Viveka in the Bhagavad Gita

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

• 2.11Clear seeing ends grief where the wise know none is needed.
• 2.69What the many pursue in sleep, the wise leave behind awake.
• 3.38Clear seeing is not destroyed; it is simply covered.
• 4.40A divided mind loses both peace and direction.
• 13.1Real knowing starts by separating the seen from the seer.
• 13.4Clear seeing begins by separating the field from the one who knows it.
• 13.12Knowledge is seeing reality steadily; everything else is confusion.
• 13.24Clear seeing frees you while life still continues.
• 13.35Clear seeing separates you from what changes and opens the way beyond it.
• 14.11Inner brightness is the sign that clarity is taking over.
• 14.19Freedom begins when you stop mistaking qualities for a personal doer.
• 18.1Clear seeing begins with asking what must be separated.
• 18.25Blind action begins where clear seeing is absent.
• 18.30True intelligence recognizes the difference between bondage and freedom.
• 18.31Restless intelligence cannot tell duty from harm.