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भगवद्गीता

A question before
an action.

A warrior pauses. A dialogue begins. Journey through Arjuna’s crisis and Krishna’s teaching on action, knowledge, devotion, and liberation.

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THE JOURNEY

01 Begin in context 02 Follow the story 03 Explore the text 04 Meet the themes 05 Read more deeply 06 Read a passage 07 The collection

18chapters

DialogueKrishna and Arjuna

Manycommentarial traditions

Decorated Bhagavad Gita manuscript from nineteenth-century North India, Library of Congress. Unknown author / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. Image credits →

Begin in context

Before the verse,
find the context.

A traditional account of authority, a historical inquiry, and a living interpretation answer different questions. Keep all three visible.

Scope of this guide
Eighteen-chapter guide and selected verse reader; interpretations kept distinct. The text library now includes searchable source editions and a language-coverage report. Open the reading room for exact coverage.

IIT Kanpur · verse and commentary ↗

Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 01 / 07Next: Follow the story →

Follow the story

Every text has
a journey.

Follow four connected moments. These are interpretive steps through the subject, not a claim that its history occurred in four simple stages.

A bow is lowered

Arjuna’s hesitation is the beginning of inquiry. The dialogue takes the difficulty seriously rather than treating uncertainty as something to dismiss.

Action is reconsidered

The teaching asks how one acts without being governed by attachment to results. Renunciation, discipline, duty, and understanding remain intertwined questions.

The horizon expands

Krishna teaches about divine presence and reveals the cosmic form in chapter 11. The conversation moves beyond a purely human calculation of advantage.

A response becomes possible

The final chapter returns to discernment, teaching, surrender, and decision. Reading the ending after the whole dialogue differs from extracting a single command.

Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 02 / 07Next: Explore the text →

Explore the text

See how the
text is arranged.

Search the divisions and topics, then choose one to learn its place in the whole. Summaries are guide notes, not translations of every chapter.

IIT Kanpur · verse and commentary ↗UCLA MANAS · Gita overview ↗

Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 03 / 07Next: Meet the themes →

Meet the themes

Follow a theme.
Change what you notice.

A thematic route brings passages into conversation. It does not replace the text’s own arrangement or reduce its diversity to one message.

Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 04 / 07Next: Read more deeply →

Three routes
through the teaching

Choose a lens to uncover a different layer of the same subject.

The story and teaching are interpreted in diverse Hindu traditions. This independent guide neither claims to settle those debates nor replaces a full Sanskrit edition or a named commentary.

Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 05 / 07Next: Read a passage →

Read a passage

Now meet
the words themselves.

Read one identified passage with Sanskrit, transliteration, word notes, and translations. The edition and the boundaries of an excerpt remain visible.

Bhagavad Gita 2.47

Action, results, and inaction

Switch between Devanagari and IAST, explore selected terms, and compare an educational rendering in seven modern languages.

English is an original AI-assisted educational rendering, not a quoted published translation. Other languages render that English; none has specialist review.

Read and explore the passage ↗

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कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन । मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥

Your sphere is action alone, never its fruits. Do not make the fruits of action your motive, and do not become attached to inaction.

Complete selected verse. Sanskrit sandhi is retained; the word notes use separated teaching forms. Compare named commentaries for the force of adhikāra and hetu.

UCLA MANAS · Gita overview ↗

Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 06 / 07Next: The collection →

The collection

One collection.
Eight distinct doorways.

Continue in order, or follow a connection. The four Vedas, the Gita, and the three Dharmaśāstra works belong to related but different textual worlds.

This initial Smriti selection contains Manu, Yajnavalkya, and Narada. It does not claim to exhaust the broad and varying category of Smriti.

Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 07 / 07Begin again: Begin in context →

A question beforean action.

Before the verse,find the context.

Every text hasa journey.

A bow is lowered

Action is reconsidered

The horizon expands

A response becomes possible

See how thetext is arranged.

Follow a theme.Change what you notice.

Three routesthrough the teaching

Now meetthe words themselves.

Action, results, and inaction

One collection.Eight distinct doorways.

A question before
an action.

Before the verse,
find the context.

Every text has
a journey.

See how the
text is arranged.

Follow a theme.
Change what you notice.

Three routes
through the teaching

Now meet
the words themselves.

One collection.
Eight distinct doorways.