Lines That Stand Out

“When the light of knowledge
shines in all the body’s senses,
then one knows
that lucidity prevails.”
(Fourteenth Teaching)

“Knowledge is better than practice,
meditation is better than knowledge,
rejecting fruits of action
is better still—it brings peace.”
(Twelfth Teaching)

“Persistence in knowing the self,
seeing what knowledge of reality means—
all this is called knowledge,
the opposite is ignorance.”
(Thirteenth Teaching)

“You are bound by your own action,
intrinsic to your being, Arjuna;
even against your will you must do
what delusion now makes you refuse.”
(Eighteenth Teaching)