Awe in the Bhagavad Gita

Verses across the Gita that speak to awe, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.

• 11.14A glimpse of the vast can turn shock into surrender.
• 11.16The largest reality has no edge the mind can grasp.
• 11.17What is most real cannot be fully held by sight.
• 11.20One vision can overwhelm every boundary you thought was real.
• 11.22Even the highest beings stand astonished before Krishna's vastness.
• 11.23A vision of total vastness can shake every observer at once.
• 11.24A true vision can shatter the mind before it can steady it.
• 11.25True awe ends control and turns the heart toward surrender.
• 11.30Total power leaves no room for control.
• 11.35Awe can break speech before it becomes prayer.
• 11.41Familiarity without recognition becomes disrespect; awe restores the right relation.
• 11.46The infinite can overwhelm; devotion asks for a form the heart can bear.
• 18.77Remembering Krishna's vast form still overwhelms the mind with wonder.