Two armies wait. One man cannot move.
On the morning of the battle, the warrior Arjuna puts down his bow. What Krishna says to him next has steadied people for over two thousand years, and it is really about how to act when the stakes are high and the outcome is out of your hands.
See how it beginsEighteen chapters and seven hundred verses, all of it one conversation, held while two armies wait.
Old answers to current problems
Do the work, release the result
Give a thing your full care, then let go of the scoreboard. One of the cleanest answers to modern overwork and worry.
Steadiness over mood
Meet a good day and a bad one as the same weather. Equanimity is a skill you can build at any age.
Know your own job
Better to do your own work plainly than to copy someone else’s perfectly. A line worth taping above a desk.
More than one way up
There is more than one road up, and one of them suits the way you are built.
“You have a right to your work, but never to its fruits.”
Sit with it yourself
Two quiet things to come back to, any day.
The Gita, when it’s hard
Short reads that meet the Gita where life actually gets stuck. We start where the text itself starts: with someone who cannot go on.
The Gita has been read a thousand ways across the centuries. These pages are one person’s interpretation, offered with respect for every scholarly and devotional reading that came before.
A plain walk through all eighteen is on the way, each chapter as its own illustrated reading with narration, and each famous verse in Sanskrit, transliteration and everyday English. Chapters one to three are live now.