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Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Bhagavan
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Quotes drawn from the Bhagavad Gita 170 quotes, each linked to the shloka behind it.
Read Bhagavad Gita quotes on Bhagavan, the Lord, as Krishna speaks of himself in the Gita: the supreme being, protector and friend of all.
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You are never abandoned when you see the divine around you.
Aim for what does not end.
You are held within what you seek.
The sacred often wears ordinary clothes.
The sacred is goal and companion, refuge and friend.
The Divine sits quietly in every heart, waiting to be noticed.
The divine meets you in the form you can trust.
Choose a goal large enough to hold your whole life.
Know the source of all, and your mind will settle.
The sacred is parent and protector of every being.
To be held by the universe is to be held like a child.
You are seen, sheltered and held by the same presence.
Origin and destination are the same home.
The deepest friend is the one who sees everything and stays.
Trust the quiet presence that supports every breath.
Every sunrise is a reminder of a greater light.
The earth holds you up because something holds the earth.
Look within the heart; the answer already lives there.
Higher than the changing, higher even than the changeless.
The Divine sits quietly in every heart.
Trust the friend at the heart of all things.
The Lord of all worlds is also the friend of the smallest heart.
Everything held in the divine is held in love.
Do not settle for the part when the whole is available.
No one grasps the whole; all can bow before it.
Honour the body as the place where the sacred lives.
The divine is not far; it is lodged in this very body.
Turn toward the abode that holds all and loses none.
Wonder is wisdom's first language.
Whatever you seek in a parent, you can find in the sacred.
Find in the sacred both the mother's tenderness and the father's steadiness.
One presence is witness, shelter and treasure.
A humble heart admits that only the source knows the source.
Be content to be known by what you cannot fully know.
Wanting a direct glimpse is a sign of sincere love.
Beyond all that comes and goes, there is one who holds it all.
Know that life itself is your friend.
The divine is never lost to the one who sees it everywhere.
Hold the thought of a presence that supports every living thing.
A familiar face can carry an infinite mystery.
Only the infinite fully knows itself.
The one who begins, sustains and ends everything lives within you.
The heart that believes still longs to behold.
The light you admire in the world is borrowed from something deeper.
What sustains the universe also sustains you.
You are not alone on the wheel.
To be held as one's own self is the highest closeness.
To be known fully is a gift only the infinite can give.
Everything lives inside the one you love.
Be careful not to shrink the great into the familiar.
The one who purifies and the one who is to be known are one.
Be cared for by something that has cared for all before you.
Make the highest goal your daily direction.
A great Lord lives in this small body.
Even digestion is a quiet act of the Divine.
Memory and knowledge rise from a source beyond the mind.
Reach beyond loss and permanence to the one who holds both.
The Divine is present in the task as much as in the temple.
A promise from love can be trusted.
Humility is knowing there is always something higher.
A universe held by a friend is a safe place.
Moonlight, firelight, daylight: one brightness wearing three faces.
The Supreme is the horizon every seeker walks toward.
Treat every person as a dwelling place of the Divine.
White horses, a steady hand: a picture of trust.
The limitless enters limits out of compassion.
Brilliance is never self-made; it is passed along.
Life continues because something burns gently within.
Trust the quiet clarity that rises from the heart.
The Divine is not only high above but deeply within.
Some truths are bigger than our categories.
Pervading all, the Divine is in the person you are serving.
Divine presence arrives by its own power, never by compulsion.
A light that never dims makes every other loss bearable.
Even forgetting has its place in the design.
Aim higher than the best you can imagine.
Keep the Divine as your highest aim and let lesser aims find their place.
Take refuge in what came before every beginning.
Great and small alike rest on the same support.
Don’t settle for a lesser goal when the highest is open to you.
A divine companion makes the road feel shorter.
What would you do differently if you knew you were fully seen?
How would you live if you saw the universe as a loving parent?
What do you most need today: refuge, witness, or friend?
How would you describe the sacred in your own words?
Where can you feel the friendship of life today?
The same Self sits in every heart.
You are a spark of something eternal.
What you seek decides where you arrive.
Whatever form you worship with faith, your faith is made steady.
One truth, many forms of reaching it.
To support without being bound is a divine art.
The heart is where the infinite sits quietly.
Comfort the frightened with a gentle face.
The supreme Self in you is a quiet, steady friend.
The deepest light needs no lamp.
Set down every burden, take shelter, and do not grieve.
To see the world as friendly is to begin to rest.
Rest in being known, even when you cannot know.
Pervading everything, the sacred is nearer than your breath.
All beings are held within something vaster than them.
A friend who is also the source is the safest refuge.
Take refuge in what has been your witness all along.
God does not need your wealth; God welcomes your love.
Give your mind to the one who holds you.
Even the wisest cannot trace the origin of everything.
You are held by something that is only partly visible.
Within you sits a witness who permits and supports all you do.
To know the Supreme rightly is to worship with your whole being.
Be devoted to the one who lives in everyone.
Behind every fulfilled desire is something larger than us.
The vast sees all moments; we see only this one.
Where in this body does the sacred dwell?
The body is a temple; ask who is the deity.
The supporter of all is smaller than an atom and larger than the sky.
Devotion makes the vast feel personal.
The sacred sustains everything and yet is untouched by it.
Appearances can hide the depth behind them.
See the divine in the ritual, the herb, the fire, and the word.
Remember who receives your offering.
The highest is abode, purifier and friend all at once.
The source can be known from within, not studied from without.
There is a home that no darkness can reach.
A drop of the ocean carries the ocean’s nature.
Turn your daily work into worship of the One who fills everything.
Do not grieve; you are held.
All is the divine: the thought that ends the search.
Remember the highest while you live, and it will remember you.
Pervading everything, the divine clings to nothing.
The divine yoga: close enough to hold, free enough to let go.
Every gift ultimately goes to the same giver.
The origin of all is a mystery that invites reverence.
Grace works from within, not from outside.
To name the highest is to bow before it.
The giver faces every side and turns from none.
You are held more than you know.
A steady guide beside you changes how the noise sounds.
Grace descends by choice, not by obligation.
Your choices are your own; no one carries them for you.
Offer your efforts and your restraints to the friend of all.
Within every body, an offering is silently received.
The teachers themselves came from the source.
See the Divine in whatever lights your world.
You are never outside the reach of the Supreme.
Life can feel like a wheel; remember the one standing at its centre.
Let go into the one who never lets go.
Rest in the presence that fills everything and is lost in nothing.
Go back to the source of all this activity.
Breath and fire together turn food into life.
The Supreme is not one more thing in the world; it is the source of things.
You are dear; hold that as a fact, not a hope.
To be dear is the whole ground of the journey.
Reverence for life begins with reverence for what lives in it.
Freedom can choose to enter the world.
The world rises and rests in the same hands.
The world is rooted in something higher than itself.
You belong to something larger than your story.
In truth, a part is never separate from the whole.
Faith is trust in the unseen support beneath all things.
The highest name is not a title but a relationship.
Remember who sits within when the world seems to spin you.
Truth is told again to those who are dear.
Take refuge in the one who knows you completely.
Trust the charioteer within.
Let your devotion reach beyond what can be measured.
Every heart carries a witness.
Treat yourself as sacred; a portion of the sacred lives in you.
One support underlies the three worlds.
To feel supported is to remember the Supreme.
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