Arjuna

173 verses across the Bhagavad-gītā.

• BG 1.21-22 Arjuna said: O infallible one, please draw my chariot between the two armies so that I may see those present here, who desire to fight,…
• BG 1.23 Let me see those who have come here to fight, wishing to please the evil-minded son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra.
• BG 1.28 Arjuna said: My dear Kṛṣṇa, seeing my friends and relatives present before me in such a fighting spirit, I feel the limbs of my body…
• BG 1.29 My whole body is trembling, my hair is standing on end, my bow Gāṇḍīva is slipping from my hand, and my skin is burning.
• BG 1.30 I am now unable to stand here any longer. I am forgetting myself, and my mind is reeling. I see only causes of misfortune, O Kṛṣṇa, killer…
• BG 1.31 I do not see how any good can come from killing my own kinsmen in this battle, nor can I, my dear Kṛṣṇa, desire any subsequent victory,…
• BG 1.32-35 O Govinda, of what avail to us are a kingdom, happiness or even life itself when all those for whom we may desire them are now arrayed on…
• BG 1.36 Sin will overcome us if we slay such aggressors. Therefore it is not proper for us to kill the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra and our friends. What…
• BG 1.37-38 O Janārdana, although these men, their hearts overtaken by greed, see no fault in killing one’s family or quarreling with friends, why…
• BG 1.39 With the destruction of the dynasty, the eternal family tradition is vanquished, and thus the rest of the family becomes involved in…
• BG 1.40 When irreligion is prominent in the family, O Kṛṣṇa, the women of the family become polluted, and from the degradation of womanhood, O…
• BG 1.41 An increase of unwanted population certainly causes hellish life both for the family and for those who destroy the family tradition. The…
• BG 1.42 By the evil deeds of those who destroy the family tradition and thus give rise to unwanted children, all kinds of community projects and…
• BG 1.43 O Kṛṣṇa, maintainer of the people, I have heard by disciplic succession that those whose family traditions are destroyed dwell always in…
• BG 1.44 Alas, how strange it is that we are preparing to commit greatly sinful acts. Driven by the desire to enjoy royal happiness, we are intent…
• BG 1.45 Better for me if the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, weapons in hand, were to kill me unarmed and unresisting on the battlefield.
• BG 2.4 Arjuna said: O killer of enemies, O killer of Madhu, how can I counterattack with arrows in battle men like Bhīṣma and Droṇa, who are…
• BG 2.5 It would be better to live in this world by begging than to live at the cost of the lives of great souls who are my teachers. Even though…
• BG 2.6 Nor do we know which is better – conquering them or being conquered by them. If we killed the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, we should not care to…
• BG 2.7 Now I am confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of miserly weakness. In this condition I am asking You to tell me for…
• BG 2.8 I can find no means to drive away this grief which is drying up my senses. I will not be able to dispel it even if I win a prosperous,…
• BG 2.54 Arjuna said: O Kṛṣṇa, what are the symptoms of one whose consciousness is thus merged in transcendence? How does he speak, and what is his…
• BG 3.1 Arjuna said: O Janārdana, O Keśava, why do You want to engage me in this ghastly warfare, if You think that intelligence is better than…
• BG 3.2 My intelligence is bewildered by Your equivocal instructions. Therefore, please tell me decisively which will be most beneficial for me.
• BG 3.36 Arjuna said: O descendant of Vṛṣṇi, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force?
• BG 4.4 Arjuna said: The sun-god Vivasvān is senior by birth to You. How am I to understand that in the beginning You instructed this science to…
• BG 5.1 Arjuna said: O Kṛṣṇa, first of all You ask me to renounce work, and then again You recommend work with devotion. Now will You kindly tell…
• BG 5.2 The Personality of Godhead replied: The renunciation of work and work in devotion are both good for liberation. But, of the two, work in…
• BG 5.3 One who neither hates nor desires the fruits of his activities is known to be always renounced. Such a person, free from all dualities,…
• BG 5.4 Only the ignorant speak of devotional service [karma-yoga] as being different from the analytical study of the material world [Sāṅkhya].…
• BG 5.5 One who knows that the position reached by means of analytical study can also be attained by devotional service, and who therefore sees…
• BG 5.6 Merely renouncing all activities yet not engaging in the devotional service of the Lord cannot make one happy. But a thoughtful person…
• BG 5.7 One who works in devotion, who is a pure soul, and who controls his mind and senses is dear to everyone, and everyone is dear to him.…
• BG 5.8-9 A person in the divine consciousness, although engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving about, sleeping and…
• BG 5.10 One who performs his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord, is unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus…
• BG 5.11 The yogīs, abandoning attachment, act with body, mind, intelligence and even with the senses, only for the purpose of purification.
• BG 5.12 The steadily devoted soul attains unadulterated peace because he offers the result of all activities to Me; whereas a person who is not in…
• BG 5.13 When the embodied living being controls his nature and mentally renounces all actions, he resides happily in the city of nine gates [the…
• BG 5.14 The embodied spirit, master of the city of his body, does not create activities, nor does he induce people to act, nor does he create the…
• BG 5.15 Nor does the Supreme Lord assume anyone’s sinful or pious activities. Embodied beings, however, are bewildered because of the ignorance…
• BG 5.16 When, however, one is enlightened with the knowledge by which nescience is destroyed, then his knowledge reveals everything, as the sun…
• BG 5.17 When one’s intelligence, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully cleansed of misgivings through…
• BG 5.18 The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a…
• BG 5.19 Those whose minds are established in sameness and equanimity have already conquered the conditions of birth and death. They are flawless…
• BG 5.20 A person who neither rejoices upon achieving something pleasant nor laments upon obtaining something unpleasant, who is self-intelligent,…
• BG 5.21 Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure but is always in trance, enjoying the pleasure within. In this way the…
• BG 5.22 An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kuntī, such…
• BG 5.23 Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force of desire and anger,…
• BG 5.24 One whose happiness is within, who is active and rejoices within, and whose aim is inward is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated…
• BG 5.25 Those who are beyond the dualities that arise from doubts, whose minds are engaged within, who are always busy working for the welfare of…
• BG 5.26 Those who are free from anger and all material desires, who are self-realized, self-disciplined and constantly endeavoring for perfection,…
• BG 5.27-28 Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping the eyes and vision concentrated between the two eyebrows, suspending the inward and…
• BG 5.29 A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all…
• BG 6.33 Arjuna said: O Madhusūdana, the system of yoga which You have summarized appears impractical and unendurable to me, for the mind is…
• BG 6.34 The mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate and very strong, O Kṛṣṇa, and to subdue it, I think, is more difficult than controlling the wind.
• BG 6.37 Arjuna said: O Kṛṣṇa, what is the destination of the unsuccessful transcendentalist, who in the beginning takes to the process of…
• BG 6.38 O mighty-armed Kṛṣṇa, does not such a man, who is bewildered from the path of transcendence, fall away from both spiritual and material…
• BG 6.39 This is my doubt, O Kṛṣṇa, and I ask You to dispel it completely. But for You, no one is to be found who can destroy this doubt.
• BG 10.12-13 Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ultimate abode, the purest, the Absolute Truth. You are the eternal,…
• BG 10.14 O Kṛṣṇa, I totally accept as truth all that You have told me. Neither the demigods nor the demons, O Lord, can understand Your personality.
• BG 10.15 Indeed, You alone know Yourself by Your own internal potency, O Supreme Person, origin of all, Lord of all beings, God of gods, Lord of…
• BG 10.16 Please tell me in detail of Your divine opulences by which You pervade all these worlds.
• BG 10.17 O Kṛṣṇa, O supreme mystic, how shall I constantly think of You, and how shall I know You? In what various forms are You to be remembered,…
• BG 10.18 O Janārdana, again please describe in detail the mystic power of Your opulences. I am never satiated in hearing about You, for the more I…
• BG 11.1 Arjuna said: By my hearing the instructions You have kindly given me about these most confidential spiritual subjects, my illusion has now…
• BG 11.2 O lotus-eyed one, I have heard from You in detail about the appearance and disappearance of every living entity and have realized Your…
• BG 11.3 O greatest of all personalities, O supreme form, though I see You here before me in Your actual position, as You have described Yourself,…
• BG 11.4 If You think that I am able to behold Your cosmic form, O my Lord, O master of all mystic power, then kindly show me that unlimited…
• BG 11.15 Arjuna said: My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, I see assembled in Your body all the demigods and various other living entities. I see Brahmā sitting on…
• BG 11.16 O Lord of the universe, O universal form, I see in Your body many, many arms, bellies, mouths and eyes, expanded everywhere, without…
• BG 11.17 Your form is difficult to see because of its glaring effulgence, spreading on all sides, like blazing fire or the immeasurable radiance of…
• BG 11.18 You are the supreme primal objective. You are the ultimate resting place of all this universe. You are inexhaustible, and You are the…
• BG 11.19 You are without origin, middle or end. Your glory is unlimited. You have numberless arms, and the sun and moon are Your eyes. I see You…
• BG 11.20 Although You are one, You spread throughout the sky and the planets and all space between. O great one, seeing this wondrous and terrible…
• BG 11.21 All the hosts of demigods are surrendering before You and entering into You. Some of them, very much afraid, are offering prayers with…
• BG 11.22 All the various manifestations of Lord Śiva, the Ādityas, the Vasus, the Sādhyas, the Viśvedevas, the two Aśvīs, the Maruts, the…
• BG 11.23 O mighty-armed one, all the planets with their demigods are disturbed at seeing Your great form, with its many faces, eyes, arms, thighs,…
• BG 11.24 O all-pervading Viṣṇu, seeing You with Your many radiant colors touching the sky, Your gaping mouths, and Your great glowing eyes, my mind…
• BG 11.25 O Lord of lords, O refuge of the worlds, please be gracious to me. I cannot keep my balance seeing thus Your blazing deathlike faces and…
• BG 11.26-27 All the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, along with their allied kings, and Bhīṣma, Droṇa, Karṇa – and our chief soldiers also – are rushing into Your…
• BG 11.28 As the many waves of the rivers flow into the ocean, so do all these great warriors enter blazing into Your mouths.
• BG 11.29 I see all people rushing full speed into Your mouths, as moths dash to destruction in a blazing fire.
• BG 11.30 O Viṣṇu, I see You devouring all people from all sides with Your flaming mouths. Covering all the universe with Your effulgence, You are…
• BG 11.31 O Lord of lords, so fierce of form, please tell me who You are. I offer my obeisances unto You; please be gracious to me. You are the…
• BG 11.36 Arjuna said: O master of the senses, the world becomes joyful upon hearing Your name, and thus everyone becomes attached to You. Although…
• BG 11.37 O great one, greater even than Brahmā, You are the original creator. Why then should they not offer their respectful obeisances unto You?…
• BG 11.38 You are the original Personality of Godhead, the oldest, the ultimate sanctuary of this manifested cosmic world. You are the knower of…
• BG 11.39 You are air, and You are the supreme controller! You are fire, You are water, and You are the moon! You are Brahmā, the first living…
• BG 11.40 Obeisances to You from the front, from behind and from all sides! O unbounded power, You are the master of limitless might! You are…
• BG 11.41-42 Thinking of You as my friend, I have rashly addressed You “O Kṛṣṇa,” “O Yādava,” “O my friend,” not knowing Your glories. Please forgive…
• BG 11.43 You are the father of this complete cosmic manifestation, of the moving and the nonmoving. You are its worshipable chief, the supreme…
• BG 11.44 You are the Supreme Lord, to be worshiped by every living being. Thus I fall down to offer You my respectful obeisances and ask Your…
• BG 11.45 After seeing this universal form, which I have never seen before, I am gladdened, but at the same time my mind is disturbed with fear.…
• BG 11.46 O universal form, O thousand-armed Lord, I wish to see You in Your four-armed form, with helmeted head and with club, wheel, conch and…
• BG 11.51 When Arjuna thus saw Kṛṣṇa in His original form, he said: O Janārdana, seeing this humanlike form, so very beautiful, I am now composed in…
• BG 13.1-2 Arjuna said: O my dear Kṛṣṇa, I wish to know about prakṛti [nature], puruṣa [the enjoyer], and the field and the knower of the field, and…
• BG 13.3 O scion of Bharata, you should understand that I am also the knower in all bodies, and to understand this body and its knower is called…
• BG 13.4 Now please hear My brief description of this field of activity and how it is constituted, what its changes are, whence it is produced, who…
• BG 13.5 That knowledge of the field of activities and of the knower of activities is described by various sages in various Vedic writings. It is…
• BG 13.6-7 The five great elements, false ego, intelligence, the unmanifested, the ten senses and the mind, the five sense objects, desire, hatred,…
• BG 13.8-12 Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness;…
• BG 13.13 I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the eternal. Brahman, the spirit, beginningless and subordinate to Me, lies…
• BG 13.14 Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes, heads and faces, and He has ears everywhere. In this way the Supersoul exists, pervading…
• BG 13.15 The Supersoul is the original source of all senses, yet He is without senses. He is unattached, although He is the maintainer of all…
• BG 13.16 The Supreme Truth exists outside and inside of all living beings, the moving and the nonmoving. Because He is subtle, He is beyond the…
• BG 13.17 Although the Supersoul appears to be divided among all beings, He is never divided. He is situated as one. Although He is the maintainer…
• BG 13.18 He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter and is unmanifested. He is knowledge, He is the…
• BG 13.19 Thus the field of activities [the body], knowledge and the knowable have been summarily described by Me. Only My devotees can understand…
• BG 13.20 Material nature and the living entities should be understood to be beginningless. Their transformations and the modes of matter are…
• BG 13.21 Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and…
• BG 13.22 The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association…
• BG 13.23 Yet in this body there is another, a transcendental enjoyer, who is the Lord, the supreme proprietor, who exists as the overseer and…
• BG 13.24 One who understands this philosophy concerning material nature, the living entity and the interaction of the modes of nature is sure to…
• BG 13.25 Some perceive the Supersoul within themselves through meditation, others through the cultivation of knowledge, and still others through…
• BG 13.26 Again there are those who, although not conversant in spiritual knowledge, begin to worship the Supreme Person upon hearing about Him from…
• BG 13.27 O chief of the Bhāratas, know that whatever you see in existence, both the moving and the nonmoving, is only a combination of the field of…
• BG 13.28 One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies, and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul…
• BG 13.29 One who sees the Supersoul equally present everywhere, in every living being, does not degrade himself by his mind. Thus he approaches the…
• BG 13.30 One who can see that all activities are performed by the body, which is created of material nature, and sees that the self does nothing,…
• BG 13.31 When a sensible man ceases to see different identities due to different material bodies and he sees how beings are expanded everywhere, he…
• BG 13.32 Those with the vision of eternity can see that the imperishable soul is transcendental, eternal, and beyond the modes of nature. Despite…
• BG 13.33 The sky, due to its subtle nature, does not mix with anything, although it is all-pervading. Similarly, the soul situated in Brahman…
• BG 13.34 O son of Bharata, as the sun alone illuminates all this universe, so does the living entity, one within the body, illuminate the entire…
• BG 13.35 Those who see with eyes of knowledge the difference between the body and the knower of the body, and can also understand the process of…
• BG 18.1 Arjuna said: O mighty-armed one, I wish to understand the purpose of renunciation [tyāga] and of the renounced order of life [sannyāsa], O…
• BG 18.73 Arjuna said: My dear Kṛṣṇa, O infallible one, my illusion is now gone. I have regained my memory by Your mercy. I am now firm and free…
• SB 1.7.22 Arjuna said: O my Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, You are the almighty Personality of Godhead. There is no limit to Your different energies. Therefore…
• SB 1.7.23 You are the original Personality of Godhead who expands Himself all over the creations and is transcendental to material energy. You have…
• SB 1.7.24 And yet, though You are beyond the purview of the material energy, You execute the four principles of liberation characterized by religion…
• SB 1.7.25 Thus You descend as an incarnation to remove the burden of the world and to benefit Your friends, especially those who are Your exclusive…
• SB 1.7.26 O Lord of lords, how is it that this dangerous effulgence is spreading all around? Where does it come from? I do not understand it.
• SB 1.15.5 Arjuna said: O King! The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, who treated me exactly like an intimate friend, has left me alone. Thus my…
• SB 1.15.6 I have just lost Him whose separation for a moment would render all the universes unfavorable and void, like bodies without life.
• SB 1.15.7 Only by His merciful strength was I able to vanquish all the lusty princes assembled at the palace of King Drupada for the selection of…
• SB 1.15.8 Because He was near me, it was possible for me to conquer with great dexterity the powerful King of heaven, Indradeva, along with his…
• SB 1.15.9 Your respectable younger brother, who possesses the strength of ten thousand elephants, killed, by His grace, Jarāsandha, whose feet were…
• SB 1.15.10 It was He only who loosened the hair of all the wives of the miscreants who dared open the cluster of your Queen’s hair, which had been…
• SB 1.15.11 During our exile, Durvāsā Muni, who eats with his ten thousand disciples, intrigued with our enemies to put us in dangerous trouble. At…
• SB 1.15.12 It was by His influence only that in a fight I was able to astonish the personality of god Lord Śiva and his wife, the daughter of Mount…
• SB 1.15.13 When I stayed for some days as a guest in the heavenly planets, all the heavenly demigods, including King Indradeva, took shelter of my…
• SB 1.15.14 The military strength of the Kauravas was like an ocean in which there dwelled many invincible existences, and thus it was insurmountable.…
• SB 1.15.15 It was He only who withdrew the duration of life from everyone and who, in the battlefield, withdrew the speculative power and strength of…
• SB 1.15.16 Great generals like Bhīṣma, Droṇa, Karṇa, Bhūriśravā, Suśarmā, Śalya, Jayadratha and Bāhlika all directed their invincible weapons against…
• SB 1.15.17 It was by His mercy only that my enemies neglected to kill me when I descended from my chariot to get water for my thirsty horses. And it…
• SB 1.15.18 O King! His jokings and frank talks were pleasing and beautifully decorated with smiles. His addresses unto me as “O son of Pṛthā, O…
• SB 1.15.19 Generally both of us used to live together and sleep, sit and loiter together. And at the time of advertising oneself for acts of…
• SB 1.15.20 O Emperor, now I am separated from my friend and dearmost well-wisher, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore my heart appears…
• SB 1.15.21 I have the very same Gāṇḍīva bow, the same arrows, the same chariot drawn by the same horses, and I use them as the same Arjuna to whom…
• SB 1.15.22-23 O King, since you have asked me about our friends and relatives in the city of Dvārakā, I will inform you that all of them were cursed by…
• SB 1.15.24 Factually this is all due to the supreme will of the Lord, the Personality of Godhead. Sometimes people kill one another, and at other…
• SB 1.15.25-26 O King, as in the ocean the bigger and stronger aquatics swallow up the smaller and weaker ones, so also the Supreme Personality of…
• SB 1.15.27 Now I am attracted to those instructions imparted to me by the Personality of Godhead [Govinda] because they are impregnated with…
• SB 10.58.19 [Arjuna said:] Who are you, O fine-waisted lady? Whose daughter are you, and where do you come from? What are you doing here? I think you…
• SB 10.58.20 Śrī Kālindī said: I am the daughter of the sun-god. I desire to get as my husband the most excellent and munificent Lord Viṣṇu, and to…
• SB 10.58.21 I will accept no husband other than Him, the abode of the goddess of fortune. May that Mukunda, the Supreme Personality, the shelter of…
• SB 10.58.22 I am known as Kālindī, and I live in a mansion my father built for me within the water of the Yamunā. There I will stay until I meet Lord…
• SB 10.58.23 [Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Arjuna repeated all this to Lord Vāsudeva, who was already aware of it. The Lord then took Kālindī onto His…
• SB 10.72.18 [Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna and Bhīma said:] O King, know us to be needy guests who have come to you from afar. We wish all good unto you. Please grant…
• SB 10.72.19 What can the tolerant not bear? What will the wicked not do? What will the generous not give in charity? And who will those of equal…
• SB 10.72.20 He indeed is to be censured and pitied who, though able to do so, fails to achieve with his temporary body the lasting fame glorified by…
• SB 10.72.21 Hariścandra, Rantideva, Uñchavṛtti Mudgala, Śibi, Bali, the legendary hunter and pigeon, and many others have attained the permanent by…
• SB 10.89.32 Śrī Arjuna said: I am neither Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa, O brāhmaṇa, nor Lord Kṛṣṇa, nor even Kṛṣṇa’s son. Rather, I am Arjuna, wielder of the…
• SB 10.89.33 Do not minimize my ability, which was good enough to satisfy Lord Śiva, O brāhmaṇa. I will bring back your sons, dear master, even if I…
• SB 10.89.34 Thus convinced by Arjuna, O tormentor of enemies, the brāhmaṇa went home, satisfied by having heard Arjuna’s declaration of his prowess.
• SB 10.89.35 When the wife of the elevated brāhmaṇa was again about to give birth, he went to Arjuna in great anxiety and begged him, “Please, please…
• SB 10.89.36 After touching pure water, offering obeisances to Lord Maheśvara and recollecting the mantras for his celestial weapons, Arjuna strung his…
• SB 10.89.37 Arjuna fenced in the house where the birth was taking place by shooting arrows attached to various missiles. Thus the son of Pṛthā…
• SB 10.89.38 The brāhmaṇa’s wife then gave birth, but after the newborn infant had been crying for a short time, he suddenly vanished into the sky in…
• SB 10.89.39 The brāhmaṇa then derided Arjuna in front of Lord Kṛṣṇa: “Just see how foolish I was to put my faith in the bragging of a eunuch!
• SB 10.89.40 “When neither Pradyumna, Aniruddha, Rāma nor Keśava can save a person, who else can possibly protect him?
• SB 10.89.41 “To hell with that liar Arjuna! To hell with that braggart’s bow! He is so foolish that he has deluded himself into thinking he can bring…
• SB 10.89.42 While the wise brāhmaṇa continued to heap insults upon him, Arjuna employed a mystic incantation to go at once to Saṁyamanī, the city of…
• SB 10.89.43-44 Not seeing the brāhmaṇa’s child there, Arjuna went to the cities of Indra, Agni, Nirṛti, Soma, Vāyu and Varuṇa. With weapons at the ready…