Me."

Bhagavad Gita 15.7 · Kinship

"An eternal fragment of My own Self, having become a living soul in the world of the living, draws to itself the senses of which the mind is the sixth."