Topic

Inevitability

2 verses from the Bhagavad Gita on inevitability. Explore teachings across 2 chapters.

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Chapter 3 • Verse 5 →The Yoga of Action
Na hi kashcit kshanam api jatu tishthaty akarma-krit, karyate hy avashah karma sarvah prakriti-jair gunaih

No one can remain without action even for a moment. Indeed, all beings are compelled to act by their qualities born of material nature.

  • •Action is inevitable
  • •We are driven by our nature
  • •Choose conscious action over unconscious reaction
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Chapter 11 • Verse 28 →The Yoga of the Vision of the Universal Form
Yatha nadīnāṁ bahavo 'mbuvegāḥ samudram evābhimukhā dravanti, tathā tavāmī nara-loka-vīrā vishanti vaktrāṇy abhivijvalanti

As the many rushing torrents of rivers flow toward the ocean, so too do these great warriors of the human world rush into Your blazing mouths.

  • •All lives inevitably flow toward the divine
  • •Death is as natural as rivers flowing to the sea
  • •The warriors' fate is as certain as nature's course
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