Ahankara in the Bhagavad Gita

Verses across the Gita that speak to ahankara, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.

• 3.28Seeing action as nature's movement ends attachment.
• 12.13Devotion shows up as friendliness, forgiveness, and emotional steadiness.
• 13.6What you call “me” is a changing system, not a single thing.
• 16.15Pride turns abundance into delusion and makes more wanting feel justified.
• 16.18Ego makes you fight the divine presence you carry yourself.
• 17.5Harsh effort without right guidance can deepen ego instead of cleansing it.
• 17.6Harshness is not holiness when it destroys the body and ignores what lives within.
• 18.25Blind action begins where clear seeing is absent.
• 18.58Grace opens the way; ego closes it.
• 18.59Ego cannot veto what your nature has already chosen.