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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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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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You Do Everything Right and God Still Feels Far: What the Gita Says
Study, austerity, charity and sacrifice are not the price of the Lord's nearness; he is found by undivided devotion (11.53, 11.54).
Simple English 5 min By Devotion Alone
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Why Do I Keep Doing What I Know Is Wrong? The Gita's Answer
Arjuna asks why a person does wrong even against his will, as if pushed by force, and the Lord names desire and anger born of passion (3.36–37).
Simple English 6 min The Enemy Called Desire
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Action, Knowledge, Meditation or Devotion: Where Should I Begin? The Gita's Own Answer
The Gita names four ways, action, knowledge, meditation and devotion, and says they lead to the same place (13.25, 5.5).
Simple English 7 min The Paths: Action, Knowledge, Devotion
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Does the Gita Teach War and Violence? What the Verses Say
The Gita opens with the warrior refusing to fight (1.28-47). Everything that follows is an answer to that refusal.
In Depth English 4 min Arjuna's Despondency
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Prayer Feels Dry and No One to Talk To? What the Gita Says
Truly seeing the Lord's greatness turns devotion from habit into steady love (10.7-8).
Simple English 6 min Knowing His Glory Leads to Devotion
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Is It All Right to Ask a Question? What Arjuna Teaches Us
The Gita runs on Arjuna's questions, and Lord Krishna turns none of them away (3.2, 3.3).
Simple English 5 min Arjuna's Questions
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Does a Small Offering Reach God? What the Gita Says About a Leaf and Water
The Lord accepts a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water offered with devotion. The gift need not be big (9.26).
Simple English 6 min A Leaf, a Flower, a Fruit, Water
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Is It Wrong to Ask God for Things? What the Gita Says
The Lord steadies the faith of anyone who worships a deity with faith; the Gita does not scold the one who asks (7.21).
Simple English 4 min What We Worship, We Become
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Is It Wrong to Remember God Only in Trouble?
The Gita names four reasons that bring people to God, distress, a wish to know, a want and wisdom, and calls all four good and noble (7.16, 7.18).
Simple English 4 min Four Kinds of Devotees
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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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