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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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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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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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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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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