Bhagavad Geeta: The Truly Scripture Universal for the Attainment of Perfection Part 2/2
It is customary with people to divide human activities into two distinctive types—the spiritual and the temporal, the sacred and the secular. But the Bhagavad Gita makes...
Bhagavad Geeta: The Truly Scripture Universal for the Attainment of Perfection Part 1/2
Certain criteria contribute to make a book universal in its character. The language in which it happens to be couched is not in itself of great consequence....
Bhagavad Geeta studies Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Part 2/2
Inert matter exists; a living being also exists. The difference between the existences of these two has to be taken note of. A living being is aware of its own existence while the...
Bhagavad Geeta studies Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Part 1
God in His absolute state is beyond the ken of mind and speech. He is indefinable. But when He is immanent in the universe, He is denoted as Sat-cit-anandam—Existence-Knowledge-Bliss. There is no other...
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....
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...
