Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita

Wherever the speaker is named, it is here. Verses where Krishna himself takes the voice — revealing, instructing, declaring.

• 2.1Grief opens the door for instruction.
• 4.5Your memory is partial; the divine awareness is not.
• 4.35Knowing deeply ends confusion by revealing one reality in all beings.
• 6.39Only clear seeing can end confusion completely.
• 7.14The way beyond the veil is not force, but refuge.
• 8.5The last remembered presence shapes the next state of being.
• 8.15True arrival ends the need to come back.
• 8.16Even the highest attainments return, but union with Krishna does not.
• 9.3Without trust, the highest teaching cannot carry you beyond repetition.
• 9.25Devotion does not stay abstract; it carries you to its chosen end.
• 10.3Clear recognition of the divine ends confusion and frees action.
• 10.7True recognition of Krishna's presence makes devotion unshakable.
• 10.8Knowing the source turns understanding into devotion.
• 10.20Everything that exists is held within one enduring presence.
• 10.41Every genuine greatness is only a spark of my radiance.
• 10.42The whole universe rests in a single fragment of the divine.
• 11.18What appears overwhelming is actually the world’s deepest support.
• 11.22Even the highest beings stand astonished before Krishna's vastness.
• 11.24A true vision can shatter the mind before it can steady it.
• 11.30Total power leaves no room for control.
• 11.34The battle is already decided; your task is only to act.
• 11.42Familiarity can hide greatness until awe breaks through.
• 11.44True reverence asks forgiveness without excuses.
• 11.46The infinite can overwhelm; devotion asks for a form the heart can bear.
• 12.2Full trust and steady remembrance make devotion complete.
• 14.4All forms arise from one source, and the divine gives them life.
• 18.55Devoted love turns understanding into immediate nearness.
• 18.65Wholehearted devotion becomes the shortest path home.
• 18.66Total refuge ends the burden of fear.
• 18.68Devotion deepens when sacred truth is passed on.
• 18.77Remembering Krishna's vast form still overwhelms the mind with wonder.