Peace & Contentment

Śānti — the quiet joy that needs nothing — 62 verses, starred ones first.

1. 2.70 ★ All desires pour into the sage like rivers into the ocean — the ocean stays unmoved. That is peace.
2. 5.29 ★ Knowing Me as the enjoyer of all sacrifice and austerity, Great Lord of all worlds, Friend of all beings — peace comes.
3. 12.13 ★ Not hating, friendly, compassionate, without 'mine' or 'I', equal in pain and joy, forgiving — the dear devotee!
4. 14.27 ★ Krishna declares: 'I am the ground of Brahman — the Immortal, the Immutable, eternal Dharma, and perfect Bliss.'
5. 2.55 ☆ Steady wisdom begins here: when all desires fall away and the Self finds fullness in itself alone.
6. 6.7 ☆ The self-conquered yogi finds the Supreme Self equally present through cold, heat, joy, pain, honour and dishonour.
7. 6.14 ☆ Peaceful, fearless, vowed to brahmacharya, mind on Krishna — yoked in practice, with the Supreme as the final goal.
8. 6.15 ☆ Practising thus always, with a controlled mind — the yogi reaches the supreme peace of nirvāṇa, abiding in the Supreme.
9. 6.20 ☆ Where the mind ceases, stilled by yoga — where the Self sees itself and rests content in itself: this is samādhi.
10. 6.21 ☆ Boundless joy beyond the senses, grasped by the purified intellect — once known, one never moves from the Reality.
11. 6.22 ☆ Once that joy is found, no other gain seems greater — established in it, even the heaviest sorrow cannot shake you.
12. 6.27 ☆ Supreme bliss comes naturally to the yogi whose mind is fully at peace, passion quieted, stainless — Brahman-become.
13. 6.32 ☆ Who measures others' joy and pain by the standard of their own — seeing the same everywhere — is the supreme yogi.
14. 16.2 ☆ More daivī qualities: ahiṃsā, satya, akrodha, tyāga, śānti, apaiśuna, dayā, aloluptva, mārdava, hrī, acāpala.
15. 2.37 Die and win heaven. Conquer and enjoy the earth. Either way you gain — so rise and fight.
16. 2.66 No discipline → no wisdom → no contemplation → no peace → no happiness. The chain is unbroken.
17. 2.71 Move through the world free from longing, free from 'mine,' free from ego — that is how peace is reached.
18. 3.12 Enjoy the gifts of existence without giving back — the Gita calls that theft. Participate, don't just consume.
19. 3.17 The fully self-realized person has no binding duty — their joy, satisfaction, and fullness come entirely from within.
20. 4.20 Attachment to fruits abandoned, ever content, no dependence — fully active yet truly doing nothing at all.
21. 4.22 Content with what comes by chance, beyond opposites, free from envy — equal in success and failure, not bound.
22. 4.39 The faithful, devoted, sense-controlled person attains jñāna — and quickly reaches supreme peace.
23. 4.40 The ignorant, faithless, doubting self is destroyed — no happiness in this world, the next, or anywhere.
24. 5.12 The yogi abandons fruit and attains lasting peace. The non-yogi, bound to fruit by desire, is fettered.
25. 5.21 Unattached to outer touches, finding joy within — joined to Brahman-yoga, the soul enjoys inexhaustible bliss.
26. 5.23 Withstand desire and anger's force here in this body — that one is yoked, that one is happy.
27. 5.24 Joy within, delight within, light within — that yogi, become Brahman, attains brahma-nirvāṇa.
28. 6.28 The yogi, constantly engaging thus and freed from taint, attains infinite bliss of Brahman-contact — with ease.
29. 9.2 Royal knowledge, royal secret — supreme purifier, directly known, easy to practice, of imperishable nature.
30. 9.20 Vedic ritualists drink soma, seek heaven — purified of sin, they attain Indra's realm and enjoy celestial pleasures.
31. 9.24 I am the enjoyer and Lord of all sacrifices — but they do not know Me in truth, and so they fall.
32. 9.31 Quickly he becomes righteous and attains eternal peace — declare it, O Kuntī's son: My devotee is never destroyed.
33. 9.33 How much more the holy brāhmaṇas and devoted royal sages! This world is transient and joyless — worship Me.
34. 10.5 Non-injury, equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, fame and infamy — these varied states arise from Me alone.
35. 10.9 Mind on Me, life surrendered to Me — awakening each other, always speaking of Me — they are content and rejoice.
36. 11.24 Sky-touching, blazing, many-hued, mouth wide open, eyes aflame — seeing You, O Viṣṇu, I find no courage and no peace!
37. 11.25 Tusked mouths blazing like fires of Time — losing all direction, all peace; be gracious, O Deveśa, O World's Abode!
38. 11.45 Overjoyed at the unprecedented, yet trembling with fear — show me that form again, O deveśa jagan-nivāsa!
39. 12.12 Jñāna beats abhyāsa, dhyāna beats jñāna — but karma-phala-tyāga beats all; from tyāga, peace follows at once!
40. 12.14 Ever-content, ever-yoked, self-controlled, firm in resolve, mind-intellect offered to Me — he is My dear devotee!
41. 12.15 He who neither troubles the world nor is troubled by it — free from joy, envy, fear, anxiety — he is dear to Me!
42. 12.18 Equal to enemy and friend, honor and dishonor, cold and heat, pleasure and pain — free from all attachment!
43. 12.19 Equal in blame and praise, silent, content with anything, homeless, steady-minded, devoted — that man is dear to Me!
44. 13.15 Brahman: seems to have all senses yet has none; unattached yet upholds all; nirguṇa yet the enjoyer of guṇas.
45. 13.22 Puruṣa in prakṛti enjoys guṇas — attachment to guṇas is the cause of birth in good and evil wombs.
46. 14.6 Sattva — luminous and stainless — yet binds the jīva through attachment to happiness and attachment to knowledge.
47. 14.9 Sattva binds to happiness; rajas to action; tamas veils wisdom and chains to heedlessness.
48. 14.24 Equal in pleasure-pain, clod-stone-gold, agreeable-disagreeable, censure-praise — the guṇātīta abides in self.
49. 16.12 Bound by hundreds of hope-nooses, devoted to kāma and krodha, they hoard wealth by unjust means for sense-enjoyment.
50. 16.14 'I slew that enemy; I'll slay others. I am Lord, Enjoyer, Perfect, Powerful, Happy' — the ego-apotheosis of the āsurī.
51. 16.16 Many thoughts, moha-net covering them, addicted to kāma-enjoyments — they fall into impure naraka.
52. 16.23 One who abandons śāstra-vidhi to act from desire's impulse attains neither siddhi, nor sukha, nor the Supreme Goal.
53. 17.8 Sāttvic food enhances life, sattva, strength, health, joy, delight — savoury, oleaginous, substantial, heart-pleasing.
54. 17.14 Bodily tapas: honouring Devas/dvija/guru/wise; purity, straightforwardness, brahmacarya, non-injury.
55. 18.36 Hear the three-fold happiness from Me, O Bharata-bull — learned through practice, leading to the end of pain.
56. 18.38 Rājasic sukha: arises from sense-object contact — nectar-like at first, poison-like at the end.
57. 18.39 Tāmasic sukha: deluding of the self both at start and in consequence — arises from sleep, laziness, and carelessness.
58. 18.41 The duties of Brāhmaṇas, Kṣatriyas, Vaiśyas, and Śūdras are distributed by the guṇas born of their own nature.
59. 18.58 With mind in Me, by My grace you will cross all obstacles; but from egotism if you will not hear, you will perish.
60. 18.62 Take refuge in THAT with all your being, O Bharata — by His grace: supreme peace and the eternal abode.
61. 18.76 O King, as I recall this wondrous holy dialogue between Keśava and Arjuna again and again, I rejoice again and again.
62. 18.77 Remembering that most wondrous Form of Hari again and again — great wonder fills me, O King; I rejoice again and again.