Sthitaprajna - The Battlefield Within
by Vikkas Rana
Every war has a battlefield, but the one that decides everything happens inside the mind. Sthitaprajna - The Battlefield Within is a sloka-by-sloka journey through the Bhagavad Gita, in the original Sanskrit, starting from the very first verse. Each episode takes the text seriously - not summarized, not skimmed - and asks what it actually means for the battles most people are already fighting: desire, anger, greed, delusion, and the conditioned patterns that keep pulling us back into the same fights. This isn't a philosophy lecture. It's an attempt to connect an ancient war to the ones going on right now - toxic relationships, toxic workplaces, habits and thoughts that won't let go, and the slow work of becoming someone who doesn't break under pressure. Along the way, the show also asks a bigger question the Gita itself keeps returning to: what does it look like to rise above purely selfish action, and contribute to the welfare of the people, animals, and world we actu
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The Sound Before the War (The Bhagvad Gita 1.1-19)
This show starts at the true beginning of the Bhagavad Gita — verse one, line one — and moves through it the way it was meant to be studied: one sloka at a time, in Sanskrit, with a full explanation of what each verse actually says and what it asks of you. Episode 1 covers Gita 1.1 through 1.19 —...
About this show
Every war has a battlefield, but the one that decides everything happens inside the mind.
Sthitaprajna - The Battlefield Within is a sloka-by-sloka journey through the Bhagavad Gita, in the original Sanskrit, starting from the very first verse. Each episode takes the text seriously - not summarized, not skimmed - and asks what it actually means for the battles most people are already fighting: desire, anger, greed, delusion, and the conditioned patterns that keep pulling us back into the same fights.
This isn't a philosophy lecture. It's an attempt to connect an ancient war to the ones going on right now - toxic relationships, toxic workplaces, habits and thoughts that won't let go, and the slow work of becoming someone who doesn't break under pressure. Along the way, the show also asks a bigger question the Gita itself keeps returning to: what does it look like to rise above purely selfish action, and contribute to the welfare of the people, animals, and world we actu
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