Grief in the Bhagavad Gita

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

• 1.26Recognition turns battle into sorrow.
• 2.1Grief opens the door for instruction.
• 2.8No outer victory can cure an inner collapse.
• 2.10Guidance begins when grief is met without rejection.
• 2.11Clear seeing ends grief where the wise know none is needed.
• 2.25What is deepest in you was never available for loss.
• 2.26Even the plain fact of change is no reason to drown in sorrow.
• 2.27What must change is not a reason for grief.
• 2.30What is most real in a person cannot be killed, so grief loses its ground.
• 18.35Clinging to fear and sorrow is not strength; it is tamasic inertia.