The modern way toread the Gita.
All 700 verses of the Bhagavad Gita in clear English, with the context behind each one and what it means for your life today.
All 700 verses of the Bhagavad Gita in clear English, with the context behind each one and what it means for your life today.
You can read the whole Gita like a book: 18 chapters, 700 verses, in plain English. Every verse comes with its context, and what it means in daily life.
You have the right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction.
The most famous verse in the Gita, invoked constantly in Indian public life and taught to schoolchildren. Its four clauses form a complete system: your right is to the action itself; the results are never yours to own; do not count yourself the sole cause of outcomes; and do not let any of this become an excuse to stop acting.
You control your effort, not your results. Most of the stress in work and life comes from watching outcomes: grades, promotions, how something is received. This verse says to put your full attention on doing the work well, because that is the only part actually in your hands. It is a practical way to reduce anxiety without lowering your standards.
It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us.
Every morning there is one new verse waiting for you, in plain English. It takes ten seconds to read. If it stays with you, the full chapter is right there.
The app starts with the Gita and opens into India: the stories, the philosophy, and the practices India has been offering the world for thousands of years.
This is where the app begins: the whole Gita, made readable.
The Gita is one conversation inside the Mahabharata. The epic is here too, and so is the Gita's mark on the world and on India.
For when you want to go further: the teachers, practices, and books we would send a friend to.
A few minutes here and there works, and so does following one question as far as it goes.