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Bhagavad Gita 2.14 · Shloka
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः।
Contact between the senses and their objects brings cold and heat, pleasure and discomfort, O son of Kunti. These experiences arrive and pass away; they do not last. Meet them with endurance, O Bharata.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 2.20 · Shloka
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः।
The Self is never born and never dies. It does not come to an end after having existed. Unborn, enduring, abiding and ancient, it is not destroyed when the body is destroyed.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 2.47 · Shloka
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
Your responsibility is to act; the outcome is not yours to command. Do not let the reward become your sole motive, and do not become attached to doing nothing.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 2.48 · Shloka
योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय।
Act while grounded in yoga, Dhananjaya, releasing attachment and remaining balanced in success and failure. This evenness is called yoga.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 2.50 · Shloka
बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते।
A person joined to discerning wisdom leaves behind here both merit and demerit. Therefore apply yourself to yoga: yoga is skill in the doing of action.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 2.62 · Shloka
ध्यायतो विषयान्पुंसः सङ्गस्तेषूपजायते।
When someone keeps dwelling on sense objects, attachment to them grows. From attachment comes craving; from craving, anger can arise.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 2.63 · Shloka
क्रोधाद्भवति संमोहः संमोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः।
Anger gives rise to bewilderment; bewilderment disrupts the memory that guides us. When that memory fails, discernment is lost; with discernment lost, a person comes to ruin.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 3.19 · Shloka
तस्मादसक्तः सततं कार्यं कर्म समाचर।
Therefore keep performing the action that ought to be done, without attachment. By acting in this way, a person reaches the highest.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 3.21 · Shloka
यद्यदाचरति श्रेष्ठस्तत्तदेवेतरो जनः।
People tend to follow the conduct of someone they regard as exemplary. The standard such a person establishes becomes a guide that others follow.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 4.7 · Shloka
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत।
Whenever dharma declines and adharma rises, O Bharata, I manifest myself.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 4.34 · Shloka
तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया।
Learn that knowledge through a humble approach, searching questions and service. Those who know and have seen the truth will teach it to you.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 4.38 · Shloka
न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते।
Nothing here equals knowledge in its power to purify. In time, one made ready through yoga discovers that knowledge within the Self.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 5.18 · Shloka
विद्याविनयसंपन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि।
The wise see with equal vision a Brahmana rich in learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a person called a shvapaka—literally a dog-cooker, a historically excluded social category.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 6.5 · Shloka
उद्धरेदात्मनाऽऽत्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत्।
Let a person lift oneself by oneself, and not cause oneself to sink. One’s own self can indeed be one’s friend, and one’s own self can be one’s adversary.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 6.17 · Shloka
युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु।
For one whose eating and activity are balanced, whose effort in work is measured, and whose sleeping and waking have a balanced rhythm, yoga becomes a remover of sorrow.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 6.26 · Shloka
यतो यतो निश्चलति मनश्चञ्चलमस्थिरम्।
Wherever the restless, unsteady mind wanders, bring it back from there and place it under discipline in the Self.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 6.32 · Shloka
आत्मौपम्येन सर्वत्र समं पश्यति योऽर्जुन।
Arjuna, the yogi who sees the happiness and suffering of others everywhere by comparison with oneself, with equal regard, is considered the highest.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 9.26 · Shloka
पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति।
A leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, offered to me with devotion by one of sincere intent: I accept that offering made with devotion.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 9.27 · Shloka
यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत्।
Whatever you do or eat, whatever you offer in sacrifice or give, and whatever discipline you undertake, O son of Kunti, make it an offering to me.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 12.13 · Shloka
अद्वेष्टा सर्वभूतानां मैत्रः करुण एव च।
One who bears hatred toward no being, who is friendly and compassionate, free from possessiveness and self-importance, balanced in pain and pleasure, and patient in forgiveness—
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 12.14 · Shloka
सन्तुष्टः सततं योगी यतात्मा दृढनिश्चयः।
Ever content, disciplined in yoga, self-governed and firm in resolve, with mind and understanding offered to me: such a devotee is dear to me.
Read text, meaning & practice →Bhagavad Gita 17.15 · Shloka
अनुद्वेगकरं वाक्यं सत्यं प्रियहितं च यत्।
Speech that does not cause distress, that is truthful, agreeable and beneficial, together with sustained study and recitation of sacred texts, is called discipline of speech.
Read text, meaning & practice →Ganapati Atharvashirsha · opening, section 1 · Chinmaya booklet, printed p. 2 · Prose passage
ॐ नमस्ते गणपतये।
Om. Reverence to you, Ganapati. You are the reality directly present; you alone are the maker, sustainer and withdrawer. You are indeed all this as Brahman. You are directly the eternal Self.
Read text, meaning & practice →Ganapati Atharvashirsha · protection prayer, section 3 · Chinmaya booklet, printed p. 3 · Prose passage
अव त्वं माम्। अव वक्तारम्। अव श्रोतारम्।
Protect me; protect the speaker and the listener, the giver and the sustainer, the learned reciter and the student. Protect from behind and before, from north and south, from above and below. Guard me on every side, all around.
Read text, meaning & practice →Ganapati Atharvashirsha · Ganapati Gayatri · Chinmaya booklet, section 12, printed p. 6 · Mantra
एकदन्ताय विद्महे वक्रतुण्डाय धीमहि।
May we come to know the one-tusked one; we meditate on the one with the curved trunk. May that tusked Lord inspire and direct us.
Read text, meaning & practice →Traditional Marathi Ganapati aarti · temple booklet, page 3 · Aarti
सुखकर्ता दुःखहर्ता वार्ता विघ्नाची।
The opening praises Ganesha as a giver of joy and remover of sorrow and obstacles. The following images describe vermilion, pearls, sandalwood, a crown and anklets. The refrain celebrates his auspicious presence. The closing voice waits for help in distress and seeks protection at life’s end.
Read text, meaning & practice →Isha Upanishad, mantra 1 · Vajasaneyi tradition · Mantra
ईशावास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत्।
All this—whatever moves in this changing world—is to be covered by the Lord. Through relinquishment, live and partake; do not covet anyone’s wealth.
Read text, meaning & practice →Isha Upanishad, mantra 6 · Kanva reading · Mantra
यस्तु सर्वाणि भूतान्यात्मन्नेवानुपश्यति।
One who sees all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings, does not then recoil from them in aversion.
Read text, meaning & practice →Shanti invocation accompanying Isha Upanishad · Vedic Heritage Portal · Mantra
ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते।
Om. That is whole; this is whole. From wholeness, wholeness comes forth. When wholeness is taken from wholeness, wholeness alone remains. Om, peace, peace, peace.
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