Arjuna asks
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 2.7“…my mind perplexed about my duty… tell me for certain what is good for me.”
Praśna No. 7
Then he says
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 2.7“I am your disciple; teach me.”
The Gītā begins with “I don't know.”
The teaching of the Gītā does not begin with an answer. It begins when Arjuna admits he does not know what is right, and asks to be taught. Every answer after this verse exists because of this question.
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The verse
Arjuna asks
BHAGAVAD GĪTĀ · 2.7कार्पण्यदोषोपहतस्वभावः
पृच्छामि त्वां धर्मसंमूढचेताः।
यच्छ्रेयः स्यान्निश्चितं ब्रूहि तन्मे
शिष्यस्तेऽहं शाधि मां त्वां प्रपन्नम्।।
kārpaṇya-doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ pṛcchāmi tvāṁ dharma-sammūḍha-cetāḥ yac-cchreyaḥ syānniścitaṁ brūhi tanme śiṣyaste ’haṁ śādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam
With my heart stricken by the fault of weak compassion, my mind perplexed about my duty, I implore you to tell me for certain what is good for me. I am your disciple; teach me, who have taken refuge in you.
The count
2.7 is verse 54 of 700, and verse 7 of 72 in chapter 2.
2.7 falls under the speaker label of Arjuna.
Śiṣya (disciple), in any form, appears in 2 verses of the 700: 1.3 and 2.7.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
Going deeper
2.7 is where the teaching of the Gītā begins. Before it, Arjuna has argued that he cannot fight. In 2.6 he says plainly that he does not know which is better for them, to win or to lose. In 2.7 he stops arguing. His heart is overcome by weak pity and his mind is confused about duty, so he asks Kṛṣṇa to tell him for certain what is good. He calls himself a disciple, takes refuge in Kṛṣṇa and asks to be taught. 2.8 adds that even the rule of a prosperous earth would not remove the grief that dries up his senses. Kṛṣṇa's long reply fills the rest of chapter 2 and everything after it. The question is not how to win an argument. It is how to learn what is right when you cannot see it, and the verse treats admitting that as the first step. See what the Gītā says about dharma.