Gita Verse by Verse

Gita 15.01 The metaphor of the upside-down tree points to the reality beyond the reflection

Gita 14.27 Brahman refers not just to the impersonal spiritual but also the generically spiritual

Gita 14.26 Health is a product of medication but it is also a precondition for medication

Gita 14.25 As long as we are materially motivated, we will be materially agitated

Gita 14.24 To be equipoised, be situated in the self, not in the world

Gita 14.23 We are not our scars, be they physical or emotional

Gita 14.22 Be a non-judgemental non-committal observer of your emotions

Gita 14.21 When the disease is subtle, we need education to perceive the symptoms of sickness and health

Gita 14.20 Those who transcend the modes transcend miseries

Gita 14.19 Seeing that our actions are impelled by the modes inspires us to resist the desires induced by the modes

Gita 14.18 Goodness leads to elevation, passion to stagnation, ignorance to degradation

Gita 14.17 Different modes foster different emotions, dispositions and destinations

Gita 14.16 Piety purifies, craving torments and intoxication stupefies

Gita 14.15 The modes are not just psychological constructs, they are also post-mortem destination shapers

Gita 14.14 A disposition of knowledge and purity elevates to the destination of the knowledgeable and the pure

Gita 14.13 The mode of ignorance block us in both contemplation and action

Gita 14.12 Desires that drive us with the lure of pleasure are insatiable

Gita 14.11 Illumination of knowledge regulates the input and output through the doorways of the senses

Gita 14.10 The modes are neither in segregation nor in integration but are in competition

Gita 14.09 The longer a pleasure lasts, the greater its lure

Gita 14.08 The mode of ignorance begins with not knowing and leads to false knowing

Gita 14.07 Passion is composed of attachment, gives rise to craving and binds us to work

Gita 14.06 Anything that keeps us away from realizing our spirituality is binding, even if it is illuminating

Gita 14.05 Modes are a combination of matter that trigger emotion which matter in isolation doesnt

Gita 14.04 The seed-giving father is also the soul-attracting liberator

Gita 14.03 We determine our bodies and our bodies determine us

Gita 14.02 Death can’t be avoided, but affliction due to death can be

Gita 14.01 The Gita uses diverse frames of analysis to reiterate its consistent conclusion

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 13.03 Knowledge means to know both matter and spirit

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

Gita 12.20 The concluding verse reiterates and reinforces the starting verse

Gita 12.19 Seek satisfaction not by horizontal improvement, but by vertical advancement

Gita 12.17 Conserve your emotional energy by focus on service

Gita 12.18 To rise above material dualities, break free from material association

Gita 12.16 Complement spiritual devotion with material dispassion

Gita 12.15 Avoid agitation coming from the social and the mental

Gita 12.14 To sustain satisfaction, seek absorption

Gita 12.13 Devotion manifests as action, even aggression, without mundane passion

Gita 12.12 Serenity comes by rising from piety to spirituality

Gita 12.11 To be self-situated, begin with selflessness

Gita 12.10 Bhakti means dedicating our external to the eternal internal instead of the ephemeral internal

Gita 12.09 If absorption in Krishna is unattainable, seek attraction through connection

Gita 12.08 Bhakti changes not our outer location but the locus of our inner world

Gita 12.07 Bhakti-yoga complements human agency with divine agency

Gita 12.06 Devotional renunciation centers not on what we renounce but on for whom we renounce

Gita 12.05 Attachment to oneness leaves us with nothingness to be attached to

Gita 12.04 Don’t treat impersonalists impersonally – they are not all the same

Gita 12.03 To say that the Absolute is indescribable is to describe it

Gita 12.02 Closeness unites more than oneness

Gita 12.01 Pantheism and impersonalism both conceive of the Absolute as diffused

Gita 11.55 – Absorption comes by harmonizing action and intention

Gita 11.55 The same chapter that calls for war also calls for giving up animosity

Gita 11.54 Pure devotion grants the topmost spiritual vision

Gita 11.53 Krishna can’t be known by the Vedas, although the Vedas are meant for knowing him

Gita 11.52 Vision results not just from perception but also comprehension

Gita 11.51 Right emotion results from right perception

Gita 11.50 The many-handed changes through the four-handed to the two-handed

Gita 11.49 If we maintain a service disposition, Krishna will reveal a conducive vision

Gita 11.48 Pious action doesn’t qualify us for devotional vision

Gita 11.47 The vision of the universal form, even its destructive feature, is a rare favor

Gita 11.46 Darshan of Vishva-rupa and Vishnu-rupa provide visual demonstration of verbal exposition

Gita 11.45 The vishva-rupa causes jubilation, the kala-rupa causes trepidation

Gita 11.44 Humility in the forgiveness-seeker and magnanimity in the forgiver uplifts both

Gita 11.43 Our response on coming to know others’ greatness is shaped by our relationship with them

Gita 11.42 Intimacy comes not by formality or informality but by affinity

Gita 11.41 Knowledge reveals the power asymmetry to be in the opposite direction

Gita 11.40 Acknowledge Krishna’s presence everywhere and appreciate it where it is specially manifest