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Buddhi Yoga: The Resolute Intellect: Quick Summary
What is known enters life only when the intellect rests on one resolve (2.41).
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By Devotion Alone: Quick Summary
The vision of the Lord is rare even for the gods, and no means, whether Vedas, austerity, giving or sacrifice, can pay its price (11.52-53).
English 10 min By Devotion Alone
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Gita 11.52-55 Verse by Verse: How the Lord Is Reached and the Five Marks of the Devotee
The Lord's form is rare even for the gods (11.52), and none of the four great means, Vedas, austerity, charity or sacrifice, can pay for the sight (11.53).
In Depth English 13 min By Devotion Alone
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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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Knowing His Glory Leads to Devotion: Quick Summary
One who knows the Lord's glory in truth joins Him by unshakable devotion, and the wise who know Him as the source of all worship Him with love (10.7-8).
English 10 min Knowing His Glory Leads to Devotion
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The Imperishable Self: Quick Summary
Grief rests on the body and the life lived together, but the one who dwells in the body stays the same.
English 7 min The Imperishable Self
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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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From Knowing to Deciding: Buddhi Yoga in Gita 2.39–46 and 2.52–53
After the teaching of the self (2.11–30), Lord Krishna shows how that knowing becomes living, through one resolved intellect, not through collecting more opinions (2.39–41).
In Depth English 11 min Buddhi Yoga: The Resolute Intellect
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The Self That Stays: Gita 2.11–30 Read in Order
The Lord's first teaching says that the one who lives in the body is the one who stays the same through every change, cannot be cut, burnt or ended (2.13, 2.20, 2.23).
In Depth English 12 min The Imperishable Self
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Gita 10.7-11 Verse by Verse: How Knowing the Lord's Glory Becomes Devotion
One who knows the Lord's glory in truth is joined to Him by unwavering devotion (10.7), and the wise who know Him as the source of all worship Him with love (10.8).
In Depth English 12 min Knowing His Glory Leads to Devotion
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The Gita: A Holistic Spiritual Vision Beyond Dualistic and Non-Dualistic Perspectives
The Gita contains statements pointing both to distinction and to unity, so it resists a single philosophical label.
In Depth English 16 min
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