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Bhagavad Gita
A quiet conversation held on the edge of a hard moment. Eighteen chapters, read at your own pace — Sanskrit, its sound, and its meaning, side by side.
Verse of the day · 18.42
Liberation By Renunciationशमो दमस्तपः शौचं क्षान्तिरार्जवमेव च। ज्ञानं विज्ञानमास्तिक्यं ब्रह्मकर्म स्वभावजम्৷৷
Serenity, self-restraint, austerity, purity, forgiveness, as well as uprightness, knowledge, wisdom and faith in God - these constitute the duty of a spiritual Teacher.
A mirror
See which of sattva, rajas, tamas is loudest in you today.
Facing the moment we would rather run from, and asking for help.
47 verses
The heart of it all — you are more than what passes.
72 verses
How to act fully without being ruled by the outcome.
43 verses
Wisdom passed hand to hand, and the quiet freedom inside right action.
42 verses
Letting go by staying steady in the middle of the doing.
29 verses
Sitting with the restless mind until it settles.
47 verses
Coming to know the single thread running through everything.
30 verses
What holds steady when everything else falls away.
28 verses
The open secret — devotion offered simply is enough.
34 verses
Seeing the sacred in the finest of every thing.
42 verses
A glimpse of the whole, too vast to hold, and the awe of it.
55 verses
The gentlest path: to love, and to keep showing up.
20 verses
Telling apart the changing body from the quiet witness within.
35 verses
The three moods that colour us, and rising above their pull.
27 verses
The rooted tree of life, and the spirit that reaches beyond it.
20 verses
The two ways a life can lean, and choosing the lighter one.
24 verses
How faith, and even food and words, each carry a quality.
28 verses
Gathering it all — let go, act from love, and be free.
78 verses
Sanskrit and transliteration of the Bhagavad Gita. Default translation by Purohit Swami; default commentary by Swami Sivananda. Additional translations and commentaries by Swami Sivananda, Swami Gambirananda, Dr. S. Sankaranarayan and Swami Adidevananda. Corpus compiled from the vedabase and the IIT Kanpur Gita Supersite.