Courage & Resolve

Vyavasāya — one-pointed determination — 75 verses, starred ones first.

4.34 ★ Approach the teacher with prostration, inquiry, and service. The knowers of truth will instruct you in jñāna.
8.7 ★ Therefore remember Me at all times and fight — mind and intellect fixed on Me, you will come to Me without doubt.
9.30 ★ Even if the most sinful worships Me with undivided devotion — he must be deemed righteous, for he has rightly resolved.
11.33 ★ Arise and win glory! These warriors are already slain by Me — be merely the instrument, O Savyasācin!
18.54 ★ Brahman-become, serene, neither grieving nor desiring, equal to all beings — he attains supreme bhakti to Me.
18.63 ★ This knowledge, more secret than all secrets, has been declared to you — reflect on it fully and act as you wish.
18.65 ★ Mind-in-Me, devotee, worshiper, bow to Me — you will come to Me; truly I promise, you are dear to Me.
18.78 ★ Where yogeśvara Kṛṣṇa is, where archer Pārtha stands — there abide fortune, victory, flourishing, and steadfast dharma.
6.23 ☆ Yoga is the disconnection from suffering — practise it with firm resolve and a mind that does not despond.
7.6 ☆ All beings arise from these two natures as their womb — and I am the origin and dissolution of the entire universe.
18.73 ☆ Destroyed is my delusion, memory restored by Your grace — I stand firm, free of doubt, and will do Your word.
1.4 Duryodhana catalogues the Pandava heroes — naming his fears, one by one.
1.12 A grandfather blows his conch to lift a grandson's spirits — love and war entangled.
1.19 The sound of righteous forces pierces the hearts of those who know they are on the wrong side.
1.22 Arjuna wants to see who he must fight — a leader unwilling to act blindly.
1.25 Krishna says: 'Look.' Two words that will change everything.
2.3 Cast off this petty weakness of heart — rise. This is not who you are.
2.9 Three words: 'I will not fight' — then silence. The lowest point before the teaching.
2.12 You have always existed. You will always exist. There was no time before you, and there will be no time without you.
2.35 Those who respected you will assume you left out of fear — and in their eyes, you will shrink from hero to coward.
2.36 Your enemies will mock your strength — what pain is greater than that?
2.37 Die and win heaven. Conquer and enjoy the earth. Either way you gain — so rise and fight.
2.40 No effort on this path is ever wasted — even a little progress protects you from great fear.
2.41 The resolved mind is one. The unresolved mind branches endlessly — and arrives nowhere.
2.57 No sticky attachment anywhere — meeting good or bad without rejoicing or hatred. Wisdom firmly rooted.
2.58 Like a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise one withdraws senses from objects. Wisdom stands firm.
3.15 Action arises from Brahman, Brahman from the Imperishable. The all-pervading ultimate is present in every act of yajna.
3.36 Arjuna asks: what force drives a person to sin even when they know better and don't want to?
4.13 Four varnas arise by guna and karma — not by birth. Though creator, I remain the non-doer, imperishable.
4.16 Even the wise are confused about action vs. inaction. I will explain — knowing this frees you from all wrong.
4.32 Many forms of yajna spread through Brahman's mouth — all born of action. Knowing this, you will be freed.
4.35 Knowing this you will not fall into delusion again — you will see all beings in the Self, and thus in Me.
4.42 Cut with jñāna's sword this doubt born of ignorance in your heart. Stand in yoga — arise, O Arjuna!
6.11 A clean spot, a firm seat — grass, skin, cloth in layers — not too high, not too low: this is where practice begins.
6.39 O Krishna — cut this doubt of mine completely, without remainder. No one other than You can resolve what I am asking.
8.11 That which Vedic knowers call the Imperishable — that Brahmacharins seek, ascetics enter — I will declare it briefly.
9.14 Ever glorifying Me, striving with firm resolve, bowing in devotion, always steadfast — they worship Me.
10.5 Non-injury, equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, fame and infamy — these varied states arise from Me alone.
10.36 I am the gambling of the fraudulent and the power of the powerful; victory, effort, and the sattva of the sattvika.
11.24 Sky-touching, blazing, many-hued, mouth wide open, eyes aflame — seeing You, O Viṣṇu, I find no courage and no peace!
12.10 If even abhyāsa is beyond you — hold My work as supreme; performing actions for My sake, you will attain perfection!
12.14 Ever-content, ever-yoked, self-controlled, firm in resolve, mind-intellect offered to Me — he is My dear devotee!
13.7 Desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the body, consciousness, courage — all this with its modifications is the kṣetra!
13.27 Every being born — moving or unmoving — arises from the union of kṣetra and kṣetrajña alone.
13.31 When the yogi sees all diversity resting in the One and spreading from that One alone — he becomes Brahman.
14.4 From all wombs all bodies arise — but the great Brahman is the womb and Krishna the seed-giving Father.
14.9 Sattva binds to happiness; rajas to action; tamas veils wisdom and chains to heedlessness.
14.13 Darkness, inertness, heedlessness, and delusion arise — know that tamas is predominant.
15.3 The tree of saṃsāra has no graspable form, end, or origin — cut it with the firm axe of non-attachment.
15.7 The jīva is an eternal fragment of Me — drawing the 6-sense apparatus (5 senses + mind) toward itself in Prakṛti.
15.8 Like wind carrying fragrance, the jīva takes its 6-sense apparatus from body to body through each birth and death.
15.16 Two puruṣas: kṣara (all mutable beings) and akṣara (kūṭastha, immutable ground) — both about to be transcended.
15.19 Knowing Me as Puruṣottama without delusion, one becomes all-knowing and worships Me with whole being.
16.10 Driven by insatiable kāma, hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, gripping false notions through moha — impure resolves.
16.11 Immeasurable anxieties till death, sense-pleasure as the highest value, firmly certain that 'this is all there is.'
16.13 The ego-monologue: 'I gained this today. I'll get that next. This is mine — and more wealth will be mine too.'
16.15 The ego-apex: 'I am rich, well-born — who equals me? I'll sacrifice, give, rejoice.' — all deluded by ajñāna.
16.17 Self-complacent, stubborn, wealth-proud — they perform name-only sacrifices, ostentatiously ignoring śāstric ordinance.
16.24 Therefore śāstra is your pramāṇa for kārya-akārya. Know what śāstra declares — then act accordingly in the world.
17.6 They torture their body's elements AND Me who dwell within — know these fools to be of āsurī resolve.
17.19 Tāmasic tapas: done with foolish delusion, self-torture, or to destroy another — declared tāmasic.
17.24 Therefore, Brahman-knowers always begin yajña, dāna, and tapas with 'OṀ' as ordained by scripture.
17.26 Sat means: being/reality, goodness/virtue, and praiseworthy action — three registers of the one word.
18.12 Three-fold karma-fruit (evil/good/mixed) accrues after death to non-tyāgīs — never at all to genuine renouncers.
18.19 Knowledge, action, and agent are each three-fold by guṇa-distinction — as declared in the guṇa-science. Hear them.
18.29 Hear the three-fold division of buddhi and dhṛti by guṇas, declared exhaustively and distinctly, O Dhananjaya.
18.33 Sāttvic dhṛti: unswerving through yoga, holds fast the activities of mind, prāṇa, and senses.
18.38 Rājasic sukha: arises from sense-object contact — nectar-like at first, poison-like at the end.
18.39 Tāmasic sukha: deluding of the self both at start and in consequence — arises from sleep, laziness, and carelessness.
18.46 From whom all beings arise, by whom all is pervaded — worshiping THAT through one's own duty, one attains perfection.
18.57 Mentally offering all actions to Me, with Me as highest — resorting to buddhi-yoga, always be mind-in-Me.
18.58 With mind in Me, by My grace you will cross all obstacles; but from egotism if you will not hear, you will perish.
18.59 If from egotism you think 'I will not fight' — vain is this resolve; Prakṛti will compel you.
18.64 Hear again My supreme word, most secret of all — because you are deeply beloved to Me, I will speak your benefit.
18.72 O Pārtha, was this heard with one-pointed mind? O Dhanañjaya, has the delusion of ignorance been completely destroyed?