Bhagavad Gita Quotes: Let Go of Attachment

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Quotes drawn from the Bhagavad Gita 590 quotes, each linked to the shloka behind it.

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Surrender is not giving up your work, but giving up your grip.
Bhagavad Gita 12.6
Act without longing for the fruit, and no action will stain you.
Bhagavad Gita 4.14
Free of desire, fear and anger, you are liberated already.
Bhagavad Gita 5.28
Leaving things behind is easy; leaving the clinging is the work.
Bhagavad Gita 5.6
Happiness comes from dropping the burden of being the doer.
Bhagavad Gita 5.13
Attachment to doing is as heavy as attachment to having.
Bhagavad Gita 6.4
Offer your actions, and neither good nor bad results will bind you.
Bhagavad Gita 9.28
Time carries all things onward; do not carry the whole weight yourself.
Bhagavad Gita 11.32
Do not hate your states when they come, nor cling when they go.
Bhagavad Gita 14.22
Renunciation is not about the world but about the wanting.
Bhagavad Gita 18.2
No one can stop acting; we can only change how we hold the results.
Bhagavad Gita 18.11
Release is not a distant place; it starts with an open hand.
Bhagavad Gita 2.51
Contentment is the freedom to work without needing a reward.
Bhagavad Gita 4.20
A self-possessed person acts without being possessed by action.
Bhagavad Gita 4.41
Do not cling to the good moment, and do not curse the bad one.
Bhagavad Gita 5.20
Let the vastness of time loosen your grip on small things.
Bhagavad Gita 8.17
Detachment lets you work without carrying the work home.
Bhagavad Gita 9.9
Indifference to results is the secret of freedom in action.
Bhagavad Gita 9.9
You can enjoy the qualities of life without being bound by them.
Bhagavad Gita 13.15
Release the heavy claim of being the only author of your life.
Bhagavad Gita 13.30
Attachment to doing can be as binding as attachment to having.
Bhagavad Gita 14.7
Letting go of craving, anger and greed is a kindness to yourself.
Bhagavad Gita 16.21
Do your part well, and make peace with the part that is not yours.
Bhagavad Gita 18.14
Attachment adds weight to every step; set it down and walk.
Bhagavad Gita 2.48
A contented mind still works; it simply stops auditioning.
Bhagavad Gita 2.55
Dedicate your work, cut your doubts, and no action will bind you.
Bhagavad Gita 4.41
Release both hatred and craving, and you have renounced enough.
Bhagavad Gita 5.3
Contentment in what you know makes gold and gravel look alike.
Bhagavad Gita 6.8
To know the cycle of arrival and departure is to love more lightly.
Bhagavad Gita 11.2
When effort feels like too much, take refuge, then loosen your grip on the outcome.
Bhagavad Gita 12.11
Cling less to pleasure, cling less to pain; your path grows lighter.
Bhagavad Gita 13.22
What has no clear beginning or end need not be mastered, only released.
Bhagavad Gita 15.3
A hundred small desires can tie a person tighter than one big chain.
Bhagavad Gita 16.12
Know the difference between leaving the world and leaving the grip.
Bhagavad Gita 18.1
A grasping heart hoards results; a wise one spends effort freely.
Bhagavad Gita 2.49
The one who wants nothing from the result is held by nothing.
Bhagavad Gita 4.14
Let go of scheming, and both things and tasks lose their pull.
Bhagavad Gita 6.4
When you are full inside, treasure and trash are the same.
Bhagavad Gita 6.8
Desire fulfilled gives way to desire renewed; step off the wheel.
Bhagavad Gita 16.13
Giving up without inner practice only moves the restlessness elsewhere.
Bhagavad Gita 5.6
Give up scheming for yourself, and you have begun yoga.
Bhagavad Gita 6.2
Offer your plans to something larger and see them lighten.
Bhagavad Gita 6.2
Yoga is reached when neither things nor tasks hold you.
Bhagavad Gita 6.4
Temporary rewards need constant renewal; lasting ones rest in you.
Bhagavad Gita 7.23
Go beyond the scorecard of good deeds to the joy of the source.
Bhagavad Gita 8.28
Those who cling carry the results with them; those who release walk free.
Bhagavad Gita 18.12
Travel light: the self needs fewer garments than you think.
Bhagavad Gita 2.22
Hatred of the bad binds you as tightly as craving for the good.
Bhagavad Gita 2.57
Let go of 'me' first, and letting go of everything else gets easier.
Bhagavad Gita 2.71
Ask yourself: what am I clutching that was never mine to hold?
Bhagavad Gita 12.11
You cannot find where the world begins, but you can decide where your grip ends.
Bhagavad Gita 15.3
Let wisdom do the sorting; don't carry every deed with you.
Bhagavad Gita 2.50
Stop asking the world to complete you; it was never its job.
Bhagavad Gita 2.55
Engage fully in the world while staying inwardly free.
Bhagavad Gita 3.7
Hope for nothing, steady the mind, and the work stays clean.
Bhagavad Gita 4.21
Act for the sake of the act, and you are already a renouncer.
Bhagavad Gita 6.1
Renouncing intention for self is renouncing the weight.
Bhagavad Gita 6.2
Selfish action is the chain; selfless action is the key.
Bhagavad Gita 3.9
Holding on to duty only for the reward is a restless way to hold.
Bhagavad Gita 18.34
The highest accomplishment is wanting nothing from the accomplishment.
Bhagavad Gita 18.49
Let go of one clinging and you often let go of its twin.
Bhagavad Gita 5.3
Wealth, pleasure, and duty can all become cages when clutched.
Bhagavad Gita 18.34
Understanding divine action makes your own action lighter.
Bhagavad Gita 4.9
Gain, loss, and everything in between: let none of them own you.
Bhagavad Gita 18.12
Do not argue about the route when you are already arriving.
Bhagavad Gita 5.5
Skill means giving the work everything and clinging to none of it.
Bhagavad Gita 2.50
Once you truly see a pattern, it cannot hold you the same way.
Bhagavad Gita 4.37
Work for what you love, free of clinging, and bear no hatred for any being.
Bhagavad Gita 11.55
Release attachment, fear and anger, and the mind turns clear.
Bhagavad Gita 4.10
Know the difference between what you have and what you are.
Bhagavad Gita 7.5
Desire and aversion are two sides of the same bewilderment.
Bhagavad Gita 7.27
Peace comes not at the end of the climb but at the letting go.
Bhagavad Gita 12.12
Freedom from craving, rage and greed makes you kind to yourself.
Bhagavad Gita 16.22
Every result you stop gripping gives your peace more room.
Bhagavad Gita 2.51
Do not exhaust yourself fighting the rhythm of rise and fall.
Bhagavad Gita 8.19
Understanding how things begin and end changes how you hold them.
Bhagavad Gita 11.2
Let go of the idea that you must deserve what is freely given.
Bhagavad Gita 11.53
Liking and disliking are the two strings that move a puppet.
Bhagavad Gita 2.57
You can live in the world and still belong to yourself.
Bhagavad Gita 4.6
Outer pleasures are visitors; inner peace is the resident.
Bhagavad Gita 5.21
Work freely, enjoy lightly, and plan without grasping.
Bhagavad Gita 6.4
Hold your certainties lightly; time is longer than your view.
Bhagavad Gita 7.26
Be kind to the passing world, and set your heart on the lasting one.
Bhagavad Gita 8.15
Aversion is as much a movement of the field as attraction.
Bhagavad Gita 13.7
Praise and blame are borrowed opinions; don't mortgage yourself to either.
Bhagavad Gita 2.57
Work with the energy of the attached, but without the attachment.
Bhagavad Gita 3.25
Understanding who you are removes the need to chase who you are not.
Bhagavad Gita 5.16
Offer your efforts and your restraints to the friend of all.
Bhagavad Gita 5.29
You have arrived when ambition no longer drives the work.
Bhagavad Gita 6.4
A mind that makes fewer plans for pleasure finds more peace.
Bhagavad Gita 6.24
A single day of the cosmos outlasts a thousand of our plans.
Bhagavad Gita 8.17
Knowledge can bind if you are attached to being the knower.
Bhagavad Gita 14.6
Surrender is a destination you walk toward with open hands.
Bhagavad Gita 15.4
Serenity comes to those who stop bargaining with every like and dislike.
Bhagavad Gita 2.64
Grief honours love; clinging to it too long can cloud sight.
Bhagavad Gita 2.11
Rituals warm the heart when offered without asking for returns.
Bhagavad Gita 2.43
Let your preferences stay preferences; don't let them become commands.
Bhagavad Gita 2.64
Do your work for something larger than yourself, and it stops binding you.
Bhagavad Gita 3.9
To depend on no one for your joy is to love without hooks.
Bhagavad Gita 3.18
Stop keeping score of who you favour and who you resent.
Bhagavad Gita 5.3
No one sees this tree whole; start by loosening what is within reach.
Bhagavad Gita 15.3
A question about ‘enough’ can free you from endless wanting.
Bhagavad Gita 1.32
Clarity about what lasts makes you generous with what doesn't.
Bhagavad Gita 2.16
Don't chase pleasure so hard that its absence feels like loss.
Bhagavad Gita 2.56
Walk without craving, and the road becomes its own reward.
Bhagavad Gita 2.71
Bring body, mind and intellect to the task without attachment.
Bhagavad Gita 5.11
Devotion of the whole mind leaves no room for old burdens.
Bhagavad Gita 5.17
What outcome could you accept if you gave this your whole self?
Bhagavad Gita 2.37
Worry about gaining and keeping is the most tiring work of all.
Bhagavad Gita 2.45
What are you still calling yours that you could simply use?
Bhagavad Gita 2.71
Cease to claim the whole machine; you are one working part.
Bhagavad Gita 5.14
Know the lifespan of a pleasure and you will love it more wisely.
Bhagavad Gita 5.22
Let enthusiasm come from the work itself, not from its reward.
Bhagavad Gita 18.26
Self-mastery frees you from needing to be mastered by outcomes.
Bhagavad Gita 18.49
To be fit for the highest, begin by emptying out the unnecessary.
Bhagavad Gita 18.53
What would your day feel like without the claim of doing?
Bhagavad Gita 5.8
Which result are you still carrying that you could offer up?
Bhagavad Gita 9.28
Where might your love of being 'good' or 'wise' be holding you?
Bhagavad Gita 14.6

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