The Bhagavad Gita

Name: The Bhagavad Gita
Author: Bhagavad Gita
ISBN: 9781586380199

Translated by Eknath Easwaran

Written byBhagavad Gita

A 700-verse conversation on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. As the warrior Arjuna freezes before a war against his own family, Krishna teaches him about duty, action without attachment and the nature of the self. Eknath Easwaran's clear modern translation comes with chapter introductions that make the text easy to follow.

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01Act without clinging to results
Do your work fully, and let go of the outcome. Attachment to results is what breeds anxiety.
02Stay steady in success and failure
Evenness of mind, meeting gain and loss the same way, is what the Gita calls yoga.
03Your own path matters most
Better to follow your own duty imperfectly than to copy someone else's perfectly.
04Train the mind with practice
The restless mind is hard to steady, but regular practice and letting go can do it.
05The self is beyond the body
The deepest self is not born and does not die, which puts fear and loss in perspective.
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Do your work fully, and let go of the outcome. Attachment to results is what breeds anxiety. Pick one small way to put this into practice before tonight.

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“Thy business is with the action only, never with its fruits; so let not the fruit of action be thy motive, nor be thou to inaction attached.”

— Bhagavad Gita

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