Bhagavad Gita
Krishna's 700-verse teaching to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, set within the Mahabharata; the most read of all Hindu scriptures.
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- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
The whole of the Bhagavad Gita , every verse that follows, is the answer to a man who has put down his weapon and refused his life's task.
- Reading the Bhagavad Gita in the modern world Journal
The first chapter is titled for it. Whatever else the Bhagavad Gita is, it begins with a breakdown.
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
Together with the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita , they make up the prasthanatraya , "the three points of departure," the three-fold canon any founder of a Vedanta school was expected to comment on.
- What is Yoga? Yoga
The yoga of Patanjali is not the yoga of the Bhagavad Gita , and neither is the yoga of the medieval body-texts, and none of them is the thing you would book at a studio on a Tuesday evening.
- The Unwritten Library Treatise
…gest poem in the world, the moral questions the epics force open, the Bhagavad Gita's place within the war, and the endless retellings that keep the epics alive.
- What is Sanatana Dharma? Essentials
The Bhagavad Gita gives it its most famous image, in Telang's rendering: "as a man, casting off old clothes, puts on others and new ones, so the embodied self, casting off old bodies, goes to others and new one…
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
That tension is the whole dramatic problem of the Bhagavad Gita , where a warrior freezes on a battlefield, certain that the righteous act and his assigned duty have come apart.
- Japa: The Discipline of Repetition Treatise
The Bhagavad Gita , in the chapter where Krishna names his highest manifestations in every domain, the Himalaya among mountains, the sacred syllable Om among words, comes to the sacrifices, the great and costly…
- The Wheel of the Year Treatise
On the battlefield in the Bhagavad Gita , Arjuna asks to see Krishna as he truly is, and Krishna shows him the universal form, the cosmos as a single overwhelming body.
- The Song in the Middle Treatise
That conversation is the Bhagavad Gita , the Song of the Lord, and this chapter is about a strange fact: that the most famous Hindu scripture in the world began as an episode in the sixth book of a war epic, an…
- Is the Bhagavad Gita an interpolation in the Mahabharata? Journal
So the question gets asked, again and again, by newcomers and scholars alike: was the Bhagavad Gita always part of the Mahabharata, or was it slipped in later?
- What Oppenheimer's Gita line really means Journal
… thinking as the light came up. He said he thought of a line from the Bhagavad Gita .
- Does karma justify caste? Treatise
The Bhagavad Gita states this at 4.13, where Krishna says the fourfold order was created by him according to guna and karma , the qualities and the actions, of persons.
- The Three Gunas (Sattva, Rajas, Tamas) Essentials
…analysis of reality underlies a great deal of yoga, Ayurveda, and the Bhagavad Gita alike.
- The Three Paths to Liberation: Karma, Bhakti and Jnana Essentials
The Bhagavad Gita states the principle in one of the most quoted lines in all of Indian thought, 2.47: your right is to the action alone, never to its fruits.
- What is the Mahabharata? Scriptures
That question opens the Bhagavad Gita, the most quoted passage of the largest poem ever composed.
- What 'karma' doesn't mean Journal
The Bhagavad Gita takes the opposite stand and builds a whole ethic on it.
- Who is Vishnu? Deities
The Bhagavad Gita , the seven-hundred-verse dialogue embedded in the Mahabharata and generally dated by scholars to somewhere around the last few centuries BCE, places its teaching in the mouth of Krishna, who …