All 701 Verses

Complete verse-by-verse reference across all 18 chapters. Priority chapters (★) have full commentary and rich content.

701

Total Verses

18

Chapters

25+

Featured Verses

5

Priority Chapters

Top 25 Verses to Know

The most important, most quoted, most transformative verses in the Gita:

2.19 He who thinks it kills, and he who thinks it is killed — both are ignorant. The soul neither kills nor can be ... 2.20 The soul is never born, never dies. It has not come from anywhere, it will not go anywhere. It is unborn, eter... 2.23 Weapons cannot cut it, fire cannot burn it, water cannot wet it, wind cannot dry it. 2.47 You have the right to work only, never to the fruit of work. Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor ... 2.48 Perform your duty with equanimity, abandoning attachment to success or failure. Equanimity of mind is called y... 3.35 Better is your own dharma, imperfectly performed, than the dharma of another performed well. Death in one's ow... 6.5 Lift yourself with your own self. Do not let yourself be dragged down. The self alone is the friend of the sel... 18.66 Abandon all varieties of dharma and just surrender to Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do no... 18.78 Wherever there is Krishna (the divine) and Arjuna (the devoted seeker), there will be wealth, victory, prosper... 2.11 You grieve for those who should not be grieved for, while speaking words of wisdom. The wise grieve neither fo... 2.62 Thinking about sense objects creates attachment; from attachment comes desire; from desire comes anger. 2.63 From anger comes delusion; from delusion, loss of memory; from loss of memory, destruction of intelligence; an... 3.27 All actions are performed by the gunas of nature. But the ego-deluded person thinks 'I am the doer.' 6.35 Undoubtedly, the mind is restless and difficult to control. But it can be controlled by practice and non-attac... 12.13 One who has no envy toward any being, who is friendly and compassionate, free from ego and possessiveness, equ...

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