Gita 16.1
श्रीभगवानुवाच। अभयं सत्त्वसंशुद्धिर्ज्ञानयोगव्यवस्थितिः। दानं दमश्च यज्ञश्च स्वाध्यायस्तप आर्जवम्॥
śrī-bhagavān uvāca abhayaṁ sattva-saṁśuddhir jñāna-yoga-vyavasthitiḥ dānaṁ damaś ca yajñaś ca svādhyāyas tapa ārjavam
"The Blessed Lord said: Fearlessness, purity of mind, steadfastness in knowledge-yoga, charity, self-control, sacrifice, study of scriptures, austerity, uprightness, "
All 24 verses of Chapter 16
- 16.1The Blessed Lord said: Fearlessness, purity of mind, steadfastness in knowledge-yoga, charity...
- 16.2Non-violence, truthfulness, freedom from anger, renunciation, tranquility, aversion to fault-finding...
- 16.3Vigor, forgiveness, fortitude, purity, freedom from malice, absence of excessive pride, these belong to...
- 16.4Hypocrisy, arrogance, excessive pride, anger, harshness, and ignorance, these belong to one born with...
- 16.5The divine endowment is deemed for liberation; the demonic for bondage. Grieve not, O Pandava; you are...
- 16.6There are two types of created beings in this world, the divine and the demonic. The divine has been...
- 16.7The demonic know not what to do and what to refrain from; neither purity, nor right conduct, nor truth is...
- 16.8They say the universe is without truth, without foundation, without a God, not arising from mutual...
- 16.9Holding this view, these lost souls with small intelligence, of cruel deeds, arise as enemies for the...
- 16.10Giving themselves over to insatiable desire, filled with hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance, holding false...
- 16.11Beset with immeasurable anxieties ending only in death, regarding gratification of desires as the highest...
- 16.12Bound by hundreds of ropes of hope, devoted to lust and anger, they seek to amass wealth by unjust means...
- 16.13'This today has been gained by me; this desire I shall obtain; this is mine, and this wealth also will be...
- 16.14'That enemy has been slain by me, and others I shall slay too. I am the lord, I am the enjoyer; I am...
- 16.15'I am wealthy and well-born; who else is like me? I shall sacrifice, I shall give charity, I shall...
- 16.16Bewildered by many thoughts, caught in the net of delusion, addicted to the gratification of desires, they...
- 16.17Self-conceited, stubborn, filled with the pride and intoxication of wealth, they perform sacrifice in name...
- 16.18Possessed of ego, power, arrogance, lust, and anger, these malicious ones hate Me in their own and others...
- 16.19These cruel haters, the lowest of humanity, the inauspicious ones, I constantly cast into the cycles of...
- 16.20Entering demonic wombs birth after birth, these deluded ones, never attaining Me, O son of Kunti, thus...
- 16.21Threefold is this gate of hell, destructive of the self, lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, one should...
- 16.22One who is freed from these three gates of darkness, O son of Kunti, practices what is good for the self...
- 16.23One who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to personal desire attains neither perfection...
- 16.24Therefore let scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done...