Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Soul

The same Self sits in every heart.

You are a spark of something eternal.

You are more than your elements.

The light of lights sits quietly in every heart.

The child, the youth and the elder are one person.

It is never born and never dies; it simply is.

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

Seek the part of you that time cannot touch.

The heart is where the infinite sits quietly.

Consciousness is the lamp by which everything else is seen.

There is a part of you untouched by age and loss.

What is truly you has no first day and no last.

Like worn clothes, bodies are set aside; the wearer goes on.

Memory is short; the soul's journey is long.

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

The body passes; the presence in it stays.

Beginning, middle and end: all are held within the one Self.

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

A single presence looks out from countless eyes.

The one who knows the body is not the body.

Within you sits a witness who permits and supports all you do.

The soul carries its impressions as the wind carries scent.

What pervades everything cannot be destroyed.

Bodies are finite; the one who wears them is not.

The one who dwells within every body cannot be harmed.

Above the senses stands the mind; above the mind, the intellect; above the intellect, the Self.

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

The body is a temple; ask who is the deity.

Great souls find a home that does not pass away.

The imperishable seed lives in every heart.

Everything in you is seen by one light.

A drop of the ocean carries the ocean’s nature.

Those who keep striving find the Self within.

Beings rise and fall; the witness remains.

Age changes the body, not the one who lives in it.

Beneath all that breaks, something unbroken holds.

What you truly are neither wounds nor is wounded.

Nothing outside can cut, burn, drown or dry the self.

Unburnt, undrowned, unmoved: that is your deepest nature.

The self cannot be seen, imagined or changed; it can only be known.

The self is a wonder that words approach and never capture.

The self is a well that never needs outside rain.

Steady the lower self with the higher Self.

The living spark is higher than the machinery it animates.

The imperishable in you does not act and is not tainted.

Dwell in the Self, and the world loses its pull.

What is imperishable cannot be lost, only forgotten.

The self you are is older than the body you wear.

A body is a house, not the self.

The Self is not hidden; attention is scattered.

You belong to something that was never absent and will not vanish.

The self is the thread; childhood and old age are beads.

Ancient, unborn, ever-present: that is what you are.

Eternal and all-pervading: you are not small.

What is beyond change is beyond the reach of loss.

The body is a city with nine gates; you are its calm resident.

The Self reveals itself when ignorance steps aside.

The powers of the knower are quiet and constant.

Eternal in essence, temporary in costume.

The senses serve the one seated behind them.

You are woven into something that cannot be unmade.

The body's story has an ending; the self's does not.

Knowing the self is indestructible changes how you treat everything.

Stand in the part of you that nothing can wound.

The witness is never entangled.

Heat and cold pass; the one who feels them remains.

Mind and senses are tools the soul picks up, not the soul itself.

Ear, eye, touch, taste, smell: five windows, one observer.

The deluded see the body and miss the one within.

Being does not begin or end with a single lifetime.

Your essence is untouched by what happens to your form.

Nothing that ends can touch what never began.

When the body ends, the self is not ended with it.

What is all-pervading cannot be cornered.

The stable self is the quiet centre of a restless life.

Dawn comes differently to those who live by an inner light.

Delight in the Self is a quiet kind of wealth.

You are more the witness than the maker.

End the chapter by returning to the one who watches.

The soul is present in every moment, but only the attentive notice.

The imperishable is not far; it is the ground of everything near.

The self stands outside the cycle of harm.

Eternity is not later; it is the nature of what you are now.

Fire and flood pass over what cannot be touched.

Steady, ancient, everywhere: the self is its own foundation.

Trust the part of you that stays when everything else moves.

No one's essence can be taken from them.

The same eternal presence looks out of every pair of eyes.

Find the witness behind the thinker.

Limited memory, limitless soul.

Beyond labels, one being looks out through many eyes.

Every heart carries a witness.

Primeval means older than your doubts.

The senses are loud; the Self is quiet and steady.

Let the house work; be the dweller, not the servant.

What part of you has never been damaged?

Rest in what has no birthday.

A satisfied soul is not driven.

Imperishable awareness watches every changing action.

Loneliness softens when you remember your source.

What within you is not perishable?

What does the part of you that never began remember?

See yourself in all beings and all beings in yourself.

Success and failure are weather; you are the sky.

See yourself in every being, and every being in yourself.

See the same light in every being.

The same life looks out of every pair of eyes.

A lamp of knowledge burns quietly in every heart.

Of all knowledge, self-knowledge is the first.

In every being lies the same seed.

You are not separate from what you came from.

There is a light behind every light.

To see the same presence in every being is to truly see.

Deep within you is something untouched by what you do.

You may make mistakes, but your essence stays untainted.

Forgive yourself: the deepest part of you has not been harmed.

Space holds everything and is stained by nothing.

What happens to you is not who you are.

The infinite can wear a form and remain infinite.

The lamp you seek is already lit within.

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

What is alive in you is the same as what is alive in all.

Fear of loss loosens when you know what cannot be lost.

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

The deepest home is the one you never have to leave.

The teacher within is always available.

Look into any heart and you find the same quiet presence.

The body is a field; you are the one who knows it.

Immortality begins with knowing what does not die.

What you seek is both inside and outside you.

One life appears as many lives.

Look into your heart; the lamp is already lit.

Know the difference between what changes and what watches change.

The supreme Self in you is a quiet, steady friend.

You are supported from within.

The witness never leaves you.

Your core is clean, whatever your day has been.

Let this knowledge comfort you when you feel unworthy.

Whatever happens in your life, you are the open sky.

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

With the eye of wisdom, you see what is you and what only happens to you.

Beyond your moods is the one who watches them.

The witness is no weather.

The deepest home is immortal and full of joy.

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

Contentment begins where wanting meets what you already are.

Look for the one who is using the mind.

Nature is the instrument; consciousness is the player.

In every being lies an eternal seed.

The states come and go; the witness remains.

Look beyond what passes to what stays.

Look through the form to what animates it.

Beyond every appearance is something that does not change.

Behind all change stands something that does not change.

There is a deeper stillness beneath all rising and falling.

Great souls give their whole mind to what is imperishable.

Origin and destination are the same home.

Turn inward, and you may find the light has been waiting.

Know yourself, and you touch the knowing that knows all.

You never meet a stranger, only a fellow dwelling of the Self.

Treat every being as the home of the sacred.

To find the Self in your own heart is to find it in all.

Awareness is the quiet root of every living thing.

The knower and the known are not two.

What you seek to know is also what is knowing.

Know the knower, not only the known.

Know your body, but remember you are more than your body.

The same knower looks out through every body.

In every field, the same quiet knower is present.

Know your body, your mind, and the awareness behind them.

Knowing the supreme is knowing what cannot be lost.

The sacred sees through every eye and hears through every ear.

What you are seeking is the very light by which you seek.

Every living thing is a meeting of body and awareness.

The imperishable abides in the perishable; look for it.

Look past the changing form to what does not change.

The doer is nature; the watcher is you.

Awareness is never stained by experience.

Your inner light has no beginning and cannot be dimmed.

Behind a busy life stands a still and spotless self.

Awareness is as clean as space.

Return to the sky within when you feel dirtied by life.

Life arises where nature and spirit meet.

Qualities of mind come and go; you remain.

Know the deathless in you and fear of endings softens.

You are more than the three weaves of nature.

Pleasure and pain are two coats; you are neither.

What you seek is closer than your search.

Harming the body harms the one who lives in it.

Seeing the same Self in all makes cruelty harder and kindness easier.

The Divine sits quietly in every heart.

Life is older than any single ending.

The wise move through the day as witnesses.

The world is less lonely when seen as one.

Caught in moods, we forget the one who has them.

Remembering the unchanging is the beginning of freedom.

A great soul is simply one who sees the whole in each part.

Liberation is to know your own depth.

Ageing is a passage; what is aware of it stays.

Where in this body does the sacred dwell?

The imperishable is the ground beneath everything that perishes.

Know the changing from the unchanging in yourself.

The divine is not far; it is lodged in this very body.

Form comes from formlessness and goes home to it.

Nature creates, and something silent witnesses.

A great soul keeps returning to what is lasting.

What you seek as treasure is already inside you as seed.

Self-knowledge is the only door to the Self.

Every creation has a beginning, middle and end; the creator abides.

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

The sacred sees through every eye and speaks through every mouth.

Your eyes are one among many through which the sacred sees.

Many mouths, many eyes, one awareness.

Curiosity about the self is the oldest curiosity.

You live in a field, and you are the one who watches it.

All bodies are fields; one awareness knows them all.

Awareness lights up the senses but is not made of them.

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.

Life arises where field and knower meet.

You are matter and awareness, joined for a while.

Everything alive is a partnership of earth and spirit.

Everything that passes carries something that does not.

Know yourself as something that watches change rather than being swept by it.

Know what lies beyond clarity, drive and fog.

You are the one who sees, not merely the seeing.

Beneath all differences runs one undivided thread.

Serene in the Self, one neither grieves nor craves.

You have lived more than you remember.

What you seek is closer than you think; it matures within.

Satisfaction found in the Self needs no sequel.

Infinite joy is quiet and always available.

You are made of earth, water, fire, air, space and mind.

The imperishable is hidden by what constantly changes.

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

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

The eternal is the quiet backdrop of every scene.

The supreme goal is not far; it is the ground of who you are.

You cannot step outside the source to look at it.

Grace works from within, not from outside.

Your whole life lies between two silences, held by one Self.

The one who begins, sustains and ends everything lives within you.

Imperishable greatness is not far; it is the ground you stand on.

You are not the only one who knows; all share the same knowing.

Learn the map of the self: body, senses, mind, and the knower.

The body and mind act; awareness experiences.

Distinguish what is done from who feels.

Let your inner supporter be your first teacher.

Subtle things cannot be soiled; neither can your deepest self.

Father and mother of all: nature and spirit.

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

The same life shines through every face.

Those we love are not erased by time; they belong to a continuing whole.

Loss touches the form, not the essence.

Mistaking the body for the self is the root of many fears.

Understanding the deathless self softens the heart toward every being.

An ending can be a change of garments, not a loss of the wearer.

There is a part of you no storm can reach.

See the same indwelling light in everyone, and compassion comes easily.

Peace is a fullness that nothing needs to add to.

The deepest doer knows itself as a witness.

Offering, offerer, fire: see one reality in all three.

The deepest offering is the self.

Anchor yourself within; the world can then flow around you.

The deepest well is inside you.

Be one with what you most deeply are.

Every quality of mind arises within something larger.

To be held as one's own self is the highest closeness.

The deepest devotee and the divine feel like one.

Every offering has a hidden recipient within.

Within every body, an offering is silently received.

The ancient guide within knows more than your mind does.

Perfected souls are made by patient seeing.

Separate the question: what is the field, and who is the knower?

Both nature and awareness are ancient companions.

A great Lord lives in this small body.

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

Light is wonderful; the one who sees it is more wonderful still.

Let loss teach you what cannot be lost.

If growing up did not end you, why fear the next change?

Rest in the presence that fills everything and is lost in nothing.

Even deep hurt cannot reach the innermost self.

Grief softens when it meets something unchanging.

Remember who is watching when the senses are busy.

Some light cannot be switched on or off; it simply is.

To know in truth is to belong in truth.

Maya spins; the heart stays still.

A change of form is not a loss of self.

Who in you has watched every age arrive?

The deepest security is in what cannot be taken away.

Life in any one body is a chapter, not the whole book.

See in everyone a self that no event can finally diminish.

Fear thins when you remember what in you never changes.

See the eternal in others, and cruelty loses its footing.

Let that thought make you brave.

When circumstances burn, remember what stays unburnt.

Meditate on what is stable beneath the changing.

Treat every being gently: the same deathless self lives in all.

Reverence for life begins with reverence for what lives in it.

When pleasure and pain both loosen their hold, what remains is you.

Not everything that happens through you is you.

Keep your mind on the Self while your hands do the work.

There is always a deeper level of yourself to consult.

You are more than your impulses and more than your thoughts.

Anchor yourself in what does not change.

Many lifetimes have shaped who you are today.

Freedom can choose to enter the world.

Fast rewards rarely feed the soul's slower hunger.

Qualities and actions shape the world; the self watches, unchanged.

Who is acting in you, and who is watching?

In every task, notice what remains unmoving in you.

A person at rest within is a quiet kind of sun.

Let the highest in you stay level through every season.

The self sees the Self when the mind stops running.

Rise from the lower self to the living self.

To meet life is to meet the meeting of body and awareness.

What lights everything else needs no lighting itself.

You belong to something larger than your story.

In truth, a part is never separate from the whole.

In a world of endings, remember what has none.

Remember who sits within when the world seems to spin you.

Trust the charioteer within.

Who were you before this fear, and who will you be after it?

Every stage of life is a room in the same house.

Hold the body with care and the self with trust.

Honour the body's limits without mistaking them for your own.

You are older than your worries.

One who knows the self as indestructible loses the sense of being a destroyer.

Change is the self's wardrobe, never its end.

Your core is beyond the reach of every weapon the world owns.

Fear loses ground where you remember the untouchable.

What cannot be dried or wetted cannot be diminished by moods.

Self-mastery comes from knowing who is mastering.

Inner strength is the quiet authority of the Self.

To return to the source is the end of wandering.

Enjoyment is the senses’ work; awareness is the host.

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

The Divine is not only high above but deeply within.

Faith begins when you sense what nothing can destroy.

What would change if you knew nothing could touch your core?

Your years are guests; your true self is the home.

How would you act today if you saw the imperishable in everyone you meet?

Water softens stone, yet cannot wet the self.

The elements govern the body; they have no authority over the self.

The unmanifest holds more than the visible can show.

Look past the form to what lives in each being.

Invulnerable at the core, tender at the surface: every creature is both.

Stay awake to the inner life while the world sleeps through it.

Who are you beyond your body and your thoughts?

What stays the same in you whatever mood you are in?

Treat yourself as sacred; a portion of the sacred lives in you.

The wheel turns, but the centre does not.

What in you is beyond thought? Sit with that question.

Even the unseen is part of the whole.

What changes in how you treat people when you see what dwells within them?

Climb the ladder of inner levels.

A knower of truth watches the body at work.

Fear of loss and death softens when the mind rests in the eternal.

The self is the best school.

What in you stays young as the years pass?

What in your life is truly imperishable?

What in you remains when everything else changes?

What in you knows itself without needing a mirror?

What would you hold on to if you knew something in you never ends?

What part of you has stayed whole through everything?

The unbound can enter the world without being bound.

Nothing is separate from what you offer it to.

In whom could you try today to see the imperishable?

Speaking, giving, holding: all are movements of the body.