Bhagavad Gita

Do the dharma-shastras say aggressors shouldn’t be killed and artha-shastras that they should be killed?

What are dharma-shastra and artha-shastra? How are they different?

How can we make our work into worship when it is not according to our nature and is not connected with Krishna?

How to make our work into worship (Gita 18.44-45) (Hindi)

Should a devotee avoid initiation due to not being able to follow the fourth regulative principle fully?

Does Krishna compassionately pull impersonalists from Brahman to Bhagavan?

How does attachment to result make us the cause of action, as the Gita 2.47 purport states?

Is conscience always the voice of the Supersoul? Does everyone’s conscience tell them that meat-eating is wrong?

Why does the Gita 18.68 restrict its message of devotion to devotees?

How are the feelings of victory and adventure Krishna’s opulences, especially when people get those feelings in illicit activities such as gambling?

Are the demigod worshipers in Gita 9.15 different from normal karma kandis because the Gita refers to them as jnanis?

Do the ekatvena worshipers of Gita 9.15 refer to 9.11-12 or 12.3-6?

What kind of rules and regulations do the prestige-seekers referred to in the Gita 16.17 follow?

Are the Gita’s instructions applicable in the spiritual world too or only in the material world?

If the Gita is a transcendental literature, then why does the Gita Mahatmya glorify the attainment of heavenly planets?

Why do we have a right to do prescribed duties as the Gita 2.47 states?

Did Prabhupada want to re-write Bhagavad Gita As It Is because he worked very fast to publish it quickly?

Why doesn’t Srila Prabhupada mention even once in the Bhagavad-gita As It Is that we should chant 16 rounds of Hare Krsna Mahamantra?

Can chanting Hare Krsna help one to assimilate the knowledge of the scriptures more efficiently? How?

How can I turn my occupational duty into devotional service to Krishna?

How does contemplating on Krishna differ from mental speculation about Krishna?

Does Gita 2.47 ma phasehu kadachana mean that we don’t have a right to obtain the result or a right to enjoy the result?

How exactly are “those in Krishna consciousness not responsible for their actions”, as Prabhupada states?

Can Gita 18.14 adhisthanam refer to some place of action other than the body?

Who is the actual doer according to the Gita?

How can we reconcile the Gita (3.4) – don’t give up work – and the Bhagavatam (1.5.17) – give up work?

What is the difference between charity in goodness and transcendence?

Why is the edited BBT Gita different from Prabhupada’s unedited original Gita?

Why is the Bhagavad-gita so pessimistic? (expanded with four-point analysis)

What is the connecting link between the Gita’s ninth and tenth chapters?

In which verses of the Gita’s eight chapter are the Lord’s glories stated?

Do the daivi maya in Gita 7.14 and daivi prakriti in 9.13 to the same thing or different things?

I am a Physics student. How can I study the Bhagavad-gita scientifically when it seems like a discussion in a story?

Is the jnani in Gita 7.16 and jnanavan in 7.19 the same or different?

In the Gita chp 8, what is the yogis’ conception of Krishna?

In Gita chp 13, what exactly does jneya refer to?

Are there any examples of yoga-mishra bhaktas becoming kevala bhaktas?

Can Gita verses be translated differently from Prabhupada’s translations?

How can we understand Prabhupada’s equating buddhi-yoga in 2.39 purport with bhakti-yoga?

Gita 18.64-78 – The Gita culminates in a call for pure love (Hindi)

Gita 18.40-63 – Bhakti is the spiritual summit that also extends down to wherever we may be (Hindi)

As tapa is not a distinct spiritual path, what does Gita 6.46 tapsvibhyo adhiko yogi refer to?

Why is the flow the Gita verses not given in Prabhupada’s Gita?

What is the connection between Gita 6.4 yogarudha stage and 6.5-6 mind’s inimical nature?

Gita 18.29-39 Choose the intelligence, determination and happiness for attaining auspiciousness (Hindi)

How can we practically understand the modes influencing us wrt the jnana karma and karta analysis in Gita 18.20-28?

How are the 6 components of action in Gita 18.18 reduced to 3 in Gita 18.19?

Gita 18.13-18.28 – The five factors and the three components of action (Hindi)

Gita 18.01-12 – Don’t garb irresponsibility as renunciation (Hindi)

Gita 17.17-17.28 – Various religions are pathways towards the same sat moutain-peak (Hindi)

Gita 3.9 enjoins yajna for the satisfaction of Vishnu. Then why does the next section talk about the lower level of karma kanda?

Gita 2.38 and 2.48 seem very similar. What is the difference between them?

What is the difference between karma-kanda and sakama karma-yoga? Which does Gita 2.31-37 refer to?

Gita 2.39 is a linking verse. Which sections in the Gita and which levels in the yoga ladder does it link?

Is there any difference between nishkama bhakti and shuddha bhakti?

Do karma-mishra, yoga-mishra, jnana-mishra bhakti come under sakama bhakti?

Gita 17.07-16 – Understanding food, sacrifice and austerity from material and transcendental perspectives (Hindi)

Gita 16.13-17.06 – Demoniac mentality in today’s society (Hindi)

Gita 15.15-16.12 – Purushottama – the highest reality and the qualities that define our natures (Hindi)

Gita 15.01-14 – Understanding material existence metaphorically and philosophically (Hindi)

Gita 14.06-27 – Understanding and transcending the modes (Hindi)

Gita 13.30-14.05 – Jnana Chakshu and the reality of dreams (Hindi)

Gita 13.18-29 – How the purusha gets bound by prakriti (Hindi)

Gita 13.08-17 – Understanding jnana and jneya (Hindi)

How are the living symptoms of consciousness manifestations of the subtle body as the Gita 13.6-7 purport says?

Gita 13.01-07 – Overview of chps 1-12 and understanding Kshetrajna & Kshetra – Hindi

According to Krishna, which is more important – karma-yoga, bhakti-yoga or both?

Do our impulses come from outside us or inside us?

Is karma yoga practical when even the people for whom we sacrifice consider it insane?

How is the Gita 4.9 the essence of the Bhagavad-gita?

What is the difference between ‘nishkarma’ & ‘karma’ as explained in Gita & its significance?

When Krishna is complete, how can he be the beneficiary of our sacrifices, as Gita 5.29 says?

Why are we bound to certain patterns of thinking? Doesn’t that make us like pre-programmed robots?

Though Yudhishthira is the oldest Pandavas, why does Gita chp 1 mention him after Arjuna & Bhima?

As all the bodily forms we take are temporary, does that mean the eternal and real is formlessness?

When sex is an experience of Krishna, as the Gita states, why does Yamunacharya spit at sex desire?

Isn’t Prabhupada’s Gita 18.65 call to worship Krishna alone and no other Vishnu form fanatical?

Is Gita 18.55’s impersonal message (vishate tad anantaram) overridden by Prabhupada’s translation?

If the Gita is a manual why is it so confusing? Why couldn’t it have been clearer?

Is the Gita an attempted reconciliation of different Upanishadic thoughts and not a revelation?

Does “knowing in truth” (Gita 4.9) happen by “experiences of Truth” or by “understanding”?

When Prabhupada’s perfect purports to the Gita are there, why are Gita daily articles needed?

Six steps to spiritual perfection – Bhagavad Gita 07.01

How is the material world non-existent as Prabhupada states in the Gita introduction?

In Gita 13.12 is there any difference between atma-vinigrahah and indriyartheshu vairagya?

What is the Gita’s position on deontology?

What is the Gita’s etiology?

What is the Gita’s ontology?

What is the Gita’s soteriology?

What is the Gita’s eschatology?

Does Gita 9.32 which says that anyone can begin bhakti apply to those who fall while practicing bhakti?

Is the Gita 18.66 exclusivist or inclusivist in spirit?

If we need to see intellectually before we can see visually, what about non-intellectual practitioners?

Isn’t unconsciousness of Krishna more harmful than unconsciousness of our faults?

Is there any difference between dambha, darpa and abhimana in Gita 16.04?

When the Supersoul is a judge, how is he neutral? And how is his role reconcilable with deism?

Can Kuruskshtera be compared to the body, the senses to the Pandavas, the Kauravas to the vices and the war to the inner battle?

Knotty Verse Series 6 – 11.33 – Is the Gita’s call for violence literal or metaphorical?

Knotty Gita Verses Series 5 – 03.35 – Does the Gita endorse the caste system?

What exactly does the Gita say about ‘work is worship’?