(ch.13) The known and the Knower

The last six chapters of the Gita, starting from Chapter 13, focus on self-knowledge in terms of discovering your identity between jiva and Ishwara, the identity that is always

Arjuna had also asked about jnanam and jneyam, and Krishna had ended the last verse by saying that this is the knowledge to be known. Therefore, when you use the

The next quality Krishna mentions is ahimsa. Everyone recognizes the need for ahimsa in a violent world. In fact, in the Mahabharata, you will often find the statement `ahimsa paramo dharma’, meaning

Happy Dassehra to all readers ! This  day symbolises victory of good over evil. It’s a day in which, after doing the Sarasvati puja the previous

The next value Krishna takes up in the Bhagavad Gita is called shauchya or cleanliness, purity, and he mentions there `bahaya and antara’, meaning `external’ and `internal’. External is about hygiene,

Happy Diwali to all…Have a great time, eat a lot of sweets, enjoy yourself, put on some weight, and try not to pollute the environment with

Asaktirnabhisvangah putradaragrhadisu nityam cha samacittatvam ishtanistopapattisu …absence of sense of ownership, absence of obsession towards son, wife, house and the like, and constant evenness of

The next two values go together. The first one is vivikta desha sevitvam, `to spend some time quietly by yourself’, meaning to be with yourself on a regular basis.

Again, the next two values go together. The first one is `adhyatma gyana nithyatvam’. `Nithyatvam’ means `regularity’. Not `constantly’, but `regularly’ exposing oneself to the

So far we have seen what is jnanam (meaning jnana sadhanam), the qualities required for one’s mind to know the truth. After this, the question posed by Arjuna is,