The Song's Images — the Gītā's own similes
उपमानानि  The song's own pictures

The song's images

Kṛṣṇa teaches mostly in pictures, not abstractions — a lamp, a well, a tortoise, a tree upside down. Gathered here in one place, each with the verse that holds it.

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Notice how few of these images are grand. A well, a leaf, a tortoise, a lamp with no wind. The largest truths keep arriving in the smallest shapes.

Gathered from across all eighteen books · retold in our own words