Ask the Rig Veda, the main Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita. The complete Mahabharata is here too, in Ganguli's English. Every answer shows where its lines come from. Compare what each book really says, passage by passage.
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Sanjaya. Him, filled with such compassion and such grief, With eyes tear-dimmed, despondent, in stern words The Driver, Madhusudan, thus addressed: Krishna. How hath this weakness taken thee? Whence springs The inglorious trouble, shameful to the brave, Barring the path of virtue? Nay, Arjun! Forbid thyself to feebleness! it mars Thy warrior-name! cast off the coward-fit! Wake! Be thyself! ...
By Rabindranath Tagore [translated from Bengali to English by the author] New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916 [Frontispiece in color by Willy Pogány] redacted by Chetan K Jain, BharatLiterature To T. HARA of Yokohama 1 Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. ...
KABIR'S POEMS I I. 13. mo ko kahân dhûnro bande O SERVANT, where dost thou seek Me? Lo! I am beside thee. I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash: Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and renunciation. If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt meet Me in a moment of time. Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."