Pick a date, or leave today’s date as it is, and this free tool shows the Bhagavad Gita verse for that day, in Devanagari, with a transliteration and a meaning in plain English. The second form opens any verse by its chapter and number. Every verse comes from our own Bhagavad Gita pages, so what you see here is word for word what the chapter page shows.
How it works
One verse a day, in order. The Gita has 18 chapters and, in the count our pages follow, 700 verses. The daily reading walks through them in order, one a day. Day one of the reading was 1 January 2026, with verse 1.1. The next day is 1.2, and so on to the last verse of chapter 18, verse 78, after which the reading begins again with 1.1. One round takes 700 days, so verse 2.47 falls on 4 April 2026 and again on 4 March 2028. Dates before 2026 are counted back the same way, so every date from 1900 to 2074 has its verse.
The text is read from our chapter page. When you ask for a verse, the tool opens the chapter page on this site and takes that verse from it: the speaker, the Sanskrit, the transliteration, the meaning, and the note where the page has one. Nothing is typed again, so a correction on a chapter page shows here at once. The chapter list and the number of verses in each chapter come from the same data the Gita hub uses.
The edition. Our pages print the Sanskrit of an old edition, the Gita Bhashya of Shankaracharya, edited by Hari Raghunath Bhagavat (second edition, Poona, 1929), checked against the critical edition of the Mahabharata. The hub page describes how each verse was read and compared.
Reading the result
The large line names the verse, such as Bhagavad Gita 7.30, and the line under it gives the date, the chapter’s name and the verse’s place in the reading, such as number 310 of 700. The card below shows the verse as the chapter page shows it. You can copy the verse with its reference and a link, or open it in its chapter to read the verses around it. The note gives the next day’s verse. When you open a verse by its number, the note tells you on which days it is the verse of the day.
Where traditions differ
- Chapter 13. Many printed editions add a verse at the start of chapter 13, a question from Arjuna, and count 35 verses there and 701 in all. Our pages, like the old print and the critical edition, count 34 in chapter 13 and 700 in all, so verse 13.1 here is 13.2 in those editions. The chapter 13 page explains this.
- Other reading plans. Teachers and study groups follow their own order and pace. This tool follows one simple plan, stated above. If your teacher gives another order, follow it; the second form opens any verse you need.
- Meanings. The meaning on our pages is a plain rendering for a first reading. As the Gita hub says, the great commentators, among them Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva, read the text in different ways, and a teacher’s reading may differ from ours.
What it does not do
It does not pick a verse for your situation or say what a verse means for you. It does not give a commentary; for that, read a full commentary or ask a teacher. It does not send anything you choose to us: the only request it makes is for our own chapter page.
Frequently asked questions
↳ How is the verse of the day chosen?
By a fixed reading order, not at random. Verse 1.1 was the verse for 1 January 2026, and each day after it is the next verse, through all 700. After 18.78 the reading starts again, so the round is 700 days long.
↳ Does everyone see the same verse today?
Yes, for the same date. The tool uses the date on your own device, so on a day when it is already tomorrow in one country and still today in another, the two places see consecutive verses.
↳ When does 2.47 come up?
Verse 2.47, on action and its fruit, is number 94 in the reading. It falls on 4 April 2026 and again on 4 March 2028.
↳ Why does my book number the verses of chapter 13 differently?
Many printed editions add a verse at the start of chapter 13 and count 35 verses there. Our pages count 34, as the old print and the critical edition do, so their verse numbers in that chapter are one more than ours.
↳ Where do the Sanskrit and the meaning come from?
From our Bhagavad Gita chapter pages. The Sanskrit follows the 1929 Poona edition of the Gita with Shankara's commentary, read from its page images; each verse also has a simple transliteration and a meaning written in plain English for the page.
↳ Can I open a verse by its number?
Yes. Choose the chapter and type the verse number in the second form. The tool checks that the chapter has that many verses and tells you on which days that verse is the verse of the day.