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Can work be done all day without becoming a burden? The Gita says a person can be fully engaged and yet do nothing (4.20), because nothing binds. Four loads that make work heavy, and how to set them down.
Level: Simple English 5 min Karma and Akarma: Acting Without Being Bound
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Sunday evening and your stomach is already tight over Monday's meeting, deadline or target. The Gita splits work pressure into three weights and gives a small handle for each, with a practice for tonight.
Level: Simple English 6 min Working Under Pressure
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Done the work but cannot stop thinking about the result? The Gita draws a line: the work is yours, the result is not (2.47). Caring stays, clinging goes (2.48). A simple practice for tonight.
Level: Simple English 6 min Action Without Claiming the Fruit
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The Gita says to work without clinging to the result, but how do you begin on a busy Monday? A practice for one task today, with three short lines to say before the work, during it and after it.
Level: Simple English 3 min Karma Yoga in Practice
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A kind word in the morning lifts the whole day, and one cold remark ruins it. What the Gita says about keeping the mind level when praise and blame, gain and loss keep coming, with one small practice for today.
Level: Simple English 5 min Equanimity
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Does the Gita ask us not to care how things turn out? Gita 2.47 to 2.51 explained verse by verse: the work is ours, the result is not, and work done this way is better work.
Level: In Depth English 10 min Action Without Claiming the Fruit
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How the Gita builds evenness of mind in three steps, taken verse by verse: bearing pleasure and pain, acting the same in gain and loss, and seeing the same Self in all. With misreadings, an example and a practice.
Level: In Depth English 12 min Equanimity
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What is action, what is wrong action and what is inaction? Gita 4.16 to 4.24 explained in order: how a person can act all day and not be bound, through five marks and a vision of the act as an offering.
Level: In Depth English 9 min Karma and Akarma: Acting Without Being Bound
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You understand that the Gita asks us to act without clinging to the fruit. What do you actually do at your desk, in your shop or at home? Four moments taken from the verses: before the task, during it, after it, and an evening review.
Level: In Depth English 5 min Karma Yoga in Practice
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Where the Gita speaks to deadlines, targets and the fear of failing: three layers of work pressure, the handle the Gita gives for each, common misreadings, an example and a practice for one working day.
Level: In Depth English 12 min Working Under Pressure
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Detachment in the Bhagavad Gita does not mean not caring or becoming emotionally indifferent. It is a deeper way of approaching life through Karma Yoga, attachment to results, equanimity, love, and inner freedom.
Level: In Depth English 21 min
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A close reading of nine Gita verses on evenness of mind: what 'bearing' pleasure and pain means, how one can see all alike and still act differently, and how the Gita and its tradition answer the doubts that remain.
Level: Deeper English 15 min Equanimity
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Chapter 3 rejects non-action as an exit and chapter 4 praises it as the mark of the wise. A close reading of Gita 4.16 to 4.24: two senses of akarma, five marks, and the act seen as an offering.
Level: Deeper English 11 min Karma and Akarma: Acting Without Being Bound
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A close reading of Gita 2.47 to 2.51: what the right to action means, why the fruit is dropped as a claim, what moves the work instead, and how 2.51 can promise freedom without making it a price.
Level: Deeper English 14 min Action Without Claiming the Fruit
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A close reading of the Gita verses that speak to work pressure: what the right to action covers, why the fruit is given up, what mental fever means, and how skill and evenness fit, with objections answered.
Level: Deeper English 14 min Working Under Pressure
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Can one work with the whole mind and not carry the weight of the result? In Gita 2.47 to 2.51 the Lord shows Arjuna this road in plain and clear words.
English 7 min Action Without Claiming the Fruit
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Keeping the mind the same in pleasure and pain, gain and loss, honour and insult is the Gita's equanimity. It is not going numb or giving up work, but going on with one's work with a calm mind in every condition.
English 11 min Equanimity
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How does working without clinging to the fruit enter everyday life? Four moments for every task: intention before, full attention during, handing over the result after, and an evening check, from Gita 2.47 to 2.51, 3.30 and 4.19 to 4.23.
English 5 min Karma Yoga in Practice
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Right action, wrong action and non-action are told apart in Gita 4.16 to 4.24. It shows how one can work all day and still not be bound.
English 9 min Karma and Akarma: Acting Without Being Bound
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The pressure of meetings, deadlines and targets is seen by the Gita in three layers: the real demand of the work, fear of the result and inner panic. See how work goes well by loosening the grip on the fruit and staying even.
English 13 min Working Under Pressure
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Can we work hard and still not be eaten up by the result? Gita 2.47 to 2.51: the work is ours, the result is not, and work done this way is better work.
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Keeping the mind level when pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame come and go: the Gita's teaching of evenness on three fronts, and what it is not.
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How does working without clinging to the fruit become part of an ordinary day? Four moments for every task: intention before, full attention during, handing over after, and an evening review, drawn from Gita 2.47-51, 3.30 and 4.19-23.
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What is action, what is wrong action and what is inaction, and how can a person act all day and not be bound? Gita 4.16 to 4.24: five marks of the free actor and the act seen as an offering.
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A heavy week at work feels like one lump of dread. The Gita pulls it into three parts, the work, the fear and the panic, and gives a handle for each. Start here for readings at three depths.