throughout his life, have such a perverse outcome? Furthermore, the Gita's preacher, Lord Krishna, himself, performed actions throughout his life in incarnation on earth. He protected the saints, destroyed the wicked, and established dharma. Furthermore, he even stated that if he did not perform his duties with caution, people would abandon their actions and become lazy, thus shattering the dignity of society (3:23-24). This does not mean that the Gita is not for ascetics. It is for all Varnasramas. Everyone can practice their respective Varnasramas, following their devotion to either Sankhya or Yoga, as per their authority.
Devotion in the Gita
The Gita deals with devotion, knowledge, karma- all the subjects in detail: those who follow all paths can find enough material in it. But Arjuna was a devotee of the Lord, so while presenting all the subjects, where Arjuna has been commanded to practice himself, the Lord has often taught him devotional karma yoga (3.30; 817, 12.8; 18.57, 62, 65, 66). Sometimes only karma is also commanded (2.48, 50; 3.8, 9, 19:4.42: 6/46; 11.33-34), but even with that, devotion should be adhyahara from other places. In the thirty-fourth verse of the fourth chapter, the Lord has commanded Arjuna to go to the wise and learn knowledge, also to explain the system of attaining knowledge and to warn Arjuna. In fact, the Lord did not intend to send Arjuna to a sage to learn knowledge, nor did Arjuna go and learn knowledge anywhere in that process. Even in view of the undertaking and the conclusion, the end of the Gita seems to be in surrender. By the way, the precept of the Gita begins with the verse 'Ashochyananvashochastvam' (2.11), but the seed of this undertaking is in this statement of Arjuna 'Karpanyadoshopahatasvabhavah' (2.7), in which the meaning of 'prapannam' is clear. That is why 'all religions are abandoned'
There is no chapter in Gotaka in which the topic of devotion comes up somewhere or the other. For example, the sixty-first chapter of the second chapter, the thirty-ninth chapter of the third chapter, the eleventh chapter of the fourth chapter, the thirty-ninth chapter of the fourth chapter, the forty-seventh chapter of the sixth chapter, the fourteenth chapter of the seventh chapter, the fourteenth chapter of the eighth chapter, the thirty-fourth chapter of the ninth chapter, the ninth chapter of the tenth chapter, the fifty-fourth chapter of the eleventh chapter, the second chapter of the fourteenth chapter, the tenth chapter of the thirteenth chapter, The twenty-sixth verse of the fourteenth chapter, the nineteenth verse of the fifteenth chapter, the first verse of the sixteenth chapter (in which meditation on God has been talked about through the verse 'Gyanyogavyavstitih), the twenty-seventh verse of the seventeenth chapter and the sixty-sixth verse of the eighteenth chapter should be seen. In this way, the topic of devotion has come up in every chapter. From the seventh to the twelfth chapter, the topic of Bhaktiyoga is filled; For this reason, these six chapters are considered devotional. For example, only one verse per chapter is numbered here.
Similarly, wisdom-based verses are found in many chapters. For example, the twenty-ninth verse of the second chapter, the twenty-eighth verse of the third chapter, the twenty-fourth verse of the fourth chapter, the thirteenth verse of the fifth chapter, the twenty-ninth verse of the sixth chapter, the thirteenth verse of the eighth chapter, the fifteenth verse of the ninth chapter, the third verse of the twelfth chapter, the thirty-fourth verse of the thirteenth chapter, the nineteenth verse of the fourteenth chapter, and the forty-ninth verse of the eighteenth chapter should be considered. Among these, the second, fifth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and eighteenth chapters also contain the most wisdom-based verses.
Just as the mystery of devotion and knowledge is well revealed in the Gita, so the mystery of actions is also well revealed. From the forty-ninth to the fifty-third verse of the second chapter, from the fourth to the thirty-fifth verse of the third chapter, from the thirteenth to the thirty-second verse of the fourth chapter, from the second to the seventh verse of the fifth chapter. These also contain a special explanation of the mystery of actions in the forty-seventh chapter of the second and in the sixteenth to eighteenth chapters of the fourth. Besides, other chapters also describe actions.
No more evidence is being given than space-constraints. This shows that the Gita describes not only devotion but also knowledge, action and devotion