The Gita journal
Notes on the practice.
Field notes, guides, and the thinking behind Gita.
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How to Stop Being Jealous of Other People's Success: The Bhagavad Gita on Envy and Why It Makes You Unteachable
Learn how to stop being jealous of other people's success. The Bhagavad Gita names envy as the one thing that makes you unteachable, and shows the way back to learning.
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How to Stop Worrying About Money: The Bhagavad Gita on the Fear of Not Having Enough
Learn how to stop worrying about money with the Bhagavad Gita’s insight into the ‘inventory mind’ and the science of scarcity: why more never feels like enough, and what does.
2026-10-25
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How to Stop Absorbing Other People's Emotions: The Bhagavad Gita on Caring Without Drowning
How to stop absorbing other people's emotions without going cold: the psychology of emotional contagion, and why Krishna stayed calm while Arjuna fell apart.
2026-10-25
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How to Lead by Example: The Bhagavad Gita on Why People Copy What You Do, Not What You Say
How to lead by example, from the Bhagavad Gita: the people who love you copy what you do, not what you say. Learn how to close the quiet gap between your words and your life.
2026-10-25
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Impostor Syndrome and the Bhagavad Gita: Why Feeling Like a Fraud Is Ego in Disguise
Impostor syndrome tells you you're a fraud who got lucky. The Bhagavad Gita offers a stranger diagnosis: you're holding yourself to a standard no one could ever meet.
2026-10-24
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How to Stop Being Clingy in a Relationship: The Bhagavad Gita on Loving Without Possessing
How to stop being clingy in a relationship isn't about loving less. The Bhagavad Gita names the small hidden word that turns love into fear, and shows how to put it down.
2026-10-24
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Why Suppressing Your Feelings Backfires: The Bhagavad Gita on the Hidden Cost of Holding It In
Why suppressing your feelings backfires: the Bhagavad Gita and modern psychology agree that “I'm fine” has a price. Here's what to do instead of holding it in.
2026-10-23
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How to Overcome Shame: The Bhagavad Gita on the Difference Between What You Did and Who You Are
How to overcome shame without excusing what you did: the Bhagavad Gita and shame research agree that the feeling you trust to keep you good often makes you hide.
2026-10-23
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The Bhagavad Gita on Happiness: Why the Good Kind Feels Like Poison at First
The Bhagavad Gita on happiness explains why the joy that lasts tastes bitter going in and the joy that drains you tastes sweet — and how to tell them apart before you choose.
2026-10-22
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How to Ask for Help: The Bhagavad Gita on the Courage to Say “I Don’t Know”
Struggling with how to ask for help? The Bhagavad Gita’s greatest warrior didn’t get any wisdom until he admitted he was lost. Here’s why that’s so hard, and how to do it.
2026-10-22
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Who Am I Without My Job? The Bhagavad Gita on Losing the Role That Defined You
Who am I without my job? What the Bhagavad Gita and the psychology of self-complexity reveal about losing a role — and finding the self that was never lost.
2026-07-12
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Feeling Lost in Life? Why the Bhagavad Gita Begins With a Breakdown
Feeling lost in life isn't a detour from the path. The Bhagavad Gita opens with a warrior's collapse — and treats despair as the first chapter of wisdom, not the failure of it.
2026-07-12
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How to Stop People-Pleasing: The Bhagavad Gita on Living for Approval
Learn how to stop people pleasing with the Bhagavad Gita — why approval feels like survival, and how to act from your own path instead of performing for an audience.
2026-07-11
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How to Deal With Difficult People: The Bhagavad Gita on Staying Steady Around Those Who Test You
How to deal with difficult people, from the Bhagavad Gita: why their behavior feels so personal, the attribution mistake your mind makes, and the practice that unhooks you.
2026-07-11
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How to Be More Patient: The Bhagavad Gita on Waiting Without Suffering
Impatience isn't a time problem — it's a desire problem. The Bhagavad Gita's teaching of titiksha reveals how to be more patient when life refuses to hurry.
2026-07-11
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The Bhagavad Gita on Compassion: Why One Person Moves You and a Million Don't
The Bhagavad Gita on compassion explains a strange fact about the heart: it breaks for one stranger and goes numb for a million. Here's why — and what to do about it.
2026-07-10
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How to Find Meaning in a Job You Don't Love: The Bhagavad Gita on Work as Offering
Struggling to find meaning in a job you don't love? The Bhagavad Gita's teaching on work as offering — plus real research on job crafting — changes who your work is for.
2026-07-10
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The Bhagavad Gita on Food and Sleep: Why Your Spiritual Life Runs on Your Body
The Bhagavad Gita on food and sleep says yoga fails for those who eat and sleep too much or too little. Most of your bad days aren't spiritual failures — they're physiological ones.
2026-07-09
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How to Give Without Expecting Anything in Return: The Bhagavad Gita on Generosity
How to give without expecting anything in return: the Bhagavad Gita's three kinds of generosity, and why a gift with strings attached quietly costs you more than it gives.
2026-07-09
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The Bhagavad Gita on Starting Over: Why No Effort You Make Is Ever Wasted
The Bhagavad Gita on starting over: after a slip, effort feels erased and we quit. Here's why no honest effort is ever lost — and how to resume instead of restart from zero.
2026-07-08
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The Bhagavad Gita on Faith: Why the Story You Believe About Yourself Comes True
How your beliefs about yourself become true, explained through the Bhagavad Gita's teaching on shraddha and the science of the self-fulfilling prophecy.
2026-07-08
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Detachment vs Indifference: What the Bhagavad Gita Really Means by Letting Go
Detachment vs indifference sounds like the same thing until you try to live it. The Bhagavad Gita draws the line—caring fully while holding outcomes loosely.
2026-07-08
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The Bhagavad Gita on Perfectionism: Why "Good Enough" Feels Like Failure
The Bhagavad Gita on perfectionism: why every action carries a flaw, and how to do good work without needing it flawless. A gentle way to overcome perfectionism.
2026-07-07
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Why Bad Habits Are Hard to Break: The Bhagavad Gita on the Grooves of the Mind
Why bad habits are hard to break isn't weak willpower — it's a worn groove in the mind. What the Bhagavad Gita and modern habit science both reveal about change.
2026-07-06
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How to Stop Doubting Yourself: The Bhagavad Gita on the Divided Mind
Learning how to stop doubting yourself starts with seeing what doubt actually is — a mind split in two. What the Bhagavad Gita teaches about ending the endless second-guessing.
2026-07-06
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The Bhagavad Gita on Gratitude: Why You Stop Seeing What You Already Have
The Bhagavad Gita on gratitude: why the mind stops seeing what it's given, and a practice — tracing gifts backward — that retrains attention to notice again.
2026-07-05
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How to Think Before You Speak: The Bhagavad Gita on the Discipline of Words
Learn how to think before you speak with the Bhagavad Gita's discipline of speech — four ancient tests for words that are true, kind, and actually worth saying.
2026-07-05
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How to Stop All-or-Nothing Thinking: The Bhagavad Gita on Moderation
How to stop all-or-nothing thinking: the Bhagavad Gita's forgotten verse on moderation, and the psychology of why one small slip so often becomes a collapse.
2026-07-04
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How to Let Go of Resentment: The Bhagavad Gita on Forgiveness
Learning how to let go of resentment starts with seeing what a grudge actually costs you. The Bhagavad Gita's teaching on kshama offers a way out that isn't pretending.
2026-07-04
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The Bhagavad Gita on Loneliness: Why You Can Feel Alone in a Crowd
The Bhagavad Gita on loneliness starts with a man alone in a crowd of millions. Why loneliness is a signal, not a census — and the ancient move that breaks its loop.
2026-07-03
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The Bhagavad Gita on Impermanence: Why No Feeling — Good or Bad — Ever Stays
The Bhagavad Gita on impermanence: why every pleasure and pain arrives only to depart, what the hedonic treadmill proves, and how to stop being ambushed by both.
2026-07-03
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How to Stop Dwelling on Past Mistakes: The Bhagavad Gita on Regret
How to stop dwelling on past mistakes: the Bhagavad Gita's counsel on regret, the psychology of rumination, and a practice for the nights you replay what you can't change.
2026-07-02
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The Bhagavad Gita on Worry: How to Stop Living in a Future That Hasn't Arrived
Learn how to stop worrying about the future with the Bhagavad Gita's quiet teaching on action, control, and the restless mind that keeps rehearsing tomorrow's pain.
2026-06-27
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The Bhagavad Gita on Burnout: Why Doing More Quietly Drains You
The Bhagavad Gita on burnout teaches yukta—balance in work, rest, and food. Learn why moderation, not maximum effort, is what keeps you from running dry.
2026-06-27
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The Bhagavad Gita on Emotional Reactivity: How to Stop Reacting Before You Think
How to stop reacting emotionally: the Bhagavad Gita maps the exact slide from a quiet mind to anger and regret — and the small pause that breaks the chain.
2026-06-26
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The Bhagavad Gita on Avoidance: Why You Talk Yourself Out of Hard Things
The Bhagavad Gita on avoidance shows why we rationalize our way out of hard tasks—and how Krishna's answer to Arjuna's collapse maps onto the psychology of escape.
2026-06-26
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The Bhagavad Gita on Comparison: Why Measuring Yourself Against Others Steals Your Peace
The Bhagavad Gita on comparison explains why measuring yourself against others quietly erodes peace—and offers a grounded way to stop comparing yourself to people around you.
2026-06-24
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The Bhagavad Gita on the Witness Self: How to Watch Your Thoughts Without Being Ruled by Them
The witness self in the Bhagavad Gita explains why you are not your thoughts. Learn how to watch your mind, loosen its grip, and stop being ruled by every feeling.
2026-06-23
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The Bhagavad Gita on Criticism and Praise: Why Both Quietly Throw You Off Balance
The Bhagavad Gita on criticism and praise: why a compliment lifts you and a harsh word sinks you, and how the idea of the dvandvas teaches a steadier way to stand.
2026-06-23
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The Bhagavad Gita on Self-Sabotage: Why You Become Your Own Worst Enemy
The Bhagavad Gita on self-sabotage explains why you become your own worst enemy—and how the mind becomes a friend instead of a foe through self-mastery.
2026-06-22
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The Bhagavad Gita on Distraction: Why Your Attention Keeps Getting Pulled Away
The Bhagavad Gita on distraction explains why your attention keeps slipping to the next notification—and offers a 5,000-year-old map for taking your focus back.
2026-06-22
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The Bhagavad Gita on the Fear of Death: Why Mortality Quietly Runs Your Life
Bhagavad Gita on the fear of death: how the imperishable self answers death anxiety, what terror management theory reveals, and how to live without dread.
2026-06-21
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The Bhagavad Gita on Ego: Why "I Am the Doer" Quietly Wears You Out
The Bhagavad Gita on ego explains why claiming "I did this" quietly exhausts you—and what loosening your grip on being the doer actually changes in daily life.
2026-06-21
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The Bhagavad Gita on Grief: Why Losing Someone Feels Like the End of the World
The Bhagavad Gita on grief begins where you are now: undone by loss. Here's what its oldest teaching on death actually says, and how to carry it.
2026-06-19
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Why Am I Never Satisfied? The Bhagavad Gita on Desire and the Endless Want for More
Why am I never satisfied no matter what I get? The Bhagavad Gita mapped the chain of desire 2,000 years ago — and modern science calls it hedonic adaptation.
2026-06-16
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The Three Gunas of the Bhagavad Gita: Why Your Mood and Energy Keep Shifting
The three gunas of the Bhagavad Gita—sattva, rajas, tamas—explain why your energy swings from clear to restless to heavy, and how to watch the weather instead of becoming it.
2026-06-16
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The Bhagavad Gita on Overthinking: Why You Freeze Before a Hard Decision
The Bhagavad Gita on overthinking starts with a man too overwhelmed to act. Here's what Arjuna's paralysis teaches about decision paralysis—and how to move.
2026-06-16
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The Bhagavad Gita on Anger: Why You Lose Your Temper and How to Catch It Earlier
The Bhagavad Gita on anger maps the exact chain that ends in a blown temper—and shows where to intervene before krodha takes over. A calmer, science-backed read.
2026-06-15
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Svadharma Meaning: What the Bhagavad Gita Teaches About Living Your Own Path
Svadharma meaning, explained through the Bhagavad Gita: why doing your own work imperfectly beats copying someone else's life perfectly — and how to find your real path.
2026-06-13
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How to Calm a Restless Mind: The Bhagavad Gita on Practice and Letting Go
Wondering how to calm a restless mind that won't hold still? The Bhagavad Gita names two forces—practice and dispassion—that modern attention science quietly confirms.
2026-06-12
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How to Stop Being Attached to Outcomes: The Bhagavad Gita's Quiet Cure for Result Anxiety
Learning how to stop being attached to outcomes is the Gita's oldest lesson — and modern psychology quietly agrees. Here's how to act fully without drowning in results.
2026-06-11
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