Quick summary
How to Read the Gita: Quick Summary
Begin with one question and one verse.
English 9 min How to Read the Gita
Find something to read
Combine filters to find pieces by level, life problem, reason for reading, way of study and more.
Selected filters:
Word by word (Sanskrit)
9. The Yoga of Royal Knowledge and Royal Secret
English
Clear all filters
6 pieces
Article
Does the Gita Turn Away from Hearing? A Close Reading of Gita 2.39–46 and 2.52–53
The passage teaches one thing from two ends. The mind needs one resolve, and the resolve takes root only when the mind rests in the Self (2.41, 2.53).
Deeper English 16 min Buddhi Yoga: The Resolute Intellect
Article
Seeing Inaction in Action: A Close Reading of Gita 4.16 to 4.24
Non-action is rejected as an exit in the third chapter and praised as the mark of the wise in the fourth, because the word carries two senses, not acting and acting without being bound (4.18).
Deeper English 11 min Karma and Akarma: Acting Without Being Bound
Article
What Moves Action If Not the Fruit? A Close Reading of Gita 2.47 to 2.51
The five verses move in one line, from what is mine (2.47) to how to hold it (2.48), why it is better (2.49), what it is called (2.50) and where it leads (2.51).
Deeper English 14 min Action Without Claiming the Fruit
Article
How to Read the Gita: Order, Translation, Commentary and a Question of Your Own
Four choices decide how you read the Gita: the order, the translation, the commentary and a question of your own.
In Depth English 10 min How to Read the Gita
Article
Reading One Verse at Five Distances: Gita 2.47, from a Single Word to Your Own Life
A verse is read at five distances: its words, its sentence, the verses around it, the whole Gita and your own life.
Deeper English 12 min How to Read the Gita
Nothing matches all of these filters yet.
How the library is organised
- Path A guided route through several topics, in order.
- Hub One topic, read at three depths, plus a quick summary.
- Article A single piece to read, at one depth.
- Quick summary Short on time. The whole topic in a few minutes.
- New to this topic. Plain words, one idea at a time.
- Know the basics. Verse by verse, with reasons.
- Want the text itself: Sanskrit terms, commentary, close reading.