Peace & Contentment

Śānti — the quiet joy that needs nothing — 63 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. 17.23 ☆ OṀ Tat Sat: triple name of Brahman — by which brāhmaṇas, Vedas, and yajñas were ordained in the beginning.
16. 2.37 Die and win heaven. Conquer and enjoy the earth. Either way you gain — so rise and fight.
17. 2.66 No discipline → no wisdom → no contemplation → no peace → no happiness. The chain is unbroken.
18. 2.71 Move through the world free from longing, free from 'mine,' free from ego — that is how peace is reached.
19. 3.12 Enjoy the gifts of existence without giving back — the Gita calls that theft. Participate, don't just consume.
20. 3.17 The fully self-realized person has no binding duty — their joy, satisfaction, and fullness come entirely from within.
21. 4.20 Attachment to fruits abandoned, ever content, no dependence — fully active yet truly doing nothing at all.
22. 4.22 Content with what comes by chance, beyond opposites, free from envy — equal in success and failure, not bound.
23. 4.39 The faithful, devoted, sense-controlled person attains jñāna — and quickly reaches supreme peace.
24. 4.40 The ignorant, faithless, doubting self is destroyed — no happiness in this world, the next, or anywhere.
25. 5.12 The yogi abandons fruit and attains lasting peace. The non-yogi, bound to fruit by desire, is fettered.
26. 5.21 Unattached to outer touches, finding joy within — joined to Brahman-yoga, the soul enjoys inexhaustible bliss.
27. 5.23 Withstand desire and anger's force here in this body — that one is yoked, that one is happy.
28. 5.24 Joy within, delight within, light within — that yogi, become Brahman, attains brahma-nirvāṇa.
29. 6.28 The yogi, constantly engaging thus and freed from taint, attains infinite bliss of Brahman-contact — with ease.
30. 9.2 Royal knowledge, royal secret — supreme purifier, directly known, easy to practice, of imperishable nature.
31. 9.20 Vedic ritualists drink soma, seek heaven — purified of sin, they attain Indra's realm and enjoy celestial pleasures.
32. 9.24 I am the enjoyer and Lord of all sacrifices — but they do not know Me in truth, and so they fall.
33. 9.31 Quickly he becomes righteous and attains eternal peace — declare it, O Kuntī's son: My devotee is never destroyed.
34. 9.33 How much more the holy brāhmaṇas and devoted royal sages! This world is transient and joyless — worship Me.
35. 10.5 Non-injury, equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, fame and infamy — these varied states arise from Me alone.
36. 10.9 Mind on Me, life surrendered to Me — awakening each other, always speaking of Me — they are content and rejoice.
37. 11.24 Sky-touching, blazing, many-hued, mouth wide open, eyes aflame — seeing You, O Viṣṇu, I find no courage and no peace!
38. 11.25 Tusked mouths blazing like fires of Time — losing all direction, all peace; be gracious, O Deveśa, O World's Abode!
39. 11.45 Overjoyed at the unprecedented, yet trembling with fear — show me that form again, O deveśa jagan-nivāsa!
40. 12.12 Jñāna beats abhyāsa, dhyāna beats jñāna — but karma-phala-tyāga beats all; from tyāga, peace follows at once!
41. 12.14 Ever-content, ever-yoked, self-controlled, firm in resolve, mind-intellect offered to Me — he is My dear devotee!
42. 12.15 He who neither troubles the world nor is troubled by it — free from joy, envy, fear, anxiety — he is dear to Me!
43. 12.18 Equal to enemy and friend, honor and dishonor, cold and heat, pleasure and pain — free from all attachment!
44. 12.19 Equal in blame and praise, silent, content with anything, homeless, steady-minded, devoted — that man is dear to Me!
45. 13.15 Brahman: seems to have all senses yet has none; unattached yet upholds all; nirguṇa yet the enjoyer of guṇas.
46. 13.22 Puruṣa in prakṛti enjoys guṇas — attachment to guṇas is the cause of birth in good and evil wombs.
47. 14.6 Sattva — luminous and stainless — yet binds the jīva through attachment to happiness and attachment to knowledge.
48. 14.9 Sattva binds to happiness; rajas to action; tamas veils wisdom and chains to heedlessness.
49. 14.24 Equal in pleasure-pain, clod-stone-gold, agreeable-disagreeable, censure-praise — the guṇātīta abides in self.
50. 16.12 Bound by hundreds of hope-nooses, devoted to kāma and krodha, they hoard wealth by unjust means for sense-enjoyment.
51. 16.14 'I slew that enemy; I'll slay others. I am Lord, Enjoyer, Perfect, Powerful, Happy' — the ego-apotheosis of the āsurī.
52. 16.16 Many thoughts, moha-net covering them, addicted to kāma-enjoyments — they fall into impure naraka.
53. 16.23 One who abandons śāstra-vidhi to act from desire's impulse attains neither siddhi, nor sukha, nor the Supreme Goal.
54. 17.8 Sāttvic food enhances life, sattva, strength, health, joy, delight — savoury, oleaginous, substantial, heart-pleasing.
55. 17.9 Rājasic food: bitter, sour, salty, hot, pungent, dry, burning — loved by the rājasic; yields pain, grief, disease.
56. 17.15 Speech tapas: non-disturbing, true, agreeable, beneficial words — plus daily svādhyāya (sacred study).
57. 18.36 Hear the three-fold happiness from Me, O Bharata-bull — learned through practice, leading to the end of pain.
58. 18.38 Rājasic sukha: arises from sense-object contact — nectar-like at first, poison-like at the end.
59. 18.39 Tāmasic sukha: deluding of the self both at start and in consequence — arises from sleep, laziness, and carelessness.
60. 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.
61. 18.62 Take refuge in THAT with all your being, O Bharata — by His grace: supreme peace and the eternal abode.
62. 18.76 O King, as I recall this wondrous holy dialogue between Keśava and Arjuna again and again, I rejoice again and again.
63. 18.77 Remembering that most wondrous Form of Hari again and again — great wonder fills me, O King; I rejoice again and again.