How the teaching unfolds from provisional rebuke through knowledge, action, devotion, to final surrender
Krishna’s Teaching Progression
- Provisional Rebuke2·2–3Krishna first targets the vital ego to clear the tamasic collapse
- Sānkhya Foundation2·11–30The Self is eternal, unborn, undying — the metaphysical foundation
- Karma Yoga Introduction2·31–53From knowledge to action: your right is to the work alone
- Portrait of Sthitaprajña2·54–72The ideal of the man of steady wisdom — how he speaks, sits, walks
- The Action Imperative3·1–35No one can remain inactive; act as sacrifice, not for desire
- Inner Enemies Identified3·36–43Desire and wrath as the soul’s enemies, veiling knowledge like smoke veils fire
- The Divine Worker4·1–24The Avatar principle; divine action as the model for human action
- Knowledge as Sacrifice4·25–42Various forms of sacrifice; all action culminates in knowledge
- Works vs Renunciation5·1–29The yoga of works is superior to mere renunciation of works
- The Method of Meditation6·1–32Practical instruction in dhyana: posture, attention, the lamp in a windless place
- Honest Doubt & Reassurance6·33–47The mind is turbulent as wind; but practice and dispassion tame it; no good effort is wasted
- The Two Natures Revealed7·1–19Lower and higher prakriti; the thread on which all is strung; Vasudeva is all
- Divine Māyā & Refuge7·14–30This divine maya of mine is hard to cross; those who take refuge cross over it
- Rāja-Vidyā: Royal Knowledge9·1–34The most secret teaching: pervading yet transcendent; a leaf, a flower offered with devotion
- Divine Glories10·1–42I am the Self in the heart of all; whatever is glorious springs from a fragment of My splendour
- The Cosmic Revelation11·1–55The supreme vision: thousand suns, Time the Destroyer, be merely the instrument
- Bhakti Declared Supreme12·1–20Those who fix their minds on Me with faith — the most perfect in Yoga
- Field & Knower Analysis13·1–35The body is the field; know Me as the Knower in all fields
- The Three Guṇas Analyzed14·1–27Even sattva binds; unswerving devotion alone transcends the gunas
- The Supreme Person15·1–20Beyond the mutable and immutable — the Purushottama, the threefold Purusha doctrine
- Divine & Demoniac Natures16·1–24The divine endowment leads to liberation; the demoniac to bondage
- Threefold Faith & Action17·1–28Faith, sacrifice, austerity, and charity — each threefold by the gunas
- The Final Synthesis18·1–55True renunciation is of attachment, not of action; svadharma as worship; knowledge opens to devotion
- The Supreme Secret18·56–66Taking refuge in Me; the most secret word; abandon all dharmas — the absolute surrender
- Resolution & Closure18·67–78My delusion is destroyed; wherever Krishna and Arjuna, there is victory
