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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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Devotion in Practice: Quick Summary
Daily devotion runs in four small moments: a morning offering, one task for the Lord, a pause in a hard meeting, and an evening review.
English 6 min Devotion in Practice
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Devotion in Your Day: Four Moments From Morning to Night
Daily devotion has four small moments: a small offering in the morning, one act done for the Lord, a pause in a hard meeting, and a review at night.
In Depth English 5 min Devotion in Practice
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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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No Time for Devotion? Three Short Lines for the Whole Day
Three small moments are enough: a morning offering, one act for the Lord, and a breath with a friendly line in a hard moment.
Simple English 3 min Devotion in Practice
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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 Does Work Feel Heavy, and How Do You Turn It into an Offering?
Work done only for oneself ties us; work done as an offering to something beyond oneself frees us (3.9).
Simple English 6 min Work as Sacrifice
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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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Putting Down the Load You Think Only You Can Carry: The Gita's Last Counsel
The weight of a day comes less from the work than from the thought that "I alone hold it up" (18.57, 18.61).
Simple English 7 min The Final Counsel: Surrender, Think, Choose
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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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Have I Done Too Much Wrong for God to Accept Me? What the Gita Says
A person of very bad conduct who turns to the Lord with his whole mind is to be counted as good, because he has resolved rightly (9.30).
Simple English 4 min Even the Worst Offender
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I Pray Every Day, Yet I Still Get Angry: What the Lord Looks for in a Devotee
The Lord knows His dear devotee not by rites but by how the person lives: no hatred for anyone, friendly and compassionate toward all, level in pain and pleasure (12.13).
Simple English 6 min The Devotee Dear to the Lord
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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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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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Do I Have to Carry Everything Alone? What the Gita Says
For those who look to nothing else and stay joined to him, the Lord carries what they lack and keeps what they have (9.22).
Simple English 5 min The Steadfast Devotee and Divine Care
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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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How to Stop Worrying About the Result: Offer Your Work
The worry is not in the work but in clinging to the result. The Gita says to do the work and then hand it over to the Lord (3.30).
Simple English 5 min Offering All Actions
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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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