Moksha in the Bhagavad Gita

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

• 2.72Steadiness in the supreme reality ends confusion, even at life’s edge.
• 4.9Seeing Krishna truly ends the cycle of return.
• 4.16Clear seeing about action is what breaks bondage.
• 4.32Seeing every offering as action frees you from action’s binding force.
• 5.5Different paths can lead to the same freedom.
• 5.17Complete alignment with the supreme reality ends the cycle of return.
• 5.28Freedom begins where desire, fear, and anger lose authority.
• 7.29Refuge in the divine opens total understanding of reality, inner life, and action.
• 8.6The end follows the state you have trained.
• 8.11The imperishable is reached by giving up desire, not by feeding it.
• 8.13Final remembrance can carry consciousness beyond the body.
• 8.15True arrival ends the need to come back.
• 8.16Even the highest attainments return, but union with Krishna does not.
• 8.21The highest arrival is beyond return.
• 8.23Not every departure leads the same way; some paths return you, others do not.
• 8.24The final passage opens for those who know the supreme reality.
• 8.26Some choices free you from the cycle; others send you back into it.
• 8.28Knowing the way beyond rewards leads to the highest home.
• 9.1The deepest truth frees only a heart that does not resist it.
• 13.26Devoted listening can carry a person beyond fear and mortality.
• 13.35Clear seeing separates you from what changes and opens the way beyond it.
• 14.19Freedom begins when you stop mistaking qualities for a personal doer.
• 14.20Freedom begins when the three qualities no longer define you.
• 14.27All ultimate freedom rests in Krishna, not apart from him.
• 15.4The final refuge is a state where return itself stops.
• 15.5Freedom begins when pride, craving, and inner division fall away.
• 15.19Clear seeing of the Supreme Self becomes total devotion.
• 15.20Secret knowledge makes a person complete.
• 17.25Freedom deepens when action stops demanding a private return.
• 18.17Without egoic ownership, action leaves no stain.
• 18.49Freedom arrives when the mind stops reaching outward.
• 18.50Knowledge has a highest point: direct arrival, not endless thinking.
• 18.66Total refuge ends the burden of fear.
• 18.71Trustful listening can open the door to freedom.