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A Leaf, a Flower, a Fruit, Water: Quick Summary
The Lord accepts a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water offered with devotion; it is the devotion that counts, not the worth of the gift (9.26).
English 8 min A Leaf, a Flower, a Fruit, Water
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Arjuna's Questions: Quick Summary
The Gita moves by Arjuna's questions, and the Lord sends none of them back (3.1-2).
English 11 min Arjuna's Questions
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The Devotee Dear to the Lord: Quick Summary
The devotee dear to the Lord is known not by rituals but by a way of living: no hatred, friendliness and compassion to all, evenness in pleasure and pain (12.13-14).
English 12 min The Devotee Dear to the Lord
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What We Worship, We Become: Quick Summary
The Lord steadies the faith of one who worships another god with faith, and the arranging of the fruit is His (7.21, 7.22).
English 10 min What We Worship, We Become
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Work as Sacrifice: Gita 3.9 to 3.16 Verse by Verse
Work done only for oneself binds; work done as an offering to something beyond oneself, free of attachment, frees (3.9).
In Depth English 14 min Work as Sacrifice
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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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Arjuna's Questions in the Gita: Wording, Order and Replies, a Closer Reading
The questions shape the Gita: three threads run through them, the call for one decisive answer (2.7, 3.2, 5.1), the marks of the ideal person (2.54, 14.21), and which of two is better (5.1, 12.1).
Deeper English 15 min Arjuna's Questions
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The Devotee Dear to the Lord: Gita 12.13-20, Verse by Verse
Chapter 12 closes with a person, not a rule: one who hates no being, is friendly and compassionate, and has offered mind and intellect to the Lord (12.13-14).
In Depth English 13 min The Devotee Dear to the Lord
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What Arjuna Asks in the Gita: The Fourteen Main Questions, One by One
Arjuna's questions change with his state of mind: first confusion (2.54, 3.1-2, 5.1), then the difficulty of practice (6.33-39), then the wish to know (8.1-2, 13.1, 14.21), then the wish to see (11.3-4).
In Depth English 14 min Arjuna's Questions
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A Leaf, a Flower, a Fruit, Water: Gita 9.26-29 Verse by Verse
The Lord accepts a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water offered with devotion; what counts is the devotion, not the cost of the gift (9.26).
In Depth English 14 min A Leaf, a Flower, a Fruit, Water
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Worshipping Other Deities and Reaching the Lord: Gita 7.20-23 and 9.20-25 Verse by Verse
The Lord steadies the faith of anyone who worships a deity with faith; the Gita does not scold them (7.20, 7.21).
In Depth English 10 min What We Worship, We Become
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