National Recognition

Endorsed by India's Leading Voices

On Living the Gita — HarperCollins India, 2026

"Madan Sundar Das renders the wisdom of the Gita intellectually rigorous and practically relevant without diluting its spiritual depth. It exemplifies the synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern application that I have long advocated."

Dr. Vijay Bhatkar

Padma Bhushan · Ph.D. IIT Delhi
Builder of India's First Supercomputer · Former Chancellor, Nalanda University

"This book consistently returns the reader to one principle — how does this teaching change the way I think, feel, decide, and act today? A bridge between scripture and life, knowledge and realization."

Gauranga Das

B.Tech IIT Bombay · GBC Commissioner, ISKCON
Director, ISKCON Govardhan Ecovillage

"Living the Gita presents the Bhagavad Gita as it was meant to be received — not as theory, but as a guide for living, leading, and deciding with clarity. A thoughtful and practical work for modern seekers and leaders."

Dr. Radhakrishnan Pillai

Author, Corporate Chanakya
Director, Chanakya International Institute of Leadership Studies

"Living the Gita presents the Bhagavad Gita as a living system of thought — philosophically sound, pedagogically structured, and practically relevant. A valuable contribution to Indian Knowledge Systems and contemporary education."

Dr. Bhimaraya Metri

Director, IIM Nagpur
Professor of Management & Indian Knowledge Systems

What's Actually Wrong

You're Not Failing.
You're Running Without an Inner System.

No promotion, no productivity app, no weekend retreat has addressed what's actually happening inside. Here is what the Gita saw 5,000 years ago — and what your life is probably proving right now.

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"I Know What I Should Do. I Just Can't Decide."

Change jobs or stay? Push back or hold your tongue? Step away or push through? Every option has a cost and the mind keeps running in circles. Arjuna froze on the battlefield for the same reason. His confusion opened the Gita.

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Working Hard but Burning Out Anyway

You give everything — to your targets, your family, your responsibilities. And you're still exhausted, still anxious, still wondering if any of it means anything. The problem is not the effort. It's what the effort is costing you on the inside.

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"Who Am I Outside of What I Do?"

The professional whose identity collapses when the project fails. The homemaker who cannot answer who she is beyond her roles. The Gita's first and most radical teaching is about identity — and most people never encounter it.

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Everyone Is an Influencer. Nobody Is a Guide.

A manager's opinion. A spouse's expectation. LinkedIn thought leadership. A mother-in-law's voice. A WhatsApp forward. All of it competing in the same mind. The Gita has a precise framework for knowing whose advice to actually follow.

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The System Is Unfair. And You're Absorbing It.

Merit doesn't always win. Good people carry invisible burdens. The credit goes elsewhere. And the anger — or the helplessness — just sits inside. The Gita's answer to unfairness is not acceptance. It's something sharper.

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Doing Everything. Seen by Nobody.

The woman who runs the house, manages the children, tracks every detail, anticipates every need — and still has to justify why she's tired. The Gita does not call this ordinary. It has a name for it, a framework for it, and a way through it.

"Arjuna was accomplished, capable, and trained. He still broke down the moment the stakes became real. The Gita was not written for the weak. It was written for people exactly like him — and like you."

— Madan Sundar Das, Living the Gita

Start Here · Free

The Free Live Session That Changes the First Question You Ask Yourself

Not a teaser. Not a preview. A complete, standalone session that gives you one real tool to take home — whether you join the course or not.

In 40 minutes of teaching, we go to the root of why intelligent, capable people still feel lost — and what Krishna's opening response to Arjuna actually teaches.

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Why Your Best Thinking Isn't Solving the Real Problem The Gita's diagnosis of the paralysed mind — and why more information makes it worse

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The Identity Question That Reframes Everything Krishna's first teaching to Arjuna — the one that made every other answer possible

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One Decision-Making Tool You Can Use This Week From BG 2.7 — practical, non-religious, tested across boardrooms and living rooms

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Live Q&A — Nothing Is Off Limits Ask about the Gita, about your specific situation, about the course. 20 minutes, open floor.

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Madan Sundar Das on stage at ET C-Suite Titans

Teaching40 Minutes

Q&A20 Minutes

FormatLive on Zoom

PriceAbsolutely Free

The Learning Journey

Three Levels. Fourteen Sessions.
The Gita Applied to the Life You Already Live.

Each session is built around a real situation you face — not a philosophical lecture. Topics paired with subtopics so every session gives you depth and breadth.

Free Entry

Free Live Session — The Gita Has Already Answered Your Biggest Question

1 Session · 40 min + Q&A · Live on Zoom

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The Gita Has Already Answered Your Biggest Question

You are not lacking information. You are lacking an inner framework. This session identifies the exact gap — and gives you Krishna's opening response to Arjuna as your first principle.

BG 2.47 · Karmanye Vadhikaraste

Level 1

Know Yourself — The Foundation

4 Sessions · 40 min each · + Signed copy of Living the Gita

Art of Decision Making

+ Dealing with unfairness — when the system fails you

The Gita's response to Arjuna's paralysis. How to decide when every option has a cost, and how to act when merit doesn't win.

BG 2.7, 2.38 · Decision Paralysis · Equanimity

Karma Yoga in Real Life

+ From attachment to detachment — why detachment is not apathy

Why you can give your absolute best and still not be anxious about the result. The most misunderstood and most useful teaching in the Gita — made practical.

BG Ch 3, 3.4 · Nishkama Karma · Action Without Anxiety

I Am Not Body but Soul

+ Self-worth without external validation

Arjuna's real question was not what to do — it was who he would become. Identity beyond achievement, role, and approval.

BG 2.13, 2.55-57 · Atma · Identity Beyond Role

Emotional Mastery

+ The anger/krodha chain — how one thought destroys everything

Tolerating dualities and understanding the precise chain: desire → anger → delusion → memory loss → destruction.

BG 2.14, 2.62-63 · Krodha Chain · Tolerance as Strength

Level 2

Know Your Mind — Going Deeper

5 Sessions · 1 hr each + Q&A

Choose Your Influencer

+ Doubt as a tool — when questioning is healthy

Your manager, social media, your inner critic — all competing voices. The Gita's precise test for whose advice is worth following, and when doubt serves growth.

BG 4.34, 4.40 · Guru-Shishya · Discernment

Mindfulness & Meditation

+ Time = Energy — why your schedule reflects your values

Not a forest retreat. Practical stillness for someone with a full schedule and a mind that will not stop. The Gita's dhyana applied to real life.

BG 6.5-15, 6.16-17 · Dhyana · Micro-Meditation

Three Gunas

+ Whose dharma are you living?

Why people react differently to the same situation. Sattva, Rajas, Tamas — the mental patterns shaping every decision. And the danger of living someone else's path.

BG 14.5-18, Ch 17, 3.35 · Gunas · Sva-dharma

Desire, Ambition & Dharma

+ The guilt economy — giving without resentment

The Gita does not condemn desire — it refines it. Permission to pursue growth and ambition, with a clear line for when pursuit costs something more important.

BG 7.11, 18.30 · Dharma-Aviruddha Kama

Feedback Without Fragility

+ Conversations that heal — speaking truth with care

How to receive criticism without collapsing and give difficult feedback without damaging relationships. The Gita's model of honest, compassionate speech.

BG 2.1, 17.15 · Priya-Hitam · Communication

Level 3

Know Your Path — Transformational

5 Sessions · 1 hr + Q&A each · Max 20 per cohort

Ego — The Promoter and the Prisoner

+ Building trust through character — the qualities Krishna values

Ahankara takes credit when things go well and collapses when they don't. The most uncomfortable — and most liberating — session in the course.

BG 3.27, 16.4, 12.13-19 · Ahankara · Divine Qualities

Seva — From Invisible Labour to Living Offering

+ Rituals without rigidity — the spirit behind the practice

The sharp distinction between serving as burden and serving as purpose. And why rituals matter only when the heart is present.

BG 9.27, 9.26 · Karma Yoga · Devotion in Action

The Art of Letting Go

+ Death, impermanence — what the Gita actually says

Not every battle is your Kurukshetra. The framework for knowing which commitments to carry and which to release — and facing life's deepest truth.

BG 18.32-35, 2.20, 8.5-6 · Dhriti · Impermanence

Surrender — Sharanagati

+ Why good people suffer — the question Krishna addresses last

The Gita's final and most profound teaching. Not passive resignation but the deepest act of trust. The hardest question answered with the most compassion.

BG 18.66, 13.21 · Sharanagati · Faith Under Fire

Integration Capstone

+ Loneliness, relationships — living the Gita with others

All 14 sessions into a personal operating system. How to carry this wisdom into your relationships, solitude, and daily life — not just your head.

BG 5.7, 5.10, 6.20 · Yukta-Vairagya · Living Integration

Silicon Valley → Monk

Your Teacher

From Research Engineer to Monk — and Back to the Boardroom

Madan Sundar Das holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University and spent years as a Research Engineer at Juniper Networks in Silicon Valley. In 2008, he walked away from an H1-B visa, a tech career, and every conventional measure of success.

He did not walk away because he failed. He walked away because he realised the system he was optimising for had no answer to the question underneath every other question: What am I actually doing this for?

Since then, he has spent over 20 years as an ISKCON monk, translating Bhagavad Gita wisdom for the people the Gita was written for — not scholars, not renunciates, but people in the middle of real life. Professionals. Parents. Decision-makers. People who cannot afford to wait for a retreat to figure out how to live.

He teaches credited courses at Symbiosis SCMHRD, DY Patil University, and Mahindra University. He has spoken at the ET C-Suite Titans, HT Principals Conclave, and been recognised at the NSE IP to IPO Awards 2026 for outstanding contribution in Spirituality, Youth Empowerment & Ethical Leadership. His teaching has taken him across Europe, UK, Italy, and Africa.

He is the Director of Evolve Pune^TM and Resident Monk at ISKCON Pune, and the author of two books: Living the Gita (HarperCollins India) and Wisdom That Works (Penguin India).

🎓 M.S. Electrical Engineering, Ohio State University, USA 💼 Former Research Engineer, Juniper Networks 🪷 ISKCON Monk · 20+ years 📖 Penguin India Author 📗 HarperCollins India Author 🏛 Director, Evolve Pune^TM 🏆 NSE IP to IPO Awards 2026 🎤 ET C-Suite Titans · HT Principals Conclave 🌍 Teaching tours: Europe, UK, Italy, Africa

Is This for You?

You Belong Here If…

This course was designed for people who play multiple roles, carry real responsibilities, and cannot afford spiritual wisdom that doesn't work on a Monday morning.

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The High Performer

Excellent at work, quietly anxious underneath. Success keeps arriving and satisfaction keeps leaving.

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The Homemaker

Holding everything together for everyone else. Ready to ask — for the first time — what she needs for herself.

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The One Wearing Both Hats

Managing a career and a family simultaneously. The person no framework was actually built for — until now.

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The Chronic Overthinker

Over-informed and under-decided. Has read all the self-help books. Still stuck in the same loop.

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The Seeker Who Is Tired of Theory

Interested in the Gita but wants it practical. No interest in philosophy that doesn't survive contact with real life.

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The Couple / Family

Partners navigating life decisions together — career moves, parenting choices, ageing parents. Wanting a shared framework instead of separate coping strategies.

Reader Voices

What Readers Are Saying

Professionals, educators, and seekers on Living the Gita

★★★★★

"Your book is superb, appealing and instructive — very much the need of the day. You write so beautifully. The epilogue and preface are wonderful reads. You have a powerful writer in you by Krishna's grace."

Bamsi Gopal Das

Ex Group VP, ATE Group of Industries, Ahmedabad (IIT · IIM)

★★★★★

"This book offers a structured and accessible exploration of the timeless wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, combining conceptual clarity with practical application. Its pedagogical approach makes it ideal for students, professionals, and seekers alike."

Dr. Tejna Khosla

Assistant Professor, Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT) Pune

★★★★★

"I've tried reading the Gita multiple times but always felt overwhelmed. Living the Gita is like a key — it binds philosophy with personal experience. Keep it by your side with markers; whenever life feels challenging, revisit it and find your solution."

Shivam Malvia

Software Delivery Manager, Pune IN

★★★★★

"The first chapter hit home — after doing so much, your life still feels hollow. This book connects you to a Higher Power through the Gita and shows how to live wisely with true happiness. Guidance for everyone — student, leader, homemaker. I only wished it was longer."

Priyanka Sundarani

Entrepreneur, Jewellery Industry, Pune IN

★★★★★

"This book touches the heart deeply, making the Gita real and relevant to modern life. 'The Gita in 18 Sentences' is a true masterstroke — timeless wisdom in a form that is easy to understand, yet deeply transformative."

Jyotirmayi Radhika Devi Dasi

MBA · Former Employee, GAP (Dubai) & LERROS GmbH (Germany)

★★★★★

"From the get-go, this book is engrossing. A true bridge between ancient wisdom and contemporary realities. The current-day scenarios and practice questions at the end of each chapter make the Gita's application immediately practical."

Rasaprada Shyama Devi Dasi

Yoga Teacher (ERYT 500), London UK

Before You Register

Common Questions

Is this a religious program? Do I need to believe in anything?

No. Every session is built around real situations — career decisions, relationship friction, overload, identity — and introduces frameworks grounded in Gita wisdom. The frameworks are tested for practicality, not belief. Participants from all backgrounds and no religious background have attended and found them useful. Skeptics are welcome and the teaching addresses doubt directly.

I've never read the Gita. Is that a problem?

Not at all. No Sanskrit, no prior knowledge required. The course is designed as a first encounter and an advanced encounter simultaneously — starting from the situations participants already face and tracing each one back to the relevant Gita teaching. Participants who have read the Gita often find they're encountering it in a new way.

Why are sessions only 40 minutes?

Because the people this course is built for don't have more. 40 minutes of focused teaching — with one clear takeaway — is more useful than a 2-hour lecture that exhausts you. The Q&A that follows allows depth for those who want it. Every session is designed so that even if you miss one, you can re-enter the next.

Do I have to attend all levels? Can I stop after Level 1?

Yes — each level is complete and independently valuable. Level 1 gives you the three foundational tools. Level 2 takes them into relationships and daily practice. Level 3 is where the deeper Gita frameworks come in. Many participants attend Level 1 and return for subsequent levels weeks or months later. There is no pressure to continue.

Is this only for professionals? What if I am a homemaker?

This course was built specifically for both — and for the many people who are both simultaneously. The situations, examples, and discussion in each session span the boardroom and the household. The Gita makes no distinction between the roles — it speaks to the person behind the roles. Every session is equally relevant whether your Kurukshetra is a quarterly review or a family decision.

Will there be a recording if I cannot attend live?

The live session is where the real value happens — the exercises, the energy of the room, and the Q&A. Registered participants receive a limited-time replay link. We strongly recommend attending live if at all possible.

Can we bring this program to our organisation or community?

Yes — Living Wisely is available as a corporate leadership program, a community workshop series, or a residential intensive for housing societies, trusts, and ISKCON centres. Programs are customisable by duration, format, and audience. Reach out on WhatsApp to start a conversation.

You Are Capable.
You Are Busy.
So Why Does It Still Feel Like Enough Is Never Enough?

Endorsed by India's Leading Voices

You're Not Failing.
You're Running Without an Inner System.

"I Know What I Should Do. I Just Can't Decide."

Working Hard but Burning Out Anyway

"Who Am I Outside of What I Do?"

Everyone Is an Influencer. Nobody Is a Guide.

The System Is Unfair. And You're Absorbing It.

Doing Everything. Seen by Nobody.

The Free Live Session That Changes the First Question You Ask Yourself

Three Levels. Fourteen Sessions.
The Gita Applied to the Life You Already Live.

The Gita Has Already Answered Your Biggest Question

Art of Decision Making

Karma Yoga in Real Life

I Am Not Body but Soul

Emotional Mastery

Choose Your Influencer

Mindfulness & Meditation

Three Gunas

Desire, Ambition & Dharma

Feedback Without Fragility

Ego — The Promoter and the Prisoner

Seva — From Invisible Labour to Living Offering

The Art of Letting Go

Surrender — Sharanagati

Integration Capstone

From Research Engineer to Monk — and Back to the Boardroom

Living the Gita

Boardrooms. Stages. Conversations.

You Belong Here If…

The High Performer

The Homemaker

The One Wearing Both Hats

The Chronic Overthinker

The Seeker Who Is Tired of Theory

The Couple / Family

What Readers Are Saying

Senior Professionals on the Book

Common Questions

The Gita Was Written for the Battlefield You're Already Standing On.

You Are Capable. You Are Busy. So Why Does It Still Feel Like Enough Is Never Enough?

Endorsed by India's Leading Voices

You're Not Failing.You're Running Without an Inner System.

"I Know What I Should Do. I Just Can't Decide."

Working Hard but Burning Out Anyway

"Who Am I Outside of What I Do?"

Everyone Is an Influencer. Nobody Is a Guide.

The System Is Unfair. And You're Absorbing It.

Doing Everything. Seen by Nobody.

The Free Live Session That Changes the First Question You Ask Yourself

Three Levels. Fourteen Sessions.The Gita Applied to the Life You Already Live.

The Gita Has Already Answered Your Biggest Question

Art of Decision Making

Karma Yoga in Real Life

I Am Not Body but Soul

Emotional Mastery

Choose Your Influencer

Mindfulness & Meditation

Three Gunas

Desire, Ambition & Dharma

Feedback Without Fragility

Ego — The Promoter and the Prisoner

Seva — From Invisible Labour to Living Offering

The Art of Letting Go

Surrender — Sharanagati

Integration Capstone

From Research Engineer to Monk — and Back to the Boardroom

Living the Gita

Boardrooms. Stages. Conversations.

You Belong Here If…

The High Performer

The Homemaker

The One Wearing Both Hats

The Chronic Overthinker

The Seeker Who Is Tired of Theory

The Couple / Family

What Readers Are Saying

Senior Professionals on the Book

Common Questions

The Gita Was Written for the Battlefield You're Already Standing On.

You Are Capable.
You Are Busy.
So Why Does It Still Feel Like Enough Is Never Enough?

You're Not Failing.
You're Running Without an Inner System.

Three Levels. Fourteen Sessions.
The Gita Applied to the Life You Already Live.