Theme · 12 verses
Akshara in the Bhagavad Gita
Verses across the Gita that speak to akshara, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.
- 3.15Right action is not random; it rests in a deeper, sustaining order.
- 8.3What lasts, what you are, and what you do are not the same.
- 8.11The imperishable is reached by giving up desire, not by feeding it.
- 8.16Even the highest attainments return, but union with Krishna does not.
- 8.20What is deepest in reality cannot be destroyed by any ending.
- 8.21The highest arrival is beyond return.
- 8.24The final passage opens for those who know the supreme reality.
- 11.18What appears overwhelming is actually the world’s deepest support.
- 12.1Devotion can face the divine as form or as formless reality.
- 12.3The deepest devotion reaches what never changes.
- 15.16What changes is not the whole of you.
- 15.18The highest reality lies beyond both change and permanence.