Debates

Should you act in the world, or renounce it?

The Gita opens with Arjuna wanting to walk away, and spends eighteen chapters answering.

If the self never acts, who is responsible for what you do?

The Gita insists the self is actionless — and still holds you to account.

Is the Gita's highest path knowledge, or devotion?

Different chapters seem to crown different winners.

Do your choices matter, or is the outcome already set?

Krishna says Arjuna's enemies are already slain — and also that he must fight.

Can you do violence and not be morally stained?

The hardest reading problem in the text: a battlefield sermon that says fight.

Is the world real, or is it māyā?

The Gita calls nature divine and hard to cross — and also a veil.