Bhagavad Gita / ChaptersWhen the heart
CHAPTER 1 · ARJUNA VIṢĀDA YOGA
When the heart
asks for guidance.
The Gita begins with a battlefield and an inner crisis. Arjuna’s grief becomes the doorway through which spiritual enquiry begins.
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THE FIRST TURNING POINT
Despair can become
spiritual enquiry.
Arjuna’s crisis does not end the journey. It gives him the honesty to ask for a wiser way forward.