Bhagavad Gita Verses: All 18 Chapters, Verse by Verse

Every verse of the Bhagavad Gita on its own page: the Sanskrit text, IAST and simple transliteration, word-by-word meanings, an English translation and an explanation with a practice for daily life. Choose a chapter, then a verse.

New to the Gita? Start with how to study the Bhagavad Gita or the chapter-by-chapter guide. This edition numbers 701 verses because, like many printed editions, it counts Arjuna’s opening question in Chapter 13 as a verse; editions that omit it have 700.

Chapter 1: Arjuna Vishada Yoga (47 verses)

  1. 1.1 What Happened on the Field of Dharma?
  2. 1.2 Duryodhana Approaches His Teacher
  3. 1.3 Behold the Mighty Pandava Army
  4. 1.4 The Great Warriors of the Pandavas
  5. 1.5 Heroes of the Pandava Alliance
  6. 1.6 The Valiant Sons of the Pandava Side
  7. 1.7 Duryodhana Names His Own Commanders
  8. 1.8 Bhishma, Karna and the Kaurava Heroes
  9. 1.9 Warriors Ready to Die for Duryodhana
  10. 1.10 Our Strength and Theirs
  11. 1.11 Protect Bhishma on Every Side
  12. 1.12 Bhishma Blows His Conch
  13. 1.13 The Tumult of Conches and Drums
  14. 1.14 Krishna and Arjuna Sound Their Divine Conches
  15. 1.15 Panchajanya, Devadatta and Paundra
  16. 1.16 Yudhishthira, Nakula and Sahadeva Respond
  17. 1.17 The Allies Join the Call
  18. 1.18 Every Warrior Sounds His Conch
  19. 1.19 The Sound That Shook the Kauravas
  20. 1.20 Arjuna Raises His Bow
  21. 1.21 Place My Chariot Between the Armies
  22. 1.22 Let Me See Whom I Must Fight
  23. 1.23 Those Who Came to Please Duryodhana
  24. 1.24 Krishna Drives the Chariot Forward
  25. 1.25 Behold These Kurus Gathered Here
  26. 1.26 Arjuna Sees His Own Family
  27. 1.27 Seeing All His Kinsmen Arrayed
  28. 1.28 Arjuna Is Overcome by Compassion
  29. 1.29 My Limbs Give Way
  30. 1.30 My Bow Slips From My Hand
  31. 1.31 I See Only Evil Omens
  32. 1.32 What Use Is a Kingdom?
  33. 1.33 Those for Whom We Sought the Kingdom
  34. 1.34 Teachers, Fathers, Sons and Kinsmen
  35. 1.35 Not Even for the Three Worlds
  36. 1.36 What Joy From Killing Our Kin?
  37. 1.37 How Can We Be Happy?
  38. 1.38 Blinded by Greed, They Cannot See
  39. 1.39 Why Should We Not Turn Away?
  40. 1.40 When the Family Is Destroyed
  41. 1.41 When Lawlessness Prevails
  42. 1.42 The Ancestors Fall
  43. 1.43 Ancient Duties Are Uprooted
  44. 1.44 We Have Heard of Such a Fate
  45. 1.45 Alas, What a Great Sin
  46. 1.46 Better That They Kill Me Unarmed
  47. 1.47 Arjuna Sinks Down in Grief

Chapter 2: Sankhya Yoga (72 verses)

  1. 2.1 Krishna Speaks to the Grieving Arjuna
  2. 2.2 Where Has This Weakness Come From?
  3. 2.3 Arise, Give Up This Weakness
  4. 2.4 How Can I Fight Bhishma and Drona?
  5. 2.5 Better to Live by Begging
  6. 2.6 We Do Not Know Which Is Better
  7. 2.7 I Am Your Disciple; Teach Me
  8. 2.8 Nothing Can Remove This Grief
  9. 2.9 “I Will Not Fight”
  10. 2.10 Krishna Smiles and Speaks
  11. 2.11 The Wise Do Not Grieve
  12. 2.12 We Have Always Existed
  13. 2.13 Childhood, Youth, Old Age, Another Body
  14. 2.14 Endure the Passing Pairs of Opposites
  15. 2.15 Even in Pleasure and Pain
  16. 2.16 The Unreal Has No Being
  17. 2.17 That Which Pervades All Is Indestructible
  18. 2.18 Bodies End, the Self Is Eternal
  19. 2.19 The Self Neither Slays Nor Is Slain
  20. 2.20 The Self Is Never Born and Never Dies
  21. 2.21 How Can the Knower of the Self Kill?
  22. 2.22 As a Person Changes Worn-Out Clothes
  23. 2.23 Weapons Cannot Cut It, Fire Cannot Burn It
  24. 2.24 Eternal, All-Pervading, Unmoving
  25. 2.25 Knowing This, Do Not Grieve
  26. 2.26 Even If You Think the Self Is Born and Dies
  27. 2.27 Death Is Certain for the Born
  28. 2.28 Unmanifest, Manifest, Unmanifest Again
  29. 2.29 The Self Is a Wonder
  30. 2.30 The Self in Every Body Is Indestructible
  31. 2.31 Considering Your Own Duty
  32. 2.32 An Open Door to Heaven
  33. 2.33 If You Refuse This Righteous Battle
  34. 2.34 Dishonour Is Worse Than Death
  35. 2.35 The Great Warriors Will Think You Fled
  36. 2.36 Your Enemies Will Mock Your Strength
  37. 2.37 Arise, Resolved to Fight
  38. 2.38 Equal in Pleasure and Pain, Gain and Loss
  39. 2.39 Now Hear the Wisdom of Yoga
  40. 2.40 No Effort on This Path Is Ever Lost
  41. 2.41 The Resolute Mind Is One-Pointed
  42. 2.42 The Flowery Words of the Unwise
  43. 2.43 Desire for Heaven and Enjoyment
  44. 2.44 Desire Prevents Steady Wisdom
  45. 2.45 Rise Above the Three Gunas
  46. 2.46 Like a Well When Water Floods Everywhere
  47. 2.47 Your Right Is to Action, Not Its Fruits
  48. 2.48 Evenness of Mind Is Yoga
  49. 2.49 Take Refuge in Wisdom
  50. 2.50 Yoga Is Skill in Action
  51. 2.51 The Wise Reach the State Beyond Sorrow
  52. 2.52 When Wisdom Crosses the Mire of Delusion
  53. 2.53 When the Mind Is Steady in Samadhi
  54. 2.54 What Are the Marks of Steady Wisdom?
  55. 2.55 Content in the Self Alone
  56. 2.56 Free From Attachment, Fear and Anger
  57. 2.57 Neither Rejoicing Nor Hating
  58. 2.58 Like a Tortoise Withdrawing Its Limbs
  59. 2.59 Even the Taste Departs on Seeing the Supreme
  60. 2.60 The Turbulent Senses Carry Away the Mind
  61. 2.61 Controlling the Senses, Devoted to Me
  62. 2.62 How Attachment Turns Into Anger
  63. 2.63 From Anger to Ruin
  64. 2.64 Moving Among Objects With Freedom
  65. 2.65 In Serenity All Sorrows End
  66. 2.66 Without Peace, How Can There Be Happiness?
  67. 2.67 Like Wind Carrying Away a Boat
  68. 2.68 Senses Withdrawn, Wisdom Established
  69. 2.69 Awake When Others Sleep
  70. 2.70 Like the Ocean Filled by Rivers
  71. 2.71 Free From “I” and “Mine”
  72. 2.72 The Brahmic State

Chapter 3: Karma Yoga (43 verses)

  1. 3.1 Why Urge Me to This Terrible Action?
  2. 3.2 Tell Me Decisively the One Path
  3. 3.3 Two Paths: Knowledge and Action
  4. 3.4 Freedom Is Not Won by Avoiding Action
  5. 3.5 No One Can Remain Without Action
  6. 3.6 The Hypocrite Who Restrains Only the Body
  7. 3.7 The One Who Acts Without Attachment Excels
  8. 3.8 Action Is Better Than Inaction
  9. 3.9 Action as Offering Does Not Bind
  10. 3.10 Prosper Through Sacrifice
  11. 3.11 Nourish One Another
  12. 3.12 One Who Enjoys Without Giving Is a Thief
  13. 3.13 Eating the Remnants of Sacrifice
  14. 3.14 The Wheel of Food, Rain and Sacrifice
  15. 3.15 Brahman Is Present in Sacrifice
  16. 3.16 One Who Does Not Turn the Wheel Lives in Vain
  17. 3.17 For the One Content in the Self
  18. 3.18 Nothing to Gain or Lose
  19. 3.19 Act Without Attachment and Reach the Highest
  20. 3.20 Act for the Welfare of the World
  21. 3.21 Others Follow the Example of the Great
  22. 3.22 Even I Continue to Act
  23. 3.23 If I Did Not Act, All Would Follow
  24. 3.24 The Worlds Would Fall Into Ruin
  25. 3.25 The Wise Act as Diligently as the Attached
  26. 3.26 Do Not Unsettle the Minds of Others
  27. 3.27 Nature Acts; the Ego Claims It
  28. 3.28 The Qualities Act Among the Qualities
  29. 3.29 Do Not Disturb Those Who Know Partially
  30. 3.30 Surrender All Actions to Me and Fight
  31. 3.31 Those Who Follow This Teaching Are Freed
  32. 3.32 Those Who Reject This Teaching Are Lost
  33. 3.33 All Beings Follow Their Nature
  34. 3.34 Attachment and Aversion Lie in Wait
  35. 3.35 Better One’s Own Duty, Though Imperfect
  36. 3.36 What Drives Us to Do Wrong?
  37. 3.37 Desire and Anger: The Great Enemy
  38. 3.38 As Smoke Covers Fire
  39. 3.39 The Insatiable Fire of Desire
  40. 3.40 Where Desire Hides
  41. 3.41 First Control the Senses
  42. 3.42 Higher Than the Senses, Mind and Intellect
  43. 3.43 Conquer the Enemy Called Desire

Chapter 4: Jnana Karma Sannyasa Yoga (42 verses)

  1. 4.1 The Ancient Lineage of This Yoga
  2. 4.2 Lost Through Long Ages
  3. 4.3 This Supreme Secret, Because You Are My Friend
  4. 4.4 How Could You Have Taught Vivasvan?
  5. 4.5 I Know All My Births; You Do Not
  6. 4.6 Born Through My Own Power
  7. 4.7 Whenever Dharma Declines
  8. 4.8 To Protect the Good and Restore Dharma
  9. 4.9 Knowing My Divine Birth and Action
  10. 4.10 Many Have Attained My Being
  11. 4.11 As People Approach Me, So I Receive Them
  12. 4.12 Seeking Quick Success Through Rituals
  13. 4.13 The Fourfold Order and the Non-Doer
  14. 4.14 Actions Do Not Stain Me
  15. 4.15 Act as the Seekers of Old
  16. 4.16 What Is Action, What Is Inaction?
  17. 4.17 The Way of Action Is Deep
  18. 4.18 Seeing Inaction in Action
  19. 4.19 Actions Burned in the Fire of Knowledge
  20. 4.20 Ever Content, Depending on Nothing
  21. 4.21 Without Desire, Free From Possession
  22. 4.22 Content With What Comes Unsought
  23. 4.23 All Action Dissolves for the Free
  24. 4.24 Brahman Is the Offering
  25. 4.25 Offerings to the Gods and to Brahman
  26. 4.26 Offering the Senses Into Restraint
  27. 4.27 The Fire of Self-Control
  28. 4.28 Many Forms of Sacrifice
  29. 4.29 Offering Breath Into Breath
  30. 4.30 All Are Knowers of Sacrifice
  31. 4.31 The Nectar of Sacrifice
  32. 4.32 All Sacrifices Arise From Action
  33. 4.33 The Sacrifice of Knowledge Is Superior
  34. 4.34 Learn Through Humility, Inquiry and Service
  35. 4.35 Seeing All Beings in the Self and in Me
  36. 4.36 Even the Worst Sinner Can Cross Over
  37. 4.37 The Fire of Knowledge Burns All Karma
  38. 4.38 Nothing Is as Purifying as Knowledge
  39. 4.39 Faith Brings Knowledge, Knowledge Brings Peace
  40. 4.40 The Doubter Is Lost
  41. 4.41 Doubts Cut by Knowledge
  42. 4.42 Cut Doubt With the Sword of Knowledge

Chapter 5: Karma Sannyasa Yoga (29 verses)

  1. 5.1 Renunciation or Action: Which Is Better?
  2. 5.2 The Yoga of Action Is Better
  3. 5.3 The True Renunciant
  4. 5.4 Knowledge and Action Are Not Different
  5. 5.5 One Who Sees Them as One Truly Sees
  6. 5.6 Renunciation Is Hard Without Yoga
  7. 5.7 The Yogi Who Sees Himself in All
  8. 5.8 “I Do Nothing at All”
  9. 5.9 The Senses Move Among Their Objects
  10. 5.10 Like a Lotus Leaf Untouched by Water
  11. 5.11 Acting for Self-Purification
  12. 5.12 Peace Through Giving Up the Fruit
  13. 5.13 The Embodied One in the City of Nine Gates
  14. 5.14 The Lord Creates Neither Doership Nor Action
  15. 5.15 Knowledge Covered by Ignorance
  16. 5.16 Knowledge Shines Like the Sun
  17. 5.17 Beyond Return, Cleansed by Knowledge
  18. 5.18 The Wise See With an Equal Eye
  19. 5.19 Equal Vision Conquers the World
  20. 5.20 Neither Elated Nor Disturbed
  21. 5.21 The Inexhaustible Joy Within
  22. 5.22 Pleasures Born of Contact Are Sources of Pain
  23. 5.23 Withstanding the Surge of Desire and Anger
  24. 5.24 Joy, Rest and Light Within
  25. 5.25 Sages Devoted to the Welfare of All
  26. 5.26 Liberation Is Near for the Disciplined
  27. 5.27 The Practice of Meditation
  28. 5.28 Ever Free Is the Sage
  29. 5.29 Knowing Me as the Friend of All Beings

Chapter 6: Dhyana Yoga (47 verses)

  1. 6.1 The True Renunciant and Yogi
  2. 6.2 Renunciation Is Yoga
  3. 6.3 Action to Climb, Stillness to Abide
  4. 6.4 Established in Yoga
  5. 6.5 Lift Yourself by Your Own Self
  6. 6.6 When the Self Is Conquered
  7. 6.7 Steady in Heat and Cold, Honour and Dishonour
  8. 6.8 Gold and Clay Are the Same
  9. 6.9 Equal Toward Friend and Foe
  10. 6.10 Practise Alone, in Solitude
  11. 6.11 A Clean Place and a Steady Seat
  12. 6.12 Concentrate the Mind for Self-Purification
  13. 6.13 Body Erect, Gaze Steady
  14. 6.14 Serene, Fearless, Thinking of Me
  15. 6.15 The Peace That Abides in Me
  16. 6.16 Neither Too Much Nor Too Little
  17. 6.17 Balanced Living Ends Sorrow
  18. 6.18 When the Mind Rests in the Self
  19. 6.19 Like a Lamp in a Windless Place
  20. 6.20 Seeing the Self by the Self
  21. 6.21 Supreme Joy Beyond the Senses
  22. 6.22 No Gain Greater, No Sorrow Can Shake
  23. 6.23 Yoga: Disconnection From Sorrow
  24. 6.24 Abandoning All Desires Born of Imagination
  25. 6.25 Little by Little, Become Still
  26. 6.26 Bring Back the Wandering Mind
  27. 6.27 Supreme Happiness Comes to the Peaceful Yogi
  28. 6.28 The Infinite Joy of Contact With Brahman
  29. 6.29 Seeing the Self in All Beings
  30. 6.30 I Am Never Lost to Them
  31. 6.31 Worshipping Me in All Beings
  32. 6.32 Feeling Others’ Joy and Sorrow as One’s Own
  33. 6.33 The Mind Is Too Restless
  34. 6.34 Harder to Control Than the Wind
  35. 6.35 Practice and Detachment
  36. 6.36 Yoga Is Attainable With Effort
  37. 6.37 What Happens to One Who Falls Short?
  38. 6.38 Like a Scattered Cloud?
  39. 6.39 Only You Can Remove This Doubt
  40. 6.40 No One Who Does Good Comes to Grief
  41. 6.41 Born Again in a Good Family
  42. 6.42 Or Born in a Family of Wise Yogis
  43. 6.43 Regaining Past Understanding
  44. 6.44 Carried Forward by Past Practice
  45. 6.45 Perfected Through Many Lives
  46. 6.46 Be a Yogi
  47. 6.47 The Most Devoted Yogi

Chapter 7: Jnana Vijnana Yoga (30 verses)

  1. 7.1 How You Will Know Me Completely
  2. 7.2 Knowledge Together With Realisation
  3. 7.3 One in Thousands Seeks; Rarely One Knows
  4. 7.4 My Eightfold Lower Nature
  5. 7.5 My Higher Nature, the Life of All
  6. 7.6 I Am the Origin and Dissolution of All
  7. 7.7 Like Pearls on a Thread
  8. 7.8 I Am the Taste of Water
  9. 7.9 I Am the Fragrance of the Earth
  10. 7.10 The Eternal Seed of All Beings
  11. 7.11 Strength Free From Desire
  12. 7.12 All States Come From Me
  13. 7.13 Deluded by the Three Qualities
  14. 7.14 My Divine Maya Is Hard to Cross
  15. 7.15 Those Who Do Not Seek Me
  16. 7.16 Four Kinds of Devotees
  17. 7.17 The Wise Devotee Is Dear to Me
  18. 7.18 All Are Noble; the Wise Is My Own Self
  19. 7.19 After Many Births, the Wise Take Refuge
  20. 7.20 Those Who Worship Other Gods for Desires
  21. 7.21 I Make Their Faith Steady
  22. 7.22 The Rewards Come From Me
  23. 7.23 Limited Fruits for Limited Understanding
  24. 7.24 The Unmanifest Thought to Be Manifest
  25. 7.25 Veiled by My Yoga Maya
  26. 7.26 I Know All Beings; None Knows Me
  27. 7.27 Deluded by the Pairs of Opposites
  28. 7.28 Freed From Delusion, They Worship Me
  29. 7.29 Seeking Freedom From Old Age and Death
  30. 7.30 Knowing Me Even at the Time of Death

Chapter 8: Akshara Brahma Yoga (28 verses)

  1. 8.1 What Is Brahman, What Is the Self?
  2. 8.2 How Are You Known at the Time of Death?
  3. 8.3 Brahman Is the Imperishable Supreme
  4. 8.4 I Am the Lord of Sacrifice in the Body
  5. 8.5 Remembering Me at the End
  6. 8.6 What You Think of at the End, You Become
  7. 8.7 Remember Me and Fight
  8. 8.8 Meditation Without Wandering
  9. 8.9 Meditating on the Ancient Seer
  10. 8.10 Breath Between the Eyebrows at Death
  11. 8.11 The Imperishable Goal of the Seekers
  12. 8.12 Closing the Gates of the Senses
  13. 8.13 Departing With Om
  14. 8.14 I Am Easily Reached by the Ever-Devoted
  15. 8.15 No Return to the Home of Sorrow
  16. 8.16 All Worlds Up to Brahma Return
  17. 8.17 The Day and Night of Brahma
  18. 8.18 All Things Emerge and Dissolve
  19. 8.19 Beings Arise Again and Again
  20. 8.20 The Eternal Unmanifest Beyond
  21. 8.21 My Supreme Abode
  22. 8.22 Reached by Undivided Devotion
  23. 8.23 The Times of Departure
  24. 8.24 The Path of Light
  25. 8.25 The Path of Smoke
  26. 8.26 The Bright and Dark Paths Are Eternal
  27. 8.27 The Yogi Who Knows Is Not Deluded
  28. 8.28 The Yogi Goes Beyond All Merit

Chapter 9: Raja Vidya Raja Guhya Yoga (34 verses)

  1. 9.1 The Most Secret Knowledge
  2. 9.2 The King of Knowledge
  3. 9.3 Without Faith, People Return
  4. 9.4 All Beings Are in Me
  5. 9.5 Behold My Divine Mystery
  6. 9.6 Like Wind in the Sky
  7. 9.7 At the End of an Age, All Return to Me
  8. 9.8 Through My Nature I Create Again and Again
  9. 9.9 Untouched, Like One Sitting Apart
  10. 9.10 Under My Supervision Nature Creates
  11. 9.11 Fools Disregard Me in Human Form
  12. 9.12 Vain Hopes, Vain Actions, Vain Knowledge
  13. 9.13 Great Souls Take Refuge in the Divine Nature
  14. 9.14 Always Singing My Glories
  15. 9.15 Worship Through the Sacrifice of Knowledge
  16. 9.16 I Am the Ritual and the Offering
  17. 9.17 Father, Mother and Grandsire of the World
  18. 9.18 The Goal, the Refuge, the Friend
  19. 9.19 I Am Immortality and Death
  20. 9.20 Those Who Seek Heaven Through Rituals
  21. 9.21 When Merit Is Spent, They Return
  22. 9.22 I Provide and Protect What They Need
  23. 9.23 Worship of Other Gods Also Reaches Me
  24. 9.24 I Am the Enjoyer of All Sacrifices
  25. 9.25 You Go Where You Worship
  26. 9.26 A Leaf, a Flower, a Fruit, Some Water
  27. 9.27 Whatever You Do, Do It as an Offering
  28. 9.28 Freed From the Bonds of Action
  29. 9.29 I Am the Same to All
  30. 9.30 Even a Great Wrongdoer Who Turns to Me
  31. 9.31 My Devotee Never Perishes
  32. 9.32 All Who Take Refuge Reach the Highest Goal
  33. 9.33 Having Come to This World, Worship Me
  34. 9.34 Fix Your Mind on Me

Chapter 10: Vibhuti Yoga (42 verses)

  1. 10.1 Hear My Supreme Word Again
  2. 10.2 Even the Gods Do Not Know My Origin
  3. 10.3 Liberation from All Sins
  4. 10.4 Every Quality Comes From Me
  5. 10.5 Nonviolence, Equanimity and Contentment
  6. 10.6 The Seven Sages and the Four Manus
  7. 10.7 One Who Knows My Glory Is United in Yoga
  8. 10.8 I Am the Source of All
  9. 10.9 Delighting in Speaking of Me
  10. 10.10 I Give Them the Yoga of Understanding
  11. 10.11 The Shining Lamp of Knowledge
  12. 10.12 You Are the Supreme Brahman
  13. 10.13 All the Sages Declare It
  14. 10.14 All You Say Is True
  15. 10.15 Only You Know Yourself
  16. 10.16 Tell Me of Your Divine Glories
  17. 10.17 How Shall I Know You in Meditation?
  18. 10.18 I Never Tire of Hearing Your Nectar
  19. 10.19 My Glories Have No End
  20. 10.20 I Am the Self in the Heart of All
  21. 10.21 I Am Vishnu Among the Adityas
  22. 10.22 I Am the Mind Among the Senses
  23. 10.23 I Am Shankara and Mount Meru
  24. 10.24 I Am the Ocean Among Waters
  25. 10.25 I Am Japa Among Offerings
  26. 10.26 I Am the Sacred Fig Tree
  27. 10.27 I Am the King Among Men
  28. 10.28 I Am Kamadhenu and the Thunderbolt
  29. 10.29 I Am Yama Among Controllers
  30. 10.30 I Am Time Among Reckoners
  31. 10.31 I Am Rama Among Warriors
  32. 10.32 I Am the Knowledge of the Self
  33. 10.33 I Am the Letter A
  34. 10.34 I Am Death and Also Birth
  35. 10.35 I Am Spring Among Seasons
  36. 10.36 I Am the Goodness of the Good
  37. 10.37 I Am Vyasa Among the Sages
  38. 10.38 I Am the Silence of Secrets
  39. 10.39 Nothing Exists Without Me
  40. 10.40 There Is No End to My Glories
  41. 10.41 Whatever Is Glorious Comes From My Splendour
  42. 10.42 One Fragment Supports the Universe

Chapter 11: Vishvarupa Darshana Yoga (55 verses)

  1. 11.1 My Delusion Is Gone
  2. 11.2 I Have Heard of Your Imperishable Greatness
  3. 11.3 I Wish to See Your Divine Form
  4. 11.4 If You Think I Am Able, Show Me
  5. 11.5 Behold My Forms by the Hundreds and Thousands
  6. 11.6 Behold Wonders Never Seen Before
  7. 11.7 The Whole Universe in One Place
  8. 11.8 I Give You Divine Eyes
  9. 11.9 Hari Reveals His Supreme Form
  10. 11.10 Countless Faces, Countless Eyes
  11. 11.11 Wondrous, Infinite, Facing Everywhere
  12. 11.12 Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
  13. 11.13 The Universe in the Body of the God of Gods
  14. 11.14 Arjuna Bows in Wonder
  15. 11.15 I See All the Gods in Your Body
  16. 11.16 No Beginning, Middle or End
  17. 11.17 A Mass of Radiance, Hard to Behold
  18. 11.18 You Are the Imperishable, the One to Be Known
  19. 11.19 Burning the Universe With Your Radiance
  20. 11.20 The Three Worlds Tremble
  21. 11.21 The Gods Enter You in Fear and Praise
  22. 11.22 All the Celestial Beings Gaze in Amazement
  23. 11.23 The Worlds Are Afraid, and So Am I
  24. 11.24 I Find No Steadiness or Peace
  25. 11.25 Be Gracious, Lord of the Gods
  26. 11.26 The Warriors Rush Into Your Mouths
  27. 11.27 Crushed Between the Teeth
  28. 11.28 As Rivers Rush to the Sea
  29. 11.29 As Moths Rush Into Flame
  30. 11.30 Devouring All the Worlds
  31. 11.31 Who Are You, of Such Fierce Form?
  32. 11.32 I Am Time, Destroyer of Worlds
  33. 11.33 Be Merely the Instrument
  34. 11.34 Fight, You Will Conquer
  35. 11.35 Arjuna Trembles and Bows
  36. 11.36 The World Rejoices in Your Glory
  37. 11.37 Why Should They Not Bow to You?
  38. 11.38 You Are the Primal God
  39. 11.39 Salutations a Thousand Times
  40. 11.40 Salutations From Every Side
  41. 11.41 Forgive My Familiarity
  42. 11.42 I Ask Your Forgiveness
  43. 11.43 Father of the World, Without Equal
  44. 11.44 As a Father Forgives His Son
  45. 11.45 Show Me Your Familiar Form Again
  46. 11.46 With Crown, Mace and Discus in Hand
  47. 11.47 Shown Out of Grace
  48. 11.48 Not by Vedas, Sacrifice or Austerity
  49. 11.49 Do Not Be Afraid
  50. 11.50 Krishna Returns to His Gentle Form
  51. 11.51 Now I Am Myself Again
  52. 11.52 Even the Gods Long to See This Form
  53. 11.53 Not by Vedas, Austerity, Charity or Sacrifice
  54. 11.54 Only by Undivided Devotion
  55. 11.55 Work for Me, Free From Enmity

Chapter 12: Bhakti Yoga (20 verses)

  1. 12.1 Which Worshippers Know Yoga Best?
  2. 12.2 Those Who Fix Their Minds on Me Are the Best
  3. 12.3 Those Who Worship the Unmanifest
  4. 12.4 They Too Reach Me
  5. 12.5 The Path of the Unmanifest Is Harder
  6. 12.6 Offering All Actions to Me
  7. 12.7 I Lift Them From the Ocean of Death
  8. 12.8 Fix Your Mind and Intellect on Me
  9. 12.9 If Not, Practise Regularly
  10. 12.10 If Not, Work for Me
  11. 12.11 If Not, Give Up the Fruits of Action
  12. 12.12 Peace Follows Renunciation of Fruits
  13. 12.13 Friendly and Compassionate to All
  14. 12.14 Content, Self-Controlled and Firm
  15. 12.15 One Who Disturbs No One
  16. 12.16 Pure, Skilful and Unconcerned
  17. 12.17 Neither Rejoicing Nor Hating
  18. 12.18 Equal to Friend and Foe
  19. 12.19 Silent, Content and Steady
  20. 12.20 Exceedingly Dear to Me

Chapter 13: Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga Yoga (35 verses)

  1. 13.1 Arjuna Asks About Nature and the Spirit
  2. 13.2 This Body Is Called the Field
  3. 13.3 I Am the Knower in All Fields
  4. 13.4 Hear What the Field Is
  5. 13.5 Sung by Sages and the Brahma Sutras
  6. 13.6 The Elements of the Field
  7. 13.7 Desire, Aversion and the Body Too
  8. 13.8 Humility and Freedom From Pride
  9. 13.9 Seeing the Pain of Birth and Death
  10. 13.10 Unattached to Family and Home
  11. 13.11 Unswerving Devotion and Solitude
  12. 13.12 This Is Knowledge; the Rest Is Ignorance
  13. 13.13 The Beginningless Supreme Brahman
  14. 13.14 Hands and Feet Everywhere
  15. 13.15 Shining Through the Senses, Free of Them
  16. 13.16 Far Away and Very Near
  17. 13.17 Undivided, Yet Seemingly Divided
  18. 13.18 The Light of All Lights
  19. 13.19 Knowing This, My Devotee Attains My Being
  20. 13.20 Nature and Spirit Are Both Beginningless
  21. 13.21 Nature Acts; the Spirit Experiences
  22. 13.22 Attachment Causes Birth in Good and Evil Wombs
  23. 13.23 The Supreme Spirit in the Body
  24. 13.24 Knowing This, One Is Not Born Again
  25. 13.25 Different Paths to the Self
  26. 13.26 Even Those Who Only Hear Cross Over Death
  27. 13.27 All Arise From the Union of Field and Knower
  28. 13.28 One Who Sees the Same Lord in All Truly Sees
  29. 13.29 Seeing the Lord Everywhere, One Harms No One
  30. 13.30 Nature Acts; the Self Is Not the Doer
  31. 13.31 Seeing the Many in the One
  32. 13.32 The Self Does Not Act Nor Is Stained
  33. 13.33 Like Space, Untouched
  34. 13.34 As the Sun Lights the Whole World
  35. 13.35 The Eye of Knowledge Leads to the Supreme

Chapter 14: Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga (27 verses)

  1. 14.1 The Highest of All Knowledge
  2. 14.2 Untouched by Creation and Dissolution
  3. 14.3 The Great Womb of All Beings
  4. 14.4 I Am the Seed-Giving Father
  5. 14.5 The Three Gunas Bind the Soul
  6. 14.6 Sattva Binds Through Happiness and Knowledge
  7. 14.7 Rajas Binds Through Attachment to Action
  8. 14.8 Tamas Binds Through Heedlessness and Sleep
  9. 14.9 What Each Guna Attaches Us To
  10. 14.10 The Gunas Compete for Dominance
  11. 14.11 When Light Shines Through Every Gate
  12. 14.12 Signs of Rajas
  13. 14.13 Signs of Tamas
  14. 14.14 Dying in Sattva
  15. 14.15 Dying in Rajas or Tamas
  16. 14.16 The Fruits of Each Guna
  17. 14.17 Knowledge, Greed and Delusion
  18. 14.18 Rising, Staying, Sinking
  19. 14.19 Seeing the Gunas as the Only Doers
  20. 14.20 Going Beyond the Three Gunas
  21. 14.21 How Does One Go Beyond the Gunas?
  22. 14.22 Neither Hating Nor Craving the Gunas
  23. 14.23 Seated Like One Unconcerned
  24. 14.24 Gold and Stone Are the Same
  25. 14.25 Equal in Honour and Dishonour
  26. 14.26 Devotion Takes One Beyond the Gunas
  27. 14.27 I Am the Foundation of Brahman

Chapter 15: Purushottama Yoga (20 verses)

  1. 15.1 The Tree With Roots Above
  2. 15.2 Branches Nourished by the Gunas
  3. 15.3 Cut the Tree With the Axe of Detachment
  4. 15.4 Seek the Goal From Which None Return
  5. 15.5 The Undeluded Reach the Eternal Goal
  6. 15.6 Where Sun and Moon Do Not Shine
  7. 15.7 An Eternal Part of Me
  8. 15.8 Like the Wind Carrying Fragrance
  9. 15.9 The Soul Enjoys the World Through the Senses
  10. 15.10 The Deluded Do Not See; the Wise Do
  11. 15.11 Striving Yogis See the Self Within
  12. 15.12 The Light of Sun, Moon and Fire Is Mine
  13. 15.13 I Nourish All Plants as the Moon
  14. 15.14 I Am the Fire of Digestion
  15. 15.15 Seated in Every Heart
  16. 15.16 The Perishable and the Imperishable
  17. 15.17 The Supreme Person Beyond Both
  18. 15.18 I Am Purushottama, the Supreme Person
  19. 15.19 Whoever Knows Me Thus Knows All
  20. 15.20 The Most Secret Teaching

Chapter 16: Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga (24 verses)

  1. 16.1 Fearlessness and Purity of Heart
  2. 16.2 Nonviolence, Truth and Compassion
  3. 16.3 Radiance, Forgiveness and Humility
  4. 16.4 The Demonic Qualities
  5. 16.5 Divine Qualities Liberate, Demonic Ones Bind
  6. 16.6 Two Kinds of Beings
  7. 16.7 They Know Neither What to Do Nor to Avoid
  8. 16.8 A World Without Truth or God
  9. 16.9 Small Minds, Cruel Deeds
  10. 16.10 Insatiable Desire and Impure Vows
  11. 16.11 Endless Anxiety Until Death
  12. 16.12 Bound by a Hundred Ropes of Hope
  13. 16.13 This I Have Gained Today
  14. 16.14 I Am the Lord, I Am the Enjoyer
  15. 16.15 Who Else Is Equal to Me?
  16. 16.16 Caught in the Net of Delusion
  17. 16.17 Worship for Show
  18. 16.18 Hating Me in Their Own and Others’ Bodies
  19. 16.19 The Cruel Fall Into Lower Births
  20. 16.20 Sinking Ever Lower
  21. 16.21 Three Gates to Hell
  22. 16.22 Freed From the Three Gates
  23. 16.23 Ignoring Scripture, One Gains Nothing
  24. 16.24 Let Scripture Be Your Guide

Chapter 17: Shraddhatraya Vibhaga Yoga (28 verses)

  1. 17.1 Faith Without Following Scripture
  2. 17.2 Faith Is of Three Kinds
  3. 17.3 A Person Is Made of Faith
  4. 17.4 What Each Kind Worships
  5. 17.5 Harsh Austerities Driven by Ego
  6. 17.6 Torturing the Body and the Divine Within
  7. 17.7 Food, Sacrifice, Austerity and Gifts
  8. 17.8 Sattvic Food
  9. 17.9 Rajasic Food
  10. 17.10 Tamasic Food
  11. 17.11 Sattvic Sacrifice
  12. 17.12 Rajasic Sacrifice
  13. 17.13 Tamasic Sacrifice
  14. 17.14 Austerity of the Body
  15. 17.15 Austerity of Speech
  16. 17.16 Austerity of Mind
  17. 17.17 Sattvic Austerity
  18. 17.18 Rajasic Austerity
  19. 17.19 Tamasic Austerity
  20. 17.20 Sattvic Giving
  21. 17.21 Rajasic Giving
  22. 17.22 Tamasic Giving
  23. 17.23 Om Tat Sat
  24. 17.24 Beginning With Om
  25. 17.25 Offering With “Tat”
  26. 17.26 “Sat” Means Reality and Goodness
  27. 17.27 Steadfastness Is Also Called Sat
  28. 17.28 Without Faith, It Is Asat

Chapter 18: Moksha Sannyasa Yoga (78 verses)

  1. 18.1 Renunciation and Relinquishment
  2. 18.2 What the Wise Call Renunciation
  3. 18.3 Should Action Be Abandoned?
  4. 18.4 Hear My Final Verdict
  5. 18.5 Sacrifice, Charity and Austerity Purify
  6. 18.6 Without Attachment or Desire for Fruit
  7. 18.7 Tamasic Renunciation
  8. 18.8 Rajasic Renunciation
  9. 18.9 Sattvic Relinquishment
  10. 18.10 The Wise Relinquisher
  11. 18.11 No One Can Give Up All Action
  12. 18.12 The Threefold Fruit of Action
  13. 18.13 Five Causes of Every Action
  14. 18.14 The Body, the Doer, the Senses and Fate
  15. 18.15 Every Action Has These Five Causes
  16. 18.16 Seeing Oneself as the Sole Doer
  17. 18.17 Free From “I Am the Doer”
  18. 18.18 Knowledge, Knower and Known
  19. 18.19 Each Is of Three Kinds
  20. 18.20 Sattvic Knowledge Sees Unity
  21. 18.21 Rajasic Knowledge Sees Only Separation
  22. 18.22 Tamasic Knowledge Clings to One Fragment
  23. 18.23 Sattvic Action
  24. 18.24 Rajasic Action
  25. 18.25 Tamasic Action
  26. 18.26 The Sattvic Agent
  27. 18.27 The Rajasic Agent
  28. 18.28 The Tamasic Agent
  29. 18.29 Intellect and Steadiness Are Threefold
  30. 18.30 Sattvic Intellect
  31. 18.31 Rajasic Intellect
  32. 18.32 Tamasic Intellect
  33. 18.33 Sattvic Steadiness
  34. 18.34 Rajasic Steadiness
  35. 18.35 Tamasic Steadiness
  36. 18.36 Happiness Is Also Threefold
  37. 18.37 Like Poison at First, Nectar in the End
  38. 18.38 Like Nectar at First, Poison in the End
  39. 18.39 Delusion From Beginning to End
  40. 18.40 Nothing Is Free From the Three Gunas
  41. 18.41 Duties Divided by Inborn Qualities
  42. 18.42 Qualities of the Brahmin Nature
  43. 18.43 Qualities of the Kshatriya Nature
  44. 18.44 Qualities of Vaishya and Shudra Natures
  45. 18.45 Perfection Through One’s Own Work
  46. 18.46 Worship Through Your Work
  47. 18.47 Better One’s Own Dharma, Even if Imperfect
  48. 18.48 All Undertakings Have Some Fault
  49. 18.49 The Perfection of Actionlessness
  50. 18.50 How Perfection Leads to Brahman
  51. 18.51 Pure Intellect and Firm Control
  52. 18.52 Solitude, Light Food and Meditation
  53. 18.53 Free From Ego, Fit for Brahman
  54. 18.54 Becoming Brahman, One Gains Supreme Devotion
  55. 18.55 Through Devotion One Knows Me in Truth
  56. 18.56 Through My Grace, the Eternal Abode
  57. 18.57 Offer All Actions to Me in Thought
  58. 18.58 By My Grace You Will Cross All Obstacles
  59. 18.59 Your Nature Will Compel You
  60. 18.60 Bound by Your Own Nature
  61. 18.61 The Lord Dwells in Every Heart
  62. 18.62 Take Refuge in Him With Your Whole Being
  63. 18.63 Reflect and Then Do as You Wish
  64. 18.64 You Are Dearly Loved
  65. 18.65 You Will Come to Me; I Promise
  66. 18.66 Take Refuge in Me Alone
  67. 18.67 Not for the Undisciplined or Envious
  68. 18.68 Sharing This With Devotees
  69. 18.69 No One Is Dearer to Me
  70. 18.70 Study Is a Sacrifice of Knowledge
  71. 18.71 Even Hearing With Faith Liberates
  72. 18.72 Has Your Delusion Been Destroyed?
  73. 18.73 My Delusion Is Destroyed; I Will Do Your Word
  74. 18.74 A Wondrous, Thrilling Dialogue
  75. 18.75 By Vyasa’s Grace I Heard It
  76. 18.76 Remembering, I Rejoice Again and Again
  77. 18.77 Remembering Hari’s Wondrous Form
  78. 18.78 Where Krishna and Arjuna Are, There Is Victory