When your mind becomes fixed on Me, you shall overcome all difficulties by My grace. But, if you do not listen to Me due to ego, you shall perish.
An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.
Filled with insatiable desires, hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance; holding wrong views due to delusion; they act with impure motives.
All beings in this world are in utter ignorance due to the delusion of dualities born of likes and dislikes, O Arjuna.
This being the case; the ignorant person who considers oneself as the sole agent due to imperfect understanding does not understand.
The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.
Arjuna said: O Krishna, You have said that yoga of meditation is characterized by the equanimity (of mind), but, due to restlessness of mind I do not perceive the steady state of mind.
All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer.
If due to ego you think: I shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. Your own nature will compel you.