Where are you right now?
Pick a feeling. The map draws your path through the Gita: how it works, what answers it, and the verses to practise.
What troubles you
What you want to grow
Chains of cause and effect
The Gita often teaches in steps. Each step links to its verse.
The three gunas, four ways
The same three qualities, applied to nature, signs, food and joy.
| सत्त्व Sattva | रजस् Rajas | तमस् Tamas |
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| Their nature | 14.6Of these, sattva, which is luminous and healthy due to its stainlessness, binds one by… | 14.7Know, O Arjuna, that Rajas is of the nature of passion, the source of thirst and attachment… | 14.8But know thou Tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds fast, O… |
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| Their signs | 14.11When the wisdom-light shines through every gate of this body, then it may be known that Sattva… | 14.12Greed, activity, the undertaking of actions, restlessness, and longing—these arise when Rajas… | 14.13Darkness, inertia, carelessness, and delusion—these arise when Tamas is predominant, O Arjuna. |
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| Food each loves | 17.8The foods that increase life, purity, strength, health, joy, and cheerfulness (good appetite)… | 17.9The foods that are bitter, sour, salty, overly hot, pungent, dry, and burning are liked by the… | 17.10That which is stale, tasteless, putrid, rotten, rejected, and impure is the food liked by the… |
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| Joy each brings | 18.37That which is like poison at first but in the end like nectar—that happiness is declared to be… | 18.38That happiness which arises from the contact of the senses with the objects, which is… | 18.39That happiness which at first, as well as in the end, deludes the self, and which arises from… |
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Find a path
Pick any two points, a feeling, a verse, a situation or an idea, and see the shortest chain of links between them.
Try:
The map links the 116 core shlokas of the twenty themes. Its links are drafts made from the text and translations, waiting for review.
