Kṣetra No. 1
The Gītā opens on dharma. 687 verses later, Kṛṣṇa says, let it go.
The Gītā begins with a blind king’s question. Dhṛtarāṣṭra asks what happened on the field of dharma. Six hundred and eighty-seven verses later, near the very end, Kṛṣṇa gives Arjuna a different instruction: relinquish all dharmas, and take refuge in Him alone. The book that opens on dharma closes by asking you to set it down. Not to stop doing right. To stop carrying it alone.
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
The Gītā's first verse opens on the field of dharma: धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे.
Verse 688 of 700: Kṛṣṇa's instruction to relinquish all dharmas. Twelve verses follow it.
Counted in Vāṇi's 700-verse edition of the Bhagavad Gītā.
धृतराष्ट्र उवाच
धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे समवेता युयुत्सवः।
मामकाः पाण्डवाश्चैव किमकुर्वत सञ्जय।।
dhṛtarāśtra uvāca dharma-kṣetre kuru-kṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāścaiva kimakurvata sañjaya
Dhṛtarāṣṭra said: “O Sanjaya, what did my people and the Pāṇḍavas do, gathered together on the holy field of Kurukshetra, eager for battle?”
सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज।अहं त्वा सर्वपापेभ्यो मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुचः।।
sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ
Relinquishing all Dharmas completely, seek Me alone for refuge. I will release you from all sins; grieve not.
The Gītā begins with a question and ends its teaching with an instruction. 1.1 is Dhṛtarāṣṭra's question about what his people and the Pāṇḍavas did on the holy field of Kurukṣetra. 1.2 is where Sañjaya's answer starts. Near the end, 18.65 asks Arjuna to fix his mind on Kṛṣṇa, be his devotee, worship him and bow to him. Then 18.66 gives the instruction the story is about: give up all dharmas, take refuge in me alone, I will release you from all sins, do not grieve. 18.67 limits to whom it should be told. The story reads this as a close that mirrors the opening: a book that begins on dharma ends by asking you to set it down, which, it says, is not to stop doing right but to stop carrying it alone. Read both ends at chapter 1 and chapter 18, and what the Gītā says about dharma.