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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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The Lord's question lets the student say the answer himself; Arjuna's four statements run from the end of delusion to action (18.72, 18.73).
Deeper English 14 min Delusion Gone: I Will Act
Quick summary
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 Lord asks Arjuna to give his actions to Him in the mind, to keep a steady intellect and to fix his mind on Him (18.57).
Deeper English 16 min The Final Counsel: Surrender, Think, Choose
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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).
Deeper English 18 min Arjuna's Despondency
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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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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).
Deeper English 18 min Merely an Instrument
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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 Lord speaks to Arjuna on his own ground: his duty, his name and what others will say (2.31-37).
Deeper English 12 min Duty, Honour and Fear
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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).
Deeper English 16 min Even the Worst Offender
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Offering is the practice that carries the knowledge 'I am not the doer' into the middle of work. The person goes on working; what is handed over is the claim 'this is mine and I want its fruit' (3.30).
Deeper English 14 min Offering All Actions
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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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