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  Bhagavad Gita As It Is Original by Prabhupada
Select a Chapter From Bhagavad Gita As It Is Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra
The Bhagavad-gita is universally renowned as the jewel of India's spiritual wisdom.
Thus, unlike other editions of the Gita, this one is presented as it is--without the slightest taint of adulteration or personal motivation.
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  Understanding the Bhagavad Gita
The poem of the Bhagavad Gita is part of the longer epic, the Mahabharata, but it could be an insertion and in essence an Upanishad.
Some of the imagery of the Gita, the power and light by which Krishna reveals himself as the incarnation of God, consuming all, is for us a vision of destruction in all an consuming war.
The Gita is not a mythic history-theology, like the Bible, not commands, like the Koran, but is a book of choices towards moral and spiritual improvement and how one choice leads to another.
www.change.freeuk.com /learning/relthink/gita.html   (756 words)

  
 Comparative Religion - Possible difficulties in the philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita
The Gita is an episode of the great epic Mahabharata (6,25-42), which narrates the dialogue of Arjuna, one of the five sons of the Pandava family, with the Hindu god Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu.
The view of grace in the Gita is a far cry from the meaning it acquired later in the prapatti devotional trend.
The theory of the Gita that, if actions are performed with an unattached mind, then their defects cannot touch the performer, distinctly implies that the goodness or badness of an action does not depend upon external effects of the action, but upon the inner motive of action.
www.comparativereligion.com /Gita.html   (2275 words)

  
 Bhagavad Gita: All 700 verses, the teachings of Krishna on Hinduism
The Bhagavad Gita is an ancient Sanskrit text, taken from Canto 6, Chapters 25-42 of Mahabharata.
Krishna, the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita, is Bhagavan, the Supreme Being Himself.
The Bhagavad Gita is the holy scripture of the majority of Hindu traditions.
www.gita-society.com   (647 words)

  
 Tattvavâda -- presentations of the Bhagavad Gita   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Gita Saroddhara -- a free-style presentation of some important concepts by Sri Vishwesha Tiirtha.
Bhagavad Gita II-13 -- commentary and subcommentary on the verse `
Bhagavad Gita V-14 and 15 -- commentary, subcommentary, and gloss on `
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 Gita   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
They are, in the words of the Gita (Sarvabhutahiteratah) ‘ever interested in the good of all beings’, and their actions and thoughts have always only one reference (Lokasangrahartham), ‘the welfare of mankind’.
The Srimad Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna (the Supreme Soul and the individual soul).
It is narrated in the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata.
www.hinduism.co.za /gita.htm   (15808 words)

  
 The Bhagavad Gita
Composed of 700 verses, the Bhagavad Gita was written in the third or fourth century BCE as part of the epic text the Mahabharata.
Besides the Gita, many of the sacred texts and teachings of yoga advocate a complete renunciation of the world to lead the life of an ascetic or hermit.
The Gita serves as both an ancient story of Krishna leading Arjuna into battle and a spiritual text on the inner struggle for self-mastery and the attainment of happiness through yoga.
www.yogabasics.com /articles/BhagavadGita.html   (471 words)

  
 I am God: Autobiographical Fragments from the Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita is presented in the form of a dialogue between Krishna and his friend cum disciple Arjuna.
When the Gita itself says that God resides in the steadfast woman, who lets only one man live in her memory (smriti), much like the goddess Shri (Lakshmi), the prosperity of one who has her for a consort is assured.
Indeed, it is a belief in India that when a man and woman are bound in holy matrimony, it is a conjoining of their fortunes, and all sin (paap) and merit (punya) acquired by either is shared equally between the two.
www.exoticindiaart.com /article/bhagavadgita   (4197 words)

  
 The Bhagavad-Gita
The Gita says that higher even than the peace of meditation is the peace which comes from surrender of the fruit of one’s actions; in this state, we are free from the rigidity of set expectations, allowing the unexpected and remarkable to emerge.
This is the rational message of the Gita, but it has been delivered with such force across the ages because it is revealed through poetry, the language of the heart.
The Gita is a narration by Sanjaya, messenger to the head of the Kuravas, of one of their battles.
www.butler-bowdon.com /bgita.htm   (708 words)

  
 NBG-hp
In studying the Bhagavad Gita it must not be treated as if isolated from the rest of the Mahabharata as it at present exists.
The Bhagavad Gita may be looked upon as a discourse addressed by a guru to a chela who has fully determined upon the renunciation of all worldly desires and aspirations, but yet feels a certain despondency, caused by the apparent blankness of his existence.
As regards the moral teaching of the Bhagavad Gita, it is often asserted by those who do not appreciate the benefits of occult study, that, if everybody pursued this course, the world would come to a standstill; and, therefore, that this teaching can only be useful to the few, and not to ordinary people.
www.theosociety.org /pasadena/gita-sr/nbg-hp.htm   (2505 words)

  
 Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita
For Sri Aurobindo, the modem mystic-poet of India, the high point of the Gita are three lines in the fifteenth chapter that describe the "three souls" of existence.
The Gita has had many interpreters who have chosen to emphasize elements of its text or ignore other parts to find in it support for their various positions.
The "triple yoga" of the Gita became central to his Integral Yoga which could be considered the next step on the golden stair of spiritual evolution.
www.collaboration.org /97/nov/text/9_gita.html   (918 words)

  
 The Gita Vision
The practice of the Bhagavad Gita is not in a hermitage nor in a secluded place aloof from mankind; it is not in a forest where the Upanishads were realised and put down for our benefit.
It is Gita integrated into your practical day-to-day life that will ultimately take you from death, mortality and bondage to this wheel of rebirth to a supreme realm of immortality and everlasting eternal life.
Therefore, the philosophy of the Gita is an educative process of bringing the individual soul from a state of wrong understanding, a state of a mixed-up interior, a state of confusion, into a higher state of right understanding, a clarity of perception and vision and a very clear interior.
www.sivanandadlshq.org /download/gita_vision.htm   (8083 words)

  
 About the Gita   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Sanskrit in which Gita is written has its own simplicity, music and poetic diction, not withstanding its effective use of compressed philosophical terminology earlier developed by the Indian religious tradition.
Gita’s emphasis on direct, immediate and intuitional experience of the Divine needs to be properly understood through the ecstatic mystical expressions so profusely spread throughout the gita text while describing the nature and attributes of god.
The Gita has become a universal Gospel because of it’s eternal message to everyone irrespective of land, race, language or time.It wonderfully combines scriptural poetry and logical reasoning of high order.
members.tripod.com /bhagvadgita/aboutthe.htm   (443 words)

  
 The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Religion : Popularity of the Gita
CHENNAI : The Bhagavad Gita is an important scriptural authority for the three schools of Vedanta— Advaita, Visishtadvaita and Dvaita.
Lord Krishna expounded the Gita to Arjuna in whom Rajoguna was dominant, while Bhishma taught the Vishnu Sahasranama to Yudhishthira, who was Sattvic in nature.
As the objective of composing new texts is dissemination of the truth to cater to different types of spiritual aspirants, it is of no avail if the seeker is not inclined to benefit from the teaching as in the case of the Tamoguna type.
www.hindu.com /2006/02/14/stories/2006021400990900.htm   (399 words)

  
 Manas: Religious texts of India, Bhagvad Gita
The Gita counsels us to retain our equanimity, and says unequivocally that the sthitha-prajna, or the being preserved in wisdom, is moved to neither excessive joy nor excessive sorrow.
The Gita lays out several paths to emancipation: for those inclined towards activity or service to humankind through works, there is karma yoga, just as those inclined towards devotion can practice bhakti yoga.
There are numerous recitations of the Gita as well, and the Gita has drawn the attention of many prominent Western writers, such as T. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and Christopher Isherwood.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/Religions/texts/gita.html   (684 words)

  
 The Bhagavad Quetzalquatl Gita - The Gold Scales
It shows up that the Bhagavad Gita is a concoction that could have been many hundred years in the making, and attributed to Veda Vyasa.
The Bhagavad Gita is a chapter inside a very long heroic poem (epic poem) that was formed and changed and enlarged over centuries long ago [see Wy].
The Bhagavad Gita was formed and shaped over half a millennium, although it is attributed to the sage Vyasa.
oaks.nvg.org /quetzalcoatl-gita.html   (3025 words)

  
 Gita Govinda - Multimedia Project
A multimedia experience on Gita Govinda, a 12th Century epic by Jayadeva was developed with the objective to familiarise audiences on the fundamental concepts of Indian music, dance, art and their inter-relationships and interpretation.
The content was conceived by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, a scholar of Gita Govinda for over thirty years and an internationally acknowledged authority and pioneer of inter-and multi-disciplinary studies in the humanities, and the arts.
She is the author of many definitive monographs on the Gita Govinda including those on the diverse painting schools, specially Mewar, Jaipur, Bundi and Assam.
ignca.nic.in /gita.htm   (1503 words)

  
 Bhagavad-Gita translation by Dr. Ramananda Prasad; 2nd edition.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The word Brahma-nirvana (Gita 2.72, 5.24, 5.25, and 5.26), Parama-nirvana (Gita 6.15), and Mukti in Hinduism means the destruction of all trace of Vasana or Samskara from the causal body.
The Gita teaches that extremes should be avoided at all costs in all spheres of life.
This moderation of Gita was eulogized by Lord Buddha who called it Majjhima Nikaya, the middle path, the right way, or the noble path.
members.aol.com /Jyotishi/gita2nd.html   (18471 words)

  
 The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna, narrated in the Bhishma-Parva of the Mahabharata.
The Gita is the Immortal Song of the Soul, which bespeaks the glory of life.
You may know the whole of the Gita by heart; you may deliver lectures on the Gita for hours together; and yet, you may not have a ray of the wisdom of the Gita.
www.dlshq.org /religions/gita.htm   (1765 words)

  
 Gita: The Bhagavad Gita: a Hindu Pantheism. Keywords: pantheism, materialism, mysticism, science and religion, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
It is a chapter of the immense Indian epic, the Mahabharata, the saga of the war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas.
The Gita is variously dated between the third century BC and the fourth century AD.
The reason for uncertainty is that the Gita is not always consistent and may be the work of several hands.
members.aol.com /Heraklit1/gita.htm   (835 words)

  
 Bhagavad-Gita
The Bhagavad- Gita is considered by eastern and western scholars alike to be among the greatest spiritual books the world has ever known.
This is because proficiency in the Bhagavad- Gita reveals the eternal principles which are fundamental and essential for spiritual life from all perspectives and allows one to perfectly understand the esoteric truths hidden within all religious scriptures.
The primary purpose of the Bhagavad- Gita is to illuminate for all of humanity the realization of the true nature of divinity; for the highest spiritual conception and the greatest material perfection is to attain love of God!
www.bhagavad-gita.org   (655 words)

  
 EAWC Essay: The Historical Context of the "Bhagavad Gita"
Even though The Bhagavad Gita (hereafter referred to as the Gita) is one of the three principal texts that define the essence of Hinduism, and since all over the world Hindus chant from the Gita during most of their religious ceremonies, strictly speaking the Gita is not one of the Hindu scriptures.
From the contents of the Gita, it is abundantly clear that both the principal teachings of the Upanishads and of early Buddhism were familiar to the writers of the Gita.
Despite its universal appeal, the Gita is replete with contradictions both at the fundamental level and at the highest level of philosophical discourse.
eawc.evansville.edu /essays/de.htm   (2265 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics): Books: Anonymous,Juan Mascaro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
It takes the reader to the heart of the Gita, to their own heart and to that of Lord Krishna with practical real instructions on how we should live to be aligned with God.
The BHAGAVAD GITA is one of the most important of the scriptures of Hinduism, and one of the highest points of all literature in Sanskrit.
The BHAGAVAD GITA tells of how, as the two armies are squared off on the battle field, the divine manifestation Krishna appears to the noble warrior Arjuna, to calm his doubts and show him a path of righteousness.
www.amazon.com /Bhagavad-Gita-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140441212   (2476 words)

  
 The Gita Space From the Great Teachers
The Gita is a gate opening on the whole world of spiritual truth and experience; and the view it gives us embraces all the provinces of that supreme region.
Therefore, it may be described as the heart of Vedanta—its very essenceĀ… The Gita is the support of all earnest seekers and aspirants.
The Gita helps them to traverse all obstacles and reach their goal.
www.thegitaspace.com /teachers.htm   (541 words)

  
 EAWC: Ancient India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Krishna's temporary job as charioteer is by no means accidental: this moment before the heat and horror of battle was chosen as precisely the right time to reflect on the nature of duty and devotion.
It is doubtful that Emerson read The Bhagavad Gita as a guide to the world of the Hindoos (as he would have spelled it).
It is doubtful that he felt he "knew" India as a result of his reading, much as people (foolishly?) feel they know a country by reading a travel and tourism guide to that nation.
eawc.evansville.edu /inpage.htm   (340 words)

  
 The Bhagavad-Gita
The entire seven hundred verses of the Gita is a discourse between Lord Krishna and the confused Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra near New Delhi, India, in about 3,100 years BCE.
The central teaching of the Gita is the attainment of freedom or happiness from the bondage of life by doing one’s duty.
The Gita is the knowledge Supreme and the sound embodiment of the Absolute and the Eternal.
reluctant-messenger.com /bhagavad-gita.htm   (17198 words)

  
 Bhagavad Gita -the Book of Life - Introduction
That was several thousand years ago, and today the Gita is found in every household in India and has been translated into every major language of the world.
He had a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, and after he was told the problem or question he would open the book and point to a portion.
Sung by the monks of Atma Jyoti Ashram.
www.atmajyoti.org /gi_bhagavad_gita_intro.asp   (1201 words)

  
 Introduction to Bhagavad Gita
According to the Gita, the living entities, although parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord, are to be considered prakriti.
It is also explained in the Gita that impersonal Brahman is also subordinate to the complete Supreme Person (brahmano hi pratishthaham).
In the Gita it is stated that the living entity is never born and he never dies.
www.bhagavad-gita.us /articles/660/1/Introduction-to-Bhagavad-Gita   (9522 words)

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