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 said something true and clear that landed much harder than you expected — in a meeting, a relationship, a public setting.”
What would the Gita say? (BG 1.19)
Truth spoken clearly sometimes 'rents hearts' — especially the hearts of those who were already aware of what they were doing. This is not cruelty; it is clarity doing its work.
Do this: If your honest words have landed hard on someone who needed to hear them, do not immediately apologize for the truth. Let it sit. Then check in — not to retract, but to remain in relationship.
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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