The Bhagavad Gita doesn’t tell us to “just be positive.” It doesn’t ask us to ignore our struggles. What it does is redefine our relationship with our own mind. It tells us something so radical, so unsettling in its truth, that it forces us to rethink everything: Your thoughts are not you.
1. The Mind Is a Tool, Not a Master
In the Gita, Arjuna stands on the battlefield, paralyzed. He is not weak—he is a warrior—but his mind is louder than his purpose. Doubt, fear, guilt—they take over. He sees ten different futures, none of them certain, and he drowns in them. We do this too. We get so tangled in our thoughts that we forget to act. We let our worst-case scenarios dictate our choices.
2. You Can Act Without Overthinking the Outcome
3. Perspective Can Save You From Yourself
There’s a moment in the Gita where Krishna tells Arjuna to see beyond the battlefield. To see that what looks like destruction is actually transformation.
That what seems like an end is part of something much larger. We forget this. We see our personal struggles as isolated, final, unbearable. But how many times have you looked back at something you once thought was the end of the world, only to realize it was just a chapter
4. The Self Is Not the Chaos of the Mind
The biggest reason we suffer is that we mistake the noise in our head for our identity. The Gita reminds us: You are not the shifting emotions. You are not the endless worries. You are not the opinions of others. You are not even the story you tell yourself about who you are.
