A small, unhurried collection of verses from the Bhagavad Gita. Read one, sit with it, and come back tomorrow for another.
Chapter 2Verse 47
Sanskrit
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन। मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥
You have the right to your actions, never to the fruits of those actions.
Give your full effort to the work itself. The outcome is never fully in your hands, so anchoring your peace to it only creates anxiety. This isn't motivation to give up. It's freedom to act wholeheartedly.
Find the verse that matches where you are today.
On action, duty, and letting go of the outcome: the Gita's central teaching on doing your work without being ruled by its results.
4 quotesVerses that steady resolve and rekindle effort, for the days willpower runs thin.
7 quotesOn steadying the mind, renewal, and meeting setbacks without losing your footing.
4 quotesVerses on stillness of mind, equanimity, and the kind of calm that isn't shaken by circumstance.
11 quotesA few more verses worth sitting with.
Chapter 2Verse 14
Sanskrit
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः। आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत॥
This too shall pass. Meet both joy and sorrow with the same steady heart.
Sensation and circumstance are always in motion. Neither discomfort nor pleasure is permanent, and steadiness comes from not over-identifying with either while it passes through.
Read more…Chapter 2Verse 20
Sanskrit
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः। अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे॥
What is truly you was never born, and will never die.
What you most fundamentally are is described here as untouched by birth and death, deeper and steadier than any single chapter of a life.
Read more…Chapter 2Verse 48
Sanskrit
योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय। सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते॥
Do your work in balance. That steadiness of mind is the real practice.
The Gita defines yoga here not as a posture but as balance of mind: the ability to give real effort without being thrown off by whether it succeeds or fails.
Read more…Chapter 2Verse 63
Sanskrit
क्रोधाद्भवति सम्मोहः सम्मोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः। स्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति॥
Anger left unchecked slowly clouds the mind. Notice it before it grows.
A chain reaction, traced step by step: unchecked anger clouds judgment long before it shows on the surface.
Read more…Chapter 2Verse 70
Sanskrit
आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं समुद्रमापः प्रविशन्ति यद्वत्। तद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकामी॥
Be like the ocean. Let desires arrive without disturbing your depth.
Desires will keep arriving; that isn't the problem. Peace belongs to whoever can let them arrive without being swept out to sea by each one.
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The Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Krishna, set on the eve of a battle Arjuna doesn't wish to fight. Across its eighteen chapters, it moves through questions of duty, action, grief, and the nature of the self, which is part of why individual verses from it are so often lifted out and quoted on their own.
This collection gathers a small, curated set of those verses: the ones most often reached for around karma, peace, and purpose. Each one is shown with its original Sanskrit, a plain English translation, and a short, simplified interpretation, so it's always clear what is a direct rendering of the text and what is a reflection on it.