Purushottama in the Bhagavad Gita

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

• 10.15The supreme one is known fully only by the supreme one.
• 10.42The whole universe rests in a single fragment of the divine.
• 14.20Freedom begins when the three qualities no longer define you.
• 15.1Understanding the world-tree is the beginning of true understanding.
• 15.4The final refuge is a state where return itself stops.
• 15.5Freedom begins when pride, craving, and inner division fall away.
• 15.6The highest home is beyond every ordinary light and beyond return.
• 15.7What is eternal gets pulled around by what changes.
• 15.10What changes is seen by the wise; the true self is not what moves.
• 15.11Seeing the supreme reality depends on inner purification, not effort alone.
• 15.17Even the imperishable witness is not the final reality.
• 15.18The highest reality lies beyond both change and permanence.
• 15.19Clear seeing of the Supreme Self becomes total devotion.
• 15.20Secret knowledge makes a person complete.