Author: Rosetta William
Publisher: Har-Anand
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 104
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8124107181
Description
Bhagavad Gita is the sermon Lord Krishna gave to demoralized Arjuna, the great Pandava, on the first day of the epic battle of Mahabharata Arjuna is the soul of man and Krishna, the charioteer of the soul. Lord Krishna asks Arjuna to do his duty even in adverse situation. It is this Karma that is interwoven in the Bhagavad Gita with the ideal of love. The greatness of the Bhagavad Gita is that it is perhaps the most comprehensive and complete book of knowledge and philosophy that mankind has known in any language and culture.
The teaching of Bhagavad Gita is Yoga. When the human soul becomes enlightened and united with the Divine, welfare and morality of the masses is assured. In the end, the present work is in no way a critical analysis or long discourse on the Bhagavad Gita philosophy. In a simple dramatic style, the average reader can read the Bhagavad Gita in this book as a novel and not as a discourse. The main purpose here is to enable even the littlest reader to read the Bhagavad Gita, and find it interesting, exciting and motivating. It would help them to become aware about the philosophy of life and carve out a better living for themselves, to make the world a better place.
Contents
Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kurukshetra
Contents of the Gita Summarized
Karma Yoga
Transcendental Knowledge
Karma Yoga-Action in Krishna Consciousness
Sankhya-Yoga
Knowledge of the Absolute
Attaining the supreme
The Most confidential Knowledge
The Opulence of the Absolute
The Universal Form
Devotional Service
Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness
The Three Modes of Material Nature
The yoga of the supreme Person
The divine and Demoniac Nature
The Division of Faith
Conclusion-the Perfection of Renunciation
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