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“But the hot hell that always in him burns,
Though in mid-heaven, soon ended his delight” IX, 466-7

“…to her ruin now I tend.
So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed
In serpent” 493-5

“Language of man pronounced
By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed?” 553-4

“So talked the spirited sly snake; and Eve
Yet more amazed unwary thus replied.” 613-4

“To short absence I could yield.
For solitude sometimes is best society” IX, 248-9

“Secure from outward force; within himself
The danger lies, yet lies within his power:
Against his will he can receive no harm.
But God left free the will” 348-51

“O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve,
Of thy presumed return! Event perverse!” 404-5

“But I in none of these
Find place or refuge; and the more I see
Pleasures about me, so much more I feel
Torment within me” IX, 118-21

“For only in destroying I find ease
To my relentless thoughts” 129-30

“Man he made, and for him built
Magnificent this world, and earth his seat” 152-3

“Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils,
Let it; I reck not” 171-2

“And in herself complete, so well to know
Her own, that what she wills to do or say,
Seems wisest…best;
Authority and reason on her wait,
As one intended first, not after made” VIII, 548-55

“Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges” 589-90

“Express they, by looks only, or do they mix
Irradiance, virtual or immediate touch?” 616-7

“To stand or fall
Free in thine own arbitrament it lies” 640-1

“Mastering their senses,
equanimity toward everything
They reach me, rejoicing” XII, 4

“Rejecting fruit of action
Is better still - brings peace.” 12

“Undivided, it seems divided
Among creatures” XIII, 115

“All actions are performed
By nature alone and the self
Is not an actor” 29

“Cut down this tree
That has such deep roots
With the sharp ax
Of detachment” XV, 3

“Freed of dualities” 5

“to tell how human life began
Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?” VIII, 250-1

“But who I was, or where, or from what cause,
Knew not” 270-1

“In solitude
What happiness, who can enjoy alone,
Or all enjoying, what contentment find?” 364-6

“And find thee knowing…of thyself,
Expressing well the spirit within thee free” 438-40

“Be assured,
Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self” 449-50

“you cannot see me
With your own eye;
I will give you a divine eye to see
the majesty of my discipline.” XI, 8

“Arjuna saw all the universe
In many ways and parts
Standing as one in the body
Of the god of gods.” 13

“Even without you,
All these warriors
in ranks
Will cease to exist.” 32

“ already
killed by me
Be just my instrument” 33

“Free from attachment,
A man of devotion comes to me” 55

“…and by his countenance seemed
Entering on studious thoughts abstruse” VIII, 39-40

“O when meet now
Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?” 56-7

“He his fabric of the heavens
Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move
His laughter at their quaint opinions” 76-8

“What if the sun
Be centre to the world” 122-3

“Nor less think we in heaven of thee on earth” 224

“There wanted yet the masterwork,the end
Of all yet done; a creature who not prone
And brute as other creatures, but endued
With sanctity of reason, might erect
His stature, and upright with front serene
Govern the rest, self-knowing…” VII, 505-10

Knowledge and Reality

“At the end of many births,
The man of knowledge finds refuge in me” VII, 19

“Robbed of knowledge by stray desires,
men take refuge in other deities” 20

“All creatures are bewildered
At birth by the delusion
Of opposing dualities
That arise from desire and hatred.” 27

“Creative force, known as action” VII, 3

“Be freed from the bonds of action” 28

“…and in his hand
He took the golden compasses, prepared
In God’s eternal store, to circumscribe
This universe, and all created things” VI, 224-7

“That earth now
Seemed like to heaven, a seat where gods might dwell…and man to till the ground
None was” 328-33

“And sowed with stars the heaven thick as a field” 358

“Graze the seaweed their pasture…” 404

“He really sees who sees philosophy
And discipline to be one” V, 5

“Knowledge is obscured by ignorance,
So people are deluded.” 15

“The man of discipline has joy,
Delight, and light within” 24

“For a man without self mastery,
The self is like an enemy at war.” VI, 6

“When a man disciplines his diet
And diversions, his physical actions…
Discipline destroys his sorrow.” 17

“Half yet remains unsung…” VII, 21

“Though to recount almighty works
What words or tongue of seraph can suffice,
Or heart of man suffice to comprehend?” 112-4

“But knowledge is as food, and needs no less
Her temperance over appetite” 126-7

“Whose wisdom had ordained
Good out of evil to create, instead
Of spirits malign a better race to bring
Into their vacant room…” 187-90

“A man cannot escape the force
of action by abstaining from actions” III, 4

“But when a man finds delight
within.. and feels inner joy
and pure contentment in himself,
there is nothing more to be done” 17

“Always perform with detachment
Any action you must do” 19

“Desire obscures knowledge
And confounds the embodied self” 40

“His senses subdued, gains knowledge
…finds perfect peace” IV, 39