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Action Without Claiming the Fruit: Quick Summary

The Lord says the right is to action alone, never to its fruit (2.47).

अंग्रेज़ी 7 मिनट Action Without Claiming the Fruit

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Can We Simply Stop Acting?: Quick Summary

Arjuna asks why action if knowledge is greater, and asks the Lord for one clear road (3.1-2).

अंग्रेज़ी 7 मिनट Can We Simply Stop Acting?

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Devotion or the Unmanifest: Quick Summary

Arjuna asks which knows yoga best, the one who worships the Lord in form or the one who worships the imperishable unmanifest (12.1).

अंग्रेज़ी 7 मिनट Devotion or the Unmanifest

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Life Feels Too Heavy: What to Give Up and What to Keep, According to the Gita

Give up the grip on results and the wants that drive you; do not give up your duties (18.2, 18.11).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 6 मिनट Relinquishment and Renunciation of Action

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Must You Quit Your Work to Find Peace? What the Gita Says

Both leaving the world and carrying on can lead to the highest good, but carrying on with a loose grip is the better way for most of us (5.2).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 6 मिनट Renunciation or Karma Yoga?

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Dreading Monday on Sunday Night: Three Weights of Work Pressure and How the Gita Lightens Each

Work pressure is three weights, not one: the work, the fear of the result and the wave of panic.

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 6 मिनट Working Under Pressure

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Praise Lifts You, a Sharp Word Drops You: Keeping the Mind Level, as the Gita Teaches

Pleasure and pain, praise and blame come and go like weather; the Gita asks us to bear them (2.14).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 5 मिनट Equanimity

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Worn Out From Copying Someone Else? What the Gita Says About Doing Your Own Work in Your Own Way

It is better to do your own duty imperfectly than another's duty well (3.35).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 6 मिनट One's Own Duty

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Why Does One Small Remark Spoil My Whole Day? What the Gita Says

Anger is not where trouble begins. The Gita puts it fourth, after dwelling, attachment and desire (2.62).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 6 मिनट From Thought to Ruin

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Action, Knowledge, Meditation or Devotion: Where Should I Begin? The Gita's Own Answer

The Gita names four ways, action, knowledge, meditation and devotion, and says they lead to the same place (13.25, 5.5).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 7 मिनट The Paths: Action, Knowledge, Devotion

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Busy All Day, Yet Free Inside: What the Gita Means by Doing Nothing in Action

In the Gita, doing nothing in action means that nothing binds, and it does not mean that nothing is done (4.18, 4.20).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 5 मिनट Karma and Akarma: Acting Without Being Bound

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Does the Gita Contradict Itself by Praising Several Paths?

The Gita does not rank the paths against each other, since each praise names who is compared and by what measure (5.2, 6.46, 12.2).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 2 मिनट The Paths: Action, Knowledge, Devotion

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How Do I Stop Worrying About the Result Without Giving Up on It?

The work is ours and the result is not, because the result depends on much more than us (2.47, 18.14).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 6 मिनट Action Without Claiming the Fruit

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Who Is 'Best' in the Gita? Reading the Basis of Each Comparison

Each comparison in the Gita names who is compared and by what measure, and the answers differ from verse to verse.

विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 4 मिनट The Paths: Action, Knowledge, Devotion

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Can Saying "I Am Not the Doer" Excuse My Mistake? What the Gita Says

'I am not the doer' is meant to lessen pride and dread, not to avoid a mistake (3.27, 5.8).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 3 मिनट Who Is the Doer?

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Is It All Right to Ask a Question? What Arjuna Teaches Us

The Gita runs on Arjuna's questions, and Lord Krishna turns none of them away (3.2, 3.3).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 5 मिनट Arjuna's Questions

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Why 'I Am Not the Doer' Does Not Excuse Us from Responsibility: Gita 3.27, 5.8-9 and 18.14-16

'I am not the doer' is a Gita sentence, but it belongs to someone fully at work whose pride and dread have loosened (5.8-9).

विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 5 मिनट Who Is the Doer?

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How to Stop Worrying About the Result: Offer Your Work

The worry is not in the work but in clinging to the result. The Gita says to do the work and then hand it over to the Lord (3.30).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 5 मिनट Offering All Actions

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Proud When It Works, Crushed When It Fails: Am I the Only One Behind It?

Your effort is real, but it is never the only cause of a result. Every action has five causes (18.14).

सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 6 मिनट Who Is the Doer?