Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Transcendence

Real happiness is steady, not stimulating.

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

Seek the joy that does not depend on moods.

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

Let your joy be larger than your losses.

Seek the light that does not depend on circumstances.

Beyond opposites, bondage is easy to leave.

There is a joy that senses can neither give nor take.

Beyond the cycles of change is something that does not change.

Steady devotion carries you past the changing moods.

The deepest light needs no lamp.

Some peace is so deep that no loss can shake it.

There is a deeper stillness beneath all rising and falling.

The deepest freedom lives right in the middle of experience.

Higher than the changing, higher even than the changeless.

Remembering the unchanging is the beginning of freedom.

Beyond being and non-being lies a quiet ground.

Know what lies beyond clarity, drive and fog.

Beyond the three qualities lies a freedom from fear of time.

Freedom comes by rising above the changing, not by escaping it.

Being and non-being are both held in something beyond.

Rise above the pairs of pleasure and pain.

The highest reality cannot be pinned down by words like 'is' or 'is not'.

Rise above the pull of opposites; neither crave nor reject.

Behind the restless world sits something quietly eternal.

Between pleasure and pain there is a calm place; learn to stand there.

Behind the visible and the hidden lies a third reality.

Free yourself from the see-saw of likes and dislikes.

Look past nature’s three moods to what stays.

Find what the senses point toward but cannot hold.