1. Introduction (1.1 – 27)
2. Arjuna’s doubts (1.28 – 42)

1. More Doubts: (2.1 - 10)
2. Jnana: (2.11 - 30)
3. Karmakanda: (2.31 - 38)
4. Buddhi Yoga (Niskama Karma) (2.39 – 53)
5. Samadhi: (2.54 – 72)

1. Renunciation or Work: (3.1 – 2)
2. Niskama Karma (3.3 - 9)
3. From Karmakanda to Karma Yoga (3.10 – 16)
4. Niskama Karma to set the correct example (3.17 – 32)
5. Beware of lust and anger (3.36 – 42)

1. Transcendental knowledge about Krishna (4.1 – 10)
2. Applying transcendental knowledge (4.11 – 15)
3. Understanding karma on the platform of Jnana (4.16 – 24)
4. Sacrifices lead to transcendental knowledge (4.16 - 24)
5. Conclusion (4.34 – 42)

1. Niskama Karma is equal to but easier than renouncing work (5.1 – 6)
2. The Performance of Niskama Karma (5.7 – 12)
3. Knowledge: the three doers in perspective (5.13 – 16)
4. Liberation: focusing on the Supersoul (5.17 – 26)
5. Liberation: Astanga Yoga preview (5.27 – 28)
6. Peace on the platform of liberation (5.29)

1. Advancing in Yoga through detached work: (6.1 – 4)
2. The Yogarudha stage: Giving up work (6.5 – 9)
3. Further stages in practice of Yoga (6.10 – 32)
4. Necessity of controlling the turbulent mind (6.33 – 36)
5. The destination of unsuccessful Yogi (6.37 – 45)
6. The topmost Yogi (6.46 – 47)

1. Knowing Krishna by hearing about Him (7.1 – 3)
2. Knowing Krishna as the source of material and spiritual energies (7.4 – 12)
3. The three gunas are controlled by Krishna (7.13 – 14)
4. Impious don’t surrender to Krishna, pious develop knowledge and surrender (7.15 – 19)
5. Those lacking knowledge also don’t surrender to Krishna (7.20 – 26)
6. Bewilderment and freedom through knowledge about Krishna (7.26 – 30)

1. Krishna answers Arjuna’s seven questions (8.1 – 4)
2. Remembering Krishna at the time of death (8.5 – 8)
3. Remembering Krishna (8.9 – 13)
4. Pure devotional service (8.14 – 16)
5. Material and spiritual worlds (8.17 – 22)
6. The supremacy of pure devotion in attaining Krishna (8.23 – 28)

1. Hearing about Krishna (9.1 – 3)
2. Aisvarya Jnana (9.4 – 10)
3. Worshiping Krishna (9.11 – 15)
4. Indirectly worshiping Krishna (9.16 – 25)
5. Glories of directly worshiping Krishna (9.26 – 34)

1. Understanding and serving Krishna (10.1 – 7)
2. The Catur Sloka (10.8 – 11)
3. Arjuna hears about Krishna’s opulences (10.12 – 18)
4. Krishna’s opulences (10.19 – 42)

1. Krishna describes His universal form (11.1 – 9)
2. Sanjaya’s description of Arjuna’s vision (11.10 – 31)
3. Arise and fight (11.32 – 34)
4. Arjuna’s prayers (11.35 – 46)
5. Only pure devotees can see Krishna’s two armed form

(11.47 – 55)

1. Bhakti over Impersonalism (12.1 – 7)
2. Progressive stages of devotion (12.8 – 12)
3. Qualities that endear on to Krishna ( 12.13 – 20)

1. Arjuna’s six questions (13.1 - 2)
2. Krishna’s answers (13.3 – 7)
3. The process of knowledge and liberation (13.8 – 12)
4. The object of knowledge (13.13 – 19)
5. Prakriti and Purusa (13.20 – 26)
6. Jnana Caksusa: The vision of knowledge (13.27 – 35)

1. The liberation and conditioning of the living entity

(14.1 – 4)

2. The modes bind the pure soul (14.5 – 18)
3. Recognizing a modes’s supremacy (14.10 – 13)
4. Actions and death within modes (14.14 – 18)
5. Transcending the modes (14.19 – 27)

1. Becoming detached from material world (15.1 – 5)
2. Transmigration of the living entity (15.6 – 11)
3. Krishna’s position as the maintainer (15.12 – 15)
4. Kinds of living entities (15.16 – 20)

1. Transcendental and demoniac qualities (16.1 – 6)
2. Demoniac nature (16.7 – 20)
3. Attaining the supreme destination (16.21 – 24)

1. Faith and worship in the modes of material nature

(17.1 – 7)

2. Foods in the modes (17.8 – 10)
3. Sacrifices in the modes (17.11 – 13)
4. Austerity in the modes (17.14 – 19)
5. Charity in the modes (17.20 – 22)
6. The conclusion: OM TAT SAT (17.23 – 28)

1. Summary of chapters 1-6: Karma sections (18.1 – 12)
2. Summary of chapters 1-6: Jnana sections (18.13 – 18)
3. The modes control all activities (18.19 – 40)
4. Freedom from reaction by occupational work (18.41 – 48)
5. From Niskama Karma to pure devotional service to Krishna (18.49 – 55)
6. Working in pure devotional service (18.56 – 60)
7. Surrender to the Supersoul (18.61 – 63)
8. The most confidential knowledge (18.64 – 66)
9. Preaching and studying Bhagavad Gita (18.67 – 71)
10. Arjuna is firmly fixed (18.72 – 73)
11. Sanjaya’s Predictions (18.74 – 78)