Chapter II COMMUNION THROUGH KNOWLEDGE From SRIMAD- Bhagavad-Gita

12. Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor these rulers of men. Nor shall all of us cease to be hereafter.
16.The unreal can never come into existence, and the real can never cease to be. The wise philosophers have known the truth about these categories.
17. Know that Reality, by which everything is pervaded, to be indestructible. No one can cause the destruction of this immunible Being.
19. He who thinks himself to be the killer, and who experiences himself- both of them know not. He neither kills nor is killed.
20. He has neither birth nor death. Nor does he cease to be, having been in existence before; unborn, eternal, permanent and primeval, he is never killed when the body is killed.
22. Just as a man gives up old garments and put on new ones, so the embodied self abandons decrepit bodies and assumes new ones.
23. Him the weapons cleave not; Him the fire burns out; Him the waters wet not; Him the wind dries not.
24.He cannot be cut or burnt. He can neither be wetted nor dried.Eternal, all-pervading, immovable and motionless. He is the same for ever.
28. Mystery surrounds the origin of beings. Mysterious too is their end. Only in the interim between birth and death are they manifested clearly. Such being the case, what is there to grieve about?
33. If you do not take part in this righteous war, you will incur sin, besides failing in your duty and forfeiting your reputation.
34.Besides every one will speak ill of you for all time. More poignant than death is disrepute to a man accustomed to be honoured by all.
35. The great car-warriors will consider you as having fled from battle out of fear, and you who have been the object of their respect, will be despised by them hereafter.
36. Your enemies will indulge in derogatory speeches against you, belittling your prowess. What is more painful than that?
37. O son of Kunti! If killed in battle you will attain heaven; If victorious you will enjoy the kingdom. Therefore arise, resolved to fight.
38. Treating alike pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, be ready for battle. Thus you will not incur any sin.
47.To work alone you have competence, and not to claim their fruits. Let not the longing for fruits be the motive force of your action. At the same time let not this attitude confirm you in indolent inaction.
56.Whose mind is not agitated in adversity, who is free from desire, and who is devoid of attachments, fear and anger- such a person is called a sage of steady wisdom.
69.What is like night to all ignorant beings, to that Atman- consciousness the self-controlled sage is awake; and the sensate life to which all ignorant beings are awake, that is like night to this illumined sage.
70.He into whom all objects of desire enter, even like the ocean that is ever being by the rivers but still remains steady within its bounds- such a person attains to peace, not he who runs madly after objects of desire.