Bhagavad Geeta: The way of Sri Krishna
The knowers of Truth have equated Sri Krishna with Reality or Paramatman. The plan and purpose of Vedanta is to lead the aspirant towards the Reality. Seemingly man is encaged within a mortal...
All Schools of Vedanta seen through Bhagavad Geeta
The principles enunciated in the Scriptural Trinity go by the name of Vedanta. The word is a compound of Veda and Anta. It means the end or culmination of the Vedas....
Hindu Scriptures Part 6/6: Mahabharata & Bhagavad Geeta
Amonsgt the four main Itihasas, is the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata is the history of the Pandavas and the Kauravas. It gives a description of the great war, the Battle of Kurukshetra,...
Bhagavad Geeta commentaries are grouped according Vedanta schools
Commentaries on the Gita being very many in number, there is the possibility of their contradicting one another. Can contradictory ideas be at the same time soul-elevating ideas? This is the question...
The best commentary on Bhagavad Geeta is Sri Krishna Himself
Among this multiplicity of commentaries, is there not the possibility of a student getting stranded as in a forest? As they run into hundreds, which of them is to be...
Commentaries on Bhagavad Geeta are naturally cropping up
The function of a commentary is to expand, explain, expound and extol the contents of a great book. It is but natural that numerous commentaries crop up round divinely inspired books. Several...
Bhagavad Geeta: An Exposition of the Maha-Vakyam—Sentence Sublime
There is a tenor common to all the great scriptures of the world. Directly or indirectly they are all exponents of the maha-vakyam, the Sentence Sublime. Now, what is this maha-vakyam? It...
Bhagavad Geeta is simultaneously a Sruti and Smriti
The popularity that the Gita enjoys is indisputable. The reason for this is patent. It occupies simultaneously the position of the Sruti and Smriti. What these two types of scripture are...
Bhagavad Geeta: An Exposition of Existence—Knowledge—Bliss
Incarnations of God as a group have made their teachings as simple as the air we breathe. Children as well as the uneducated are able to grasp their gospels with ease. Abstract principles...
Bhagavad Geeta is Yoga Shastra—Meant for Practical Application to Life
Every science has its twin aspects — theory and practice. Intellectual grasp of a subject is theory; its application is practice. Many a student of Vedanta or any other...
