O Krishna, ... My limbs fail and my mouth is parched, my body quivers, and my hair stands on end, ... my skin burns all over, I am not able to stand, my mind is whirling. 1:29
Owing to predominance of lawlessness, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupt; women corrupted, O Vârshneya, there ariseth caste confusion; This confusion draggeth to hell the slayers of the family. 1:41
By these caste-confusing misdeeds of the slayers of the family, the everlasting caste customs and family customs are abolished. 1:43
The abode of the men whose family customs are extinguished, O Janârdana, is everlastingly in hell. 1:44
The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. 2:11
Nor at any time verily was I not, nor thou ... nor verily shall we ever cease to be, hereafter. 2:12
The dweller in the body ... passeth he on to another body; the steadfast one grieveth not thereat. 2:13
These bodies of the embodied One, who is eternal, indestructible and immeasurable, are known as finite. Therefore fight. 2:18
He who regardeth this as a slayer, and he who thinketh he is slain, both of them are ignorant. He slayeth not, nor is he slain. 2:19
He ... is not slain when the body is slaughtered. 2:20
As a man, casting off worn-out garments, taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, casting off worn-out bodies, entereth into others that are new. 2:22
There is nothing more welcome to a Kshattriya [warrior caste] than righteous war. 2:31
Happy the Kshattriyas [members of the warrior caste] ... who obtain such a fight, offered unsought as an open door to heaven. 2:32
If thou wilt not carry on this righteous warfare, ... many unseemly words will be spoken by thine enemies, slandering thy strength; what more painful than that? 2:33
If thou wilt not carry on this righteous warfare, ... The great car-warriors will think thee fled from the battle from fear. 2:33
If thou wilt not carry on this righteous warfare, then casting away thine own duty and thine honour, thou wilt incur sin. 2:33
If thou wilt not carry on this righteous warfare, ... men will recount thy perpetual dishonour, and, to one highly esteemed, dishonour exceedeth death. 2:33
Slain, thou wilt obtain heaven; victorious, thou wilt enjoy the earth; therefore stand up, O son of Kuntî, resolute to fight. 2:37
Gird thee for the battle; thus thou shalt not incur sin. 2:38
United to the Pure Reason one abandoneth here both good and evil deeds. 2:50
Nourish ye the Shining Ones, and may the Shining Ones nourish you; thus nourishing one another ye shall reap the supremest good. 3:11
The righteous, who eat the remains of the sacrifice, are freed from all sins; but the impious, who dress food for their own sakes, they verily eat sin. 3:13
If I [Krishna] did not perform action; I should be the author of confusion of castes, and should destroy these creatures. 3:24
The wise act without attachment, desiring the welfare of the world. 3:25
Who carp at My teaching and act not thereon, senseless, deluded in all knowledge, know thou these mindless ones as fated to be destroyed. 3:32
Though unborn ... yet I [Krishna] am born through My own Power. 4:6
Whenever there is decay of righteousness ... then I [Krishna] Myself come forth. 4:7
They who long after success in action on earth worship the Shining Ones. 4:12
The four castes were emanated by Me ... know Me to be the author of them. 4:13
Renounce all actions and rest in the nine-gated city. 5:13
Sages look equally on a Brâhmana adorned with learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, and even a dog and an outcaste. 5:18
The Self the friend of the self, and also the Self the self's enemy. 6:5
Let the Yogî constantly engage himself ... on a fixed seat of his own, neither very much raised nor very low, made of a cloth, a black antelope skin, and kusha grass, one over the other. 6:10
There is nothing more here needeth to be known. 7:2
Earth, water, fire, air, ether, Mind, and Reason also and Egoism—these are the eightfold division of My nature. 7:4
I the sapidity in waters, ... and virility in men. 7:8
Whosoever at the end abandoneth the body, thinking upon any being, to that being only he goeth. 8:6
"Aum!" the one syllabled Eternal, reciting, thinking upon Me, he who goeth forth, abandoning the body, he goeth on the highest path. 8:13
He who constantly thinketh upon Me, not thinking ever of another, of him I am easily reached, O Pârtha, of this ever-harmonised Yogî. 8:14
The foolish disregard Me ... Empty of hope, empty of deeds, empty of wisdom, senseless, partaking of the deceitful, brutal and demoniacal nature. 9:11
They who take refuge with Me, O Partha, though of the womb of sin, women, Vaishyas, even Shûdras, they also tread the highest path. 9:32
O God, the Gods I see ... With mouths, eyes, arms, breasts multitudinous. 11:15
Thy mighty Form, with many mouths and eyes, Long armed, with thighs and feet innumerate, Vast-bosomed, set with many fearful teeth. 11:23
Into Thy gaping mouths they hurrying rush, Tremendous-toothed and terrible to see; Some caught within the gaps between Thy teeth Are seen, their heads to powder crushed and ground. 11:27
On every side, all-swallowing, fiery-tongued, Thou lickest up mankind, devouring all. 11:30
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. (J. Robert Oppenheimer quote) 11:32
Time am I, laying desolate the world, Made manifest on earth to slay mankind! 11:32
Therefore stand up! win for thyself renown, Conquer thy foes, enjoy the wealth filled realm, By Me they are already overcome. 11:33
All the other warriors here, Are slain by Me. Destroy them fearlessly. Fight! thou shalt crush thy rivals in the field. 11:34
Put on again Thy four-armed shape, O Lord, O thousand-armed. 11:46
They who with mind fixed on Me [Krishna] ... these, in My opinion, are best in yoga. 12:2
He who neither loveth nor hateth, nor grieveth, nor desireth, renouncing good and evil, full of devotion, he is dear to Me. 12:17
He who thus knoweth Spirit and Matter ..., he shall not be born again. 13:24
