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 this is more than reading can hold, there are people to talk to.