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20 reading paths and 100 contextual definitions, checked against stored source passages.

The reading paths are AI-assisted editorial selections and questions. Quoted meanings and translations are source text. Each definition gives one cited use, rather than every possible meaning. Reading paths are suggestions for study, rather than canonical commentary.

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Reading paths

Reading about faith

What kinds of faith are discussed, and how do the contexts differ?

BG 17.2 · BG 6.47

Fear and reassurance

Read each statement about fear in its complete verse and purport.

BG 2.56 · BG 18.66

Seeing living beings

Read the two mantras together and compare their descriptions of vision.

ISO 6 · ISO 7

Ownership and work

What does each mantra say about use, work and one’s allotted role?

ISO 1 · ISO 2

Contextual definitions

100 of 100 definitions

Acintya

inconceivable

One use in BG 8.9

Acyuta

the infallible (Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa)

One use in SB 1.12.33

Adharma

irreligious

One use in SB 1.14.5

Agni

by the fire

One use in BG 4.19

Ajita

one who is never conquered (the Personality of Godhead)

One use in SB 1.18.3

Akarma

inaction

One use in BG 4.16

Ananta

the Unlimited

One use in SB 1.18.17

Anna

of food grains

One use in BG 3.14

Arghya

water for reception

One use in SB 1.18.28

Ari

enemy

One use in SB 1.15.11

Āsana

sitting accommodations

One use in SB 1.13.6

Āśrama

orders of society

One use in SB 1.18.45

Bhagavān

Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead

One use in SB 1.12.35

Bhakti

devotional service

One use in SB 3.25.18

Bhaya

fear

One use in BG 2.56

Bhoga

in sense enjoyment

One use in BG 2.42-43

Buddhi

intelligence

One use in SB 1.14.10

Dāna

charity

One use in BG 17.24

Deva

the demigods

One use in SB 1.15.5

Devarṣi

saintly demigods

One use in SB 1.19.11

Dhīra

self-controlled

One use in SB 1.18.8

Dhyāna

positive meditation

One use in SB 1.15.47-48

Dvija

brāhmaṇas

One use in SB 1.19.3

Gaṅgā

mother Ganges

One use in SB 1.19.15

Giriśa

Lord Śiva

One use in SB 1.12.23

Guṇa

qualities

One use in SB 1.13.28

Hari

the Absolute Personality of Godhead

One use in SB 1.13.54

Harṣa

delight

One use in SB 1.13.59

Himavān

the Himalaya Mountains

One use in SB 1.12.22

Īśa

the Supreme Lord

One use in SB 1.13.43

Īśvara

the controller

One use in SB 2.5.8

Jagat

world

One use in SB 1.13.41

Janārdana

O maintainer of all living entities

One use in BG 1.32-35

Jarā

old age

One use in BG 2.13

Jñāna

knowledge

One use in SB 3.5.21

Jñānī

one who knows things as they are

One use in BG 7.16

Karma

action

One use in SB 1.13.46

Kaunteya

O son of Kuntī

One use in BG 2.14

Keśava

O killer of the demon Keśī (Kṛṣṇa)

One use in BG 1.30

Krodha

anger

One use in SB 1.14.3

Kṣetra

the field of activities (the body)

One use in BG 13.3

Kuśa

and kuśa grass

One use in BG 6.11-12

Lobha

greed

One use in SB 1.14.3

Mādhava

O Kṛṣṇa, husband of the goddess of fortune

One use in BG 1.36

Madhusūdana

O killer of the demon Madhu (Kṛṣṇa)

One use in BG 1.32-35

Moha

of illusion

One use in BG 2.52

Mokṣa

for liberation

One use in BG 5.27-28

Nārāyaṇa

the Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa

One use in SB 1.15.47-48

Nidrā

sleep

One use in BG 18.39

Paramparā

by disciplic succession

One use in BG 4.2

Pavitram

perfectly pure

One use in SB 1.15.51

Prakṛti

material nature

One use in SB 1.15.31

Prāṇa

air of respiration

One use in SB 1.18.26

Sakhya

to think of the Lord as a friend

One use in SB 1.16.16

Sāṅkhya

analytical study of the material world

One use in BG 5.4

Sarasvatī

the goddess of learning

One use in SB 2.4.22

Śruti

of Vedic revelation

One use in BG 2.53

Svādhyāya

sacrifice in the study of the Vedas

One use in BG 4.28

Svarga

of the heavenly planets

One use in BG 2.32

Tattva

of the truth

One use in BG 2.16

Tīrtha

the holy places of pilgrimage

One use in SB 1.13.10

Urukrama

the Lord, who acts marvelously

One use in SB 2.3.20

Vāsudeva

of Lord Kṛṣṇa

One use in SB 1.18.9

Vidyā

with education

One use in BG 5.18

Viraha

separation

One use in SB 1.13.6

Virakti

indifference

One use in SB 1.19.4

Vīrya

prowess

One use in SB 2.5.9

Vyādhi

and disease

One use in BG 13.8-12

Yajña

sacrifice

One use in SB 1.17.33

Yogī

a mystic

One use in BG 5.24

Yuga

millenniums

One use in BG 8.17