This index lists each verse used in the book, by tradition, with the chapter where it appears. Full text, transliteration, pronunciation guide, meaning and context are given in the chapter. English renderings are sense-translations for education. Verse numbers follow common printed editions; where editions disagree, the book says so.
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Verse or source |
Where |
In brief |
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Amrtabindu Upanisad, verse 2 (Krsna-Yajurveda minor Upanisad) |
Chapter 1 |
The mind alone is the cause of bondage and of freedom for human beings. Attached to objects it binds;… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 14.5 |
Chapter 1 |
Sattva, rajas and tamas — qualities born of prakrti — bind the embodied one, O mighty-armed. |
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Bhagavad Gītā 2.38 (Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva) |
Chapter 1 |
Holding pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat as equal, prepare for the work in front of… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 2.50 |
Chapters 1, 23 |
The one joined to wisdom leaves behind both good and bad results here. Therefore take up yoga. Yoga is… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 2.56 |
Chapter 1 |
The one whose mind is not overthrown in sorrow, who does not run after pleasure, who is free from… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 4.34 |
Chapters 1, 2, 14; Vidyā-dāna section (end of book) |
Know that by approaching with respect, by questioning, and by service. Those who see reality will teach… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 5.18 |
Chapters 1, 11 |
The wise see the same in a learned and humble brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and one who cooks a… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 6.16–17 |
Chapters 1, 4 |
Yoga is not for one who overeats or who starves, nor for one who sleeps too much or never sleeps. For… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 6.5 |
Chapters 1, 9, 12, 18, 22, 24 |
Lift the self by the self; do not let the self sink. The self is the friend of the self, and the self is… |
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Kabir Sakhi tradition; cite by first line (Bijak / collected sakhis;… |
Chapter 24 |
Lose the mind and the world is lost; steady the mind and the world is livable. Kabir says: think this… |
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Katha Upanisad 1.3.3–4 |
Chapters 3, 24 |
Know the self as the rider, the body as the chariot, the intellect as the driver, and the mind as the… |
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Narsinh Mehta, bhajan Vaishnava jana to, line 1 (Gujarati padavali) |
Chapter 1 |
Call that one a Vaishnava who knows another’s pain as their own. |
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Purananuru 192, Kaniyan Pungundranar |
Chapter 24 |
Every place is home; everyone is kin. |
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Susruta Samhita, Sutrasthana 15.41 (15.48 in some printed editions) |
Chapter 1 |
The one whose dosas, digestive fire, tissues and waste-functions are in balance, and whose self, senses… |
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Tirukkural 129 (chapter on sweet speech / inoffensive words,… |
Chapter 1 |
The wound burnt by fire will heal inside. The scar burnt by the tongue will not. |
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Tukaram Gatha, abhang beginning je ka ranjale ganjale (compiler… |
Chapter 24 |
Those who are wounded and crushed — call them your own. |
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Bhagavad Gītā 2.47 |
Chapters 2, 15, 24 |
Your claim is to action alone, never to its fruits. Do not make the fruit the motive, and do not cling… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 2.62–2.63 |
Chapters 5, 24 |
Dwelling on objects, attachment is born; from attachment, desire; from desire, anger. From anger,… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 15.9 |
Chapters 6, 19 |
Presiding over ear, eye, touch, taste and smell, and over the mind, the person enjoys the objects. |
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Bhagavad Gītā 2.14 |
Chapters 7, 24 |
Contacts with the world give cold and heat, pleasure and pain. They come and go; they are not lasting.… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 6.34 |
Chapters 8, 24 |
The mind is restless, agitating, strong and stubborn. To hold it, I think, is as hard as to hold the… |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 2.3 |
Chapters 10, 24 |
The afflictions are ignorance, I-making, attachment, aversion, and clinging to life. |
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Bhagavad Gītā 6.17 |
Chapters 13, 24 |
For one who is moderate in food and recreation, moderate in work, and moderate in sleep and waking, yoga… |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 1.12 |
Chapters 16, 24 |
That stilling of the mind comes through practice and non-clinging. |
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Tukaram Gatha; cite by first line |
Chapters 17, 24 |
Whoever calls the afflicted and crushed their own… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 7.4 |
Chapter 20 |
Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect, and I-making — this is My eightfold nature. |
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Bhagavad Gītā 17.8 |
Chapter 21 |
Foods that increase life, clarity, strength, health, happiness and love — juicy, oily, stable and… |
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Andal, Tiruppavai 1 (Tamil) |
Chapter 24 |
In the month of Margazhi, on the full-moon good day… |
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Basavanna, Vachana tradition (Kannada) |
Chapter 24 |
Work itself is Kailasa. |
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Bhagavad Gītā 12.13 |
Chapter 24 |
Unhating toward beings, friendly and compassionate, without possessiveness or I-making, equal in pain… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 17.20 |
Vidyā-dāna section (end of book) |
A gift given because it is right to give, to one who cannot repay it, at the proper place and time and… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 18.66 |
Chapter 24 |
Leaving all rigid duties, take refuge in Me alone. I will free you. Do not grieve. |
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Bhagavad Gītā 2.48 |
Chapter 24 |
Established in yoga, perform action, abandoning attachment, equal in success and failure. Equanimity is… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 2.63 |
Chapter 24 |
From anger, delusion; from delusion, memory of values slips; from that, discernment is destroyed; from… |
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Bhagavad Gītā 4.38 |
Vidyā-dāna section (end of book) |
Truly, nothing in this world purifies like knowledge. One who is perfected in yoga finds it within the… |
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Caraka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana 9.6 |
Chapter 24 |
Perverted intellect, agitation of sattva, restless eyes, impatience, incoherent speech, and a vacant… |
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Caraka Samhita, Nidana Sthana 7.5; types at Nidana 7.3 |
Chapter 24 |
Know unmada as derangement of mind, intellect, consciousness, knowledge, memory, inclination, character,… |
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Caraka Samhita, Sūtra Sthana 1.58 |
Chapter 24 |
Disorders of the mind are met with knowledge, skilled knowing, courage, memory, and collectedness. |
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Caraka Samhita, Sūtra Sthana 11.54 |
Chapter 24 |
Medicine is of three kinds: daiva-vyapasraya (ritual and meaning), yukti-vyapasraya (reasoned diet and… |
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Hitopadeśa |
Vidyā-dāna section (end of book) |
Knowledge gives humility; from humility comes worthiness; from worthiness comes wealth; from wealth… |
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Hitopadeśa (opening section, a widely quoted verse) |
Vidyā-dāna section (end of book) |
Knowledge gives humility; from humility comes worthiness; from worthiness comes wealth; from wealth… |
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Isha Upanishad 1 |
Chapter 24 |
All this is inhabited by the Lord. Enjoy by letting go. Do not covet anyone's wealth. |
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Kabir; commonly cited couplet, first line |
Chapter 24 |
Musk lives in the deer's own navel; the deer searches the forest. |
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Katha Upanishad 1.3.3 |
Chapter 24 |
Know the self as the rider, the body as the chariot, the intellect as the charioteer, the mind as the… |
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Manusmṛti 3.70 |
Vidyā-dāna section (end of book) |
Teaching is the offering to Brahman (sacred knowledge); water for the ancestors is the offering to… |
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Manusmṛti 4.233 |
Vidyā-dāna section (end of book) |
Among all gifts (water, food, cows, land, clothing, sesame, gold and ghee), the gift of sacred knowledge… |
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Mirabai pada; cite by first line (Rajasthani / Braj bhakti) |
Chapter 24 |
I have found the jewel-wealth of Rama. |
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Narsinh Mehta, Vaishnava jana to (Gujarati) |
Chapter 24 |
Call that person a Vaishnava who knows the pain of another. |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 1.2 |
Chapter 24 |
Yoga is the stilling of the turnings of the mind-stuff. |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 1.33 |
Chapter 24 |
The mind becomes clear by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion toward the suffering,… |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 1.5–1.6 |
Chapter 24 |
The turnings are fivefold, afflicted or unafflicted: valid knowing, error, fantasy, sleep, and memory. |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 2.4 |
Chapter 24 |
Ignorance is the field of those that follow — whether dormant, thin, interrupted, or fully out. |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 2.46 |
Chapter 24 |
Asana is a seat that is steady and easeful. |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 2.5 |
Chapter 24 |
Avidyā is taking the impermanent as permanent, the impure as pure, pain as pleasure, and non-self as… |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 2.6 |
Chapter 24 |
Asmitā is as if the power of seeing and the power of what is seen were one self. |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 2.7 |
Chapter 24 |
Rāga is that which trails after pleasure. |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 2.8 |
Chapter 24 |
Dveṣa is that which trails after pain. |
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Patanjali Yoga Sūtra 2.9 |
Chapter 24 |
Abhiniveśa flows by its own juice; it is established even in the learned. |
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Purandara Dasa / Tyagaraja keertana tradition; cite by refrain |
Chapter 24 |
O Rama, Dasharatha's son, upholder of the world. |
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Shankara, Bhaja Govindam 1 |
Chapter 24 |
Worship Govinda, worship Govinda, O foolish mind. |
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Taittirīya Upaniṣad 1.11.3 (the teacher’s parting instruction) |
Vidyā-dāna section (end of book) |
Give with faith; do not give without faith. Give generously; give with modesty; give with respect (awe);… |
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Tirukkural 1 (Tiruvalluvar) |
Chapter 24 |
As A is first among letters, the Primordial One is first in the world. |
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Tirukkural 121 |
Chapter 24 |
Restraint lifts one high; lack of restraint throws one anywhere. |
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Traditional subhāṣita, “annadānaṃ paraṃ dānaṃ vidyādānam a…” |
Vidyā-dāna section (end of book) |
The gift of food is a great gift; the gift of knowledge is greater still. Food satisfies for a moment;… |
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Traditional subhāṣita, “na cora-hāryaṃ na ca rāja-hāryaṃ…” |
Vidyā-dāna section (end of book) |
It cannot be stolen by thieves or seized by kings; it cannot be divided among brothers; it is no burden… |
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Vagbhata, Ashtanga Hridaya, Sūtra Sthana 1.26 (standard edition… |
Chapter 24 |
Discernment, courage, and knowledge of the self are the highest medicine for disorders of the mind. |
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