Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Atman

The same Self sits in every heart.

You are a spark of something eternal.

The same life looks out of every pair of eyes.

There is a light behind every light.

The light of lights sits quietly in every heart.

Even in your darkest hour, the lamp within has not gone out.

Deep within you is something untouched by what you do.

You may make mistakes, but your essence stays untainted.

Forgive yourself: the deepest part of you has not been harmed.

Space holds everything and is stained by nothing.

Seek the part of you that time cannot touch.

Fear of loss loosens when you know what cannot be lost.

Look into any heart and you find the same quiet presence.

The heart is where the infinite sits quietly.

Look into your heart; the lamp is already lit.

The supreme Self in you is a quiet, steady friend.

You are supported from within.

The witness never leaves you.

Among things that perish, something does not.

Your core is clean, whatever your day has been.

Let this knowledge comfort you when you feel unworthy.

Be like the sky: let storms pass through you.

Whatever happens in your life, you are the open sky.

One sun lights the whole world; one awareness lights the whole mind.

There is a part of you untouched by age and loss.

Everything that changes is perishable; something in you does not.

What is truly you has no first day and no last.

Look for the one who is using the mind.

The states come and go; the witness remains.

Turn inward, and you may find the light has been waiting.

Beginning, middle and end: all are held within the one Self.

You never meet a stranger, only a fellow dwelling of the Self.

Treat every being as the home of the sacred.

To find the Self in your own heart is to find it in all.

Within you sits a witness who permits and supports all you do.

Be a witness of your own life with kindness.

The imperishable abides in the perishable; look for it.

Look past the changing form to what does not change.

Awareness is never stained by experience.

Your inner light has no beginning and cannot be dimmed.

Behind a busy life stands a still and spotless self.

The sky is never harmed by the clouds.

Awareness is as clean as space.

Return to the sky within when you feel dirtied by life.

Awareness shines on all your thoughts alike.

The sun does not choose whom to warm.

Be a sun to your own mind: steady and warm.

Know the deathless in you and fear of endings softens.

The soul carries its impressions as the wind carries scent.

What you seek is closer than your search.

Seeing the same Self in all makes cruelty harder and kindness easier.

Above the senses stands the mind; above the mind, the intellect; above the intellect, the Self.

There is a higher nature in you that no loss can touch.

Ageing is a passage; what is aware of it stays.

The body is a temple; ask who is the deity.

What you seek as treasure is already inside you as seed.

Everything begins and ends; the knower of it all remains.

Awareness lights up the senses but is not made of them.

The brightest thing in you is not your achievements but your awareness.

Every other light borrows from this one.

The one who watches is never disturbed by what is watched.

Everything that passes carries something that does not.

Even the dirtiest weather leaves the sky unchanged.

Everything in you is seen by one light.

Know yourself as something that watches change rather than being swept by it.

Self-abiding is feeling at home inside, whatever happens outside.

A drop of the ocean carries the ocean’s nature.

You are the one who sees, not merely the seeing.

Those who keep striving find the Self within.

Beings rise and fall; the witness remains.

Serene in the Self, one neither grieves nor craves.

Unburnt, undrowned, unmoved: that is your deepest nature.

The self cannot be seen, imagined or changed; it can only be known.

The self is a wonder that words approach and never capture.

The self is a well that never needs outside rain.

Contentment within makes the outer chase optional.

Steady the lower self with the higher Self.

Rest in who you are; the rest can wait.

Satisfaction found in the Self needs no sequel.

Your whole life lies between two silences, held by one Self.

Let your inner supporter be your first teacher.

The imperishable in you does not act and is not tainted.

Subtle things cannot be soiled; neither can your deepest self.

Dwell in the Self, and the world loses its pull.

What is imperishable cannot be lost, only forgotten.

The self you are is older than the body you wear.

A body is a house, not the self.

The Self is not hidden; attention is scattered.

The same life shines through every face.

You belong to something that was never absent and will not vanish.

Ancient, unborn, ever-present: that is what you are.

Eternal and all-pervading: you are not small.

Peace is a fullness that nothing needs to add to.

The deepest doer knows itself as a witness.

The body is a city with nine gates; you are its calm resident.

The Self reveals itself when ignorance steps aside.

Be one with what you most deeply are.

The ancient guide within knows more than your mind does.

Sing, lead, think, and remember the awareness behind them.

The powers of the knower are quiet and constant.

Light is wonderful; the one who sees it is more wonderful still.

Eternal in essence, temporary in costume.

The senses serve the one seated behind them.

Let loss teach you what cannot be lost.

The joy that comes from within cannot be taxed by circumstance.

Stand in the part of you that nothing can wound.

Seeing, speaking, hearing: all can marvel, and few can truly know.

Self-contentment is not laziness; it is freedom from compulsion.

The witness is never entangled.

Remember who is watching when the senses are busy.

Heat and cold pass; the one who feels them remains.

Some light cannot be switched on or off; it simply is.

Mind and senses are tools the soul picks up, not the soul itself.

Ear, eye, touch, taste, smell: five windows, one observer.

Experiences rotate; awareness stays steady.

The deluded see the body and miss the one within.

Joy that comes from a clear mind needs no outside supplier.

Who in you has watched every age arrive?

The deepest security is in what cannot be taken away.

The stable self is the quiet centre of a restless life.

When pleasure and pain both loosen their hold, what remains is you.

Dawn comes differently to those who live by an inner light.

Delight in the Self is a quiet kind of wealth.

Find your joy where no one can take it from you.

You are more the witness than the maker.

Not everything that happens through you is you.

Keep your mind on the Self while your hands do the work.

There is always a deeper level of yourself to consult.

You are more than your impulses and more than your thoughts.

Know what lies beyond thought, and thought loses its tyranny.

Anchor yourself in what does not change.

End the chapter by returning to the one who watches.

Who is acting in you, and who is watching?

In every task, notice what remains unmoving in you.

To harm another is to forget who you are.

Let the highest in you stay level through every season.

The self sees the Self when the mind stops running.

You belong to something larger than your story.

In truth, a part is never separate from the whole.

The soul is present in every moment, but only the attentive notice.

Don’t mourn the perishable as though it were everything.

In a world of endings, remember what has none.

Trust the charioteer within.

Who were you before this fear, and who will you be after it?

Eternity is not later; it is the nature of what you are now.

Steady, ancient, everywhere: the self is its own foundation.

Trust the part of you that stays when everything else moves.

The deepest things are approached, never owned.

The same eternal presence looks out of every pair of eyes.

Those fulfilled within have nothing to prove.

When you rest in yourself, duty becomes joy.

Act or rest; either can come from fullness.

Find the witness behind the thinker.

Inner strength is the quiet authority of the Self.

Limited memory, limitless soul.

Seasons strip the branches; the root remains.

Look inward when the outer lights go out.

Enjoyment is the senses’ work; awareness is the host.

The unchanging core is the quiet centre of every changing life.

Beyond labels, one being looks out through many eyes.

Every heart carries a witness.

Your years are guests; your true self is the home.

Primeval means older than your doubts.

Stay awake to the inner life while the world sleeps through it.

Inner fullness is the end of restless striving.

Contentment is the sign of arrival.

Inner security makes outer generosity easy.

The senses are loud; the Self is quiet and steady.

Let the house work; be the dweller, not the servant.

Who are you beyond your body and your thoughts?

What stays the same in you whatever mood you are in?

Treat yourself as sacred; a portion of the sacred lives in you.

What part of you has never been damaged?

Rest in what has no birthday.

A satisfied soul is not driven.

Climb the ladder of inner levels.

The calmest part of you can lead the rest.

Imperishable awareness watches every changing action.

Pleasure is simpler when you remember who is enjoying.

A heart at home needs no audience.

Inner independence is rare and priceless.

What in you stays young as the years pass?

What in you remains when everything else changes?

What in you knows itself without needing a mirror?

What part of you has stayed whole through everything?

How can you be more like open space today?

What within you is not perishable?

Whose heart could you honour more deeply today?

When do you feel most clearly like a witness of your own life?

What does the part of you that never began remember?

See yourself in all beings and all beings in yourself.

Success and failure are weather; you are the sky.

See yourself in every being, and every being in yourself.

See the same light in every being.

Moods are weather; awareness is the sky.

See the one in the many.

A happiness that depends on nothing cannot be taken away.

Look inward for what you keep searching for outside.

You are more than your elements.

You are not separate from what you came from.

Honour and insult are weather; you are the sky.

What happens to you is not who you are.

The child, the youth and the elder are one person.

It is never born and never dies; it simply is.

The lamp you seek is already lit within.

Contentment is the mind at home.

Compassion is natural when you see yourself in the other.

Beyond the body and mind is the life that sustains them.

Know the difference between what you have and what you are.

What is alive in you is the same as what is alive in all.

Calm, restless and dull states all pass through you; none is you.

The teacher within is always available.

Consciousness is the lamp by which everything else is seen.

The body is a field; you are the one who knows it.

See the same awareness behind every pair of eyes.

Immortality begins with knowing what does not die.

Contentment begins where wanting meets what you already are.

See yourself in all beings, and your actions stay clean.

Let the senses do their work while you hold your centre.

A disciplined mind is a loyal friend.

When the mind rests in itself, wanting loses its hold.

When the mind finally rests, you meet yourself.

In every being lies an eternal seed.

Do not mistake a mood for your identity.

Look beyond what passes to what stays.

Beyond calm, restless and dull, there is something steady.

Look through the form to what animates it.

Beyond every appearance is something that does not change.

The body passes; the presence in it stays.

Even loss cannot reach what is eternal.

Know yourself, and you touch the knowing that knows all.

Consciousness is what makes a being alive rather than just arranged.

A single presence looks out from countless eyes.

What you seek to know is also what is knowing.

To know the knower is to rest from searching.

Know your body, but remember you are more than your body.

The one who knows the body is not the body.

The same knower looks out through every body.

In every field, the same quiet knower is present.

Knowing the supreme is knowing what cannot be lost.

What you are seeking is the very light by which you seek.

Do not confuse your temperament with your true self.

Trust the quiet presence that supports every breath.

Qualities of mind come and go; you remain.

Rest in yourself and the outer weather matters less.

Pleasure and pain are two coats; you are neither.

The Divine sits quietly in every heart.

You are more than your mistakes.

What pervades everything cannot be destroyed.

Bodies are finite; the one who wears them is not.

The one who dwells within every body cannot be harmed.

Your compassion grows as your sense of 'other' shrinks.

The wise move through the day as witnesses.

A mind at home in itself is never homeless.

Inner light needs no outer switch.

The restless mind finds its resting place within.

The seed within you has been waiting for your attention.

Caught in moods, we forget the one who has them.

Remembering the unchanging is the beginning of freedom.

The storm is in the sky; the sky is not in the storm.

The divine in you grows by attention.

The imperishable seed lives in every heart.

Self-knowledge is the only door to the Self.

Do not forget to be aware that you are aware.

Knowledge of the Self is the knowledge that makes every other knowledge useful.

Your eyes are one among many through which the sacred sees.

Many mouths, many eyes, one awareness.

Respect for the source is respect for yourself.

Let your mind be spacious enough to hold everything.

Beneath all differences runs one undivided thread.

Age changes the body, not the one who lives in it.

Beneath all that breaks, something unbroken holds.

What you truly are neither wounds nor is wounded.

Nothing outside can cut, burn, drown or dry the self.

You can live in the world and still belong to yourself.

What you seek is closer than you think; it matures within.

When all lives feel like your own, harm loses its appeal.

Seeing, hearing, walking: let life happen without a heavy 'I'.

Let a sunrise remind you what is shining within.

The world is made of passing things; learn who is passing through.

The supreme goal is not far; it is the ground of who you are.

The one who begins, sustains and ends everything lives within you.

Know the beyond and you are at home in the within.

The self is the thread; childhood and old age are beads.

Nothing outside can disturb a mind that rests in itself.

Understanding the deathless self softens the heart toward every being.

There is a part of you no storm can reach.

What is beyond change is beyond the reach of loss.

See the same indwelling light in everyone, and compassion comes easily.

Anchor yourself within; the world can then flow around you.

Understanding who you are removes the need to chase who you are not.

The deepest well is inside you.

Union begins with a mind that is satisfied within.

Your worth doesn’t rise and fall with your luck.

A great Lord lives in this small body.

Two kinds of reality: what passes and what stays.

Even deep hurt cannot reach the innermost self.

Go higher than the impulse; go higher than the thought.

Take form without losing your essence.

Hold the passing world gently; hold the eternal firmly.

Maya spins; the heart stays still.

A change of form is not a loss of self.

Your essence is untouched by what happens to your form.

See in everyone a self that no event can finally diminish.

Nothing that ends can touch what never began.

Fear thins when you remember what in you never changes.

See the eternal in others, and cruelty loses its footing.

What is all-pervading cannot be cornered.

Meditate on what is stable beneath the changing.

Treat every being gently: the same deathless self lives in all.

Be rooted in yourself, and the world's swings pass over you.

Stop asking the world to complete you; it was never its job.

Qualities and actions shape the world; the self watches, unchanged.

Be present in your body without being run by it.

Rise from the lower self to the living self.

What lights everything else needs no lighting itself.

The wise are not blind to differences; they see through them.

Treat every person as a dwelling place of the Divine.

The imperishable is not far; it is the ground of everything near.

The self stands outside the cycle of harm.

Your core is beyond the reach of every weapon the world owns.

No one's essence can be taken from them.

Rest in yourself and the chase quietly ends.

Self-mastery comes from knowing who is mastering.

Remember what you are before you decide what to want.

Begin within; the outer search will make more sense.

The Divine is not only high above but deeply within.

How would you act today if you saw the imperishable in everyone you meet?

Water softens stone, yet cannot wet the self.

The elements govern the body; they have no authority over the self.

Look past the form to what lives in each being.

Each higher level can steady the one below.

The wheel turns, but the centre does not.

What in you is beyond thought? Sit with that question.

What changes in how you treat people when you see what dwells within them?

Fear of loss and death softens when the mind rests in the eternal.

Loneliness softens when you remember your source.

The self is the best school.

How aware are you of being aware right now?

What would you hold on to if you knew something in you never ends?

When did you last feel a light behind your thoughts?

Whose wellbeing do you count as your own?