Articles tagged “Bhagavad Gita”
The Upanishads don't just assert reincarnation happens — one of them describes an actual mechanism, tracing a soul through the moon, rain, and plants back into a new body. Here's that passage, and what the Gita adds on top of it.
"Do your dharma" gets repeated as a one-line summary of the whole Gita, but the text is specific about what that actually means — and it's not the same claim as "obey whatever role you're assigned." Here's the argument, chapter and verse.
Action, devotion, and knowledge — the Gita presents all three as genuine paths to the same goal, not a hierarchy with one correct answer. Here's what each one actually argues, chapter and verse, not the flattened one-line version.
The Gita isn't a standalone scripture — it's 700 verses embedded inside a much longer war epic, spoken on a battlefield between two armies. Here's exactly where it sits in the Mahabharata, and an honest map of what each of its 18 chapters actually covers.
Most chakra content skips straight to the seven centers without ever asking where the idea actually comes from. It isn't the four Vedas. Here's the real textual lineage, traced through the Upanishads that actually name it.
