And it is from those small acts of love you truly can be happy.ġ9. He who has no attachments can love others, for his love is pure and divine. Happiness can only be found within the self.ġ8. Having found the source of joy and fulfillment, they no longer seek happiness from the external world. Those who realize the self are always satisfied. Some people spread happiness wherever they go, others create happiness wherever they go!ġ7. There are three gates to this self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed. United with the Lord, they attain nirvana in Brahman. They find their joy, their rest, and their light completely within themselves. But those who overcome the impulses of lust and anger which arise in the body are made whole and live in joy. The wise do not look for happiness in them. Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery, Arjuna. All happiness in the material world has a beginning and an end, but happiness in Krishna is unlimited, and there is no end.ġ4. Neither for the dead nor those alive do the wise grieve for.ġ3. You grieve for those who should not be grieved for, yet you speak wise words. There is neither this world nor the world beyond nor happiness for the one who doubts.ġ2. O thousand-armed one, though you are the embodiment of all creation, I wish to see you in your four-armed form, carrying the mace and disc, and wearing the crown.ġ1. The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar-this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one’s mind. That one is dear to me, who runs not after the pleasant or away from the painful, grieves not, lusts not, but lets things come and go as they happenġ0. A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person, at the right time, at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.Ĩ. With the intuitive discrimination, saturated in patience, with the mind absorbed in the soul, the Yogi, feeling his mind, all thoughts, will by slow degrees attain tranquillity.ħ. Happiness is a state of mind and has nothing to do with the external world.Ħ. They arise from a sense of perception, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.ĥ. The impermanent appearance of happiness and distress and their disappearance in due course are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.Ĥ. That person realizes peace who, relinquishing all desires, exists without craving and is unidentified with the mortal ego and its sense of “mine-ness”.ģ. Happiness derived from a combination of the senses and the sense objects is always a cause of distress and should be avoided by all means.Ģ. The Bhagavad-gita is such an essential scripture that shows the way of living life and helps make the right decision.ġ.
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