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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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Duty, Honour and Fear: Quick Summary
The Lord speaks to Arjuna in his own language: duty, name and what people will say (2.31-37).
English 7 min Duty, Honour and Fear
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Even the Worst Offender: Quick Summary
A person of very bad conduct who worships with undivided devotion is to be regarded as righteous, because he has resolved rightly (9.30).
English 10 min Even the Worst Offender
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Gita 18.72-78 Verse by Verse: Delusion Destroyed and Arjuna's Resolve
The Lord asks whether the teaching was heard with a steady mind and whether the delusion is gone (18.72).
In Depth English 10 min Delusion Gone: I Will Act
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Offering All Actions: Quick Summary
Lord Krishna asks Arjuna to hand over all actions to Him, with the mind turned to the self, free from expectation, from the sense of 'mine' and from the fever of worry (3.30).
English 11 min Offering All Actions
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The Final Counsel: Surrender, Think, Choose: Quick Summary
The Lord tells Arjuna to hand all actions over to Him in the mind and to fix his thought on Him (18.57-58).
English 9 min The Final Counsel: Surrender, Think, Choose
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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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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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The Gita's Last Counsel, Verse by Verse: Surrender, Think, Choose (18.57 to 18.66)
The Lord asks Arjuna to give all actions to Him in the mind and to keep a steady intellect (18.57, 18.58).
In Depth English 10 min The Final Counsel: Surrender, Think, Choose
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What Is in the Gita's Eighteen Chapters? A Plain Guide to Where to Start
The eighteen chapters are one conversation between Arjuna and Lord Krishna, and they answer five questions in order.
Simple English 6 min The Eighteen Chapters at a Glance
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What Is the Bhagavad Gita? A Plain Answer for First-Time Readers
The Gita is one conversation, in eighteen chapters, between Arjuna and his friend Lord Krishna, who drives his chariot.
Simple English 6 min What Is the Gita?
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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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Gita 2.31-37: What the Lord Says to Arjuna About Duty, Disgrace and Fear
The Lord speaks to Arjuna in his own language, of duty, name and what people will say; seven verses press one point each (2.31-37).
In Depth English 9 min Duty, Honour and Fear
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How a Person of Very Bad Conduct Counts as Righteous: Gita 9.30-34 Verse by Verse
A person of very bad conduct who worships the Lord with undivided devotion is to be regarded as righteous, because he has resolved rightly (9.30).
In Depth English 10 min Even the Worst Offender
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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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Offering All Actions: Gita 3.30-32 and 5.10-12 Verse by Verse
Do the work with your whole self, then hand the work and your claim on its fruit to the Lord. This is what the Gita means by offering all actions (3.30).
In Depth English 12 min Offering All Actions
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