Transcendental nature

"One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna."

Lord Krishna appears to reestablish religion

"To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium."

Lord Krishna

Although being birthless, imperishable and immutable, the lord of all living entities, being so situated I appear in this world in My original transcendental form by My internal potency.

Krishna said to Arjuna

"Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time I descend Myself."

Cycle of sacrifice

"One who does not follow in human life the cycle of sacrifice thus established by the Vedas certainly leads a life full of sin. Living only for the satisfaction of the senses, such a person lives in vain."

Attraction and Averrsion of senses

Attraction and aversion of the senses to their corresponding sense objects is unavoidable; one should not be controlled by them; since they are obstacles in one’s path.

Work in devotion and Fruitive results

"One who is in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O mighty-armed, does not engage himself in the senses and sense gratification, knowing well the differences between work in devotion and work for fruitive results."

Activities are enacted by the senses

All activities are being enacted by the senses of the material nature without exception; but the unrealized, deluded by false identification of being the body, thus thinks “I am the doer.”

Human Life

But for one who takes pleasure in the self, whose human life is one of self-realization, and who is satisfied in the self only, fully satiated—for him there is no duty."

Perform Your Duty

"Perform your prescribed duty, for doing so is better than not working. One cannot even maintain one’s physical body without work."

Karma Yoga

If a sincere person tries to control the active senses by the mind and begins karma-yoga [in Krishna consciousness] without attachment, he is by far superior."

Knower of Truth

A knower of the truth of the fruitive actions of the senses and their diverse functions, he observing that it is the senses engaging in sense objects, does not become attached.

Bondage of actions

Those persons who execute their duties according to My injunctions and who follow this teaching faithfully, without envy, become free from the bondage of fruitive actions."

Personality

Whichever and however a great personality conducts himself common men do also, whatever he accepts as authority that and that alone certainly all the world will follow

Perform your Duty

"You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty."

Withdraw Senses

"One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is firmly fixed in perfect consciousness."

Partaking of food

Spiritual persons partaking of vegetarian remnants offered in sacrifice unto the supreme Lord get relief from all varieties of sins; but those who prepare food for their own consumption, those sinners eat only sin.

Superior Man

Anyone who regulates the senses by the mind, begins the science of uniting the individual consciousness with the Ultimate Consciousness by the actions of the working sense organs without desire for results then he is superior.

Purposes of Vedas

All purposes served by a small well can at once be served by a great reservoir of water. Similarly, all the purposes of the Vedas can be served to one who knows the purpose behind them."

Be Great Man

"Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues"