Gita Verse by Verse

Gita 09.14 – See devotion not in ecstasy but in dedication

Gita 09.13 – Krishna’s attractiveness is original and inexhaustible

Gita 9.12 – Rejecting real currency as fake leaves one impoverished

Gita 09.27 – Bhakti accommodates seekers at multiple levels

Gita 09.16 – See beyond the technical to the transcendental

Gita 09.11 – To claim the impersonal to be Krishna’s param bhava is contextually and grammatically indefensible

Gita 09.10 – Nature is not causally complete without an ultimate cause

Gita 09.09 – Krishna is concerned but not sentimental

Gita 09.07 – Repetition of discussion is meant for elevation of vision

Gita 09.06 – Krishna limits not our freedom but the scope of our freedom

Gita 09.05 – God’s self-contradiction points to his inconceivable multi-level manifestations

Gita 09.04 – God relates with the world through the impersonal, the immanent and the transcendent

Gita 09.03 – Bhakti harmonizes the temporary with the eternal

Gita 09.01 – Krishna’s glory can be appreciated by the devoted, not the envious

Gita 08.28 – Yogi gets what other paths offer and gets more too

Gita 08.27 – Devotional consistency is more important than chronological accuracy

Gita 08.26 – Disinvest emotion from matter before it crashes

Gita 08.25 – Yogi’s spiritual exit velocity needs to be greater than the world’s gravity pull

Gita 08.24 – Astrological positions and psychological dispositions contribute to the soul’s liberation

Gita 08.23 – The Gita unifies diverse Vedic concepts in a devotional framework

Gita 08.22 – Everything is in Krishna and Krishna is in everything

Gita 08.21 – Our longing for home is our longing for the spiritual world

Gita 08.20 – The spiritual is not just non-manifest but also nonmaterial

Gita 08.19 – Recognizing our lack of control over the destructible material imples us to direct our consciousness to the eternal spiritual

Gita 08.18 – Matter becomes unmanifest, but material form is destroyed

Gita 08.17 – The immortal is not eternal

Gita 08.16 – The world is like a jail or hospital – returning to it is undesirable

Gita 08.15 – Attaining Krishna is the eternally inalienable attainment

Gita 08.13 – External recitation and internal recollection propel us to spiritual liberation

Gita 08.12 – In yoga, the technical is a necessary preliminary to the transcendental

Gita 08.11 – Liberation in yoga requires renunciation

Gita 08.10 – Yoga restrains the negative, bhakti energizes the positive

Gita 08.09 – Systematic contemplation begins with tangible information

Gita 08.08 – Practice to take consciousness beyond endlessly deceptive material reality to Krishna

Gita 08.14 – What is difficult in one perspective is easy in another perspective

Gita 08.07 – Devotion is not about rejecting the outer world but about offering the inner world

Gita 08.06 – Our emotional disposition becomes our physical position

Gita 08.05 – Our choice at the junction determines our destination

Gita 08.04 – Everything is ultimately a manifesatation of Krishna

Gita 08.03 – Spirituality is our nature

Gita 08.02 – Death is not the termination of life but its testing ground

Gita 08.01 – Terms have specific and generic meanings

Gita 07.30 – Teacher’s incomprehensible statements test student’s interest and attentiveness

Gita 07.29 – Detect misery to correct it

Gita 07.28 – Dont expect immediate steady determination – use present determination, even if unsteady

Gita 07.27 – Go beyond duality by spirituality

Gita 07.26 – Krishnas omniscience harmonizes with his omnibenevolence

Gita 07.25 – Yoga Maya is a profound oxymoron

Gita 07.24 – To deflect a clear critique of impersonalism is to violate both the meaning and the context

Gita 07.23 – Accommodation is not recommendation

Gita 07.22 – Krishna accomodates within the house of the Vedas even those who cant worship him

Gita 07.21 – Krishna is much more merciful than the God in the Prodigal Son metaphor

Gita 07.20 – Don’t let desire steal your knowledge

Gita 07.01 – Hearing paves our way to the summit of yoga

Gita 07.19 – Krishna is not a dispensable filler; he is an indispensable shelter

Gita 07.18 – Krishna is so hungry for love that he deems those who become his devotees charitable

Gita 06.47 – The perfection of yoga is not disconnection from matter but connection with Krishna

Gita 06.45 – Past-life attraction and present determination leads yogi to perfection

Gita 07.17 – Jnana favorable to bhakti intensifies our connection with Krishna

Gita 06.46 – Focus on transcendence is superior to any material attainment – gross or subtle

Gita 06.44 – Past-life’s spiritual practice manifests as inexplicable irresistible attraction to transcendence

Gita 07.16 – Approaching Krishna for any reason is auspicious

Gita 06.43 – Spiritual inclination is the credit that carries over beyond the corpse

Gita 07.15 – Scriptural categorization of non-devotees is living, not frozen

Gita 06.42 – Having past spiritual impressions reinforced in a present life is extremely fortunate

Gita 07.14 – Knowledge of Krishna’s position brings intellectual force to our call of devotion

Gita 07.13 – The modes sabotage our prospects of coming out of material existence

Gita 06.40 – Krishna reveals how an apparently lose-lose situation is actually win-win

Gita 06.41 – The deviated yogi loses neither materially nor spiritually

Gita 06.38 – The problems we perceive reflect our level of consciousness

Gita 06.39 – Doubts are natural due to our limitedness – seek the unlimited

Gita 07.12 – The Gita’s vision of God is not pantheistic but panentheistic

Gita 06.37 – Considering future problems is a sign of intelligence

Gita 07.11 – Kama manifests the divine when harmonized with dharma

Gita 06.36 – Mind control is essential – and possible by proper process

Gita 07.10 – All seeds are exhaustible, but Krishna is the inexhaustible seed

Gita 07.09 – Krishna underlies diverse manifestations as earth, fire, life and ascetic

Gita 06.35 – The supreme teacher offers guidance – and confidence

Gita 06.34 – The mind is dangerous like an unstoppable storm

Gita 07.08 – Krishna is the essence that makes all taste accessible through water

Gita 07.07 – Krishna is the substance underlying all appearance

Gita 06.33 – Seeing equally is tough, but seeing devotionally is easier

Gita 06.32 – The topmost yogi sees everyone with benevolence, not indifference

Gita 07.06 – Nothing exists outside the purview of Krishna’s energies

Gita 07.05 – The Absolute Truth is immutable, but its energies are mutable

Gita 06.31 – See oneness in Krishna’s various manifestations – not Krishna and the soul

Gita 07.04 – Sankhya when seen devotionally reveals Krishna’s glory

Gita 06.30 – The perception of Krishna everywhere takes one beyond the reach of illusion

Gita 07.03 – The rarity of knowing Krishna reveals the mercy we have the opportunity to relish

Gita 06.29 – By seeing sameness in the material, yogi penetrates to the supreme spiritual substance

Gita 07.02 – Understand the appearance and the substance of everything

Gita 06.28 – To get the best happiness, connect with God, not sense objects

Gita 06.27 – Joy is the natural fruity of purity

Gita 06.26 – Overcome discouragement with the inner light and the inner map

Gita 06.25 – Don’t expect overnight change – determinedly make gradual changes

Gita 06.24 – Determination means rejection of dejection

Gita 06.23 – Yoga brings disconnection from our infatuation with misery

Gita 06.22 – Seek the achievement beyond hankering and lamentation

Gita 06.20 – Stop outer obsession to begin inner perception

Gita 06.19 – Minimize the wind of disturbing desires to maximize the flame of meditation