Geeta Girl: Evolving Through the Bhagavad Geeta

Co-hosts Sharmila and Shaila examine the Bhagavad Gita's teachings on setting boundaries with yourself, using the Sanskrit concept of 'maryada' — propriety, restraint, and dignity — as the organizing framework.

Co-hosts Sharmila and Shaila answer four listener questions about boundaries: when to fix situations for family members, how to stay calm with triggering people, how to stop people-pleasing, and how to adapt parenting to a college-aged child's new autonomy.

Co-hosts Sharmila and Shaila answer three listener questions about boundary-setting using Bhagavad Gita teachings, all organized around the same core principle: short-term discomfort of expressing a boundary is always preferable to the long-term war that results from avoidance.

The hosts discuss why people fail to practice what they preach and how to apply Bhagavad Gita advice to overcome this gap.

Hosts Sharmila and Shayla of the Geeta Girl podcast use listener-submitted questions about difficult family members and work colleagues as case studies for applying Bhagavad Gita teachings.

Host Sharmila records a conversation between herself and her 90-year-old father Gop Nandwani, a decades-long student of the Bhagavad Gita under his guru Swami Harihar Mehraj, exploring how karma works across multiple lifetimes.