Indriya in the Bhagavad Gita

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

• 2.59Craving ends only when a higher reality becomes more compelling.
• 2.60Restraint fails without disciplined senses.
• 2.62What you dwell on becomes what you cling to, then what burns you.
• 2.67One uncontrolled sense can carry the mind away.
• 3.34Freedom begins when attraction and aversion stop steering action.
• 3.40Desire conquers by hijacking the mind's own instruments.
• 3.42Desire sits above reason, so mastery must begin earlier.
• 3.43Desire loses power when the higher mind takes command.
• 4.26Restraint can consume desire before desire consumes you.
• 5.9Action happens; ownership is the illusion.
• 5.22Passing pleasure loses its power when its ending is seen.
• 6.4Yoga begins when neither pleasure nor action can hook you.
• 6.21True joy is deeper than sensation and keeps you from wavering.
• 6.24Desire loses power when the mind stops feeding it.
• 13.6What you call “me” is a changing system, not a single thing.
• 13.15What sustains everything is beyond the senses that perceive it.
• 15.8The body changes, but the carried pattern moves on.
• 17.10What you repeatedly choose to consume reveals the heaviness within.
• 18.33Steadiness becomes pure when it keeps the whole being aligned.