6 Bhagavad Gita Shlokas to Heal a Broken Heart Instantly
Riya Kumari | Sep 10, 2025, 15:36 IST
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Highlight of the story: Heartbreak is one of life’s heaviest burdens. It leaves you questioning your worth, your choices, and sometimes even the meaning of love itself. In those difficult hours when no friend’s words bring comfort and no distraction numbs the ache, the Bhagavad Gita becomes more than scripture, it becomes a companion.
A broken heart does not simply ache, it burns, it hollows you out, it makes silence heavy and nights unbearable. I know this not because I read it in a book, but because I have lived it. And when the world offered no balm, I turned to the one place where truth does not flatter, where wisdom does not console cheaply: the Bhagavad Gita. These verses are not remedies to “move on.” They are revelations. They do not erase pain, but they show you what pain is made of, where it comes from, and how it can be transmuted. They do not deny your suffering; they hold it, lift it, and remind you that within the ashes of what you lost, the eternal Self still shines.
(Bhagavad Gita, 2.47)
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
We love with expectation. We give with the silent hope of being received. And when the fruit we longed for rots in our hands, despair consumes us. Krishna whispers: you are not the owner of results, only of action. Love itself was never wasted. The outcome was never yours to control. Your heartbreak is not proof of failure, it is proof that you dared to love without knowing how the fruit would fall.
(Bhagavad Gita 6.5)
उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत्।
When the beloved leaves, the mind becomes a tyrant. It tells you lies: you were not enough, you are unworthy, you are broken. This verse is not gentle, it is a command: lift yourself up, do not degrade yourself. You are both your savior and your saboteur. In heartbreak, the greatest battle is not with the other, but within, the choice to treat yourself as a friend, not as the last enemy who remained after love deserted you.
(Bhagavad Gita 2.56)
दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः।
Sorrow will come. Joy will come. They arrive uninvited and depart unannounced. To cling to either is to be whipped by the tide. The one who steadies himself, who feels grief without drowning, who tastes joy without craving more—becomes a sage. Heartbreak teaches this brutally: you cannot stop waves, but you can stand like a rock, unmoved.
(Bhagavad Gita 2.20)
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचित् … न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।
Love feels dead when a relationship ends. But Krishna unmasks the illusion: nothing real can die. The soul of the one you loved, the essence of love itself, cannot be destroyed. The form has slipped through your fingers, yes. But the eternal, what truly connected you, lives. If you can look past the form, you will see that nothing was lost.
(Bhagavad Gita 18.66)
सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज।
There is a point where the heart is too heavy to carry alone. This is where surrender is not weakness, but survival. Give it to me, Krishna says. Abandon even the belief that you must heal yourself. Offer the ashes of your love, your sleepless nights, your tears at 3 a.m. , place them at His feet. What you cannot hold, the Divine will.
(Bhagavad Gita 17.23)
When everything crumbles, the mind asks: what is left? The Gita answers with three syllables: Om Tat Sat. Om, the eternal vibration. Tat, that all belongs to the Divine. Sat, that truth alone endures. Say it when the night crushes you. Whisper it when memories pierce. This mantra grounds you, not in the temporary, but in the timeless.
The Vedas say: duḥkham janma-vinasasca, sorrow is woven into birth and decay. Heartbreak is not an accident, it is a teacher. It strips away illusions of permanence. It asks you: will you cling to what perishes, or awaken to what cannot?
I have sat in the ashes of love. I have looked at the ruins and thought there was no beyond. But each shloka was a lamp in the darkness, not telling me to escape my pain, but to walk through it, until it revealed its secret: nothing was ever truly lost.
1. Do Your Duty, Release the Outcome
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
We love with expectation. We give with the silent hope of being received. And when the fruit we longed for rots in our hands, despair consumes us. Krishna whispers: you are not the owner of results, only of action. Love itself was never wasted. The outcome was never yours to control. Your heartbreak is not proof of failure, it is proof that you dared to love without knowing how the fruit would fall.
2. Be Your Own Friend, Not Your Enemy
उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत्।
When the beloved leaves, the mind becomes a tyrant. It tells you lies: you were not enough, you are unworthy, you are broken. This verse is not gentle, it is a command: lift yourself up, do not degrade yourself. You are both your savior and your saboteur. In heartbreak, the greatest battle is not with the other, but within, the choice to treat yourself as a friend, not as the last enemy who remained after love deserted you.
3. Unshaken Amidst Storms
दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः।
Sorrow will come. Joy will come. They arrive uninvited and depart unannounced. To cling to either is to be whipped by the tide. The one who steadies himself, who feels grief without drowning, who tastes joy without craving more—becomes a sage. Heartbreak teaches this brutally: you cannot stop waves, but you can stand like a rock, unmoved.
4. The Soul Never Dies
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचित् … न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।
Love feels dead when a relationship ends. But Krishna unmasks the illusion: nothing real can die. The soul of the one you loved, the essence of love itself, cannot be destroyed. The form has slipped through your fingers, yes. But the eternal, what truly connected you, lives. If you can look past the form, you will see that nothing was lost.
5. Surrender the Pain
सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज।
There is a point where the heart is too heavy to carry alone. This is where surrender is not weakness, but survival. Give it to me, Krishna says. Abandon even the belief that you must heal yourself. Offer the ashes of your love, your sleepless nights, your tears at 3 a.m. , place them at His feet. What you cannot hold, the Divine will.
6. Om Tat Sat, Anchor in the Eternal
When everything crumbles, the mind asks: what is left? The Gita answers with three syllables: Om Tat Sat. Om, the eternal vibration. Tat, that all belongs to the Divine. Sat, that truth alone endures. Say it when the night crushes you. Whisper it when memories pierce. This mantra grounds you, not in the temporary, but in the timeless.
Closing Reflection
I have sat in the ashes of love. I have looked at the ruins and thought there was no beyond. But each shloka was a lamp in the darkness, not telling me to escape my pain, but to walk through it, until it revealed its secret: nothing was ever truly lost.