Dharma in the Bhagavad Gita — 22 verses across Chapter 1, including 1.16, 1.26, 1.29, 1.32, 1.40. Sanskrit, Hindi, English. One reel per verse.
Yudhishthir — the eldest, the king — blew Anantavijay. Nakul blew Sughosh. Sahdev blew Manipushpak. Five brothers. Five named shankhas. Each one a mirror of the man holding it.
“Victory built on dharma has no expiry date.”
— Krishna
Arjun looked across the field. And he saw — fathers, grandfathers, teachers, uncles, brothers, sons, grandsons, friends. On both sides. His people. Everywhere.
“The enemy has a face. And you've known it your whole life.”
— Krishna
His body is trembling. His hair is standing on end. And Gandiva — the divine bow that never left his hand — is slipping from his grip.
“The weapon doesn't fall from the hand. It falls from the heart.”
— Krishna
Yesterday he didn't want victory. Today he doesn't want to be alive. What use is a kingdom, O Govind, when the people who'd share it are the ones you have to kill?
“A kingdom means nothing if the people you built it for are gone.”
— Krishna
When adharma rises, the structure collapses. The women who carried the lineage are left unprotected. And the social order that held everything together begins to unravel from the inside.
“Order doesn't collapse from the outside. It collapses when the people holding it are gone.”
— Krishna
Alas. What have we become? Driven by greed for a kingdom and its pleasures — we came here to kill our own people. We are the sin we accused them of.
“The hardest enemy to see is the one in the mirror.”
— Krishna
O Parth, do not yield to unmanliness. It does not befit you. O Parantap, cast off this petty weakness of heart and stand up.
“You are not this weakness. Stand up. Prove it.”
— Krishna
Arjun said: O Madhusudhan, O Arisudhan, how can I shoot arrows at Bhishm and Dronachary in battle? They are worthy of my reverence.
“The hardest arrows to fire are the ones aimed at the people who taught you to shoot.”
— Krishna
Better to live in this world by begging than to kill these great teachers. If I kill them, all pleasures I enjoy will be smeared with their blood.
“A throne smeared with your teacher's blood isn't a throne. It's a grave with cushions.”
— Krishna
We do not even know which outcome is better for us — whether we should conquer them or they should conquer us. Those very sons of Dhritarashtra stand before us, killing whom we would not wish to live.
“When both outcomes feel like losing, the problem isn't the options. It's the lens.”
— Krishna
I see no remedy that could drive away this grief which is drying up my senses — not even an unrivalled kingdom on earth, nor sovereignty over the gods.
“Some grief can't be solved. It can only be understood.”
— Krishna
O Bharat, between both armies, to the grief-stricken Arjun, Hrishikesha spoke these words — as if smiling.
“The teacher smiles when the student finally stops pretending they don't need help.”
— Krishna
Krishna said: You grieve for those who should not be grieved for, yet you speak words of wisdom. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.
“Wisdom that doesn't change how you act isn't wisdom. It's decoration.”
— Krishna
Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor these rulers of men. Nor will there ever be a time when all of us shall cease to exist.
“You were never born. You will never die. Everything in between is just a costume change.”
— Krishna
Just as the embodied self passes through childhood, youth, and old age in this body, so too does it pass into another body. The wise are not deluded by this.
“Death is just the next puberty. The self that survived the first will survive this one too.”
— Krishna
O Kaunteya, contact between the senses and their objects gives rise to cold and heat, pleasure and pain. They come and go and are impermanent. Endure them, O Bharat.
“Nothing that comes and goes deserves the power to break you.”
— Krishna
O Purusharshabha, that person whom these pleasure and pain do not disturb, who remains steady in both — that wise one is fit for immortality.
“Immortality isn't earned by escaping pain. It's earned by not being moved by it.”
— Krishna
Know that to be indestructible which pervades all this. None can destroy that imperishable reality.
“You are not the thing that breaks. You are the thing that remains after everything breaks.”
— Krishna
These bodies of the eternal, indestructible, and immeasurable self are said to be perishable. Therefore, O Bharat — fight.
“You're not killing the person. You're releasing them from the costume.”
— Krishna
One who thinks the self is the killer, and one who thinks it is killed — both are ignorant. The self neither kills nor is killed.
“The sword passes through the Self the way wind passes through sky. Nothing is touched.”
— Krishna
The self is never born, nor does it ever die. Having come into being once, it never ceases to be. It is unborn, eternal, permanent, and ancient — it is not killed when the body is killed.
“You didn't start at birth. You won't end at death. Everything between is one scene in an infinite story.”
— Krishna
O Partha, the one who knows the Self to be indestructible, eternal, unborn, and changeless — how can such a person kill anyone, or cause anyone to be killed?
“If you know you cannot die, who is there left to kill? The blade reaches the body. It never reaches you.”
— Krishna
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