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Sandhya, Gita study, scripture.
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A boy asked his father the same question three times, and then sat three nights unfed at the door of Death — the story of the Katha Upanishad.
To keep his word a king gave away his kingdom, sold his wife, his son and finally himself — and ended up standing at the gate of a cremation ground.
Surya warned him in advance exactly who the beggar was and what he would ask for. Karna gave anyway.
For his father's happiness a crown prince gave up both marriage and the throne — and that renunciation tangled Hastinapura for three generations.
In a lane in Kashi an outcaste asked Adi Shankaracharya one question — and the acharya bowed and accepted him as a teacher.
The Mahabharata's hardest lesson about teaching: a boy who was refused a teacher, taught himself, and was still asked to pay.
Four brothers lie dead beside a lake. The fifth is offered their lives — if he can answer.
A guide to the daily sandhya practice, the foundational discipline of a dvija.
Sankhya Yoga: Krishna's first teaching to Arjuna, often called the seed of the entire Gita.