Thinker

Bhagavad Gita quotes

6 passages in English · Dating varies by source tradition · Indian Classical Philosophy.

Overview

Bhagavad Gita is represented in Philosophy Blind Box through curated English quotations. In some cases the name denotes a historical thinker; in others it denotes a scripture, school text, or traditional attribution. School label in this archive: Indian Classical Philosophy.

Main ideas

Recurring concerns in this selection include Action, Philosophy, Morality, Endurance, Self. Read each passage with its source note, then follow theme links to see how related thinkers frame the same questions.

Major works

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Legacy

Readers use Bhagavad Gita as an entry point into Indian Classical Philosophy and into cross-cultural comparison within this archive.

Themes in this archive

Self (2) · Bhagavad Gita on self · Action (1) · Philosophy (1) · Equanimity (1) · Endurance (1)

  1. You have a right to action alone, never to its fruits.
  2. Contacts with the senses give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go and are impermanent—endure them.
  3. One should lift oneself by the Self and not degrade oneself; for the Self alone is friend and enemy of the self.
  4. Treating pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat as the same…
  5. Contacts with the senses, O son of Kunti, give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go — endure them.
  6. One should lift oneself by oneself; one should not degrade oneself.