Uncovering Arjuna's Questions from Bhagavad-gita

Bhagavad-gita As It Is consists of 700 verses, of which Lord Kṛṣṇa speaks 573 verses, Arjuna speaks 83 verses, Sañjaya speaks 41 verses and King Dhritarashtra speaks one verse. Here below is a compilation of the questions that Arjuna asked Kṛṣṇa, which made this conversation the most pertinent dialogue of all times.

QN No.	BG Verse Reference	Question
1	BG 1.32-35	O Madhusūdana, when teachers, fathers, sons, grandfathers, maternal uncles, fathers-in-law, grandsons, brothers-in-law and all relatives are ready to give up their lives and properties and are standing before me, then why should I wish to kill them, though I may survive?
2	BG 1.36	What should we gain, O Krsna, husband of the goddess of fortune, and how could we be happy by killing our own kinsmen?
3	BG 1.37-38	Although these men, overtaken by greed, see no fault in killing one's family or quarreling with friends, why should we, with knowledge of the sin, engage in these acts?
4	BG 2.4	How can I counterattack with arrows in battle men like Bhisma and Drona, who are worthy of my worship?
5	BG 2.7	Now I am confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of weakness. In this condition I am asking You to tell me clearly what is best for me. Now I am Your disciple, and a soul surrendered unto You. Please instruct me.
6	BG 2.54	What are the symptoms of one whose consciousness is thus merged in Transcendence?
7	BG 2.54	How does he speak, and what is his language?
8	BG 2.54	How does he sit, and how does he walk?
9	BG 3.1	Why do You urge me to engage in this ghastly warfare, if You think that intelligence is better than fruitive work?
10	BG 3.2	My intelligence is bewildered by Your equivocal instructions. Therefore, please tell me decisively what is most beneficial for me.
11	BG 3.36	By what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force?
12	BG 4.4	The sun-god Vivasvan is senior by birth to You. How am I to understand that in the beginning You instructed this science to him?
13	BG 5.1	O Krsna, first of all You ask me to renounce work, and then again You recommend work with devotion. Now will You kindly tell me definitely which of the two is more beneficial?
14	BG 6.37	What is the destination of the man of faith who does not persevere, who in the beginning takes to the process of self-realization but who later desists due to worldly-mindedness & thus does not attain perfection in mysticism?
15	BG 6.38	Does not such a man, being deviated from the path of Transcendence, perish like a riven cloud, with no position in any sphere?
16	BG 8.1	What is Brahman?
17	BG 8.1	What is the self?
18	BG 8.1	What are fruitive activities?
19	BG 8.1	What is this material manifestation?
20	BG 8.1	What are the demigods?
21	BG 8.2	How does this Lord of sacrifice live in the body, and in which part does He live, O Madhusūdana?
22	BG 8.2	How can those engaged in devotional service know You at the time of death?
23	BG 10.16	Please tell me in detail of Your divine powers by which You pervade all these worlds and abide in them.
24	BG 10.17	How should I meditate on You?
25	BG 10.17	In what various forms are You to be contemplated, O Blessed Lord?
26	BG 10.18	Tell me again in detail, O Janārdana, of Your mighty potencies and glories, for I never tire of hearing Your ambrosial words.
27	BG 11.4	If You think that I am able to behold Your cosmic form, O my Lord, O master of all mystic power, then kindly show me that universal self.
28	BG 12.1	Arjuna inquired: Which is considered to be more perfect: those who are properly engaged in Your devotional service, or those who worship the impersonal Brahman, the unmanifested?
29	BG 13.1-2	I wish to know about prakṛti [nature], Puruṣa [the enjoyer], and the field and the knower of the field, and of knowledge and the end of knowledge.
30	BG 14.21	By what symptoms is one known who is transcendental to those modes? What is his behavior? And how does he transcend the modes of nature?
31	BG 17.1	What is the situation of one who does not follow the principles of scripture but worships according to his own imagination? Is he in goodness, in passion or in ignorance?
32	BG 18.1	I wish to understand the purpose of renunciation [tyāga] and of the renounced order of life [sannyāsa].