Srimad Bhagavad Gita Shloka detailed explanation

Shloka 13.11 “Unswerving devotion to Me with singleminded yoga, resorting to solitary places, distaste for crowds.” Key Teaching: Knowledge includes devotion to Krishna and solitude. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga, Bhakti Yoga. Description: Krishna continues defining knowledge: unswerving devotion to Him through singleminded yoga, resorting to solitary places, and distaste for crowds. This […]

Shloka 13.10 “Nonattachment, nonidentification with son, wife, or home, constant evenmindedness in desirable and undesirable events.” Key Teaching: Knowledge includes nonattachment and equanimity. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna further defines knowledge: nonattachment, nonidentification with family or home, and constant evenmindedness in desirable and undesirable events. This verse, continuing 13.9, addresses Arjuna’s

Shloka 13.9 “Dispassion toward sense objects, absence of ego, perception of the evil in birth, death, old age, disease, and pain.” Key Teaching: Knowledge includes dispassion and awareness of suffering. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna continues defining knowledge: dispassion toward sense objects, absence of ego, and perceiving the evil in birth,

Shloka 13.8 “Humility, modesty, nonviolence, patience, uprightness, service to the teacher, purity, steadfastness, selfcontrol.” Key Teaching: True knowledge includes virtues like humility and nonviolence. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna lists qualities of true knowledge: humility, modesty, nonviolence, patience, uprightness, service to the teacher, purity, steadfastness, and selfcontrol. This verse, continuing 13.7,

Shloka 13.7 “Desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the aggregate, consciousness, fortitude—the field with its modifications is thus described.” Key Teaching: The field includes emotions, consciousness, and modifications. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna continues describing the field, including desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, the aggregate (body), consciousness, and fortitude. This verse, continuing 13.6, addresses

Shloka 13.6 “The great elements, ego, intellect, the unmanifest, the ten senses, the mind, and the five sense objects.” Key Teaching: The field includes elements, ego, intellect, and senses. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna lists the field’s components: five great elements, ego, intellect, the unmanifest, ten senses, mind, and five sense

Shloka 13.5 “Sages have sung of it in many ways, through various hymns, and Brahmasutra aphorisms, wellreasoned and definitive.” Key Teaching: Sages have described the field and knower through hymns and aphorisms. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna notes that sages have described the field and knower in various hymns and wellreasoned

Shloka 13.4 “Hear from Me in brief what the field is, its nature, modifications, causes, and who the knower is, with his powers.” Key Teaching: Krishna will explain the field, its nature, and the knower’s powers. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna promises to briefly explain the field, its nature, modifications, causes,

Shloka 13.3 “Know Me as the knower of the field in all fields, O Bharata; knowledge of the field and knower is true knowledge.” Key Teaching: Krishna is the knower in all fields; knowing this is true knowledge. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga, Bhakti Yoga. Description: Krishna declares Himself the knower of the

Shloka 13.2 “The Blessed Lord said: This body, O Kaunteya, is called the field; he who knows it is called the knower of the field.” Key Teaching: The body is the field; the soul is its knower. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna defines the body as the field (kshetra) and the