Bhagavan in the Bhagavad Gita
Verses across the Gita that speak to bhagavan, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.
- 7.6Ch. 7
Everything that appears rises from one source and returns there.
The world is not random or separate from its source; it rests in a living divine presence.
- 7.7Ch. 7
Everything is held in one sustaining reality.
You can stop feeling cut off from life. What holds everything also holds you.
- 9.4Ch. 9
The supreme reality holds everything without being held by anything.
You can belong to everything without being trapped inside it.
- 9.6Ch. 9
What moves everywhere still rests in the divine.
You are not separate from the whole. Even movement and change happen within a larger presence.
- 9.11Ch. 9
Ordinary appearance can hide the highest reality.
Respect can fail when we judge by appearance alone. Seeing more deeply changes everything.
- 10.4Ch. 10
All human qualities arise from the same source.
You do not have to manufacture your best qualities alone; they are already being carried by a larger source.
- 10.14Ch. 10
True recognition begins where ordinary beings cannot see.
Some truths are bigger than ordinary understanding, and humility opens the door to them.
- 10.15Ch. 10
The supreme one is known fully only by the supreme one.
There is relief in meeting a presence greater than explanation, one that already knows itself and the world.
- 10.16Ch. 10
Only the source can fully name its own presence in the world.
Awe becomes humility: the more reality is seen, the more limited ordinary language feels.
- 10.17Ch. 10
Devotion needs a form the mind can return to again and again.
Love wants a way to remember. The heart asks for a thousand doors back to the beloved.
- 13.14Ch. 13
What seems separate is already filled with the supreme reality.
You can stop feeling cut off from the sacred. Presence is already here, all around and within.