Discipline in the Bhagavad Gita

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

• 3.3Different natures are steadied by different disciplines.
• 3.32Rejecting clear guidance leaves the mind stranded.
• 4.26Restraint can consume desire before desire consumes you.
• 4.28Sacrifice can be wealth, effort, austerity, or study.
• 5.6Real renunciation grows through practice, not withdrawal.
• 6.5Your own inner handling makes you rise or collapse.
• 6.16Balance makes meditation possible; extremes break it.
• 6.17Balanced living makes inner practice possible.
• 6.46Inner mastery outranks every outer path.
• 16.23Impulse cannot deliver what it promises.
• 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.
• 17.19Pain imposed in ignorance only deepens confusion.
• 18.34Steadiness becomes restless when it is tied to reward.