BGV 13

Gita 13.35 Knowledge helps us perceive and achieve spiritual reality

Gita 13.34 Consciousness can be the channel to illumination – and to illusion too

Gita 13.33 The soul is not entangled, but the mind is

Gita 13.32 The soul is situated in the body, but its consciousness doesn’t have to imprisoned in the body

Gita 13.31 See variety not as illusion above the unity but as emanation from the unity

Gita 13.30 The soul is not the doer of the activities impelled by the body

Gita 13.29 See beyond people’s particular actions to Krishna’s universal positive intention

Gita 13.28 To see that which is critical to see is to really see

Gita 13.27 See beyond functional categorization to philosophical comprehension

Gita 13.26 Hearing directs us to destination immortality

Gita 13.25 The many ways to see within are meant to show the same truth within

Gita 13.24 Sankhya and bhakti are different in form, but similar in essential content and ultimate purpose

Gita 13.23 One purusha is controlled by nature, the other is the controller of nature

Gita 13.22 Our desire to enjoy matter subjects us to material distress

Gita 13.21 Material causality is not complete causality

Gita 13.20 Matter is eternal, but material forms are temporary

Gita 13.19 Subtle spiritual truths are comprehended through devotion, not intellection

Gita 13.18 All objects of knowledge are meant to direct us to the objective of knowledge

Gita 13.17 The all-round glory of the Absolute includes its glory as the destroyer

Gita 13.16 The Gita’s Absolute reflects not naive anthropomorphism but profound sophistication

Gita 13.15 The Absolute’s paradoxical attributes underscore its transcendental inconceivability

Gita 13.14 The knowable’s all-pervasiveness points to its transcendence of our capacity to know

Gita 13.13 That which grants the immortal is the most vital knowable

Gita 13.12 Knowledge means to what is the most important to know

Gita 13.11 The way of devotion is different from the way of the masses

Gita 13.10 Detachment is not meant to make us hard-hearted

Gita 13.09 To cultivate detachment from matter, contemplate the distresses of material existence

Gita 13.08 The Gita is not a glorification of war, but a delineation of dharma

Gita 13.07 Consciousness is shaped, not sourced, by changes of matter

Gita 13.06 The subtle points towards the spiritual

Gita 13.05 Study matter for functioning and transcending

Gita 13.04 Use your sphere of influence for bringing about the ultimate change

Gita 13.02 Our field reflects our sphere of influence

Gita 13.01 The meanings of words exist not just in dictionary but also in context