Prasad

“Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve. Realize the truth of the scriptures; learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation. 2 Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. 3 Cultivate vigor, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“The rajasic person is full of energy; the tamasic person is sluggish, indifferent, insensitive; the sattvic person, calm, resourceful, compassionate, and selfless. Yet all three are always present at some level of awareness, and their proportions change: their interplay is the dynamics of personality. The same individual will have times when he is bursting with energy and times when inertia descends and paralyzes his will, times when he is thoughtful and other times when he is moving so fast that he never notices those around him. The person is the same; he is simply experiencing the play of the gunas. As long as he identifies with his body and mind, he is at the mercy of this play.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts; it is made of our thoughts.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union. (6: 32)”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita