Learning paths

Karma Yoga — Action Without Attachment

The Gita's core teaching on selfless action: treat outcomes with equanimity, then act without clinging to the fruit of what you do.

The Immortality of the Self

Krishna's opening metaphysical argument — the self that inhabits the body is not the kind of thing that is born or dies.

Bhakti Yoga — The Path of Devotion

Krishna's answer to which devotion is easier: fixing the mind directly on him, with a graded fallback for anyone who can't — and what a devotee who has arrived there actually looks like.

Sacrifice and Right Action

Chapter 3's teaching that action offered without a private claim on its outcome — yajna — is what keeps disciplined action from binding, argued first as cosmic charter and then through Krishna's own example.

Facing the Abyss

Arjuna's collapse into grief and moral paralysis at the end of chapter 1, and the equanimity teaching chapter 2 builds specifically to answer it.

Meditation and Inner Discipline

Chapter 6's concrete meditation technique, Arjuna's objection that a restless mind makes it unreachable, and Krishna's answer that no sincere effort toward it is ever wasted.

Divine Majesty

From chapter 10's catalogue of Krishna's foremost-in-category manifestations to chapter 11's direct, overwhelming vision of the universal form the catalogue was only ever gesturing at.

The Three Gunas

Sattva, rajas, and tamas as the mechanism binding the embodied self — introduced in chapter 14, then applied to faith itself in chapter 17 and to renunciation in chapter 18.

Renunciation: Two Paths

Chapter 5's redefinition of sannyasa as inner non-doership, and chapter 18's sharper technical split between sannyasa and tyaga that finally resolves it.

The Nature of the Self

Chapter 13's distinction between the Field that acts and the Knower that only witnesses, and chapter 15's Purushottama — the highest self standing beyond both the perishable and the imperishable.