Krishna Teaching in the Bhagavad Gita
Verses across the Gita that speak to krishna teaching, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.
- 2.20Ch. 2
What you are cannot be touched by birth or death.
Fear softens when you stop treating your deepest identity as fragile.
- 2.22Ch. 2
What you are does not end when one body is left behind.
A fear of bodily loss softens when you see change as a transition, not an ending.
- 2.30Ch. 2
What is most real in a person cannot be killed, so grief loses its ground.
Loss feels different when you remember that what is deepest in a person cannot be cut off.
- 3.31Ch. 3
Trusting the teaching frees action from its binding force.
You do not need perfect understanding to move forward. Trust itself can loosen what keeps you stuck.
- 7.2Ch. 7
Real knowing leaves no unfinished hunger for more.
There is relief in a truth that ends restless searching.
- 10.19Ch. 10
The divine can be named briefly, never exhausted.
There is comfort in knowing the divine presence cannot be exhausted or fully measured.
- 10.40Ch. 10
No list can contain the divine's endless expressions.
The world is bigger than your current view, and the sacred can never be fully exhausted by examples.
- 12.5Ch. 12
The subtlest path is hardest for a body-bound mind.
Not every noble aim is equally easy. Some paths ask for more patience, steadiness, and inner refinement.
- 14.1Ch. 14
Some knowledge does not inform you; it completes you.
Real understanding is not information. It is the kind that changes where you stand in life.
- 18.6Ch. 18
Right action is complete only when desire for reward is dropped.
You can give your full effort without carrying the burden of control.
- 18.13Ch. 18
Action has many causes; the ego is not the whole story.
It loosens the grip of self-blame and pride. Not everything that happens is carried by one doer.