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Action Without Claiming the Fruit: Quick Summary
The Lord says the right is to action alone, never to its fruit (2.47).
English 7 min Action Without Claiming the Fruit
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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).
English 6 min Buddhi Yoga: The Resolute Intellect
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Can We Simply Stop Acting?: Quick Summary
Arjuna asks why action if knowledge is greater, and asks the Lord for one clear road (3.1-2).
English 7 min Can We Simply Stop Acting?
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Devotion or the Unmanifest: Quick Summary
Arjuna asks which knows yoga best, the one who worships the Lord in form or the one who worships the imperishable unmanifest (12.1).
English 7 min Devotion or the Unmanifest
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Does 'Be Merely an Instrument' Mean Arjuna Had No Free Choice?
What 'be merely an instrument' (11.33) fixes is what Time will do, not Arjuna's choice. The Lord says 'arise', which is said to one who can rise or not.
In Depth English 5 min Merely an Instrument
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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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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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Where Should You Start Reading the Gita? A Simple Way to Begin on Day One
You do not need to start at page one; chapter 1 is the scene, and the teaching begins in chapter 2.
Simple English 5 min How to Read the Gita
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If Destiny Decides Everything, Why Make an Effort? Gita 18.14, 2.47, 2.40 and 6.40 Answer
Destiny is the fifth of five causes and efforts are the fourth (18.14), so no single cause on a list of five can be everything.
In Depth English 5 min Who Is the Doer?
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Why 'I Am Not the Doer' Does Not Excuse Us from Responsibility: Gita 3.27, 5.8-9 and 18.14-16
'I am not the doer' is a Gita sentence, but it belongs to someone fully at work whose pride and dread have loosened (5.8-9).
In Depth English 5 min Who Is the Doer?
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Why Do I Keep Falling into the Same Pattern? What the Gita Says
The pull that keeps confusing the mind is the Lord's own illusory energy, and crossing it on one's own strength alone is hard (7.14).
Simple English 4 min The Illusory Energy and Surrender
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