Arjuna Quotes

• 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

  Motivational, War, Evil

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• 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

  Forever, Gita, World

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• 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

  Fighting, Attachment, Battle

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• 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

  Karma, Yoga, Fighting

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• 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

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Vision

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.1103, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Mind, Peanuts

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• 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

  Jesus, Together, Tables

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• 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

  Brother, Uncles, Father

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• 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

  Karma, War, Yoga

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• Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Past

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• It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  Sheep, Goats, Swallowing

  "Ranatunga rebuts Warne jibe". news.bbc.co.uk. February 21, 2004.

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• Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages. Babaji revealed to Lahiri Mahasaya: “The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples.

  Lahiri Mahasaya

  Yoga, Writing, Dark

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• The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Gita, Devotee

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• 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

  Past, Giving, Meditation

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• 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

  Karma, Yoga, Fighting

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• I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Men, Impulse

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.156, Vintage

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