One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within the shell, is to be understood as truly situated in knowledge.
No work stains an individual who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all.
To whom praise and blame are equal, who is silent, content with every fortune, home-renouncing, steadfast in mind, and worships Me, that person is dear to me.
As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. Nothing in this world purifies like spiritual wisdom. It is the perfection achieved in time through the path of yoga, the path which leads to the Self within.
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense - world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
No one who does good deeds will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. When such people die, they go to other realms where the righteous live.
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
The true nature of action is very difficult to understand. Therefore, one should know the nature of attached, detached and forbidden actions.
