Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Purusha

You are more than your elements.

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

Consciousness is the lamp by which everything else is seen.

Know the difference between what changes and what watches change.

Beyond your moods is the one who watches them.

The witness is no weather.

The body passes; the presence in it stays.

All beings live within the same vast presence.

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

Awareness is the quiet root of every living thing.

Joy and sorrow are felt by you but do not define you.

You can take part in life without being swept away by it.

Wisdom is the quiet separation of the witness from the weather.

Let the witness in you grow stronger than the weather.

The living spark is higher than the machinery it animates.

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

Look within everything for the one that holds everything.

Distinguish what is done from who feels.

Take care of the experiencer within the busy doer.

Sometimes the best thing the doer can do is let the feeler rest.

The world is sustained by something finer than matter.

Two kinds of reality: what passes and what stays.

Go back to the source of all this activity.

Rise from the lower self to the living self.

Ask the oldest question: where does all this come from?

Are you more often the doer or the one who feels?

You are held within what you seek.

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

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

Nature is the instrument; consciousness is the player.

Single-hearted devotion reaches what scattered effort cannot.

Gunas arise and pass; the witness remains.

What arises in you is nature's work; what notices is you.

Let the body work; let the heart witness.

Every living thing is a meeting of body and awareness.

The doer is nature; the watcher is you.

Awareness is never stained by experience.

Life arises where nature and spirit meet.

You are more than the three weaves of nature.

Higher than the changing, higher even than the changeless.

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

Know the changing from the unchanging in yourself.

Nature creates, and something silent witnesses.

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

Ask the big questions: what is nature, what is the self, what is knowing?

Nature and awareness have both been here forever.

Nature does the doing; awareness does the feeling.

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

You are matter and awareness, joined for a while.

Everything alive is a partnership of earth and spirit.

Everything in you is seen by one light.

Everything alive is born of a great partnership.

Behind every creature is seed and soil together.

Beings rise and fall; the witness remains.

Beyond all that comes and goes, there is one who holds it all.

Everything perishable is nature at work; the witness is something else.

The world turns under a quiet watchfulness.

The body and mind act; awareness experiences.

Creation is a shared act of seed and earth.

Father and mother of all: nature and spirit.

Both nature and awareness are ancient companions.

Doing and feeling are two different streams; learn to see both.

Nature's three strands tie the body; awareness slips free.

Reach beyond loss and permanence to the one who holds both.

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

Imperishable awareness watches every changing action.

Take refuge in what came before every beginning.

What within you is not perishable?