The Bhagavad Gita

No one should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke.

That which seems like poison at first, but tastes like nectar in the end – this is the joy of sattva

Work performed to fulfill one’s obligations, without thought of personal reward or of whether the job is pleasant or unpleasant, is sattvic

The means, the act itself, and the doer: these three are the totality of action.

we can never be sure that things will turn out as planned.

we have control over our work and actions, but we have no command of the results

Those who are sattvic worship the forms of God; those who are rajasic worship power and wealth. Those who are tamasic worship spirits and ghosts

Our faith conforms to our nature, Arjuna. Human nature is made of faith. A person is what his shraddha is.

We might say that our shraddha is the sum total of our values, what we really hold to be important in our lives.

16 Bound by their greed and entangled in a web of delusion, whirled about by a fragmented mind, they fall into a dark hell.