Wisdom

He is indeed a wise and excellent person who has conquered his own anger and shows forgiveness even when insulted, oppressed, and provoked by a powerful person.

Because you desired wisdom above all else, and did not ask for victory over your enemies, or riches, or long life, I will give you not only the wisdom you asked for to rule my people righteously, but also the things you did not ask for: riches, wealth, and glory, so that there will be no king like you before or after you.

Time is more precious than money, and more valuable than anything in the world. It's the greatest treasure, the essence of life. Use time wisely for spiritual growth, and don't waste a single moment.

We have been given this human life to understand the all-pervading, omnipresent God. This knowledge can only be given by someone who has themselves realized God. Life becomes truly happy only after meeting such a God-realized person.

The fear of the Lord is wisdom.

Arjuna said: If you hold that discernment is superior to action, O Janardana, then why do you urge me toward this terrible action, O Keshava?

The Blessed Lord said: When one completely relinquishes all desires that have lodged in the mind, O Partha, and rests content in the Self by the Self alone — then that one is called a person of steady wisdom.

Arjuna said: What is the description of one of steady wisdom who is established in deep absorption, O Keshava? How does the person of stable insight speak? How does such a one sit? How does such a one move?

The Blessed Lord said: You grieve for those who are not worthy of grief, and yet you speak words that sound like wisdom. The truly learned mourn neither for the living nor for the dead.

To him Angiras replied: Knowers of Brahman declare that two kinds of knowledge are to be understood—the higher (parā) and the lower (aparā).

Thus has this knowledge, more secret than all secrets, been declared to you by Me; reflect on it fully, and then do as you choose.

That knowledge by which one sees the one imperishable reality in all beings, undivided within the divided — know that knowledge to be sattvic.

At the end of many births, the one who has ripened into wisdom takes refuge in Me, knowing that Vasudeva is all. Such a great soul is supremely rare.

That which is night for all beings — in that, the one of self-restraint is awake. That in which all beings are awake — that is night for the seeing sage.

When this one withdraws the senses completely from sense-objects, as a tortoise draws all its limbs inward — then the wisdom of such a person is firmly established.

One whose mind is undisturbed in sorrow, who feels no longing for pleasure, who is free from passion, fear, and anger — such a sage is called a person of stable wisdom.

Living within the sphere of ignorance, fancying themselves wise and learned, the deluded go round and round, stumbling—like the blind being led by the blind.

Learn from Me, O mighty-armed one, these five causes stated in the Sankhya doctrine for the accomplishment of all actions.

The true renunciant, filled with sattva and good understanding, with doubts cut away, neither hates unwelcome work nor clings to welcome work.

Hear My definitive judgment in this matter of relinquishment, O best of the Bharatas; O tiger among men, relinquishment is declared to be of three kinds.