Bhagavad Gita for Anxiety

“karmaṇy-evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana”

You have a right to your actions alone, never to their fruits. Let not the fruits be your motive, nor attachment draw you to inaction.

Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.

“ananyāś cintayanto māṁ ye janāḥ paryupāsate”

To those who think of Me with undivided heart, I carry what they lack and preserve what they have.

Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.

“sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja”

Let go of all your burdens and take refuge in Me alone. I will free you from all that weighs on you; do not grieve.

Krishna's final, crowning counsel to Arjuna at the close of the Gita, on the field of Kurukshetra — to surrender every burden and take refuge in the Divine alone.

“mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ”

Heat and cold, pleasure and pain come and go and do not last. Endure them with patience, dear one.

Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.