r/TheGita

Been building Vedya for the past few months — a simple app that delivers one Gita verse each morning with Sanskrit, transliteration, and explanation in your language.

Why: I grew up hearing shlokas at home but never truly understood them. Most apps are too academic or too gamified. I wanted something quiet and ritualistic.

What it does:

• Rotates through 108 key shlokas
• 10 languages: English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Odia, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada
• Audio recitation
• Dhwani library — aartis, bhajans, chalisas, mantras
• Full Gita reader chapter by chapter

Free, no algorithm, no feed.

Would love feedback from builders here — especially on growth and retention for spiritual apps.

BG 12.13-14: Those devotees are very dear to Me who are free from malice toward all living beings, who are friendly, and compassionate. They are free from attachment to possessions and egotism, equipoised in happiness and distress, and ever-forgiving. They are ever-content, steadily united with Me in devotion, self-controlled, of firm resolve, and dedicated to Me in mind and intellect. But in 9.29 he says no body is dear to him . why is this contradiction?

Everyone knows it. Most people use it to mean: work hard and don't worry about outcomes. That's not wrong, but it's missing the actual weight of what Krishna is saying.

The word is phala — fruit. And the instruction isn't about emotional detachment. It's about who the action belongs to. Krishna is making a metaphysical claim about the self, not a productivity tip.

Wrote something trying to get at what karma actually means in the Gita rather than how it gets used in pop spirituality: https://www.wisdomquotes.in/blogs/bhagwat-geeta-chapter-2

What's your reading of it?