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Gita 3.17 to 3.26: Why the One Who Lacks Nothing Still Acts

The one who is content in the self has no duty left to gain anything and nothing to lose by stopping (3.17-18), yet is told to act well and without clinging (3.19).

Deeper English 19 min Acting for the World

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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 7.20-23 and 9.20-25: Worship of Other Deities and What It Brings, a Close Reading

The Lord steadies the faith of anyone who worships a deity, and says that what the worshipper receives is his own arrangement (7.21, 7.22).

Deeper English 13 min What We Worship, We Become

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