Gita Guidance
Bhagavad Gita Guidance
This room answers what to do, from the Bhagavad Gita, and every verse it quotes comes with its chapter and verse number.
Bring it as it is
What people come here with
None of this needs to be tidy before you write it. A half sentence is a start, and the guide will ask you the rest.
You are stuck
The same week keeps happening and nothing you try moves it. You are not looking for a plan so much as a reason to keep going.
You are grieving
Somebody has gone, or something has ended, and the days have not gone back to normal. The second chapter is where the book begins on this.
You are ashamed
You did something you cannot take back, or failed at something in front of people who saw it. Arjuna opens the book in that state.
You cannot decide
Two doors, weeks of circling, and both of them cost something. The Gita is largely about acting without knowing how it turns out.
You want to vent
No question, no decision, nothing to fix. You want to put it into words for somebody who is not in your family and will not repeat it.
How it goes
Three things happen, in this order
1
You say what is going on
In your own words, at whatever length you have in you. There is no form, no birth date and no dropdown to pick a topic from.
2
The guide listens first
It asks before it advises. Somebody who has just written one hard sentence gets a question back, not a lecture about detachment.
3
A verse arrives when it fits
When one is genuinely about your situation it is quoted with its chapter and verse, so you can open any copy of the book and read it in full.
Citations
Every verse is real
Ask any chatbot for a Gita verse and it will give you a chapter and a verse number with total confidence, and a fair share of the time the number will belong to a different line. That is the one failure a room like this cannot afford, because the whole claim it makes is that you can go and check. So the verses here are not recalled from memory. They are held as text, looked up against what you wrote, and the guide is only allowed to quote from what it was handed. If a reference appears on your screen, the line is there in the book at that chapter and that number, in Sanskrit, and you are meant to go and read the rest of it.
The whole book
Eighteen chapters, and what each one is about
The Gita is a conversation on a battlefield between a man who cannot go on and his charioteer. It runs to roughly seven hundred verses across eighteen chapters, and this is what they cover, in the words a reader would use rather than a commentator.
Arjuna's Despairअर्जुनविषादयोग
Arjuna Vishada Yoga, 47 verses
Arjuna looks at what he has to do, and cannot. The whole book starts here.
The Way of Knowledgeसांख्ययोग
Sankhya Yoga, 72 verses
What in you does not break, and why you can act without owning the result.
The Way of Actionकर्मयोग
Karma Yoga, 43 verses
Doing the work in front of you, even when you would rather withdraw from all of it.
Action with Understandingज्ञानकर्मसंन्यासयोग
Jnana Karma Sanyasa Yoga, 42 verses
How the same act can bind you or free you, depending on what you bring to it.
Renunciation in Actionकर्मसंन्यासयोग
Karma Sanyasa Yoga, 29 verses
Giving up is not the same as letting go. The difference is the chapter.
The Way of Meditationध्यानयोग
Dhyana Yoga, 47 verses
A restless mind, and the honest admission that it is hard to steady. With a method.
Knowledge and Realisationज्ञानविज्ञानयोग
Jnana Vijnana Yoga, 30 verses
Why people turn to something larger only when they are in trouble, and why that is fine.
The Imperishableअक्षरब्रह्मयोग
Akshara Brahma Yoga, 28 verses
What you hold in mind at the end is what you become. On death, and on fear of it.
The Royal Secretराजविद्याराजगुह्ययोग
Raja Vidya Raja Guhya Yoga, 34 verses
Nobody is too far gone. A leaf, a flower, a little water is enough of an offering.
Divine Gloriesविभूतियोग
Vibhuti Yoga, 42 verses
Where to look for the sacred when you cannot feel it: in whatever is best of its kind.
The Universal Formविश्वरूपदर्शनयोग
Vishvarupa Darshana Yoga, 55 verses
Arjuna asks to see everything, and is shown it. Awe, and the limits of what a person can hold.
The Way of Devotionभक्तियोग
Bhakti Yoga, 20 verses
Love as a path for people who cannot manage discipline. The gentlest chapter.
The Field and Its Knowerक्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञविभागयोग
Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga Yoga, 35 verses
You are not your body, your mood or your history. Something in you watches all three.
The Three Qualitiesगुणत्रयविभागयोग
Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga, 27 verses
Why some days are clear, some driven and some heavy, and how to notice which one you are in.
The Supreme Personपुरुषोत्तमयोग
Purushottama Yoga, 20 verses
The world as an upside-down tree, and the axe of detachment that cuts its roots.
The Divine and the Demonicदैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोग
Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga, 24 verses
Desire, anger and greed named as the three gates to ruin. Plain talk about character.
Three Kinds of Faithश्रद्धात्रयविभागयोग
Shraddhatraya Vibhaga Yoga, 28 verses
What you eat, give and worship says what you trust. Faith as a habit, not a belief.
Liberationमोक्षसंन्यासयोग
Moksha Sanyasa Yoga, 78 verses
Everything gathered up, and the final word: think it over fully, then do as you choose.
701 verses by this count. Editions differ over one line in the thirteenth chapter, which is why you will also see the number seven hundred. You do not need to know any of this to write your first message. It is here because people ask which chapter their situation is in.
Be clear about this
What this is not
This is not therapy and it is not a doctor. Nobody here is licensed, nothing said in this room is treatment, and a text written two thousand years ago is not a substitute for care from a person who is trained to give it. If what you are carrying is heavy enough that you have wondered about that, please go and get it.
It is also not a priest, a ritual, or a promise that anything will change. It is a room where you can say what is happening and read what one book has to say about it.
What it costs
One wallet, both rooms
Gita Guidance and Ask Panditji run on the same question wallet. A question asked here costs exactly what a question asked there costs, and a pack bought for either room is spent by both, so nobody has to choose which one to top up.
Signing in takes one tap with Google, and it is what gives the conversation somewhere to live so you can come back to it. After that the room runs on message packs, the smallest of which is ₹101. There is no card kept on file and nothing renews by itself.
Before you start
What people ask about this room
Is this religious advice?
No. The Gita is a religious text and this room quotes it, but nothing here asks you to believe anything, join anything or perform anything. People of every faith and of none read this book for the same reason, which is that it is about a person who cannot do what is in front of him. The guide quotes what Krishna told Arjuna and never speaks as Krishna.
Which translation do the verses come from?
The Sanskrit is quoted as it stands in the standard seven hundred verse text, and the English beside it is a plain rendering written for this site, kept close to the words rather than made poetic. You always get the chapter and the verse number, which is what lets you hold it against Gita Press, Eknath Easwaran or whichever copy you already own.
Can I write in Hindi?
Yes. Write in Hindi, in English, in Roman Hindi, or in the mix most people actually speak, and the answer comes back in the language you wrote in. Nothing has to be translated first and nothing is lost if you switch halfway through.
Is my conversation private?
It is saved to your account so you can pick it up where you left it, and it is not published, shown to other readers or sold. The room itself is kept out of search engines on purpose, which is why the page you are reading exists instead. Our privacy policy sets out what is stored and how to have it deleted.
Does it read my kundli?
No. This room never asks for a birth date, a time or a place, and it does not look at a chart even if you have one saved. Answers come from the text and from what you have told it. If you want your chart read, that is Ask Panditji, which is a different room.
What if I am in crisis right now?
Please call a person. Tele-MANAS is on 14416, free, day and night, in most Indian languages, and AASRA is on 9820466726. If you write it here the room will say the same thing and will not hand you a verse, because a chapter number is not what that moment needs.
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