1. The Collapse 0/12 Arjuna sees who he is about to fight, and puts down his bow.
BG 1.28 — Deeply moved to pity, thus uttered in sadness: Arjuna said: Seeing these my kinsmen, O Krishna, arrayed, eager to fight, read → BG 1.29 — My limbs fail and my mouth is parched, my body quivers, and my hair stands on end, read → BG 1.30 — Gândîva slips from my hand, and my skin burns all over, I am not able to stand, my mind is whirling, read → BG 1.31 — And I see adverse omens, O Keshava. Nor do I foresee any advantage from slaying kinsmen in battle. read → BG 1.37 — Therefore we should not kill the sons of Dhritarâshtra, our relatives; for how, killing our kinsmen, may we be happy, O Mâdhava? read → BG 1.38 — Although these, with intelligence overpowered by greed, see no guilt in the destruction of a family, no crime in hostility to friends, read → BG 1.45 — Alas! in committing a great sin are we engaged, we who are endeavouring to kill our kindred from greed of the pleasures of kingship. read → BG 1.46 — If the sons of Dhritarâshtra, weapon in hand, should slay me, unresisting, unarmed, in the battle, that would for me be the better. read → BG 1.47 — Sanjaya said: Having thus spoken on the battle-field, Arjuna sank down on the seat of the chariot, casting away his bow and arrow, his mind overborne by grief. read → BG 2.4 — How, O Madhusûdana, shall I attack Bhîshma and Drona with arrows in battle, they who are worthy of reverence, O slayer of foes? read → BG 2.6 — Nor know I which for us be the better, that we conquer them or they conquer us—these, whom having slain we should not care to live, even these arrayed against us, the sons of Dhritarâshtra. read → BG 2.7 — My heart is weighed down with the vice of faintness; my mind is confused as to duty. I ask thee which may be the better—that tell me decisively. I am thy disciple, suppliant to Thee; teach me. read → 2. The Self That Doesn't Die 0/12 Krishna's first answer: what is real in you was never born.
BG 2.11 — Thou grievest for those that should not be grieved for, yet speakest words of wisdom. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. read → BG 2.12 — Nor at any time verily was I not, nor thou, nor these princes of men, nor verily shall we ever cease to be, hereafter. read → BG 2.13 — As the dweller in the body experienceth in the body childhood, youth, old age, so passeth he on to another body; the steadfast one grieveth not thereat. read → BG 2.14 — The contacts of matter, O son of Kuntî, giving cold and heat, pleasure and pain, they come and go, impermanent; endure them bravely, O Bhârata. read → BG 2.16 — The unreal hath no being; the real never ceaseth to be; the truth about both hath been perceived by the seers of the essence of things. read → BG 2.17 — Know That to be indestructible by whom all this is pervaded. Nor can any work the destruction of that imperishable One. read → BG 2.19 — He who regardeth this as a slayer, and he who thinketh he is slain, both of them are ignorant. He slayeth not, nor is he slain. read → BG 2.20 — He is not born, nor doth he die; nor having been, ceaseth he any more to be; unborn, perpetual, eternal and ancient, he is not slain when the body is slaughtered. read → BG 2.22 — As a man, casting off worn-out garments, taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, casting off worn-out bodies, entereth into others that are new. read → BG 2.23 — Weapons cleave him not, nor fire burneth him, nor waters wet him, nor wind drieth him away. read → BG 2.24 — Uncleavable he, incombustible he, and indeed neither to be wetted nor dried away; perpetual, all-pervasive, stable, immovable, ancient. read → BG 2.27 — For certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead; therefore over the inevitable thou shouldst not grieve. read → 3. Equanimity and Action 0/12 Act without gripping the result; let the mind come to rest.
BG 2.38 — Taking as equal pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, gird thee for the battle; thus thou shalt not incur sin. read → BG 2.47 — Thy business is with the action only, never with its fruits; so let not the fruit of action be thy motive, nor be thou to inaction attached. read → BG 2.48 — Perform action, O Dhananjaya, dwelling in union with the divine, renouncing attachments and balanced evenly in success and failure: equilibrium is called yoga. read → BG 2.50 — United to the Pure Reason one abandoneth here both good and evil deeds; therefore cleave thou to yoga; yoga is skill in action. read → BG 2.56 — He whose mind is free from anxiety amid pains, indifferent amid pleasures, loosed from passion, fear and anger, is called a sage of stable mind. read → BG 2.62 — Man, musing on the objects of sense, conceiveth an attachment to these; from attachment ariseth desire; from desire anger cometh forth; read → BG 2.63 — From anger proceedeth delusion; from delusion confused memory; from confused memory the destruction of Reason; from destruction of Reason he perishes. read → BG 2.66 — There is no Pure Reason for the non-harmonised, nor for the non-harmonised is there concentration; for him without concentration there is no peace, and for the unpeaceful how can there be happiness? read → BG 2.70 — He attaineth Peace, into whom all desires flow as rivers flow into the ocean, which is filled with water, but remaineth unmoved—not he who desireth desires. read → BG 2.71 — Whoso forsaketh all desires and goeth onwards free from yearnings, selfless and without egoism—he goeth to Peace. read → BG 3.5 — Nor can anyone, even for an instant, remain really actionless; for helplessly is everyone driven to action by the qualities born of nature. read → BG 3.8 — Perform thou right action, for, action is superior to inaction, and, inactive, even the maintenance of thy body would not be possible. read → 4. Sacrifice and the Duty That's Yours 0/12 Work offered without a private claim on it, and doing your own imperfectly.
BG 3.9 — The world is bound by action, unless performed for the sake of sacrifice; for that sake, free from attachment, O son of Kuntî, perform thou action. read → BG 3.19 — Therefore, without attachment, constantly perform action which is duty, for, by performing action without attachment, man verily reacheth the Supreme. read → BG 3.21 — Whatsoever a great man doeth, that other men also do; the standard he setteth up, by that the people go. read → BG 3.25 — As the ignorant act from attachment to action, O Bhârata, so should the wise act without attachment, desiring the welfare of the world. read → BG 3.27 — All actions are wrought by the qualities of nature only. The self, deluded by egoism, thinketh: "I am the doer." read → BG 3.30 — Surrendering all actions to Me, with thy thoughts resting on the supreme Self, from hope and egoism freed, and of mental fever cured, engage in battle. read → BG 3.35 — Better one's own duty, though destitute of merit, than the duty of another, well discharged. Better death in the discharge of one's own duty; the duty of another is full of danger. read → BG 4.7 — Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bhârata, and there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth; read → BG 4.8 — For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers, for the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age. read → BG 4.18 — He who seeth inaction in action, and action in inaction, he is wise among men, he is harmonious, even while performing all action. read → BG 4.20 — Having abandoned attachment to the fruit of action, always content, nowhere seeking refuge, he is not doing anything, although doing actions. read → BG 4.38 — Verily there is no purifier in this world like wisdom; he that is perfected in yoga finds it in the Self in due season. read → 5. Renunciation in Action 0/12 Giving up the doership, not the doing — and the meditation that trains it.
BG 5.10 — He who acteth, placing all actions in the Eternal, abandoning attachment, is unaffected by sin as a lotus leaf by the waters. read → BG 5.11 — Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform action only by the body, by the mind, by the Reason, and even by the senses, for the purification of the self. read → BG 5.18 — Sages look equally on a Brâhmana adorned with learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, and even a dog and an outcaste. read → BG 5.19 — Even here on earth everything is overcome by those whose mind remains balanced; the Eternal is incorruptible and balanced; therefore they are established in the Eternal. read → BG 5.29 — Having known Me, as the Enjoyer of sacrifice and of austerity, the mighty Ruler of all the worlds, and the Lover of all beings, he goeth to Peace. read → BG 6.5 — Let him raise the self by the Self and not let the self become depressed; for verily is the Self the friend of the self, and also the Self the self's enemy; read → BG 6.6 — The Self is the friend of the self of him in whom the self by the Self is vanquished; but to the unsubdued self the Self verily becometh hostile as an enemy. read → BG 6.16 — Verily yoga is not for him who eateth too much, nor who abstaineth to excess, nor who is too much addicted to sleep, nor even to wakefulness, O Arjuna. read → BG 6.19 — As a lamp in a windless place flickereth not, to such is likened the Yogi of subdued thought, absorbed in the yoga of the Self. read → BG 6.26 — As often as the wavering and unsteady mind goeth forth, so often reining it in, let him bring it under the control of the Self. read → BG 6.35 — Without doubt, O mighty-armed, the mind is hard to curb and restless; but it may be curbed by constant practice and by dispassion. read → BG 6.47 — And among all Yogis, he who, full of faith, with the inner Self abiding in Me, adoreth Me, he is considered by Me to be the most completely harmonised. read → 6. Knowing the Divine 0/12 What underlies everything, and the devotion that reaches it.
BG 7.7 — There is naught whatsoever higher than I, O Dhananjaya. All this is threaded on Me, as rows of pearls on a string. read → BG 7.8 — I the sapidity in waters, O son of Kuntî, I the radiance in moon and sun; the Word of Power in all the Vedas, sound in ether, and virility in men; read → BG 7.19 — At the close of many births the man full of wisdom cometh unto Me; "Vâsudeva is all." saith he, the Mahâtmâ, very difficult to find. read → BG 8.5 — And he who, casting off the body, goeth forth thinking upon Me only at the time of the end, he entereth into My being: there is no doubt of that. read → BG 8.7 — Therefore at all times think upon Me only and fight. With mind and Reason set on Me, without doubt thou shalt come to Me. read → BG 9.22 — To those men who worship Me alone thinking of no other, to those ever harmonious, I bring full security. read → BG 9.26 — He who offereth to Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, water, that I accept from the striving self, offered as it is with devotion. read → BG 9.27 — Whatsoever thou doest, whatsoever thou eatest, whatsoever thou offerest, whatsoever thou givest, whatsoever thou doest of austerity, O Kaunteya, do thou that as an offering unto Me. read → BG 9.29 — The same am I to all beings; there is none hateful to Me nor dear. They verily who worship Me with devotion, they are in Me, and I also in them. read → BG 9.30 — Even if the most sinful worship Me, with undivided heart, he too must be accounted righteous, for he hath rightly resolved; read → BG 9.31 — Speedily he becometh dutiful and goeth to eternal peace; O Kaunteya, know thou for certain that My devotee perisheth never. read → BG 9.34 — On Me fix thy mind, be devoted to Me; sacrifice to Me; prostrate thyself before Me; harmonised thus in the Self, thou shalt come unto Me, having Me as thy supreme goal. read → 7. Majesty and Vision 0/12 The catalogue of glories, then the overwhelming universal form.
BG 10.10 — To these, ever harmonious, worshipping in love, I give the yoga of discrimination by which they come unto Me. read → BG 10.11 — Out of pure compassion for them, dwelling within their Self, I destroy the ignorance-born darkness by the shining lamp of wisdom. read → BG 10.20 — I, O Gudakesha, am the Self, seated in the heart of all beings; I am the beginning, the middle, and also the end of all beings. read → BG 10.21 — Of the Adityas I am Vishnu; of radiances the glorious sun; I am Marîchi of the Maruts; of the asterisms the Moon am I. read → BG 10.41 — Whatsoever is glorious, good, beautiful, and mighty, understand thou that to go forth from a fragment of My splendour. read → BG 10.42 — But what is the knowledge of all these details to thee, O Arjuna? Having pervaded this whole universe with one fragment of Myself, I remain. read → BG 11.12 — If the splendour of a thousand suns were to blaze out together in the sky, that might resemble the glory of that Mahâtman. read → BG 11.32 — Time am I, laying desolate the world, Made manifest on earth to slay mankind! Not one of all these warriors ranged for strife Escapeth death; thou shalt alone survive. read → BG 11.33 — Therefore stand up! win for thyself renown, Conquer thy foes, enjoy the wealth filled realm, By Me they are already overcome, Be thou the outward cause, left-handed one. read → BG 11.43 — Father of worlds, of all that moves and stands, Worthier of reverence than the Guru's self, There is none like to Thee. Who passeth Thee? Pre-eminent Thy power in all the worlds. read → BG 11.54 — But by devotion to Me alone I may thus be perceived, Arjuna, and known and seen in essence, and entered, O Parantapa. read → BG 11.55 — He who doeth actions for Me, whose supreme good I am, My devotee, freed from attachment without hatred of any being, he cometh unto Me, O Pândava. read → 8. Devotion and the Field 0/12 What a settled devotee looks like, and the knower behind the known.
BG 12.6 — Those verily who, renouncing all actions in Me and intent on Me, worship meditating on Me, with whole-hearted yoga, read → BG 12.7 — These I speedily lift up from the ocean of death and existence, O Pârtha, their minds being fixed on Me. read → BG 12.8 — Place thy mind in me, into Me let thy Reason enter; then without doubt thou shalt abide in Me hereafter. read → BG 12.13 — He who beareth no ill-will to any being, friendly and compassionate, without attachment and egoism, balanced in pleasure and pain, and forgiving, read → BG 12.14 — Ever content, harmonious, with the self-controlled, resolute, with mind and Reason dedicated to Me, he, My devotee, is dear to Me. read → BG 12.15 — He from whom the world doth not shrink away, who doth not shrink away from the world, freed from the anxieties of joy, anger, and fear, he is dear to me. read → BG 12.16 — He who wants nothing, is pure, expert, passionless, untroubled, renouncing every undertaking, he, My devotee, is dear to Me. read → BG 12.20 — They verily who partake of this life-giving wisdom as taught herein, endued with faith, I their supreme Object, devotees, they are surpassingly dear to Me. read → BG 13.2 — This body, son of Kuntî, is called the Field; that which knoweth it is called the Knower of the Field by the Sages. read → BG 13.13 — I will declare that which ought to be known, that which being known immortality is enjoyed—the beginningless supreme Eternal, called neither being nor non-being. read → BG 13.28 — Seated equally in all beings, the supreme Lord, unperishing within the perishing—he who thus seeth, he seeth. read → BG 13.31 — When he perceiveth the diversified existence of beings as rooted in One, and spreading forth from it, then he reacheth the Eternal read → 9. Gunas, Faith, and the Last Word 0/12 The three strands, the two natures, and the final instruction.
BG 14.5 — Harmony, Motion, Inertia, such are the qualities, Matter-born; they bind fast in the body, O great-armed one, the indestructible dweller in the body. read → BG 14.19 — When the Seer perceiveth no agent other than the qualities, and knoweth That which is higher than the qualities, he entereth into My Nature. read → BG 14.26 — And he who serveth Me exclusively by the Yoga of devotion, he, crossing beyond the qualities, he is fit to become the Eternal. read → BG 15.5 — Without pride and delusion, victorious over the vice of attachment, dwelling constantly in the Self, desire pacified, liberated from the pairs of opposites known as pleasure and pain, they tread, undeluded, that indestructible path. read → BG 15.15 — And I am seated in the hearts of all, and from Me memory and wisdom and their absence. And that which is to be known in all the Vedas am I; and I indeed the Veda-knower and the author of the Vedanta. read → BG 16.1 — Fearlessness, cleanness of life, steadfastness in the Yoga of wisdom, almsgiving, self-restraint and sacrifice and study of the Scriptures, austerity and straightforwardness, read → BG 16.21 — Triple is the gate of this hell, destructive of the self—lust, wrath, and greed; therefore let man renounce these three. read → BG 17.15 — Speech causing no annoyance, truthful, pleasant and beneficial, the practice of the study of the Scriptures, are called the austerity of speech. read → BG 18.46 — He from whom is the emanation of beings, by Whom all This is pervaded, by worshipping Him in his own duty a man winneth perfection. read → BG 18.47 — Better is one's own duty though destitute of merits than the well-executed duty of another. He who doeth the duty laid down by his own nature incurreth not sin. read → BG 18.48 — Congenital duty, O son of Kunti, though defective, ought not to be abandoned. All undertakings indeed are clouded by defects as fire by smoke. read → BG 18.66 — Abandoning all duties come unto Me alone for shelter; sorrow not, I will liberate thee from all sins. read →