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Equal in Joy and Pain, Equal to All: Will the Even Mind Go Numb? A Close Reading of Gita 2.14-15, 2.38, 5.18-20, 6.7-9

Pleasure and pain are named as real and as passing; the Gita asks that they be borne, so evenness is not numbness (2.14-15).

Deeper English 15 min Equanimity

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One's Own Duty in the Gita, Read Closely: Nature, Fear and Worship in 3.33-35 and 18.41-48

One's own duty is the duty that fits one's own nature, taken up with liking and disliking set aside and offered as worship (3.33-35, 18.45-46).

Deeper English 19 min One's Own Duty

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Can Stopping Ever Free Us? A Close Reading of Gita 3.1 to 3.8

Arjuna heard praise of wisdom over desire-driven action as praise of knowledge over action, and asked for one clear path (3.1 to 3.2).

Deeper English 16 min Can We Simply Stop Acting?

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Does the Gita Turn Away from Hearing? A Close Reading of Gita 2.39–46 and 2.52–53

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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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.

Deeper English 12 min The Eighteen Chapters at a Glance

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Gita Chapter 12, Read Closely: Four Places Where It Seems to Pull Two Ways

Chapter 12 does not defeat any path: it says which road is easier for a person in a body, gives four steps by capacity, and makes conduct the proof of devotion (12.1-20).

Deeper English 14 min Chapter 12: The Yoga of Devotion, an Overview

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

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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