Path

One who has withdrawn all their senses into the Self, and who has not caused pain to any creature except as permitted by the scriptures, conducts themselves in this way throughout their life. They reach the World of Brahman after death and do not return.

Bhakti is the path to salvation. Souls achieve salvation through God's grace.

The yogi who, having attained unity, worships me dwelling in all beings, remains in me, regardless of his way of life.

Commit your way to the Lord.

Truth alone triumphs, not falsehood. By truth the path of the gods is spread wide—the path along which the seers, their desires fulfilled, travel to where truth has its supreme treasure-house.

Arise, awake, and learn by approaching the great teachers. Like the sharp edge of a razor, the path is difficult to cross — the wise declare it hard to tread.

The good (śreyas) is one thing; the pleasant (preyas) is another. Both bind a person, but in different ways. The one who chooses the good fares well; the one who chooses the pleasant falls short of the goal.

Others again, not knowing thus, take to worship having heard of it from others. Even these, devoted to what they have heard, cross beyond death.

The hardship is greater for those whose minds cling to the Unmanifest, for the path of the Unmanifest is very difficult for embodied beings to attain.

— and then seek that state from which, once reached, one returns no more. I take refuge in that primeval Person from whom ancient activity first streamed forth.

Does such a one not perish, fallen from both paths, like a cloud torn apart — rootless, O mighty-armed Krishna, bewildered on the road to the Absolute?

Everyone follows their own imagined path; the endless variety of misdeeds cannot be put into words.

Forgiveness, courage, non-violence, equanimity, truth, sincerity, knowledge, charity, and renunciation are said to be the characteristics of the path that arises from goodness.

The way of life that is based on not harming any creatures, or causing the least harm when necessary, is the highest morality.

There is nothing more worthy of respect by kings than punishment, which shows the path of righteousness.

Punishment, O king, quickly sets the world on the path of righteousness. Righteousness exists in the Brahmanas, based on truth.

In this way, gradually and quickly, divine calm and peace will be infused into your soul, along with a wonderful and sublime knowledge of God, wrapped in divine love.

A truly ethical person doesn't need a system of rewards and punishments to follow a good path.

Lord Krishna says in the Gita: However men approach me, I welcome them in the same way, for the path they take is mine.

Raja Yoga is the royal path to freedom from suffering, focusing on the four key principles: suffering, its cause, liberation from suffering, and the methods to achieve it.