Reading paths
Short sequences through the Gītā, five to seven verses long, for particular situations. The order matters: each begins where you are rather than with the resolution.
When you cannot act
Seven verses following Arjuna from a body that will not move to a decision handed back to him.
7 verses
When the mind will not stop
Arjuna's own complaint about the restless mind, the chain the Gītā traces, and the small instruction that follows.
7 verses
After a loss
Grief in the Gītā, in order — the collapse first, then a consolation that may not be wanted yet.
7 verses
Before something you are dreading
Seven verses for the hours before a hard thing: fear that arrives early, and the question of acting anyway.
7 verses
When anger has the upper hand
Seven verses that trace anger backwards to what it grew from, and separate the surge from what is done with it.
7 verses
A first week with the Gītā
Seven verses, one a sitting, that give the shape of the book — where it starts, what it argues, how it ends.
7 verses
These sequences are reading suggestions, not treatment, and not a description of anyone following them. They are offered by Devdarshan Bastola, GMBPsS, counselling psychologist, alongside — never instead of — care you may already be receiving. Nothing here asks you to hurry anything you feel.
If you are in crisis, or having thoughts of ending your life, please contact your doctor, your therapist, your local emergency number, or a crisis line in your country now. That is a better use of the next hour than reading on alone.