- 01Arjuna's refusal to fight kin
- 02Krishna's rebuke and Arjuna's doubt
- 01Krishna's teaching on the immortal soul
- 02Duty to fight as a Kshatriya
- 03The deeper teaching of Yog and selfless action
- 01Steadfast meditation and the sage
Bhagavad Gita
Duty, action, knowledge, and devotion.
17Chapters
31Lessons
72Topics
Certificate of completion included
This course was produced by Cavua from a public-domain text.
Skills this course leaves you with.
- Summarize the Bhagavad Gita's central teachings on duty, action, knowledge, and devotion
- Explain Krishna's guidance on karma yoga, selfless work, and disciplined action
- Interpret the dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna across the major chapters
- Describe the concepts of sannyasa, tyaga, and the three gunas
- Analyze the universal form vision and its role in the Gita's spiritual message
- Relate the text's teachings on devotion, wisdom, and liberation to its chapter structure
Curriculum
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Every chapter, every lesson, every topic — laid out before you enroll. Click any chapter to expand it.
- Chapters
- 17
- Lessons
- 31
- Topics
- 72
- 01Arjuna's doubt about action and meditation
- 01Work and Sacrifice
- 01Duty performed without attachment
- 02Kama as the enemy of wisdom
- 01Krishna's divine birth and recurring incarnation
- 02Krishna as creator, sustainer, and teacher of action
- 01The wise man and the sacrifice of action
- 02Offerings of continence, austerity, and breath
- 03Knowledge as the highest sacrifice
- 01Arjuna's question on renunciation and work
- 02Krishna's teaching on yoga, action, and inner detachment
- 03Unity, equanimity, and liberation in Brahma
- 01Work, renunciation, and the true yogi
- 01Marks of equal grace and detachment
- 02Secluded meditation and disciplined yoga practice
- 03Moderation in food, sleep, and conduct
- 04The sheltered lamp as image of the Yogi's mind
- 01Peace through disciplined yoga
- 01Equanimity and self-command in Yoga
- 02The fate of the failed seeker
- 01Krishna's higher and lower nature
- 02Krishna as the source of all things
- 03Four kinds of devotees and worship of other gods
- 01Arjuna's questions about Brahma and the divine names
- 02Krishna's explanation of Brahma, karma, and sacrifice
- 03Meditation at death and the path to Purusha
- 04The return of worlds and the Unmanifest life
- 01Krishna's royal lore and divine immanence
- 02Sacrifice, worship, and the fruits of devotion
- 01Krishna's universal presence and devotion
- 02Krishna as source of all beings and virtues
- 03Arjuna's praise and request to know Krishna's forms
- 04Krishna's heavenly perfections and manifestations
- 01Arjuna's plea to behold Krishna's divine form
- 02Krishna reveals the universal form
- 03Arjuna's awe before the cosmic vision
- 04The consuming vision of destruction
- 01Krishna as Time the Destroyer
- 02Arjuna's hymn to the universal form
- 03Arjuna asks for Krishna's familiar form
- 01Krishna restores his gentle form
- 01Faith in the Manifest and Unmanifest Krishna
- 02The path of devotion, service, and renunciation
- 03Qualities of the beloved devotee
- 01Kshetra and Kshetrajna
- 02Marks of true wisdom
- 03The Supreme Brahman
- 04Nature, Spirit, and Purusha
- 01The Three Qualities of Nature
- 02Signs of One Beyond the Modes
- 01The Aswattha tree and detachment
- 02The Spirit entering and leaving the body
- 03Krishna as the Supreme Purushottama
- 01Signs of the heavenly birth
- 02Nature of the unheavenly
- 01Threefold faith and worship
- 02Threefold religious practice and gifts
- 01Sannyas and Tyaga defined
- 01Threefold qualities of knowledge, action, and doer
- 02Threefold qualities of intellect, steadfastness, and pleasure
- 01Duties of the four castes
- 02Path to perfection through work and renunciation
- 01Final exhortation to surrender and trust
- 01Krishna's final exhortation to surrender
- 02Arjuna's acceptance and resolve
- 03Sanjaya's closing praise of Krishna and the Gita
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