Bhagavad Gita Wise Quotations

I am the origin of all. Everything emanates from Me. Understanding this, the wise ones worship Me with love and devotion.

Four types of virtuous ones worship or seek Me, O Arjuna. They are: the distressed, the seeker of Self-knowledge, the seeker of wealth, and the wise one who knows the Supreme.

For the wise who seeks to attain yoga (of meditation or the equanimity of mind), Karma-yoga is said to be the means; for the one who has attained yoga, the equanimity becomes the means (of Self-Realization).

Restless senses, O Arjuna, forcibly carry away the mind of even a wise person striving for perfection.

The one who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is a wise person.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

You grieve for those who are not worthy of grief, and yet speak the words of wisdom. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.

Even the wise are confused about what is action and what is inaction.

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

The wise should work without attachment, for the welfare of the society.

The wise do not rejoice in sensual pleasures.

After many births the wise ones resort (or surrender) to Me by realizing that everything is (a manifestation of) Brahman indeed. Such a great soul is very rare.

All beings follow their nature. Even the wise act according to their own nature. What, then, is the value of sense restraint?

All these (seekers) are indeed noble, but I regard the wise as My very Self, because the one who is steadfast becomes one with the Supreme Being.

Among them the wise one, who is ever united with Me and whose devotion is single minded, is the best. Because, I am very dear to the wise, and the wise is very dear to Me.