Sacred Learning
Bhagavad Gītā
The Song on the field of dharma — its own door, still at home in the Bhīṣma-parvan.
A first slice is open
The Gītā is spoken to Arjuna in the Bhīṣma-parvan. This library gives it a prominent door because households study it as a book, while the registry still records its Mahābhārata home.
Chapter titles follow the traditional yoga colophons of the vulgate. Verse numbers match common Indian prints. A first slice opens chapters 1 and 2; the remaining chapters are indexed until their verses are sourced here.
Another name lives in this circle. Try Gāyatrī, Oṃ, or ṚV.
Chapter 1 — Arjuna Viṣāda Yoga
Arjuna’s sorrow on the field.
Chapter 2 — Sāṅkhya Yoga
The yoga of knowing, and the first teaching of action.
Chapter 3 — Karma Yoga
The yoga of action.
Chapter 4 — Jñāna-karma-sannyāsa Yoga
Knowledge and the renunciation in action.
Chapter 5 — Karma-sannyāsa Yoga
Renunciation and action together.
Chapter 6 — Dhyāna Yoga
Meditation. Also called Ātmasaṃyama.
Chapter 7 — Jñāna-vijñāna Yoga
Knowing and lived knowing.
Chapter 8 — Akṣara-brahma Yoga
The imperishable Brahman.
Chapter 9 — Rājavidyā-rājaguhya Yoga
The royal knowledge and the royal secret.
Chapter 10 — Vibhūti Yoga
The glories.
Chapter 11 — Viśvarūpa-darśana Yoga
The vision of the universal form.
Chapter 12 — Bhakti Yoga
The yoga of devotion.
Chapter 13 — Kṣetra-kṣetrajña-vibhāga Yoga
Field and knower of the field.
Chapter 14 — Guṇatraya-vibhāga Yoga
The three guṇas.
Chapter 15 — Puruṣottama Yoga
The highest Person.
Chapter 16 — Daivāsura-sampad-vibhāga Yoga
Divine and ungodly endowments.
Chapter 17 — Śraddhātraya-vibhāga Yoga
Three kinds of faith.
Chapter 18 — Mokṣa-sannyāsa Yoga
Renunciation and liberation.