Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Prakriti

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Quotes drawn from the Bhagavad Gita 226 quotes, each linked to the shloka behind it.

Discover Bhagavad Gita quotes on prakriti, material nature, and how the Gita describes its workings in body, mind and action as distinct from the Self.

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The ego too is a part of nature; observe it with curiosity.
Bhagavad Gita 7.4
Nature is the instrument; consciousness is the player.
Bhagavad Gita 7.5
What fades is folded into something that will bloom again.
Bhagavad Gita 9.7
Be gentle with yourself; you are shaped by forces larger than your will.
Bhagavad Gita 9.8
Humility begins with admitting how much is beyond our control.
Bhagavad Gita 9.8
Thank the wind, the fire, the water: they serve you every day.
Bhagavad Gita 11.39
Your body is borrowed from the elements; your gratitude is yours.
Bhagavad Gita 7.4
Know your ingredients before you try to master yourself.
Bhagavad Gita 7.4
We often chase what our nature craves, not what our heart needs.
Bhagavad Gita 7.20
Do not exhaust yourself fighting the rhythm of rise and fall.
Bhagavad Gita 8.19
Seeing that nature acts through you brings humility and freedom.
Bhagavad Gita 14.19
You can live in the world and still belong to yourself.
Bhagavad Gita 4.6
You are made of earth, water, fire, air, space and mind.
Bhagavad Gita 7.4
Mind, intellect and ego are as natural as rain and wind.
Bhagavad Gita 7.4
Everything perishable is nature at work; the witness is something else.
Bhagavad Gita 8.4
Much of what moves us is nature's current; learn to steer within it.
Bhagavad Gita 9.8
Know your tendencies; they are the sails of your boat.
Bhagavad Gita 9.8
Not every impulse is yours; some are only nature speaking.
Bhagavad Gita 9.8
Treat your own helplessness with compassion and curiosity.
Bhagavad Gita 9.8
Learn the map of the self: body, senses, mind, and the knower.
Bhagavad Gita 13.6
Accept your temperament and stay curious about what lies beneath.
Bhagavad Gita 13.20
Much of what you call 'my doing' is the world moving through you.
Bhagavad Gita 5.14
Rules followed without understanding lead only where desire points.
Bhagavad Gita 7.20
Everything moving and unmoving is part of one larger pattern.
Bhagavad Gita 9.10
Doing and feeling are two different streams; learn to see both.
Bhagavad Gita 13.21
What grows in you was planted and cared for by more than you.
Bhagavad Gita 14.3
Sit lightly in your life; it runs on more than your effort.
Bhagavad Gita 5.13
Understand your nature, then work with it, not against it.
Bhagavad Gita 3.33
Nature moves us whether we choose or not; choose consciously.
Bhagavad Gita 3.5
Notice how often forces you did not choose are carrying you.
Bhagavad Gita 3.27
Each step and breath happens through you, not by you alone.
Bhagavad Gita 5.8
We carry bodies and feelings; a wise path makes room for both.
Bhagavad Gita 12.5
The elements govern the body; they have no authority over the self.
Bhagavad Gita 2.23
Nature acts everywhere; wisdom is knowing which part of the steering is yours.
Bhagavad Gita 18.40
Which of your habits are nature's pull, and which are your choice?
Bhagavad Gita 9.8
What do you most want to understand about your own nature?
Bhagavad Gita 13.4
Which of your habits belong to nature, and which to your choice?
Bhagavad Gita 13.20
Master your own nature, and the world cannot bind you.
Bhagavad Gita 4.6
Speaking, giving, holding: all are movements of the body.
Bhagavad Gita 5.9
Beyond the body and mind is the life that sustains them.
Bhagavad Gita 7.5
Know the difference between what changes and what watches change.
Bhagavad Gita 13.20
Everything returns to rest, and everything rises again.
Bhagavad Gita 9.7
Water teaches adaptability: it takes the shape of every vessel.
Bhagavad Gita 10.29
Your moods and qualities are born of nature, not of your essence.
Bhagavad Gita 13.20
Three qualities weave every experience: clarity, drive, and inertia.
Bhagavad Gita 14.5
Senses meet their objects; you need not be dragged along.
Bhagavad Gita 5.9
Be kind to your restless and dull days; they are part of nature.
Bhagavad Gita 7.12
Nothing is lost; it is only gathered and sent out again.
Bhagavad Gita 9.7
Fear and fearlessness, pleasure and pain: all arise from the same source.
Bhagavad Gita 10.4
Let both joy and sorrow teach you; both come from the same source.
Bhagavad Gita 10.4
Ask the big questions: what is nature, what is the self, what is knowing?
Bhagavad Gita 13.1
Learn the nature of the field before you try to master it.
Bhagavad Gita 13.4
Desire, aversion, joy and sorrow are part of the field, not the knower.
Bhagavad Gita 13.7
Wisdom is the quiet separation of the witness from the weather.
Bhagavad Gita 13.35
The living spark is higher than the machinery it animates.
Bhagavad Gita 7.5
The day and the night are the open and closed eyes of the world.
Bhagavad Gita 11.19
Aversion is as much a movement of the field as attraction.
Bhagavad Gita 13.7
No one is free of nature’s three moods; the wise simply recognise them.
Bhagavad Gita 18.40
Mind and senses are tools the soul picks up, not the soul itself.
Bhagavad Gita 15.7
Qualities and actions shape the world; the self watches, unchanged.
Bhagavad Gita 4.13
Work with your nature, not against it, and effort grows lighter.
Bhagavad Gita 18.60
The three qualities of nature keep the wheel of action turning.
Bhagavad Gita 3.5
Cease to claim the whole machine; you are one working part.
Bhagavad Gita 5.14
Three tendencies shape what you think and how long you stay with it.
Bhagavad Gita 18.29
Even the heavenly are said to be shaped by nature’s strands; be gentle with yourself.
Bhagavad Gita 18.40
What are you blaming or crediting yourself for that was never only yours?
Bhagavad Gita 5.14
Diversity of talent and temperament is part of the design.
Bhagavad Gita 4.13

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