Lord Krishna is not just the eighth avatar of Lord Vishnu but also is the symbol of sagacity, love, and life. Lord Krishna quotes helped Arjun on the battlefield of Mahabharata when he was fighting against his people. There are 700 verses in Bhagavad Gita each verse tells us how to live our lives and how to face every situation.
It’s been said that if a person reads and understands each verse of Bhagavad Gita he/she will come to know the real meaning of life. These 700 verse is said by Lord Krishna to Arjun in the battlefield of Mahabharata which helps him to win the fight.
Here are some of the quotes said by Lord Krishna which enlighten your path and helps you to see the world more clearly.
List of Most Beautiful Lord Krishna Quotes –
“Set your heart upon your work, but never its reward”
Meaning: Give your 100% to work and don’t think about the outcome if you are doing your work full-heartedly then one-day success will find its way to your doorstep.
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life.”
Meaning: You should live your life fully as written in your destiny no matter how hard or imperfect it is, as it is always way better than living your perfect life with someone else.
“A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to right person at a right time and the right place, and when we expect nothing in return”
Meaning: This sentence work as a metaphor the real meaning is – we should take the right decisions at right time and the right place and we should always give respect to time and a person and should always be ready to help others wholeheartedly.
“No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come”
Meaning: We should always give our best no matter what circumstances cross our path people who have good work and ignore the bad vibes of other are able to achieve what they deserve.
“Anyone steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.”
Meaning: If you are focused on your work and working hard every day and night then no one will able to stop you.
“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 own mind”
Meaning: Once the person achieves what he/she wants to, then all his/her problems and sorrows in life immediately comes to end, and his/her life gets filled with new colors of happiness.
“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”.
Meaning: God is always standing beside the person who frees himself from anger and decides to live in harmony wholeheartedly.
“There are three gates to the self-destruction Hell: Lust, Anger and Greed.”
Meaning: Person who is filled with lust, anger and greed is belong from hell.
“The embodied soul is eternal in existence, indestructible, and infinite, only the material body is factually perishable, therefore fight O Arjun”.
Meaning: Our soul and intuitions are real in this world our outside body is just imagination, the outside body only gives us structure to live in this world. What’s inside this structure is more important.
“The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There was never a time when you and I and all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist”
Meaning: We should never worry about the thing which is not in our control.
“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjun, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.”
Meaning: If we do our work for the reward neither the work will be completed nor we will get the reward.
“Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.”
Meaning: We should have soft corner in our heart for everyone. It makes people to like you.
“Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action”
Meaning: Forget selfishness from life, one should bring the spirit of sacrifice.
“Performing the duty prescribed by (one’s own) nature, one incurred no sin.”
Meaning: We should never be hesitated while completing our responsibilities.
“Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of the senses with their objects. They come and they go, never lasting long. You must accept them.”
Meaning: Just as weather changes, happiness and sorrow coming in our life as well.
“I am the Aatma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings”.
Meaning: God is with everywhere, every time in everyone’s heart.
“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.”
Meaning: Lord Krishna says that whether human or god, he is present everywhere.
“We behold what we are, and we are what we behold”
Meaning: We should always think positively and do the right thing because it reflects our personality to everyone.
“It is Nature that causes all movement.”
Meaning: Person’s habits and personality is the reason of his work.
“It is I who remain seated in the heart of all creatures as the inner controller of all; and it is I who am the source of memory, knowledge, and the ratiocinative faculty. Again, I am the only object worth knowing through the Vedas; I alone am the origin of Vedanta and the knower of the Vedas too.”
Meaning: God says that he controls the heart of every human being in this world, and is also the knower of all the secrets of life and the creator of all the destiny.
“The wise unify their consciousness and abandon attachment to the fruits of action”
Meaning: The wise man unites his/her consciousness and don’t think about the reward for his work.
“You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of the mind.
Meaning: As we said earlier we should not think about the result, if we will about the result it will create fear in our self and will create self-doubt.
“Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery, Arjun.”
Meaning: Rather than being in imaginary world we should live in real world, because once imaginary world ends it causes lot of pain to our-self.
“My dear Arjun, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.”
Meaning: If a person wants to know about god he can only achieve it by meditating and praying the god.
“Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.”
Meaning: Person who is pure can only know about the god.
“A yogi is greater than the ascetic, greater than the empiricist, and greater than the furtive worker. Therefore, O Arjun, in all circumstances, be a yogi.”
Meaning: A yogi is greater than an ascetic, an empiricist, and more than a person worrying about the fruits of a task. Therefore, O Arjun, be a yogi in all situations.
“For even if the greatest sinner worships me with all his soul, he must be considered righteous, because of his righteous will. And he shall soon become pure and reach everlasting peace. For this is my word of promise, that he who loves Me shall not perish.”
Meaning: Even if the greatest sinner does my worship wholeheartedly, he is right because of his rightful will. He soon becomes pure and attains eternal peace. My vow is in these words, those who love me are never destroyed.
“Selfish action imprisons the world. Act selflessly, without any thought of personal profit.”
Meaning: Selfishness will capture the world into a prison we should work selflessly without thinking of personal benefit.
“I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world”
Meaning: God says he made this world and he will destroy each and every sin from this world.
“The cause of the distress of a living entity is forgetfulness of his relationship with God.”
Meaning: Person who believes in god he/she will always get protected by any disaster.
“Because materialists cannot understand Krishna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krishna is manifested by physical representations.”
Meaning: The materialist’s person cannot understand the spiritual things of Krishna, they are advised to focus their attention on physical matters and try to see how Krishna appears through their physical representations.
“From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls again into the material pool”
Meaning: We should never get angry in our life, it will destroy our peace and our life as well.
“For man, the mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.”
Meaning: Man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is also the reason for liberation. If the mind is absorbed in the feeling of things, then there is a reason for bondage, and if the mind remains separate from the feeling of things, then it is the reason for liberation.
“There was never a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor any of these kings. Nor is there any future in which we shall cease to be.”
Meaning: In this Lord Krishna says there never was a time when I don’t exist nor neither you nor any other king also no one will be there in future who can stop is existence.
“But for one who takes pleasure in the Self, whose human life is one of self-realization, and who is satisfied in the Self only, fully satiated – for him, there is no duty.”
Meaning: Who is fully satisfied with himself and has pleasure in self and who has already attained self-realization there is no duty left for him in this world.
“Reshape yourself through the power of your will; never let yourself be degraded by self-will. The will is the only friend of the Self, and the will is the only enemy of the Self.”
Meaning: Reshape yourself through your willpower. Never humiliate yourself with your self-will. Desire is the only friend own, and desire is the only enemy of one’s own
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjun, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world. PURPORT”
Meaning: It is only lust, Arjun, who is born to have contact with the passion of things and later it turns into anger, and who is the devouring sinner enemy of all this world.
“Our mistake is in taking this for ultimate reality, like the dreamer thinking that nothing is real except his dream.”
Meaning: Mistakes that we make reflect our reality just like the dreamer who is thinking that nothing in this world is real except his dream.
“We never really encounter the world; all we experience is our own nervous system.”
Meaning: We never dive into the reality of world we just experience our own nervous system.
“The Key to happiness is Reduction of Desires.”
Meaning: We will attain happiness when we stop desiring.
“If you don’t fight for what you want. don’t cry for what you lost.”
Meaning: If a person doesn’t fight for his want then he has no rights to shed his tears for what he lost.
“Why Do You Worry unnecessarily? whom do you fear? who can kill you? The soul is neither born nor dies.”
Meaning: Why are we worrying and why are we frightened of anybody? Our soul is immortal it can’t be die or born.
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”
Meaning: Man is made of his belief whatever he believes he just reflect that in his personality.
“Calmness, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and purity: these are the disciplines of the mind.”
Meaning: Gentleness, calm and purity these are the components which control our minds.
“Fear Not, what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was can not be destroyed.”
Meaning: We should never get frightened what is not real will never be real and what is real will never get destroyed.
“Happiness is a state of mind, that has nothing to do with external world.”
Meaning: Happiness is connected to the soul and the mind it has nothing to do with outside world
“The Self in each person is not different from the Godhead.”
Meaning: Like we said previously what we actually are, we all are attached to god.
“Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.”
Meaning: Happiness which we get from feelings is like nectar from flower in starting but in the end, it tastes is as bitter as poison.
“Among all kinds of killers, Time is the ultimate because Time kills everything“
Meaning: There are many killers in this world but time is the greatest killer among them.
“Most divine love is of Mother and son.
Meaning: Most purest love in this world is the love of mother and child.
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