Surrender in the Bhagavad Gita

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

• 5.29Peace comes from knowing the divine receives all effort and cares for all beings.
• 9.34Total orientation toward the divine becomes the way to reach the divine.
• 11.17What is most real cannot be fully held by sight.
• 11.19What overwhelms the mind can also dissolve its resistance.
• 11.20One vision can overwhelm every boundary you thought was real.
• 11.24A true vision can shatter the mind before it can steady it.
• 11.25True awe ends control and turns the heart toward surrender.
• 11.31Fear bows first, then asks to know what stands before it.
• 11.32What is ending was never in your hands to preserve.
• 11.37What exceeds all categories naturally draws surrender.
• 11.40Total awe ends the illusion of separation.
• 11.43Recognition of the highest power dissolves all comparison.
• 11.45A vision can awaken joy and fear at once.
• 11.49Fear must drop before the deeper vision can be seen.
• 11.54Undivided devotion reaches what effort cannot.
• 12.7A mind fixed on Krishna is met by Krishna's saving presence.
• 12.8A divided mind settles when both thought and feeling rest in the divine.
• 12.11Let go of the result; the action itself is the practice.
• 12.16True closeness releases craving, anxiety, and compulsive beginning.
• 18.61The deeper mover is not your ego, and surrender begins there.
• 18.65Wholehearted devotion becomes the shortest path home.
• 18.66Total refuge ends the burden of fear.
• 18.73Grace ends confusion and turns insight into obedience.