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Arjuna's Despondency: Quick Summary

Seeing his own people before him, Arjuna's body gives way: his limbs weaken and the bow begins to slip from his hand (1.29-30).

English 11 min Arjuna's Despondency

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Arjuna's Seven Steps: The Road Through a Crisis

Arjuna's road has seven steps: shock, freezing, arguing, asking for help, learning, doubting again and acting. None of them is a fault.

In Depth English 8 min Arjuna, Our Mirror

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Arjuna, Our Mirror: Quick Summary

Arjuna's road has seven steps, and any person in a crisis walks the same road.

English 3 min Arjuna, Our Mirror

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Delusion Gone: I Will Act: Quick Summary

The Lord asks whether the teaching was heard with the whole mind and whether the delusion is gone (18.72).

English 4 min Delusion Gone: I Will Act

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Karma Yoga in Practice: Quick Summary

Settle your intention before the work: the doing is in your hands, the fruit is not (2.47).

English 5 min Karma Yoga in Practice

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Karma and Akarma: Acting Without Being Bound: Quick Summary

Three things are to be known: right action, wrong action and non-action, and even the wise are confused about them (4.16-17).

English 9 min Karma and Akarma: Acting Without Being Bound

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When Everything Falls Apart: Arjuna Shows the Way

Arjuna's hands shook, his mouth went dry and he said he would not fight (1.28-29, 2.9). The Gita does not blame him.

Simple English 4 min Arjuna, Our Mirror

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When the Confusion Clears: How to Tell, and How to Begin

The Lord asks whether the teaching was heard with the whole mind and whether the confusion has gone (18.72).

Simple English 5 min Delusion Gone: I Will Act

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Who Is the Doer?: Quick Summary

All actions are done by the qualities of nature, but a mind deluded by ego thinks 'I am the doer' (3.27).

English 9 min Who Is the Doer?

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Work as Sacrifice: Quick Summary

Action done in the spirit of sacrifice frees; all other action binds in this world (3.9).

English 12 min Work as Sacrifice

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Working Under Pressure: Quick Summary

Work pressure has three layers: the real demand of the work, fear of the result and inner panic.

English 13 min Working Under Pressure

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You Do Everything Right and God Still Feels Far: What the Gita Says

Study, austerity, charity and sacrifice are not the price of the Lord's nearness; he is found by undivided devotion (11.53, 11.54).

Simple English 5 min By Devotion Alone

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Dreading Monday on Sunday Night: Three Weights of Work Pressure and How the Gita Lightens Each

Work pressure is three weights, not one: the work, the fear of the result and the wave of panic.

Simple English 6 min Working Under Pressure

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Praise Lifts You, a Sharp Word Drops You: Keeping the Mind Level, as the Gita Teaches

Pleasure and pain, praise and blame come and go like weather; the Gita asks us to bear them (2.14).

Simple English 5 min Equanimity

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The Gita on Work Pressure: Three Layers, Three Handles, and a Workday Practice (Gita 2.14, 2.47-51, 3.30, 5.12)

Work pressure has three layers: the demand of the work, the fear of the outcome and the wave of panic inside.

In Depth English 12 min Working Under Pressure

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Why Do I Keep Doing What I Know Is Wrong? The Gita's Answer

Arjuna asks why a person does wrong even against his will, as if pushed by force, and the Lord names desire and anger born of passion (3.36–37).

Simple English 6 min The Enemy Called Desire

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Why Does One Small Remark Spoil My Whole Day? What the Gita Says

Anger is not where trouble begins. The Gita puts it fourth, after dwelling, attachment and desire (2.62).

Simple English 6 min From Thought to Ruin

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Busy All Day, Yet Free Inside: What the Gita Means by Doing Nothing in Action

In the Gita, doing nothing in action means that nothing binds, and it does not mean that nothing is done (4.18, 4.20).

Simple English 5 min Karma and Akarma: Acting Without Being Bound

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How Do I Stop Worrying About the Result Without Giving Up on It?

The work is ours and the result is not, because the result depends on much more than us (2.47, 18.14).

Simple English 6 min Action Without Claiming the Fruit

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I Asked Everyone What to Do and Now I Am More Confused: What the Gita Says

A mind pulled by many voices is not settled by hearing more voices; it is settled by one clear aim held steadily (2.41).

Simple English 4 min Buddhi Yoga: The Resolute Intellect

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I Want to Stop Doing Everything: What the Gita Says About Quitting

No one can do nothing, even for a moment. Breathing, sleeping and thinking are all action (3.5, 3.8).

Simple English 6 min Can We Simply Stop Acting?

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Putting Down the Load You Think Only You Can Carry: The Gita's Last Counsel

The weight of a day comes less from the work than from the thought that "I alone hold it up" (18.57, 18.61).

Simple English 7 min The Final Counsel: Surrender, Think, Choose

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Someone Dear Is Gone. Is Everything Gone? What the Gita Says

What ends is the body and the life we shared. The one who lived in the body is not made of what ends (2.20, 2.22).

Simple English 6 min The Imperishable Self

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When You Cannot Go On and Cannot Decide: What Arjuna Did First

Arjuna, the best archer of his day, trembles and cannot stand on the field (1.29-30). The Gita reports it plainly and does not call it shame.

Simple English 5 min Arjuna's Despondency

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When Your Resolve Meets a Face: What Arjuna Saw Between the Two Armies

Arjuna arrived on the field ready to fight, then asked to stand between the armies and see whom he must face.

Simple English 4 min Arjuna on the Field

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Afraid of What People Will Say? What the Gita Says About Duty and Disgrace

The Lord speaks to Arjuna in the language of duty and name, because those are what Arjuna cares about (2.31-37).

Simple English 5 min Duty, Honour and Fear

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Do Not Carry Every Outcome Alone: 'Merely an Instrument' in Plain Words

'Merely an instrument' means doing your own work with your whole mind without carrying the burden of being the only cause of the outcome (11.33).

Simple English 6 min Merely an Instrument

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How to Begin Karma Yoga at Work: One Task, Three Lines

Begin with just one task today. It has three moments: before, during and after.

Simple English 3 min Karma Yoga in Practice

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I Pray Every Day, Yet I Still Get Angry: What the Lord Looks for in a Devotee

The Lord knows His dear devotee not by rites but by how the person lives: no hatred for anyone, friendly and compassionate toward all, level in pain and pleasure (12.13).

Simple English 6 min The Devotee Dear to the Lord

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If Everything Is Fate, Is Hard Work Useless? What the Gita Says

The Gita counts destiny as one of five causes, not as the cause of everything (18.14).

Simple English 3 min Who Is the Doer?

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Is It All Right to Ask a Question? What Arjuna Teaches Us

The Gita runs on Arjuna's questions, and Lord Krishna turns none of them away (3.2, 3.3).

Simple English 5 min Arjuna's Questions

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Karma Yoga in Your Working Day: Four Moments for Every Task

Every task has four moments: an intention before, full attention during, handing over the result after, and three questions in the evening.

In Depth English 5 min Karma Yoga in Practice

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My Mind Will Not Stay on God: Where Do I Start? Gita 12.8-11

The Lord does not ask everyone to begin at the top; for the one whose mind will not stay He gives lower steps too (12.8-11).

Simple English 5 min The Ladder of Devotion

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Do I Have to Carry Everything Alone? What the Gita Says

For those who look to nothing else and stay joined to him, the Lord carries what they lack and keeps what they have (9.22).

Simple English 5 min The Steadfast Devotee and Divine Care

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How to Stop Worrying About the Result: Offer Your Work

The worry is not in the work but in clinging to the result. The Gita says to do the work and then hand it over to the Lord (3.30).

Simple English 5 min Offering All Actions

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Proud When It Works, Crushed When It Fails: Am I the Only One Behind It?

Your effort is real, but it is never the only cause of a result. Every action has five causes (18.14).

Simple English 6 min Who Is the Doer?

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Who Is the Doer? The Five Causes of Action and the Mistake of 'I Do It All'

The Gita does not remove the doer. It removes the belief that I do everything and that it is all mine (3.27, 18.16).

In Depth English 13 min Who Is the Doer?

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Does Detachment Mean Not Caring?

Detachment in the Gita is not indifference or not caring; it is inner freedom while fully engaged.

In Depth English 21 min

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The Concept of Leadership in the Bhagavad Gita: A Philosophy of Duty, Self-Control, and Lokasangraha

In the Gita, true leadership begins with mastering one's own mind, desires and reactions.

In Depth English 16 min