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Then Krishna and Arjuna, seated in their great chariot drawn by white horses, blew their divine conches in reply.

Krishna blew his conch called Panchajanya. Arjuna blew his, called Devadatta. And Bhima, who performs great feats, blew his large conch called Paundra

Then Arjuna, whose chariot flag bore the image of Hanuman, saw Dhritarashtra's sons standing ready. As weapons were about to fly, he raised his bow an

Arjuna said: O Krishna, please place my chariot between the two armies.

Sanjaya said: O Dhritarashtra, Krishna, as asked by Arjuna, drove that magnificent chariot right into the middle ground between the two armies,

Arjuna said: O Krishna, seeing my own people gathered here ready to fight, my limbs are giving out and my mouth is going dry.

I cannot stand steady. My mind seems to be spinning. I see only bad omens, O Krishna.

What use is a kingdom to us, O Krishna? What use are enjoyments, or even life itself?

Sanjaya said: Seeing Arjuna overcome with pity, his eyes wet with tears, his mind filled with grief, Krishna spoke these words.

Krishna said: Arjuna, where does this despondency come from at such a critical moment? This is not fitting for a noble person. It will not lead to hea

Sanjaya said: Having spoken thus to Krishna, Arjuna said "I will not fight" and fell silent.

Sanjaya said: Then Krishna, as if smiling, spoke these words to the grief-stricken Arjuna, there between both armies.

Krishna said: You grieve for those who do not deserve grief, yet you speak words of wisdom. Those who truly know do not mourn for the living or the de

Arjuna said: Krishna, what describes a person of steady wisdom, one who is established in that stillness? How does such a person speak? How do they si

Krishna said: When a person gives up all the desires that arise in the mind and is content within the self alone, by the self alone, that person is sa

Arjuna said: Krishna, if you believe that knowledge is superior to action, why are you pushing me into this terrible war?

Krishna said: Arjuna, in this world I have spoken of two paths. For those inclined toward knowledge, there is the path of knowledge. For those incline

Arjuna said: Krishna, what is it that drives a person to commit sin, even against their own will, as if pushed by some force?

Krishna said: It is desire, and it is anger, both born from the quality of passion. They consume everything and lead to sin. Know this to be the enemy

Krishna said: I taught this eternal yoga to Vivasvan the sun god. Vivasvan taught it to Manu. And Manu passed it on to Ikshvaku.

Krishna said: You and I have both passed through many births. I know all of them. You do not.

Arjuna said: Krishna, you praise renunciation of actions, and then you praise yoga of action. Tell me clearly which one is better.

Krishna said: Both renunciation and yoga of action lead to liberation. But between the two, yoga of action is better than renunciation.

Krishna said: One who does the work that is their duty without depending on the result of action, that person is a renunciant and a yogi. Not the one

The mind is restless, Krishna, turbulent, strong, and stubborn. I think controlling it is as hard as controlling the wind.

Krishna said: Without doubt, O mighty-armed one, the mind is hard to control and restless. But it is brought under control through practice and dispas

Arjuna said: One who has faith but does not strive hard, whose mind slips away from yoga and fails to reach perfection in yoga, what path does that pe

O Krishna, you should remove this doubt of mine completely. No one other than you can dispel this doubt.

Krishna said: O Partha, for that person there is no ruin here or hereafter. No one who acts rightly comes to a bad end, my friend.

Krishna said: O Partha, hear how you will know me fully and without doubt, by fixing your mind on me, practising yoga with me as your refuge.

O Madhusudana, who is the one present in the sacrifice here in this body, and how? And at the time of death, how are you to be known by those of conce

Krishna said: The supreme Brahman is the imperishable. The individual self is called the entity present in one's own being. The offering that brings a

Krishna said: Since you do not find fault, I will tell you this greatest secret: knowledge combined with direct experience. Knowing this, you will be

Krishna said: O mighty-armed one, listen again to my supreme teaching. I will speak it to you because you are dear to me and I want what is good for y

Krishna said: Very well. I will tell you of my divine manifestations, the chief ones. There is no end to the full extent of them, O best of the Kurus.

Krishna said: O son of Pritha, behold my forms, hundreds and thousands of them, of many kinds, divine, of many colors and shapes.

Krishna said: I am time, the destroyer of worlds, fully grown, and now engaged in bringing about the end of these worlds. Even without you, all the wa

Sanjaya said: Hearing these words of Keshava, Arjuna, trembling, with folded hands, bowed down again and, overcome with fear, spoke to Krishna with a

Whatever I may have said carelessly or with too much confidence, calling you simply 'O Krishna,' 'O Yadava,' 'O friend,' thinking of you as a companio

Krishna said: O Arjuna, this supreme cosmic form, radiant, infinite, and primordial, which no one other than you has ever seen before, I have shown to

Krishna said: This form of mine which you have seen is very difficult to see. Even the gods are always longing for a vision of this form.

Krishna said: Those who fix their minds on me, who worship me with constant devotion and with supreme faith, I consider them to be the most accomplish

Krishna said: This body, O son of Kunti, is called the field. Those who know this call the one who is aware of it the knower of the field.

Krishna said: I will speak again of the supreme knowledge, the highest of all knowledges. By knowing this, all the sages reached the highest perfectio

Krishna said: O son of Pandu, he does not dislike illumination, activity, and delusion when they arise, nor does he long for them when they cease.

Krishna said: The wise speak of an imperishable ashvattha tree with its roots above and branches below, whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who know

Krishna said: Fearlessness, purity of mind, steadiness in knowledge and yoga, charity, self-restraint, sacrifice, study of scripture, austerity, and u

Arjuna said: Those who worship with faith but set aside the injunctions of scripture, O Krishna, what is their condition? Is it sattva, rajas, or tama

Krishna said: The faith of embodied beings, born from their own nature, is of three kinds: sattvic, rajasic, and tamasic. Hear about this.

Krishna said: The learned know that giving up actions done out of desire is sannyasa. The wise call the giving up of the fruits of all actions tyaga.