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The sight of the Lord's form is rare even for the gods (11.52), and none of the four great means, Veda study, austerity, charity or sacrifice, can claim it as a price (11.53).
Deeper English 16 min By Devotion Alone
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Begin with one question and one verse.
English 9 min How to Read the Gita
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Work done for any purpose other than sacrifice binds; work done as an offering and free of attachment frees (3.9).
Deeper English 19 min Work as Sacrifice
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The right is to the action, and the action includes effort, planning and answerability for one's own part; what is given up is the clutch on a result that has many causes (2.47, 18.14-15).
Deeper English 14 min Working Under Pressure
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The passage teaches one thing from two ends. The mind needs one resolve, and the resolve takes root only when the mind rests in the Self (2.41, 2.53).
Deeper English 16 min Buddhi Yoga: The Resolute Intellect
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The Gita gives several ways to one goal, and counts them differently by inclination, by practice and by the object of the heart (3.3, 13.25, 12.2).
Deeper English 12 min The Paths: Action, Knowledge, Devotion
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Non-action is rejected as an exit in the third chapter and praised as the mark of the wise in the fourth, because the word carries two senses, not acting and acting without being bound (4.18).
Deeper English 11 min Karma and Akarma: Acting Without Being Bound
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The twenty verses give different reasons for not grieving, for different listeners, and they agree in outcome. One is the lasting self (2.16–25), one is the unavoidable cycle (2.26–28), and one is the self in every being (2.29–30).
Deeper English 14 min The Imperishable Self
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Four choices decide how you read the Gita: the order, the translation, the commentary and a question of your own.
In Depth English 10 min How to Read the Gita
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The closing chapter names the book three ways. It is a dialogue (18.70, 18.74), a secret yoga heard first hand (18.75), and a teaching whose study is an offering (18.70).
Deeper English 10 min What Is the Gita?
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The questions shape the Gita: three threads run through them, the call for one decisive answer (2.7, 3.2, 5.1), the marks of the ideal person (2.54, 14.21), and which of two is better (5.1, 12.1).
Deeper English 15 min Arjuna's Questions
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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).
Deeper English 18 min The Devotee Dear to the Lord
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The Gita does not remove the doer. It removes the claim that everything is done by me alone and belongs to me alone (3.27, 18.16).
Deeper English 16 min Who Is the Doer?
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Arjuna asks who knows yoga best. The Lord answers in terms of being joined to Him, not of knowing: the one who fixes the mind on Him, stays steady and has supreme faith is the most united (12.2).
Deeper English 12 min Devotion or the Unmanifest
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What reaches the Lord is not the thing offered but the devotion carried in it, so a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water is enough (9.26).
Deeper English 18 min A Leaf, a Flower, a Fruit, Water
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