The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Gita is not for those who have no faith. — Mahatma Gandhi

Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace. — Mahatma Gandhi

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft–hearted effusiveness. — Mahatma Gandhi

Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time. — Mahatma Gandhi

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare. — Mahatma Gandhi

Self–realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit. — Mahatma Gandhi

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life’s way. — Mahatma Gandhi

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people’s Bible, Koran, Zend–Avesta and Gita all rolled into one. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran. — Mahatma Gandhi

I still somehow or other fancy that ‘my philosophy’ represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita. — Mahatma Gandhi

The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita. — Mahatma Gandhi

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions. — Mahatma Gandhi

The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self–realization. — Mahatma Gandhi

You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita. — Swami Vivekananda

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man. — Mahatma Gandhi

The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity. — Mahatma Gandhi

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran? — Mahatma Gandhi

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day–to–day practice cannot be called religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad–Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it. — Rudolf Steiner

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. — Mahatma Gandhi

The true goal of action is knowledge of the Self. — Krishna

You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits. — Bhagavad Gita

The intention behind action is what matters. — Bhagavad Gita

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

You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. — Bhagavad Gita

The wise see that there is action in the midst of inaction and inaction in the midst of action. Their consciousness is unified, and every act is done with complete awareness. — Bhagavad Gita

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. — Bhagavad Gita

The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad–Gita. — Swami Vivekananda

The deluded ones, who restrain their organs of action but mentally dwell upon the sense enjoyment, are called hypocrites. — Bhagavad Gita

On actiOn alOne be thy interest, never On its fruits. let not the fruits of actiOn be thy motive, nor be thy attachment to inactiOn. — Bhagavad Gita

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Bhagavad–Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions. — Albert Schweitzer

Selfish action imprisons the world. Act selflessly, without any thought of personal profit. — Krishna

As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to Ashes. — Bhagavad Gita

Actions do not cling to me because I am not attached to their results. Those who understand this and practice it live in freedom. — Bhagavad Gita

A Karma–yogi performs action by body, mind, intellect, and senses, without attachment, only for self–purification. — Bhagavad Gita

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. — Bhagavad Gita

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men. — Bhagavad Gita

Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action.–Krishna. — Anonymous

Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps, and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues. — Bhagavad Gita

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem. — Mahatma Gandhi

Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind. — Bhagavad Gita

Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion. — Krishna

The wise work for the welfare of the world, without thought for themselves. — Bhagavad Gita

Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results, because by doing work without attachment one attains the Supreme. — Bhagavad Gita

Work for work’s sake, not for yourself. Act but do not be attached to your actions. Be in the world, but not of it, — Bhagavad Gita

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. — Bhagavad Gita

It is better to strive in one’s own dharma than to succeed in the dharma of another. — Bhagavad Gita

I continue to act, but I am not driven by any need of my own. — Bhagavad Gita

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary. — Mahatma Gandhi

The one who has faith, and is sincere, and has mastery over the senses, gains this knowledge. Having gained this, one at once attains the supreme peace. — Bhagavad Gita

Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self–knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise. — Bhagavad Gita

As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. — Bhagavad Gita

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place. — Mahatma Gandhi

When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. — Bhagavad Gita

The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise. — Mahatma Gandhi

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. — Bhagavad Gita

I am Sama Veda among the Vedas; I am Indra among the Devas; I am the mind among the senses; I am the consciousness in living beings. — Anonymous

From passion comes confusion of mind, then loss of remembrance, the forgetting of duty. From this loss comes the ruin of reason, and the ruin of reason leads man to destruction. — Bhagavad Gita

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul. — Anonymous

The Bhagavad–Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses. — Mahatma Gandhi