Respect: Faith and Discipline

Austerity coupled with hypocrisy, or performed for the sake of self-glorification, popularity, or vanity, comes from passion, and its result is always uncertain and temporary.

— Shri Purohit Swami (1935), public domain

This draft lesson introduces Bhagavad Gita 17.18 through stronger key ideas from the verse: respect, honor, adoration. In the context of Faith and Discipline, learners connect Sanskrit vocabulary to the verse's teaching before applying it to daily choices. Review this draft before publication.