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Vyasa: The Bhagavad Gita

The complete audiobook — free, like everything here

Tip: the ⋮ three-dot menu on the player above also lets you download this part and change the playback speed.

Listening without a connection

Two ways, and they are good for different things. Either one costs us nothing, so use both if you like.

1 · Save to this device — keeps the audio inside your browser, so this player keeps working with no signal, with the read-along and your place intact. Nothing to manage. The catch: it lives in the browser's storage, so clearing site data removes it, and on iPhone, Safari may drop it after about a week of not visiting. Think of it as good for a trip rather than keeping forever. On Android it generally sticks.

2 · Download the files — every part is an ordinary MP3; the ⤓ beside each part saves it, or take the whole book chapter by chapter using the panel just below. These are real files in your downloads: they last until you delete them, and play in any audio app, on any device, in the car. You lose the read-along and the remembered position — it is just the audio. There is also a playlist file (.m3u) that plays them all in order in VLC and most audio apps.

Short version: save to the device for convenience, download the files to keep it.

⬇ Download the whole audiobook — chapter by chapter

The complete audiobook is offered one chapter at a time, not as a single giant file — that keeps every download quick and reliable on a phone, and free of size limits. Tap any chapter below to save it as an MP3; together they are the whole book. (Longer chapters are split into a few numbered parts.)

Chapter 1 — Arjuna's Despair 0 min
Chapter 2 — The Yoga of Discernment 13 min⬇ 4 MB
Chapter 3 — The Yoga of Action 6 min⬇ 2 MB
Chapter 4 — The Yoga of Knowledge and Renunciation of Action 6 min⬇ 2 MB
Chapter 5 — The Yoga of Renunciation 0 min
Chapter 6 — The Yoga of Self-Mastery 6 min⬇ 2 MB
Chapter 7 — The Yoga of Knowledge and Realization 6 min⬇ 2 MB
Chapter 8 — The Yoga of the Imperishable 6 min⬇ 2 MB
Chapter 9 — The Royal Knowledge, the Royal Secret 0 min
Chapter 10 — The Yoga of Divine Manifestation 6 min⬇ 2 MB
Chapter 11 — The Vision of the Universal Form 7 min⬇ 2 MB
Chapter 12 — The Yoga of Devotion 7 min⬇ 2 MB
Chapter 13 — The Field and the Knower of the Field 0 min
Chapter 14 — The Three Qualities 6 min⬇ 2 MB
Chapter 15 — The Yoga of the Supreme Person 0 min
Chapter 16 — The Divine and the Demonic 7 min⬇ 2 MB
Chapter 17 — The Three Kinds of Faith 7 min⬇ 2 MB
Chapter 18 — The Yoga of Liberation and Renunciation 11 min⬇ 4 MB

Your place is remembered on this device. Narrated by an AI voice from the Plainspoken translation; parts advance automatically.

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