Every verse opens in four swipes.
One bead at a time, like counting a mala. Here's Gita 2.14, the way the app shows it.
The verse
The Sanskrit in Devanagari, with transliteration so you can say it aloud.
A plain translation
English you can read in one breath. No thee, no thou, no footnotes.
What it means
What the verse is saying, and where the traditions read it differently.
Where it fits your week
One ordinary moment it speaks to, then a short pause to think.
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय
शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः।
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्
तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत॥
Heat and cold, pleasure and pain come and go. Bear them patiently.
Translation · Bhagavad Gita 2.14Feelings pass like seasons. Steadiness isn't the same as suppressing them.
Meaning · Bhagavad Gita 2.14The dread before a hard conversation peaks, then fades. You don't have to act on the peak.
In your life · Bhagavad Gita 2.14-
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय
mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteyaVerse · Bhagavad Gita 2.14
शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः।
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्
तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत॥The verse
The Sanskrit in Devanagari, with transliteration so you can say it aloud.
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Heat and cold, pleasure and pain come and go. Bear them patiently.
Translation · Bhagavad Gita 2.14A plain translation
English you can read in one breath. No thee, no thou, no footnotes.
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Feelings pass like seasons. Steadiness isn't the same as suppressing them.
Meaning · Bhagavad Gita 2.14What it means
What the verse is saying, and where the traditions read it differently.
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The dread before a hard conversation peaks, then fades. You don't have to act on the peak.
In your life · Bhagavad Gita 2.14Where it fits your week
One ordinary moment it speaks to, then a short pause to think.
उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत्।
आत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मनः॥
Lift yourself up. You are your own friend, and your own enemy.Bhagavad Gita 6.5
A practice, not a book you never finish.
The Gita has 18 chapters. One verse a day gets you through them, a bead at a time.
At launch
- The Gita and the Hanuman Chalisa as swipeable verse cards
- A verse of the day, at the hour you usually scroll
- Streaks that count days, not minutes
- Save any verse, and share it as a card to WhatsApp
- Collections by theme: courage, worry, duty, devotion
Coming after launch: Sanskrit recitation, word-by-word meanings and sankalp commitments.
Starting with the Gita. Then the stories you grew up with.
- Bhagavad Gita18 chapters, 700 verses. Krishna and Arjuna at Kurukshetra.At launch
- Hanuman ChalisaForty chaupais, short enough to read in a week.At launch
- RamayanaRama, Sita and Hanuman, told as a story you swipe through.Later
- Mahabharata and the PuranasThe great epic, then the Bhagavata, Shiva and Vishnu Puranas.Later
Why I'm building this.
I grew up with the Gita in the house. My family read it; I mostly heard it, usually in the background. When I moved to Canada, it became one of those things I kept meaning to get back to and never did.
I did try. A printed copy that's still on my shelf, a couple of apps, a YouTube series I gave up on after a few episodes. Every time it felt like homework. Meanwhile I'd lose an hour a night to Instagram without even noticing.
So the question got simple: what if the Gita lived where my attention already goes?
That's Shlokbox. One verse a day, in Sanskrit and plain English, in the minutes I was already spending on my phone. I'm building it in the evenings from Hamilton. If that sounds like you, join the waitlist. I read every reply.
HarshFounder, Shlokbox
How the translations are made.
Every verse is rendered from the Sanskrit into plain English, then checked against the public-domain translations by Telang (1882), Arnold (1885) and Besant (1895). Where the Advaita and Vaishnava readings differ, the card says so.
The translations are AI-assisted and read by us before they ship. If something reads wrong, report it from the card and we'll fix it.
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