गीता · FYI
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ FYI
The verses everyone quotes
all 63 →Your right is to act — never to the fruits. Don't act for results. Don't hide in inaction.
★ BG 2.20Unborn. Undying. Ancient. Eternal. Not slain when the body is slain — this is what you are.
★ BG 4.7Whenever dharma declines and adharma rises — I project Myself forth. The divine responds to every crisis.
★ BG 4.8For the protection of the good, destruction of wickedness, establishment of dharma — I come, age after age.
★ BG 6.5Lift the self by the Self; let not the self drown itself — you alone are your own friend and your own foe.
★ BG 9.22For those who worship Me with undivided thought, always steadfast — I carry what they lack and guard what they have.
★ BG 11.32I am Time, the world-destroyer — even without you, none of these warriors shall survive; they are already slain!
★ BG 12.13Not hating, friendly, compassionate, without 'mine' or 'I', equal in pain and joy, forgiving — the dear devotee!
★ BG 18.66Abandon all dharmas, take refuge in Me alone — I will liberate you from all sins; do not grieve.
18 chapters · one arc: crisis → clarity
chapter view →Find the Gita's answer to your situation
all themes →Arjuna's Journey — the Gita as one man's story
walk it →84 verses in Arjuna's own voice, from collapsing on the chariot floor (1.28) to "my doubts are gone" (18.73) — in 11 stages.
Would you pass the Gita's test?
all 434 scenarios →“People on your team have invested heavily — time, reputation, wellbeing — in a project or cause you're leading. You feel the weight of that commitment.”
What would the Gita say? (BG 1.9)
This is exactly the weight Arjuna feels, but inverted. Arjuna is paralyzed by it; Duryodhana is energized by it. Neither extreme is the answer. The Gita teaches: act from duty, not from ego (it's not 'for my sake'), and not from paralysis (not refusing to act).
Do this: Ask whether the people who are committed 'for your sake' are actually aligned with a larger righteous purpose — or whether they're committed to a person rather than a cause.
study the verse →★ Essential 63
The verses every reader of the Gita must know — a guided shortlist of 63.
📚 10 translations, 15 sources
A century of public-domain scholarship under every verse, with numbered citations.
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