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