भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी

325 परिणाम

सरल रूप

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How to Stop Worrying About the Result: Offer Your Work

You finished the work and still lie awake over how it will turn out. The Gita's plain answer: do the work with your whole mind, then hand it over to the Lord. Three verses, an example and one small practice for today.

स्तर: सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 5 मिनट Offering All Actions

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Is It Wrong to Remember God Only in Trouble?

If God comes to mind only when trouble strikes, is that devotion false? The Gita names four reasons that bring people to the Lord and calls all four good. Learn who stands nearest to Him and why.

स्तर: सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 4 मिनट Four Kinds of Devotees

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My Mind Will Not Stay on God: Where Do I Start? Gita 12.8-11

Your mind runs off in meditation, you are tired, and work is heavy, yet you want to come closer to God. In Gita 12.8-11 the Lord gives four steps, each for the person who cannot take the one above. Plain meaning, an example and a practice for today.

स्तर: सरल रूप अंग्रेज़ी 5 मिनट The Ladder of Devotion

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Arjuna's Seven Steps: The Road Through a Crisis

Shock, freezing, arguing, asking for help, learning, doubting again and finally acting: the Gita walks Arjuna through each, and the road is the one we walk too. Each step, how it looks in life, an example, a practice and five questions.

स्तर: विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 8 मिनट Arjuna, Our Mirror

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Devotion in Your Day: Four Moments From Morning to Night

You understand devotion, but what do you do on a Monday with a worried mind and a difficult person? Four moments taken from the Gita: a morning offering, one act for the Lord, a pause in a hard meeting, and a review at night.

स्तर: विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 5 मिनट Devotion in Practice

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Karma Yoga in Your Working Day: Four Moments for Every Task

You understand that the Gita asks us to act without clinging to the fruit. What do you actually do at your desk, in your shop or at home? Four moments taken from the verses: before the task, during it, after it, and an evening review.

स्तर: विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 5 मिनट Karma Yoga in Practice

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Offering All Actions: Gita 3.30-32 and 5.10-12 Verse by Verse

What does it mean to offer all your actions to the Lord, and how does that free you? Gita 3.30-32 and 5.10-12 in order: five things to give and drop, faith, the lotus leaf, inner purification and lasting peace, with an example and a practice.

स्तर: विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 12 मिनट Offering All Actions

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The Devotee Dear to the Lord: Gita 12.13-20, Verse by Verse

In Gita 12.13-20 the Lord lists over thirty marks and says of each group, 'such a one is dear to Me'. The marks fall into four relationships and hang from one centre. Each verse explained, with a table, common misreadings, an example and a seven-day practice.

स्तर: विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 13 मिनट The Devotee Dear to the Lord

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The Self That Stays: Gita 2.11–30 Read in Order

A verse-by-verse reading of Gita 2.11–30: what the Lord says the self is, why grief is aimed at the wrong thing, the second answer for the one who cannot accept the first, and what the teaching does not mean.

स्तर: विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 12 मिनट The Imperishable Self

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Work as Sacrifice: Gita 3.9 to 3.16 Verse by Verse

Why does the Gita say all work except sacrifice binds? Gita 3.9 to 3.16 verse by verse: the meaning of sacrifice, the wheel of giving and receiving, the thief, and a life lived in vain.

स्तर: विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 14 मिनट Work as Sacrifice

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Does Detachment Mean Not Caring?

Detachment in the Bhagavad Gita does not mean not caring or becoming emotionally indifferent. It is a deeper way of approaching life through Karma Yoga, attachment to results, equanimity, love, and inner freedom.

स्तर: विस्तार से अंग्रेज़ी 21 मिनट

अंतर्दृष्टि

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Gita 12.1-5, a Deeper Reading: Both Roads Reach the Lord, So Why Is the Devotee Called Most United?

A close reading of Gita 12.1-5. The Lord says both the devotee and the worshipper of the unmanifest reach Him, yet calls the devotee most united. The hard questions, two streams of commentators, and answers from the Gita and the tradition to the questions the verses raise.

स्तर: अंतर्दृष्टि अंग्रेज़ी 12 मिनट Devotion or the Unmanifest

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Gita 3.9 to 3.16: Why Work Done Without Giving Back Binds

A close reading of Gita 3.9 to 3.16: what sacrifice means, why the one who takes without giving is called a thief, where the readings differ, four objections answered, and the questions the verses raise.

स्तर: अंतर्दृष्टि अंग्रेज़ी 19 मिनट Work as Sacrifice

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Maya and Refuge: A Close Reading of Gita 7.14-15

A close reading of Gita 7.14-15. If the illusory energy is the Lord's own power, how can people be blamed? How refuge and effort fit, five hard questions answered, two streams of commentary, and answers from the Gita and the tradition to the questions left over.

स्तर: अंतर्दृष्टि अंग्रेज़ी 14 मिनट The Illusory Energy and Surrender

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

A close reading of the Gita's hardest lines on war and killing: 2.31-37, 2.19-20, 11.33 and 18.17. Who is addressed, in what hour, and under what measure, and how readers differ on the field itself.

स्तर: अंतर्दृष्टि अंग्रेज़ी 8 मिनट Arjuna's Despondency

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Who Moves the Scene? A Close Reading of Gita 1.20–27

Arjuna asks to see, Lord Krishna places the chariot and says one word, and the sight of his own people undoes Arjuna's resolve. A close reading of Gita 1.20–27, with parallels, readings and objections.

स्तर: अंतर्दृष्टि अंग्रेज़ी 15 मिनट Arjuna on the Field

अन्य लेख

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Acting for the World: Quick Summary

Why should one who is content within still act? A short revision of Gita 3.17-26: he acts for the good of the world without attachment, and people learn from his conduct.

अंग्रेज़ी 10 मिनट Acting for the World

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Arjuna on the Field: Quick Summary

Arjuna lifts his bow and asks Krishna to drive the chariot between the two armies, and then sees his own people on both sides. A short revision of Gita 1.20-27, the moment from which the need for teaching begins.

अंग्रेज़ी 9 मिनट Arjuna on the Field

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Arjuna's Despondency: Quick Summary

Why does the Gita begin with its hero breaking down? Arjuna's body gives way, he lets go of his bow, then he turns to Krishna as a disciple seeking refuge, and the teaching begins from there.

अंग्रेज़ी 11 मिनट Arjuna's Despondency

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Arjuna's Questions: Quick Summary

A short revision of Arjuna's fourteen questions in the Gita: where each one comes, what puzzle of the mind lies behind it, and where the answer is found.

अंग्रेज़ी 11 मिनट Arjuna's Questions

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Arjuna, Our Mirror: Quick Summary

A quick summary of Arjuna's seven steps: shock, freezing, arguing, asking for help, learning, doubting again and acting, with common misunderstandings and the questions readers ask.

अंग्रेज़ी 3 मिनट Arjuna, Our Mirror

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By Devotion Alone: Quick Summary

After the cosmic form the Lord speaks four verses: this vision is rare even for the gods, is not won by the Vedas, austerity, giving or sacrifice, but by undivided devotion, and the devotee has five marks. A short revision of Gita 11.52-55.

अंग्रेज़ी 10 मिनट By Devotion Alone

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Devotion in Practice: Quick Summary

A short revision of a small order for bringing devotion into the day: a morning offering, one task for the Lord, a pause in a hard meeting, and an evening review. Questions drawn from the verses.

अंग्रेज़ी 6 मिनट Devotion in Practice

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Duty, Honour and Fear: Quick Summary

After the teaching of the self, the Lord speaks to Arjuna in the language of duty, honour and the fear of disgrace. A short revision of Gita 2.31-37: the seven verses, how far the argument goes, and the turn to an even mind in the next verse.

अंग्रेज़ी 7 मिनट Duty, Honour and Fear

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Equanimity: Quick Summary

Keeping the mind the same in pleasure and pain, gain and loss, honour and insult is the Gita's equanimity. It is not going numb or giving up work, but going on with one's work with a calm mind in every condition.

अंग्रेज़ी 11 मिनट Equanimity

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Even the Worst Offender: Quick Summary

A short revision of Gita 9.30-34: why a person of very bad conduct who turns to the Lord with his whole mind is called righteous, what that promise does not say, and the three lessons the verses hold.

अंग्रेज़ी 10 मिनट Even the Worst Offender

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Four Kinds of Devotees: Quick Summary

In Gita 7.16-19 the Lord says that people turn to Him for four reasons: distress, wish to know, some desire, and knowledge. All four are welcome, and the nearest is the one who comes for Him alone.

अंग्रेज़ी 8 मिनट Four Kinds of Devotees

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Freedom Through Action: Quick Summary

How does one reach the highest freedom from the bond of action while still acting, what must the mind gather and give up, and how does peace lead on to devotion? The subject of Gita 18.49 to 18.56.

अंग्रेज़ी 9 मिनट Freedom Through Action

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From Thought to Ruin: Quick Summary

How does dwelling on a thing lead a person to ruin? The seven steps are in two verses of the Gita (2.62-63), and here also the place where the chain is most easily broken.

अंग्रेज़ी 8 मिनट From Thought to Ruin

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How to Read the Gita: Quick Summary

Want to read the Gita but unsure where to begin and how to go on? Plain advice here on the order of reading, and on choosing a translation and a commentary, in three levels.

अंग्रेज़ी 9 मिनट How to Read the Gita

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Karma Yoga in Practice: Quick Summary

How does working without clinging to the fruit enter everyday life? Four moments for every task: intention before, full attention during, handing over the result after, and an evening check, from Gita 2.47 to 2.51, 3.30 and 4.19 to 4.23.

अंग्रेज़ी 5 मिनट Karma Yoga in Practice

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Merely an Instrument: Quick Summary

In fear at the cosmic form, Arjuna asks who the terrible form is. The Lord says 'I am Time' and 'be merely an instrument'. A short revision of Gita 11.31-35: the verses, their meaning and Arjuna's trembling reply.

अंग्रेज़ी 10 मिनट Merely an Instrument

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Offering All Actions: Quick Summary

A short revision of Gita 3.30-32 and 5.10-12: what it means to hand all actions to the Lord, why such work leaves no stain like water on a lotus leaf, and how it brings a peace that lasts.

अंग्रेज़ी 11 मिनट Offering All Actions

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One's Own Duty: Quick Summary

What svadharma means, why Gita 3.35 and 18.47 say one's own duty done imperfectly is better than another's done well, and why svadharma is not a family trade or caste.

अंग्रेज़ी 9 मिनट One's Own Duty

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The Devotee Dear to the Lord: Quick Summary

At the end of the twelfth chapter the Lord draws the picture of one dear to Him: free of hatred, friendly and compassionate, even in pleasure and pain, skilful and steady. Three readings of verses 12.13-20 and the question of what 'dear' means.

अंग्रेज़ी 12 मिनट The Devotee Dear to the Lord

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The Enemy Called Desire: Quick Summary

Why does a person do wrong even when he knows what is right, as if someone were dragging him? In Gita 3.36 to 3.43 the Lord answers this and shows in what order this enemy is to be met.

अंग्रेज़ी 8 मिनट The Enemy Called Desire

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The Imperishable Self: Quick Summary

When someone dear has gone, or we fear losing them, what is it that is really lost? In Gita 2.11 to 2.30 the Lord answers this, and does not call love or tears wrong.

अंग्रेज़ी 7 मिनट The Imperishable Self

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The Ladder of Devotion: Quick Summary

What if the mind does not rest in the Lord? In Gita 12.6-12 the Lord gives four steps, each for one who cannot manage the one above, and at the end peace comes right after giving up the fruit of action. The meaning of the verses and three readings.

अंग्रेज़ी 10 मिनट The Ladder of Devotion

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What Is the Gita?: Quick Summary

What is the Gita, who is speaking to whom, why did this conversation happen on a battlefield, and what is the book for? Answers in three readings for someone reading the Gita for the first time.

अंग्रेज़ी 8 मिनट What Is the Gita?

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Who Is the Doer?: Quick Summary

The Gita says that the qualities of nature do all action and the self is not the doer, yet it counts the doer among the five causes of every action. Gita 3.27-29, 5.8-14 and 18.13-17 on the mistake of 'I do everything' and its remedy.

अंग्रेज़ी 9 मिनट Who Is the Doer?

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Work as Sacrifice: Quick Summary

Why does work feel like a burden, and what does it mean in Gita 3.9-16 to make work a sacrifice? See how work done for a good larger than oneself frees instead of binds.

अंग्रेज़ी 12 मिनट Work as Sacrifice

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Working Under Pressure: Quick Summary

The pressure of meetings, deadlines and targets is seen by the Gita in three layers: the real demand of the work, fear of the result and inner panic. See how work goes well by loosening the grip on the fruit and staying even.

अंग्रेज़ी 13 मिनट Working Under Pressure

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विषय-केन्द्र

A Leaf, a Flower, a Fruit, Water

In Gita 9.26-29 the Lord accepts a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water offered with devotion, asks that every act be made an offering, promises freedom from the bonds of results, and is equal to all yet near to the devotee.

विषय-केन्द्र

Acting for the World

If someone is content within and needs nothing, why would that person still work? The Gita says: for the good of the world, free of clinging, and as an example that others follow.

विषय-केन्द्र

Action Without Claiming the Fruit

Can we work hard and still not be eaten up by the result? Gita 2.47 to 2.51: the work is ours, the result is not, and work done this way is better work.

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Arjuna on the Field

Arjuna raises his bow, asks Lord Krishna to station the chariot between the armies, and sees elders, teachers and kin on both sides. The scene where the Gita begins.

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Arjuna's Despondency

Arjuna's body gives way, his reasons pull both ways, and he throws down his bow. Then he says he does not know, and asks Lord Krishna to teach him. The turn that begins the Gita.

विषय-केन्द्र

Arjuna's Questions

What does Arjuna ask in the Gita, when and why? Fourteen main questions in the order of the book: what each shows about his state of mind, and where to read the reply.

विषय-केन्द्र

Arjuna, Our Mirror

Arjuna's road is ours: shock, freezing, arguing, asking for help, learning, doubting again and acting. The whole journey of the Gita in one view.

विषय-केन्द्र

Buddhi Yoga: The Resolute Intellect

How the Gita turns the knowledge of the self into a steady, resolute intellect: one aim in place of many branching thoughts, what scatters the mind, and the rest in the Self where yoga begins.

विषय-केन्द्र

By Devotion Alone

Four closing words of the Lord after the universal form: this sight is rare even for the gods, no Veda, austerity, charity or sacrifice wins it, undivided devotion does, and the devotee has five marks. Three readings.

विषय-केन्द्र

Can We Simply Stop Acting?

Arjuna asks why he must act if knowledge is higher. The Lord's answer in Gita 3.1 to 3.8: stopping does not free anyone, no one can stop, and the better way is a ruling mind with unclinging work.

विषय-केन्द्र

Chapter 12: The Yoga of Devotion, an Overview

A map of the twenty verses of Gita chapter 12: which way is best, four steps for a mind that will not stay, and the devotee the Lord holds dear, with a guide to the reading for each part.

विषय-केन्द्र

Chapter 3: The Yoga of Selfless Action, an Overview

Gita chapter 3 in a glance: Arjuna asks why act if knowledge is higher, and the Lord answers in seven steps, from work as giving to the enemy called desire. A guide to the chapter's pages.

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Delusion Gone: I Will Act

The Gita's last seven verses: the Lord asks whether the delusion is gone, Arjuna says he will act, and Sanjaya closes with his joy and his verdict.

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Devotion in Practice

A short daily routine for devotion: a morning offering, one act for the Lord, a pause in a hard meeting and a review at night, with questions taken from the verses. Two readings.

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Devotion or the Unmanifest

Whether you worship the Lord in a form or the unmanifest Reality, which is better? Gita 12.1-5 holds Arjuna's question and the Lord's answer: the goal is one, but the roads differ in how hard they are.

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Duty, Honour and Fear

After the teaching of the imperishable self, the Lord speaks to Arjuna in the language of duty, reputation and fear of disgrace. Gita 2.31-37: seven verses, how far the appeal goes, and the turn to an even mind in the next verse.

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Equanimity

Keeping the mind level when pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame come and go: the Gita's teaching of evenness on three fronts, and what it is not.

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Even the Worst Offender

At the end of chapter 9 the Lord says a person of very bad conduct who worships wholly is to be regarded as righteous. Gita 9.30-34: what it means, where it stops, and three readings.

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Four Kinds of Devotees

In Gita 7.16-19 the Lord says that four things turn people to Him: distress, a wish to know, a want and wisdom. All four are welcome, and nearest is the one who comes for Him alone.

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Freedom Through Action

How action stops binding, what the mind must gather and give up, and how serenity ripens into devotion: the subject of Gita 18.49 to 18.56.

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From Thought to Ruin

How a quiet thought grows into attachment, desire, anger, delusion and ruin, in seven steps (Gita 2.62–63), and why the early steps are the easy place to stop.

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How to Read the Gita

How to begin the Gita and keep reading it: the order, a plain translation, a commentary and a question of your own, in a simple, a detailed and a deeper reading.

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Karma Yoga in Practice

How does working without clinging to the fruit become part of an ordinary day? Four moments for every task: intention before, full attention during, handing over after, and an evening review, drawn from Gita 2.47-51, 3.30 and 4.19-23.

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Karma and Akarma: Acting Without Being Bound

What is action, what is wrong action and what is inaction, and how can a person act all day and not be bound? Gita 4.16 to 4.24: five marks of the free actor and the act seen as an offering.

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Knowing His Glory Leads to Devotion

Five verses of chapter 10: whoever knows the Lord's glory in truth is joined to Him by unwavering devotion, devotees find joy in speaking of Him together, and the Lord Himself gives the wisdom and the lamp of knowledge. Three readings.

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Merely an Instrument

In the fear of the universal form Arjuna asks who the fierce figure is. The Lord says 'I am Time' and 'be merely an instrument'. Gita 11.31-35: the verses, their meaning and Arjuna's trembling answer.

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Offering All Actions

Lord Krishna asks that all actions be offered to Him with the mind steady, without expectation, possessiveness or fever. Gita 3.30-32 and 5.10-12 show how such work leaves no stain and brings lasting peace.

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One's Own Duty

Why do we tire ourselves wearing someone else's way? The Gita says one's own duty, done imperfectly, is better than another's done well. Start here for readings at three depths.

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Relinquishment and Renunciation of Action

What exactly does the Gita ask us to give up, and what must we keep? Start here: renunciation drops desire-driven acts, relinquishment drops the claim on the fruit, and duty stays.

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Renunciation or Karma Yoga?

Must you give up everything for peace, or can you keep working and still be free? Start here: the Gita's answer is that real renunciation is inside, and both paths reach one goal.

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The Devotee Dear to the Lord

At the end of chapter 12 the Lord draws the person who is dear to Him: free of hatred, friendly and compassionate, level in pain and pleasure, skilful and steady. Three readings of Gita 12.13-20, and what 'dear' means.

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The Eighteen Chapters at a Glance

A map of the Bhagavad Gita's eighteen chapters, with the name, size and job of each, and how Arjuna's questions carry the book from despair to decision.

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The Enemy Called Desire

Why do we do what we do not want to do? Arjuna's question and the Lord's answer in Gita 3.36–43: desire and anger as the enemy that covers knowledge, and the order in which it is met.

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The Final Counsel: Surrender, Think, Choose

How can I put down the feeling that I must handle everything alone without giving up my duties? Gita 18.57 to 18.66: surrender the actions in the mind, take refuge, reflect fully and then choose freely.

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The Illusory Energy and Surrender

Why do we repeat what we already know is wrong? In Gita 7.14-15 the Lord says the pull on the mind is his own power, that refuge is the way across, and why some people do not take that way.

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The Imperishable Self

What the Lord first teaches Arjuna in his grief: who lives in the body, what can and cannot be lost, why grief assumes too much, and the second answer for the one who cannot accept the first.

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The Ladder of Devotion

What if your mind will not stay on God? In Gita 12.6-12 the Lord gives four steps, each for the person who cannot take the one above, and ends with peace that follows at once on giving up the fruit of action. The verses and three readings.

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The Paths: Action, Knowledge, Devotion

The Gita praises action, knowledge, meditation and devotion. Do they compete, and where should a person begin? They complete each other, and the Lord's steps in 12.8 to 12.12 show how to start.

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The Steadfast Devotee and Divine Care

In Gita 9.13-15 and 9.22 the great souls worship the Lord with an undivided mind, and he carries what they lack and preserves what they have: the care the tradition calls yogakshema.

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What Is the Gita?

What the Bhagavad Gita is, who speaks to whom, why it is set on a battlefield and what it asks of the listener. Start here before reading any chapter.

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What We Worship, We Become

In Gita 7.20-23 and 9.20-25 the Lord says he steadies the faith of those who worship other deities and arranges what they receive, but that the result is perishable. You reach what you worship.

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Who Is the Doer?

The Gita says nature's modes perform all action and the self is a non-doer, yet it counts the doer among five causes. Gita 3.27-29, 5.8-14 and 18.13-17 on the mistake of 'I do it all' and how it is mended.

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Work as Sacrifice

Why does work feel like a load, and what does the Gita mean by work as sacrifice? Start here: work done as an offering frees, and life runs on giving and receiving.

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Working Under Pressure

A heavy week at work feels like one lump of dread. The Gita pulls it into three parts, the work, the fear and the panic, and gives a handle for each. Start here for readings at three depths.

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Anger and Desire

How craving turns into anger and delusion, and what the Gita offers to break the chain.

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Arjuna's Journey

The psychological arc across the book, from despondency to clarity and action.

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Begin the Gita

Orient a first-time reader: what the Gita is, why Arjuna breaks down, and the main ideas the rest of the book builds on.

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The Gita in 7 Days

One core idea per day for readers who want the whole picture quickly. Mostly reuses hubs from other paths.

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The Path of Devotion

What the Gita means by devotion, the devotee's qualities, and the practice of surrender.

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The Path of Karma Yoga

Action without bondage: duty, results, doership, offering, equanimity.

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The Self and the Body

The imperishable self, the changing body, and what that means for living.

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Work and Career

Doing work well without being owned by results, ambition, or recognition.

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