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Arjuna's Despondency: Quick Summary

Seeing his own people before him, Arjuna's body gives way: his limbs weaken and the bow begins to slip from his hand (1.29-30).

अंग्रेज़ी 11 मिनट Arjuna's Despondency

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Duty, Honour and Fear: Quick Summary

The Lord speaks to Arjuna in his own language: duty, name and what people will say (2.31-37).

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Even the Worst Offender: Quick Summary

A person of very bad conduct who worships with undivided devotion is to be regarded as righteous, because he has resolved rightly (9.30).

अंग्रेज़ी 10 मिनट Even the Worst Offender

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From Thought to Ruin: Quick Summary

From dwelling on an object comes attachment, from attachment desire, from desire anger, from anger confusion, then loss of memory, loss of understanding and at last ruin (2.62-63).

अंग्रेज़ी 8 मिनट From Thought to Ruin

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Merely an Instrument: Quick Summary

The Lord calls Himself Time and says that even without Arjuna the warriors on the other side will not remain (11.32).

अंग्रेज़ी 10 मिनट Merely an Instrument

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The Eighteen Chapters at a Glance: Quick Summary

The 18 chapters and 701 verses of the Gita move in the order of Arjuna's questions: from sitting down in despair to decision.

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The Enemy Called Desire: Quick Summary

Arjuna asks why a person sins even against his wish, and the Lord names desire and anger born of passion as the cause (3.36-37).

अंग्रेज़ी 8 मिनट The Enemy Called Desire

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The Steadfast Devotee and Divine Care: Quick Summary

Great souls take refuge in the divine nature, know the Lord as the origin of all, and worship with an undivided mind (9.13).

अंग्रेज़ी 8 मिनट The Steadfast Devotee and Divine Care

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What We Worship, We Become: Quick Summary

The Lord steadies the faith of one who worships another god with faith, and the arranging of the fruit is His (7.21, 7.22).

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Gita 3.17 to 3.26: Why the One Who Lacks Nothing Still Acts

The one who is content in the self has no duty left to gain anything and nothing to lose by stopping (3.17-18), yet is told to act well and without clinging (3.19).

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Can the Chain Be Broken? Commentators, Objections and Answers on Gita 2.62–63

Gita 2.62–63 describes how a mind falls when nothing holds it, and 2.61 names what holds it, devotion to the Lord with the senses restrained.

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The Enemy Called Desire: Gita 3.36–43 Verse by Verse

Gita 3.36–43 asks why a person does wrong against his will and answers that desire and anger, born of passion, are the enemy (3.36–37).

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The Seven Steps of the Fall: How Gita 2.62–63 Traces Thought into Ruin

Gita 2.62–63 sets seven steps between a quiet thought and ruin, and each step weakens what could stop the next.

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Who Drives Us Against Our Will? Commentators, Objections and Answers on Gita 3.36–43

The force that drives a person against his will is a state of his own nature, desire born of passion, and not an outside power (3.36–37, 5.14, 3.27).

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Arjuna Before the Teaching: A Close Reading of Gita 1.28 to 2.10

Arjuna's collapse comes in an order. The body gives way first (1.29-30), then his sense of what victory is worth (1.31-35), then his reasons (1.36-44), and at last the reasons turn on him (1.45-47).

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Does the Gita Teach War and Violence? What the Verses Say

The Gita opens with the warrior refusing to fight (1.28-47). Everything that follows is an answer to that refusal.

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The Hardest Verses on War in the Gita, Read in Place

The book's own lists of excellence put non-violence and compassion first (16.2, 12.13, 10.5).

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Why the Gita Begins With a Man Who Cannot Go On: Gita 1.28 to 2.10, Verse by Verse

The Gita opens with a hero who cannot go on. His body gives way first (1.29-30), then his reasons pile up against fighting (1.31-44), and then he throws down his bow (1.47).

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How the Gita Is Built: The Frame, Arjuna's Questions, the Verse Counts and the Chapter Names

The Gita presents itself as one dialogue inside a frame: Dhritarashtra asks what happened, and Sanjaya tells it from start to finish.

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The Eighteen Chapters of the Gita in Order: What Each Chapter Does and Why It Comes Next

Each of the eighteen chapters has one clear job, and Arjuna's questions are what move the talk from one chapter to the next.

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Afraid of What People Will Say? What the Gita Says About Duty and Disgrace

The Lord speaks to Arjuna in the language of duty and name, because those are what Arjuna cares about (2.31-37).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 5 मिनट Duty, Honour and Fear

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Gita 11.31-35: Time, Merely an Instrument, and Arjuna's Trembling, a Closer Reading

These verses are spoken inside a vision, to one person, at the edge of a war; the Lord takes away Arjuna's claim to be the author of the outcome and his fear, not his action (11.32-34).

अंतर्दृष्टि अंग्रेज़ी 18 मिनट Merely an Instrument

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Gita 12.13-20: The Devotee Dear to the Lord, a Close Reading

The eight closing verses of chapter 12 draw one person: the centre is mind and intellect offered to the Lord (12.14), and the marks are what that centre looks like in dealing with beings, feelings, events and work (12.13-19).

अंतर्दृष्टि अंग्रेज़ी 18 मिनट The Devotee Dear to the Lord

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Gita 2.31-37, a Close Reading: How Far Does the Appeal to Duty, Honour and Fear Go?

The Lord speaks to Arjuna on his own ground: his duty, his name and what others will say (2.31-37).

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Gita 2.31-37: What the Lord Says to Arjuna About Duty, Disgrace and Fear

The Lord speaks to Arjuna in his own language, of duty, name and what people will say; seven verses press one point each (2.31-37).

विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 9 मिनट Duty, Honour and Fear

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Gita 9.30-34: What 'Wholly Devoted' and 'Quickly Righteous' Mean, a Close Reading

The promise rests on one whole turning, not on the past: a person of very bad conduct who worships with undivided devotion is to be regarded as righteous, because he has resolved rightly (9.30).

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How a Person of Very Bad Conduct Counts as Righteous: Gita 9.30-34 Verse by Verse

A person of very bad conduct who worships the Lord with undivided devotion is to be regarded as righteous, because he has resolved rightly (9.30).

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What Does 'Be Merely an Instrument' Mean? Gita 11.31-35 Verse by Verse

'Be merely an instrument' means do your own action, and give up the claim to be the sole author of the outcome and the fear that comes with it (11.33).

विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 14 मिनट Merely an Instrument

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Gita 18.49–56: Freedom Through Action, a Close Reading of the Eight Verses

The eight verses describe freedom through action as one ripening: the doer is cleared of grip, ego and craving, the mind grows serene, devotion brings knowledge of the Lord, and the freed person keeps acting (18.49–56).

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Gita 7.20-23 and 9.20-25: Worship of Other Deities and What It Brings, a Close Reading

The Lord steadies the faith of anyone who worships a deity, and says that what the worshipper receives is his own arrangement (7.21, 7.22).

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Gita 9.22: Who Does the Lord Take Care Of, and How? A Close Reading of 9.13-15 and 9.22

The promise is for those who look to nothing else and stay joined to the Lord (9.22).

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Great Souls and the Lord's Care: Gita 9.13-15 and 9.22 Verse by Verse

Great souls take shelter in the divine nature and, knowing the Lord as the source of all, worship him with a mind on nothing else (9.13).

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Worshipping Other Deities and Reaching the Lord: Gita 7.20-23 and 9.20-25 Verse by Verse

The Lord steadies the faith of anyone who worships a deity with faith; the Gita does not scold them (7.20, 7.21).

विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 10 मिनट What We Worship, We Become