Shraddha in the Bhagavad Gita

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

• 3.31Trusting the teaching frees action from its binding force.
• 3.32Rejecting clear guidance leaves the mind stranded.
• 4.11The divine response matches the way you come forward.
• 4.39Trust, discipline, and restraint make room for peace.
• 4.40A divided mind loses both peace and direction.
• 6.37Faith without completion still deserves a clear answer.
• 6.47Trusting devotion is the highest integration of yoga.
• 7.1Refuge and practice open the way to complete knowing.
• 7.3True knowing is rarer than striving, even among the successful.
• 7.20Desire clouds judgment and sends the mind toward smaller refuges.
• 7.21Faith becomes firm where the devotee turns.
• 7.22Faith draws the result, but the deeper order grants it.
• 7.23Finite worship brings finite results; devotion returns you to Krishna.
• 9.3Without trust, the highest teaching cannot carry you beyond repetition.
• 9.23All sincere worship reaches the one reality, even when the form is confused.
• 12.2Full trust and steady remembrance make devotion complete.
• 12.9Practice can lead the mind where stillness cannot yet go.
• 12.20Faithful practice turns devotion into closeness.
• 13.26Devoted listening can carry a person beyond fear and mortality.
• 17.1Faith alone does not reveal its quality; the motive beneath it does.
• 17.2Faith takes the shape of the nature beneath it.
• 17.3Trust is not just held; it becomes the person.
• 17.4Faith reveals itself in what each person chooses to revere.
• 17.10What you repeatedly choose to consume reveals the heaviness within.
• 17.13Ritual without trust becomes empty and heavy.
• 17.16A trained mind is its own austerity.
• 17.17True discipline is clean only when reward is no longer the motive.
• 17.20Giving becomes pure when nothing is being bought in return.
• 17.21A gift becomes lesser the moment it starts asking for something back.
• 17.25Freedom deepens when action stops demanding a private return.
• 17.26What is real and worthy carries the mark of sat.
• 17.27Steady offering makes ordinary action sacred.
• 17.28Trust is what makes action real; without it, effort becomes empty.
• 18.71Trustful listening can open the door to freedom.