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📖 18 chapters📜 700 verses (701 with 13.1)🔗 7 verses cited on SahiVidhi

Shri Krishna's teaching to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. These are the verses we cite in our guides — the Sanskrit, the Roman transliteration, and the meaning in plain English.

१Why follow a vidhi

Bhagavad Gita 16.23
यः शास्त्रविधिमुत्सृज्य वर्तते कामकारतः।
न स सिद्धिमवाप्नोति न सुखं न परां गतिम्॥
yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya vartate kāma-kārataḥ, na sa siddhim avāpnoti na sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim.

One who sets aside the injunctions of the shastra and acts on impulse attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the highest goal.

Read together with the next verse.

Bhagavad Gita 16.24
तस्माच्छास्त्रं प्रमाणं ते कार्याकार्यव्यवस्थितौ।
ज्ञात्वा शास्त्रविधानोक्तं कर्म कर्तुमिहार्हसि॥
tasmāc chāstraṁ pramāṇaṁ te kāryākārya-vyavasthitau, jñātvā śāstra-vidhānoktaṁ karma kartum ihārhasi.

Therefore let the shastra be your authority in deciding what should and should not be done. Knowing what the shastra directs, you should act here.

This is why every SahiVidhi step shows its source — pramāṇa means proof.

Used inSatyanarayan Puja — proof legendGranth libraryRead in chapter 16 →
Bhagavad Gita 17.11
अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिर्यज्ञो विधिदृष्टो य इज्यते।
यष्टव्यमेवेति मनः समाधाय स सात्त्विकः॥
aphalākāṅkṣibhir yajño vidhi-dṛṣṭo ya ijyate, yaṣṭavyam eveti manaḥ samādhāya sa sāttvikaḥ.

Worship that is offered as the shastra directs (vidhi-dṛṣṭa), by those who do not crave its fruit, with the mind resolved that “this ought to be done” — that worship is sattvic.

Used inSatyanarayan · Step 3 SankalpRead in chapter 17 →

२What to offer

Bhagavad Gita 9.26
पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति।
तदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मनः॥
patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati, tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ.

Whoever offers Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water — that offering of love from a pure heart, I accept.

This is the principle behind accepted alternatives: devotion matters more than the item. It is not a licence to skip items — use the substitutes your tradition accepts.

Used inSatyanarayan · Samagri alternativesStep 6 · PujaRead in chapter 9 →
Bhagavad Gita 9.27
यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत्।
यत्तपस्यसि कौन्तेय तत्कुरुष्व मदर्पणम्॥
yat karoṣi yad aśnāsi yaj juhoṣi dadāsi yat, yat tapasyasi kaunteya tat kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam.

Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer in worship, whatever you give, whatever austerity you practise — O son of Kunti, do it as an offering to Me.

Read together with 9.26.

३Prasad & dakshina

Bhagavad Gita 3.13
यज्ञशिष्टाशिनः सन्तो मुच्यन्ते सर्वकिल्बिषैः।
भुञ्जते ते त्वघं पापा ये पचन्त्यात्मकारणात्॥
yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ, bhuñjate te tv aghaṁ pāpā ye pacanty ātma-kāraṇāt.

The good, who eat what remains after the offering, are freed from all faults; but those who cook only for themselves eat only sin.

This is why food is offered first and then shared as prasad.

Used inSatyanarayan · Step 9 PrasadRead in chapter 3 →
Bhagavad Gita 17.13
विधिहीनमसृष्टान्नं मन्त्रहीनमदक्षिणम्।
श्रद्धाविरहितं यज्ञं तामसं परिचक्षते॥
vidhi-hīnam asṛṣṭānnaṁ mantra-hīnam adakṣiṇam, śraddhā-virahitaṁ yajñaṁ tāmasaṁ paricakṣate.

Worship performed without vidhi, without distributing food, without mantra, without dakshina and without faith is called tamasic.

Read the other way round, this lists what completes a puja: the right method, prasad shared, mantras, dakshina and faith.

Used inSatyanarayan · Step 9 PrasadSamagri · DakshinaRead in chapter 17 →

४Read all 18 chapters

Every one of the 701 verses, right here — Sanskrit, Roman transliteration and English. Show or hide each line to read the way you like.

  1. १Arjuna Vishada YogaArjuna's despair · 47 verses
  2. २Sankhya YogaKnowledge of the self · 72 verses
  3. ३Karma YogaThe path of action · 43 verses
  4. ४Jnana Karma Sannyasa YogaKnowledge and renunciation · 42 verses
  5. ५Karma Sannyasa YogaRenunciation of action · 29 verses
  6. ६Atma Samyama YogaMeditation · 47 verses
  7. ७Jnana Vijnana YogaKnowledge and realisation · 30 verses
  8. ८Akshara Brahma YogaThe imperishable · 28 verses
  9. ९Raja Vidya Raja Guhya YogaThe royal secret · 34 verses
  10. १०Vibhuti YogaDivine glories · 42 verses
  11. ११Vishvarupa Darshana YogaThe cosmic form · 55 verses
  12. १२Bhakti YogaThe path of devotion · 20 verses
  13. १३Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga YogaThe field and its knower · 35 verses
  14. १४Gunatraya Vibhaga YogaThe three gunas · 27 verses
  15. १५Purushottama YogaThe supreme person · 20 verses
  16. १६Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga YogaDivine and demonic natures · 24 verses
  17. १७Shraddhatraya Vibhaga YogaThe three kinds of faith · 28 verses
  18. १८Moksha Sannyasa YogaLiberation through renunciation · 78 verses

Sanskrit text: traditional, public domain. Chapter English: Annie Besant, The Bhagavad-Gita (1905), public domain. Sanskrit cross-checked verse by verse against Besant's edition. The meanings on this page are SahiVidhi's plain-language renderings, awaiting scholar review. This edition counts Arjuna's question at the start of chapter 13 as a verse (701 in all); many editions omit it (700).