Gita Verse by Verse

Gita 18.30 Intelligence means to see beyond appearance to consequence

Gita 18.29 To drive purposefully, we need to know the destination, the path and the vehicle

Gita 18.28 Doers in ignorance act destructively for others and even for themselves

Gita 18.27 Our actions reflect our self-conception and our world-conception

Gita 18.26 The doer is not a non-doer but is a component in doing

Gita 18.25 To see our actions disconnected from the past and the future is to see in illusion

Gita 18.24 Disconnection from our Lord leads to the consumption of our consciousness by passion

Gita 18.23 To gain knowledge, we need basic knowledge about where to seek knowledge

Gita 18.22 Knowledge in ignorance makes us obsessed with one fragment of reality and one kind of action

Gita 18.21 To equate others physical appearance with spiritual substance is vision in passion

Gita 18.20 Seeing commonality alone is not vision in goodness – seeing spirituality as the foundation of commonality is

Gita 18.19 The Gita’s flow verses make its question-directed discussion more accessible

Gita 18.18 Analysis of the components of action is meant to direct towards non-reactive action

Gita 18.17 When we act without false ego, we stay free of reactions

Gita 18.16 To think that we are the sole doers is to have deluded intelligence

Gita 18.15 Spiritual consciousness ensures that our actions give a favorable result

Gita 18.14 God is the fifth factor as well as the foundation of all factors

Gita 18.13 The journey from illusion to illumination requires philosophical education

Gita 18.12 Intelligence sees consequence and fosters detachment

Gita 18.11 To pursue liberation, give up the idea of giving up action

Gita 18.10 Take the route that takes us to the destination, not the route that looks the easiest

Gita 18.09 Renunciation in goodness means to know that we as parts just need to do our parts

Gita 18.08 Desire for bodily pleasure and fear of bodily trouble both keep us in the cage of bodily consciousness

Gita 18.07 Renunciation done in illusion can’t take us out of illusion

Gita 18.06 Karmic bondage is like emotional dependence – focus not just on the action but also on the motivation

Gita 18.05 To be mana-isha, we need not just a mana free from ishvara-bhava, but a mana fixed on ishvara

Gita 18.04 Just as indulgence can be indiscriminate, so can renunciation

Gita 18.03 Gita 18.03 Appreciate others thoughtfulness even if it doesn’t lead to the best conclusion

Gita 18.02 Devotional attachment is the best way to avoid worldly attachment

Gita 18.01 What is used to refer is not as important as what is being referred to

Gita 17.28 Having no faith in anything higher makes performance of religious activities unfruitful

Gita 17.27 Sat is not just a word for recitation – it is a conviction to cultivated and infused into action

Gita 17.26 Any inclination to seek elevation of consciousness is praiseworthy

Gita 17.25 Recitation of tad signifies and stimulates the pursuit of transcendence

Gita 17.24 The many meanings of the word “brahma” in the Gita

Gita 17.23 Everything is sustained by its connection with the Absolute

Gita 17.22 We need discrimination to ensure that doing good actually does good

Gita 17.21 – Charity is passion is a competition of humiliation

Gita 17.20 Give charity for purity not popularity

Gita 17.19 Slaving to get the whip that will lash us is stupidity

Gita 17.18 The show of austerity without the substance of spirituality points to superficiality or even hypocrisy

Gita 17.17 The mode in which austerity is performed different from the mode with which austerity is performed

Gita 17.16 Austerity of mind transforms our inner disruptive enemy into a constructive friend

Gita 17.15 Speech is meant not just for commnication but also for purification

Gita 17.14 Austerity enables us to use our bodily vehicle constructively not destructively

Gita 17.13 Yajna in ignorance expresses defiance externally and internally.mp3

Gita 17.12 Yajna is like modern technology – can fuel the illusion that we are controllers and enjoyers.mp3

Gita 17.11 Focus not on expectation from the world focus on contribution from yourself.mp3

Gita 17.10 Food in ignorance isn’t nourishing satisfying or appealing.mp3

Gita 17.09 Food in passion is is sensually stimulating but eventually distressing and disease-inducing.mp3

Gita 17.08 Food in goodness provides profusely both nutrition and satisfaction

Gita 17.07 Food sacrifice charity and austerity represent broad patterns of the soul’s interaction with its encasing circles

Gita 17.06 Defying scripture be it for pandering the body or tormenting the body is demonic

Gita 17.05 Our body is not ours to abuse by arbitrary austerity

Gita 17.04 Our level of consciousness determines who we feel is worshipable

Gita 17.03 The relationship between our existence and our faith is causal constitutional and consequential

Gita 17.02 See not just people’s ideological faith – see also their functional faith

Gita 17.01 The Gita universalizes and contextualizes the analytical framework of the three modes

Gita 16.24 Knowing scripture is our responsibility and our opportunity

Gita 16.23 Those who reject scripture suffer both in this life and the next

Gita 16.22 To pursue our self-interest we need to purge out self-defeating desires

Gita 16.21 The metaphorical usage stresses the reality and gravity of the demoniac forces of lust anger and greed

Gita 16.20 Demoniac action and demoniac destination is perpetuated by demoniac disposition

Gita 16.19 Devilish delights doom the demonic to deadly destinations

Gita 16.18 When bad situations make us take shelter of our bad side we become bad people

Gita 16.17 Self-complacence and impudence perpetuate ignorance

Gita 16.16 Desires and fears cover our consciousness completely with illusion

Gita 16.15 The ungodly want to look good not become good

Gita 16.14 Greed makes the covetous murderous

Gita 16.13 Let the mind’s chariot take us where we want to go not where it wants to go

Gita 16.12 Sensual desires are ropes of enslavement not roads to enjoyment

Gita 16.11 We make our beliefs and our beliefs make us

Gita 16.10 Taking shelter of lust amidst problems is like taking shelter of kidnappers when threatened by thieves

Gita 16.09 The ungodly are born for destructive action unless they do drastic course correction

Gita 16.08 From atheism to hedonism is a natural slide

Gita 16.07 Observe others actions not to condemn but to help

Gita 16.06 Knowing the inclination of the road where our car is is education not condemnation

Gita 16.05 Acknowledging where a car’s wheels are pointing is not accusing the car driver

Gita 16.03 Giving appropriate honor promotes harmony demanding excessive honor disrupts harmony

Gita 16.02 Our godliness needs to be seen in our harmonious interactions with others

Gita 16.01 Godliness is both a decision and a disposition

Gita 15.20 Using the knowledge and devotion we presently have propels us symbiotically towards life’s perfection

Gita 15.19 Bhakti is not non-intellectual or anti-intellectual – it is trans-intellectual

Gita 15.18 Fragmentation is not the cause of illusion, disharmonization is

Gita 15.17 Liberation is not just elevation out of illusion but also connection with the supreme reality

Gita 15.16 Purification means to change our emotional center

Gita 15.15 The purpose of perceiving the spiritual through the material is to perceive the spiritual in its own right

Gita 15.14 The world’s origin and operation points requires something beyond the world

Gita 15.13 The existence of multiple factors congenial to our existence points to transcendence

Gita 15.12 We need the eyes to see what our eyes need to see

Gita 15.11 What we see depends on what we want to see

Gita 15.10 We need knowledge to see our vulnerability in material existence

Gita 15.09 The mind makes chasing mirages the soul’s tragic habit

Gita 15.08 The essence of growth is evolution in our conception of life

Gita 15.07 Even when the mind is directed by the senses, it still directs the senses

Gita 15.06 The spiritual world is self-luminous and its luminosity is malleable to Krishna’s will

Gita 15.05 Surrender means to give up everything for Krishna – even the feeling of hopelessness

Gita 15.04 The Personal Absolute is not a way to transcendence – he is the summit of transcendence

Gita 15.03 Detachment cuts not the world but our own attachment to the world

Gita 15.02 We are bound by action and knowledge can guide us to action that leads to liberation