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
Akshara-Brahma yoga/Topic of Imperishable Brahman (chapter 8) In the eighth chapter, Krishna unfolds Brahman as an all-pervading, non-changing reality. The same brahman is called Ishwara with
Dhyana-Yogah/Topic of meditation (Chapter 6…continued) As mentioned in my earlier post, there are two aspects to meditation: 1) Preparatory meditation (dealt with in the previous post
Arjuna asks–Which road will lead to moksha — sanyasa or karma yoga? Krishna is very clear about this. He says that compared to a life of sanyasa a life of karma yoga is
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
Krishna gives us a few steps in Bhakti; which is twofold–one is sadhana bhakti as a means, which we have been talking about until now, and the other is
Dhyana-Yogah/ Topic of meditation (Chapter 6…continued) It’s very interesting to note that Krishna starts this chapter on meditation by comparing sanyasa and karma yoga, but since we have handled
Sannyasa-yogah / Topic of renunciation (Ch 5 continued) Krishna says that the one who has gained this knowledge irrespective of whether he pursued it as a karma
Akshara-brahma-yoga/Topic of imperishable Brahman(chapter 8…continued) In the eighth chapter, in the sixth verse, Krishna had mentioned that, after death, one reaches the place one thinks of
In the twelfth verse of the same chapter, Krishna literally bowls us over. He says, `Knowledge is better than your practice of meditation..’ Then he
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