Some of the Precepts Taught by Krishna
• Those who do not control their passions cannot act properly toward others.
• The evils we inflict upon others follow us as our shadows follow our bodies.
• Only the humble are beloved of God.
• Virtue sustains the soul as the muscles sustain the body.
• When the poor man knocks at your door, take him and administer to his wants, for the poor are the chosen of God. (Christ said, "God hath chosen the poor.")
• Let your hand be always open to the unfortunate.
• Look not upon a woman with unchaste desires.
• Avoid envy, covetousness, falsehood, imposture and slander, and sexual desires.
• Above all things, cultivate love for your neighbor.
• When you die you leave your worldly wealth behind you, but your virtues and vices follow you.
• Contemn riches and worldly honor.
• Seek the company of the wicked in order to reform them.
• Do good for its own sake, and expect not your reward for it on earth.
• The soul is immortal, but must be pure and free from all sin and stain before it can return to Him who gave it.
• The soul is inclined to good when it follows the inward light.
• The soul is responsible to God for its actions, who has established rewards and punishments.
• Cultivate that inward knowledge which teaches what is right and wrong.
• Never take delight in another's misfortunes.
• It is better to forgive an injury than to avenge it.
• You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
• A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice by forgetting it.
• Pardon the offense of others, but not your own.
• What you blame in others do not practice yourself.
• By forgiving an enemy you make many friends.
• Do right from hatred of evil, and not from fear of punishment.
• A wise man corrects his own errors by observing those of others.
• He who rules his temper conquers his greatest enemy.
• The wise man governs his passions, but the fool obeys them.
• Be at war with men's vices, but at peace with their persons.
• There should be no disagreement between your lives and your doctrine.
• Spend every day as though it were the last.
• Lead not one life in public and another in private.
• Anger in trying to torture others punishes itself.
• A disgraceful death is honorable when you die in a good cause.
• By growing familiar with vices, we learn to tolerate them easily.
• We must master our evil propensities, or they will master us.
• He who has conquered his propensities rules over a kingdom.
• Protect, love and assist others, if you would serve God.
• From thought springs the will, and from the will action, true or false, just or unjust.
• As the sandal tree perfumes the axe which fells it, so the good man fragrances on his enemies.
• Spend a portion of each day in pious devotion.
• To love the virtues of others is to brighten your own.
• He who gives to the needy loses nothing himself.
• A good, wise and benevolent man cannot be rich.
• Much riches is a curse to the possessor.
• The wounds of the soul are more important than those of the body.
• The virtuous man is like the banyan tree, which shelters and protects all around it.
• Money does not satisfy the love of gain, but only stimulates it.
• Your greatest enemy is in your own bosom.
• To flee when charged is to confess your guilt.
• The wounds of conscience leave a sear.