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 →“You're in a crisis and your mind is spinning — you can't hold a thought, can't see any good options, and everything looks bad.”
What would the Gita say? (BG 1.30)
This is the state the Gita's teaching is designed for. Not for the calm moment, but for the whirling mind in the heat of necessity. The practice of steady wisdom (sthitaprajña, Ch.2.54–72) is specifically for moments like this.
Do this: When your mind is whirling, stop trying to think your way out. Ground the body first: feet on floor, slow breath. Then ask one simple question: what is the very next right thing I can do? Just one.
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.
🌱→🔱 Two depths
Every verse readable as a beginner or a deep seeker — flip the toggle anytime.