Top 65 Quotes About Arjuna
#1. The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world. PURPORT
Anonymous
#2. The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.
Frederick Lenz
#3. O voyagers, O seamen,
You who came to port, and you whose bodies
Will suffer the trial and judgement of the sea,
Or whatever event, this is your real destination.'
So Krishna, as when he admonished Arjuna
On the field of battle.
Not fare well,
But fare forward, voyagers.
T. S. Eliot
#5. If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.
Hugh Jackman
#6. Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery, Arjuna.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#7. Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.
Frederick Lenz
#9. I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. By associating Arjuna and Krishna to Nara and Narayana, Vyasa makes them creatures of destiny. Their birth is not random; they are born for a reason.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#11. thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward," Krishna tells his student Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.)
Jennifer Senior
#12. The Gita itself values subjectivity: after concluding his counsel, Krishna tells Arjuna to reflect on what has been said, and then do as he feels (yatha-ichasi-tatha-kuru). Even
Devdutt Pattanaik
#13. There is a conflict in Arjuna's heart between his emotionalism and his duty.
Swami Vivekananda
#14. Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends ... When Arjuna thus saw his kinsmen face to face in both lines of battle, he was overcome by grief and despair and thus he spoke with a sinking heart.
Juan Mascaro
#15. The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.
Frederick Lenz
#16. My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#17. Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you.
Frederick Lenz
#18. In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.
Frederick Lenz
#19. For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor.
Swami Vivekananda
#20. Everyone's faith comes from the perceptions of the mind. O Arjuna, the ego-personality is the living embodiment of faith. Your faith is your identity.
Deepak Chopra
#21. The embodied soul is eternal in existence, indestructible, and infinite, only the material body is factually perishable, therefore fight O Arjuna.
Anonymous
#22. Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.
Frederick Lenz
#23. You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.
Anonymous
#24. Arjuna, fair or unfair, the results of any action depend on five things: the body, the mind, the instruments, the method and divine grace (luck? fate?). Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for any outcome. - Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, verses 13 to 16 (paraphrased).
Devdutt Pattanaik
#26. Krishna tells Arjuna in Gita whether you win or lose that is not important, what is important is that you perform your duty with right attitude.
Radhanath Swami
#27. It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.
Frederick Lenz
#28. The war is not for you, Arjuna, but for civilized human conduct. Remember,
Devdutt Pattanaik
#29. The first thing to bear in mind is that Arjuna falls into the error of making a distinction between kinsmen and outsiders. Outsiders may be killed even if they are not oppressors, and kinsmen may not be killed even if they are. The
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#31. Most of us spend our lives convinced that there's something missing: "If only I had a bigger barbecue, more money, a bigger car, a different wife, a different ... If only I could upgrade somehow, then I would be okay."
Arjuna Ardagh
#32. China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.
Arjuna Mahendran
#33. What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.
Arjuna Ardagh
#34. Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.
Arjuna Ardagh
#35. The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.
Arjuna Ardagh
#36. Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the realms of mystery and magic, where real connection becomes alive again.
Arjuna Ardagh
#37. The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.
Arjuna Ardagh
#38. There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?
Arjuna Ardagh
#39. A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.
Arjuna Ardagh
#40. The fact that the talks are resuming is a big positive. But it's going to be a slow process.
Arjuna Mahendran
#41. However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.
Arjuna Ardagh
#42. I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin.
Arjuna Ardagh
#43. My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.
Arjuna Ardagh
#44. They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.
Arjuna Ardagh
#45. Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are.
Arjuna Ardagh
#46. There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.
Arjuna Ranatunga
#47. It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.
Arjuna Ranatunga
#48. The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.
Arjuna Ardagh
#49. You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.
Arjuna Ranatunga
#50. The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening.
Arjuna Ardagh
#51. I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.
Arjuna Ardagh
#52. Feminine spirituality is much more about the emanation of love in this moment, feeling into this moment, feeling the texture of this moment through the skin, through the body, and then letting your life become an emanation of love.
Arjuna Ardagh
#53. In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.
Arjuna Ardagh
#54. Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.
Arjuna Ardagh
#55. May all beings be well. May all beings be happy. May all beings be free from suffering. May all beings be liberated through the unwavering knowlege of who they truly are.
Arjuna Ardagh
#56. Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.
Arjuna Ardagh
#57. If u come to Sri Lanka you will find that DHONI has more fans than any other Srilankan player.
Arjuna Ranatunga
#58. However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again ...
Arjuna Ardagh
#59. Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.
Arjuna Mahendran
#60. Unlike in the 1980s and 1990s, this time the Japanese are going to be more circumspect and invest in their end markets, which would include Europe and the United States.
Arjuna Mahendran
#61. Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.
Arjuna Ardagh
#62. I think the main way that somebody would know they're translucent is that their life has become more about the embodiment of Spirit than about acquisition, and that may be something that creeps up on you.
Arjuna Ardagh
#63. However much you may have expressed love through your life, you can always express love more.
Arjuna Ardagh
#64. That's the translucent life. You are continuously discovering how you can ooze more Spirit into your personal life and there's no end to that process. It goes on and on and deepens and deepens and deepens.
Arjuna Ardagh
#65. State companies winning deals because of government-to- government interaction has become a rule rather than an exception. This will increase competition for multinational companies in acquiring oil and gas assets.
Arjuna Mahendran
