Once you have the ocean, the well gives you nothing new.
Whatever purpose is served by a small well is equally served by a great reservoir flooded on all sides with water. In the same way, all the purposes of the Vedas are fulfilled for the wise one who has realized the truth.
“A well gives water.
A flooded lake gives the same water.
One is not less true
than the other —
only smaller.
When you know the Self,
every scripture's promise
is already fulfilled.”
The Bhagavad Gita addresses truth across 4 verses in Chapter 1. From a single white-horse chariot, Madhav and Arjun raised their divine Shankhas. Two voices answered a whole army — and the whole field went quiet. As Krishna puts it: "Two Shankhas answered an entire army. Divinity doesn't need volume — it needs truth."
Which verses of the Gita are about truth?
Verse 1.14, Verse 1.19, Verse 2.16, Verse 2.46 in Chapter 1 (Arjun Vishad Yoga) all engage with truth. Each is presented in Sanskrit, Hindi, and English at thegitauniverse.com.
Who speaks about truth in the Bhagavad Gita?
2 different speakers in Chapter 1 invoke truth: Krishna, Dhritarashtra. The verses span the opening dialogue between Sanjaya, Dhritarashtra, Duryodhan, Bhishma, Arjun, and Krishna.