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...
Hindu Scriptures Part 5: The Itihasas
In Part Five we will focus on the Itihasa category of Hindu Scriptures.
There are four books under this heading: The Valmiki-Ramayana (and now Tulsidasa Ramayana or Sri Ramacharitamanas), the Yogavasishtha, The Mahabharata and the...
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...
Hindu Scriptures Part 4
The Puranas
In part four we will examine the Puraanas.
Puranas have five characteristics (Pancha-Lakshana) viz., history, cosmology (with various symbolical illustrations of philosophical principles), secondary creation, genealogy of kings and of Manvantaras. All the Puranas belong...
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...
Hindu Scriptures Part 3
By Pt. Nandalall
Smritis
Parts one and two of the series ‘Hindu Scriptures’, we looked at the Sruti—the primary scriptures of Hinduism. In part three we will begin examining the Smriti—secondary scriptures.
Following Srutis are Smritis—secondary scriptures. Sruti (Vedas)...
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...
