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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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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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When the Confusion Clears: How to Tell, and How to Begin
The Lord asks whether the teaching was heard with the whole mind and whether the confusion has gone (18.72).
Simple English 5 min Delusion Gone: I Will Act
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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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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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