Attachment: the clinging of the mind to objects, results or roles, so that peace depends on them.
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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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A small remark, and the evening is gone. The Gita shows anger as the fourth step of a chain that starts with what the mind keeps dwelling on, and where that chain is easiest to stop.
Level: Simple English 6 min From Thought to Ruin
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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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Gita 2.62–63 walks from dwelling on an object through attachment, desire, anger, delusion, confused memory and lost intellect to ruin. Each step in plain words, with the neighbouring verses.
Level: In Depth English 12 min From Thought to Ruin
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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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Is Gita 2.62–63 a law of the mind or a warning? Three streams of commentary, six objections and the questions the verses raise, answered from the Gita and the tradition.
Level: Deeper English 17 min From Thought to Ruin
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A close reading of one verse, Gita 2.47, at five distances (its words, its sentence, its neighbours, the whole Gita and your own life), with the check that belongs to each distance.
Level: Deeper English 12 min How to Read the Gita
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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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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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How does dwelling on a thing lead a person to ruin? The seven steps are in two verses of the Gita (2.62-63), and here also the place where the chain is most easily broken.
English 8 min From Thought to Ruin
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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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How a quiet thought grows into attachment, desire, anger, delusion and ruin, in seven steps (Gita 2.62–63), and why the early steps are the easy place to stop.