The Bhagavad Gita

70 episodes · full original text

📣 Gandhi & Oppenheimer: Gandhi's “spiritual dictionary”; Oppenheimer quoted it at the first atomic test

Krishna's conversation with Arjuna on the battlefield: on duty, action without attachment, and the self that cannot die. (Sir Edwin Arnold's 1885 verse translation, The Song Celestial.)

Every word as the author wrote it, split into 1-minute episodes.

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1 · The Book of the Distress of Arjuna

1 2 3 4

2 · The Book of Doctrines

5 6 7 8 9 10 11

3 · The Book of Virtue in Work

12 13 14 15

4 · The Book of the Religion of Knowledge

16 17 18 19

5 · The Book of Religion by Renouncing Fruit of Works

20 21

6 · The Book of Religion by Self-Restraint

22 23 24 25

7 · The Book of Religion by Discernment

26 27

8 · The Book of Religion by Devotion to the One Supreme God

28 29 30

9 · The Book of Religion by the Kingly Knowledge and the Kingly Mystery

31 32 33 34

10 · The Book of Religion by the Heavenly Perfections

35 36 37

11 · The Book of the Manifesting of the One and Manifold

38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46

12 · The Book of the Religion of Faith

47 48

13 · The Book of Religion by Separation of Matter and Spirit

49 50 51

14 · The Book of Religion by Separation from the Qualities

52 53 54

15 · The Book of Religion by Attaining the Supreme

55 56 57

16 · The Book of the Separateness of the Divine and Undivine

58 59

17 · The Book of Religion by the Threefold Kinds of Faith

60 61

18 · The Book of Religion by Deliverance and Renunciation

62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70