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Tapas gets printed as "austerity" in most English translations, and that one word turned a discipline into a punishment. The root tap means heat....

The four o'clock slump has a Sanskrit name, and it isn't laziness. Gītā 14.8 calls tamas a state you pass through. 14.10 says the...

Rajas is usually translated as activity. Bhagavad Gītā 14.7 calls it the nature of passion, the source of thirst and attachment, binding you by...

Yoga isn't a pose. Krishna's own test is moderation — eat right, sleep right. The verse never gives you a number. That part's yours....

Muditā is gladness at someone else's good fortune — the fourth thing the comparison trap takes from you. Yoga Sūtras 1.33 lists it as...

Arjuna said it first: the mind is as hard to hold as the wind. Krishna's answer isn't calm — it's practice, repeated.

Dharma comes from a root meaning to hold. Arjuna's problem was never finding his — it was that he already had it. Bhagavad Gītā...