Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita

Arjuna's questions are humanity's questions. Doubt, despair, confusion. The Gita opens with him collapsing on the field. These are the verses where he speaks.

• 1.20The battle reaches its threshold, and action begins before words do.
• 1.21Clear sight comes before decisive action.
• 1.22Clear seeing comes before irreversible action.
• 1.23Conflict becomes real when you look at the people involved.
• 1.24The chariot is placed where choice becomes unavoidable.
• 1.26Recognition turns battle into sorrow.
• 1.30Fear strips away control before a single arrow is released.
• 1.47Grief can make even a warrior lay down his weapons.
• 2.1Grief opens the door for instruction.
• 2.2Delusion has no place in a decisive moment.
• 2.3Weakness is optional; the call to act remains.
• 2.4Respect can make necessary action feel unbearable.
• 2.9Refusal has stopped the war inside him.
• 2.10Guidance begins when grief is met without rejection.
• 2.35Retreat from duty, and respect turns to shrinkage.
• 3.8Right action is unavoidable; even survival depends on it.
• 4.4Doubt becomes the doorway to deeper seeing.
• 4.5Your memory is partial; the divine awareness is not.
• 5.1Choose the path that truly serves your welfare.
• 10.18True devotion never feels finished hearing the beloved.
• 11.1Clarity arrives when the hidden teaching is finally heard as personal grace.
• 11.3Belief becomes complete only when it wants to see.
• 11.4Real vision begins when control gives way to asking.
• 11.7Everything you seek is already gathered in the divine form.
• 11.13One form can contain the whole universe.
• 11.14A glimpse of the vast can turn shock into surrender.
• 11.15The many forms of existence appear within one vast body.
• 11.16The largest reality has no edge the mind can grasp.
• 11.19What overwhelms the mind can also dissolve its resistance.
• 11.20One vision can overwhelm every boundary you thought was real.
• 11.21Even the highest beings bow when the vast form appears.
• 11.22Even the highest beings stand astonished before Krishna's vastness.
• 11.23A vision of total vastness can shake every observer at once.
• 11.24A true vision can shatter the mind before it can steady it.
• 11.25True awe ends control and turns the heart toward surrender.
• 11.26Even the greatest warriors are swallowed by what exceeds them.
• 11.28All motion is already rushing toward its end.
• 11.29Blind desire runs straight into its own ruin.
• 11.30Total power leaves no room for control.
• 11.31Fear bows first, then asks to know what stands before it.
• 11.32What is ending was never in your hands to preserve.
• 11.34The battle is already decided; your task is only to act.
• 11.35Awe can break speech before it becomes prayer.
• 11.40Total awe ends the illusion of separation.
• 11.46The infinite can overwhelm; devotion asks for a form the heart can bear.
• 11.47What is most sacred is seen only by grace.
• 11.49Fear must drop before the deeper vision can be seen.
• 11.51Gentleness restores the mind after overwhelming awe.
• 11.52The vision Arjuna saw is beyond ordinary access, even for radiant beings.
• 12.8A divided mind settles when both thought and feeling rest in the divine.