01 · Chapter 1 / 18
Arjuna's Dilemma
Arjuna Viṣāda Yoga
The conversation begins with a person who does not know what to do.
The Bhagavad Gita
Eighteen chapters
One conversation, in eighteen movements. Each chapter has a story, its key ideas, its verses and a question to sit with.
02 · Chapter 2 / 18
The Yoga of Knowledge
Sāṅkhya Yoga
Krishna answers with a teaching on the self, action and equanimity.
03 · Chapter 3 / 18
The Yoga of Action
Karma Yoga
Why withdrawing from action is not the same as freedom.
04 · Chapter 4 / 18
Knowledge, Action and Renunciation
Jñāna Karma Sanyāsa Yoga
An old teaching, restated — and the idea of renunciation inside action.
05 · Chapter 5 / 18
The Yoga of Renunciation
Karma Sanyāsa Yoga
Renouncing action, or renouncing attachment?
06 · Chapter 6 / 18
The Yoga of Meditation
Dhyāna Yoga
Practical instruction in seated practice, and the mind that resists it.
07 · Chapter 7 / 18
Knowledge and Realisation
Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga
The difference between knowing about something and realising it.
08 · Chapter 8 / 18
The Imperishable Absolute
Akṣara Brahma Yoga
Questions about what endures, and about the moment of death.
09 · Chapter 9 / 18
The Royal Knowledge
Rāja Vidyā Rāja Guhya Yoga
A teaching described as sovereign, secret and accessible.
10 · Chapter 10 / 18
Divine Manifestations
Vibhūti Yoga
Where the whole becomes visible in particulars.
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The Vision of the Universal Form
Viśvarūpa Darśana Yoga
A vision that overwhelms the one who asked for it.
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The Yoga of Devotion
Bhakti Yoga
What kind of person the path produces.
13 · Chapter 13 / 18
The Field and the Knower
Kṣetra Kṣetrajña Vibhāga Yoga
A distinction between what is experienced and who experiences.
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The Three Guṇas
Guṇatraya Vibhāga Yoga
Three qualities that shape how anyone acts.
15 · Chapter 15 / 18
The Supreme Person
Puruṣottama Yoga
An inverted tree, and what lies beyond the perishable.
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Two Natures
Daivāsura Sampad Vibhāga Yoga
Qualities that open a life, and qualities that close it.
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The Three Kinds of Faith
Śraddhātraya Vibhāga Yoga
Faith, food, speech and giving, seen through the three qualities.
18 · Chapter 18 / 18
Liberation through Renunciation
Mokṣa Sanyāsa Yoga
The long summary, and a final choice left to the listener.
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