Fear & Anxiety

Facing dread, panic, and worry — 30 verses, starred ones first.

1. 3.35 ★ Your own imperfect path beats another's perfect path. Death in your own dharma is better. Another's dharma brings fear.
2. 18.66 ★ Abandon all dharmas, take refuge in Me alone — I will liberate you from all sins; do not grieve.
3. 1.28 ☆ Arjuna sees his own people ready to die — and his body breaks before his mind can argue.
4. 6.14 ☆ Peaceful, fearless, vowed to brahmacharya, mind on Krishna — yoked in practice, with the Supreme as the final goal.
5. 18.17 ☆ One with no ego-doer-sense, whose buddhi is untainted — even while killing all these beings, kills not, is not bound.
6. 1.2 Seeing the opposing army, a worried prince rushes to his teacher for reassurance.
7. 1.4 Duryodhana catalogues the Pandava heroes — naming his fears, one by one.
8. 1.29 The greatest bow in the world slips from the hands of the greatest archer — this is what moral crisis looks like.
9. 1.30 He cannot stand. His mind spins. He sees only bad signs ahead.
10. 2.35 Those who respected you will assume you left out of fear — and in their eyes, you will shrink from hero to coward.
11. 2.40 No effort on this path is ever wasted — even a little progress protects you from great fear.
12. 2.56 Unmoved in sorrow, ungreedy in joy, free from passion, fear, and anger — that is the steady sage.
13. 4.10 Many, freed from attachment, fear, and anger, purified by knowledge-austerity — have attained My being.
14. 5.28 With senses, mind and buddhi controlled, free of desire, fear and anger — the liberation-oriented muni is ever-free.
15. 6.38 Fallen from both worlds, without support — does the wandering yogi simply perish, like a torn cloud, O mighty-armed?
16. 10.4 Intellect, wisdom, patience, truth, calm, restraint, joy, pain, birth, death, fear, fearlessness — all arise from Me.
17. 11.20 You alone fill the space between heaven and earth — three worlds tremble beholding Your marvellous, awful form!
18. 11.21 Gods' hosts enter You; some join palms in fear — great seers and Siddhas sing 'Svasti!' and praise You with full hymns!
19. 11.23 Many mouths, eyes, arms, bellies, terrible tusks — Your vast form terrifies the worlds; I too tremble!
20. 11.34 Droṇa, Bhīṣma, Jayadratha, Karṇa — all already slain by Me! You kill them. Fear not — fight! You shall conquer!
21. 11.35 Trembling, hands folded, crown on head, voice choked — Arjuna bows again and again and speaks to Kṛṣṇa!
22. 11.36 Rightly so, O Hṛṣīkeśa — the world rejoices at Your glory; demons flee in terror while the bands of Siddhas bow!
23. 11.45 Overjoyed at the unprecedented, yet trembling with fear — show me that form again, O deveśa jagan-nivāsa!
24. 11.49 Be not afraid; let fear depart and your heart be glad — behold again THIS form of Mine, the familiar one!
25. 12.15 He who neither troubles the world nor is troubled by it — free from joy, envy, fear, anxiety — he is dear to Me!
26. 16.5 Daivī wealth leads to liberation, āsurī to bondage. Do not grieve, Arjuna — you are born to the divine endowment.
27. 16.11 Immeasurable anxieties till death, sense-pleasure as the highest value, firmly certain that 'this is all there is.'
28. 18.8 Rājasic tyāga: abandoning action as painful/from fear of body-trouble — obtains no fruit of tyāga.
29. 18.30 Sāttvic buddhi: correctly knows pravṛtti-nivṛtti, kārya-akārya, fear-fearlessness, bondage-liberation.
30. 18.35 Tāmasic dhṛti: the dull-witted one does not give up sleep, fear, grief, despondency, and pride.