Arjuna Vishada in the Bhagavad Gita

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

• 1.28Compassion can stop the warrior before the first arrow flies.
• 1.29The body reveals fear before the mind can explain it.
• 1.31A victory that destroys your own people is not worth having.
• 1.32Victory means nothing when the price is the destruction of what you love.
• 1.33The prize is empty when the people attached to it stand in the line of fire.
• 1.35No prize can justify killing what is sacred to you.
• 1.37Kinship makes violence feel unbearable.
• 1.38Greed blinds people to the damage they are causing.
• 1.42Breaking family order is imagined as ruin that reaches even the dead.
• 1.44Breaking family duty brings suffering that lasts beyond one lifetime.
• 1.45Greed can make even victory feel like a crime.
• 1.46Harming loved ones feels worse than losing your own life.
• 2.7Clarity begins when you admit you cannot see the right action alone.
• 2.8No outer victory can cure an inner collapse.