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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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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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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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I Want to Stop Doing Everything: What the Gita Says About Quitting
No one can do nothing, even for a moment. Breathing, sleeping and thinking are all action (3.5, 3.8).
Simple English 6 min Can We Simply Stop Acting?
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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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Afraid of What People Will Say? What the Gita Says About Duty and Disgrace
The Lord speaks to Arjuna in the language of duty and name, because those are what Arjuna cares about (2.31-37).
Simple English 5 min Duty, Honour and Fear
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My Mind Will Not Stay on God: Where Do I Start? Gita 12.8-11
The Lord does not ask everyone to begin at the top; for the one whose mind will not stay He gives lower steps too (12.8-11).
Simple English 5 min The Ladder of Devotion
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