Get Real — the Gītā, department by department
The same seven hundred verses, sorted this time not by philosophy but by the plain compartments your life is actually divided into — money, work, death, family, fear, the body. Pick the one that is pressing on you today. Many verses belong to more than one department, because life does not keep its problems apart either.
Why a second arrangement
The thirty Themes follow the soul's inward pilgrimage — the long ascent from Arjuna's crisis to the great synthesis. That is the Gītā read as a spiritual journey. But the Gītā is also, relentlessly, a practical book: it was spoken to a working man in the middle of the worst day of his job, and it has something exact to say about money, about your boss, about what to eat, about dying. Get Real is that second reading — the Gītā met exactly where you stand, in the ordinary departments of a life. Nothing here is watered down; each verse links back to its full text, pronunciation and commentary.