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Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Spiritual Knowledge
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Quotes drawn from the Bhagavad Gita 72 quotes, each linked to the shloka behind it.
Find Bhagavad Gita quotes on spiritual knowledge, the understanding of the Self, the Divine and the world that Krishna calls supremely purifying.
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The deepest secret is hidden in plain sight.
The same truth has been sung in many ways.
Understanding that is felt is understanding that stays.
The deepest teachings are simple enough to live.
Clear the cloud, and your own knowing returns.
Clear knowing comes from practice, refuge and attention together.
Seek the knowing that leaves nothing else to chase.
Deep knowledge satisfies as well as informs.
Read widely; the truth has many tellers.
Ancient truth stays young when someone lives it today.
Without envy, secrets become gifts.
Real wisdom purifies as it explains.
Everything you need to know is held in a single presence.
When the mind runs out of words, the heart may begin to know.
Texts are lamps; don't mistake the lamp for the sun.
Value what you have realised more than what you have collected.
The one who sees the root reads the leaves differently.
Let scripture lead you to the one who dwells inside you.
Scripture points to the sea; the sea itself is experience.
Delight in the letter can blind us to the spirit.
Sacred words are leaves that shelter the tree and point to its roots.
Wonder is a good guide to what the eye cannot see.
Sacred knowledge finds the sincere listener.
Imperishable wisdom survives because someone kept sharing it.
Which truth in your life is simple and still unpractised?
Some truths wait patiently for the reader to be ready.
What do you truly know of the divine at work around you?
Knowledge becomes wisdom when it is lived.
Trust the timing of your own awakening.
Peace follows knowledge like a shadow.
A mind free of envy can receive the deepest teachings.
The highest knowledge is also the simplest to practise.
Knowledge is an eye that opens from within.
Nothing cleanses like true understanding.
Confusion is only knowledge under a cloud.
The light is never missing, only covered.
Truth reveals itself to those who keep looking gently.
The best knowledge is worth hearing again.
Wisdom is a flame passed hand to hand.
Seeing is a skill of the inner eye.
What is unreal has no lasting being; what is real never ceases.
Knowledge is where all effort comes to rest.
Peace is the reward of knowing, not of owning.
Ignorance covers wisdom the way fog covers a hill.
Find the thread, and the whole necklace makes sense.
Meditation lets knowledge settle into the heart.
The one who purifies and the one who is to be known are one.
Ask the honest question before you choose the path.
Practice repeats; understanding deepens.
Memory and knowledge rise from a source beyond the mind.
To know is to see what holds everything together.
Knowledge that reaches the heart changes the destination.
Clear knowing cannot be confused again.
Wisdom lights everything it touches.
What you have been seeking was lit all along.
All learning ends in knowing the one who dwells within.
Know one thing truly, and the rest is known in its light.
You stand on the shoulders of seekers you will never meet.
Find someone who has seen, and sit near them.
Purity of mind is the fruit of patient knowing.
Immortal wisdom is carried forward by living it.
Insight is a gift received, not a prize seized.
Receive the teaching humbly; pass it on honestly.
True knowing ends the cycle of wandering.
A secret is only secret to those who have not yet looked within.
A teacher's gift outlives the teacher.
To know the tree, trace it upward to its source.
Every great teaching has a long line of grateful students behind it.
Understand how your practice is built, and you will not be lost in it.
Insight, not ritual alone, brings you home.
Many roads reach one truth when walked with honesty.
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