Bhagavad Gita: Or, The Song CelestialThe Bhagavad Gita, one of the most sacred and venerated Hindu texts, is a series of conversations between the Lord Krishna -- the divine one -- and the warrior prince Arjuna in the prelude to the Kurukshetra war. Consisting of seven hundred stanzas and dealing with parables, and analogies covering the Yogic and Vedantic philosophies, it is thought by many to be the Hindu guidebook to life. The Bhagavad Gita is one installment in the Indian Epic the Mahabharata. |
Contents
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Book III Virtue in Work | 22 |
Book IV The Religion of Knowledge | 27 |
Book V Religion of Renouncing Works | 33 |
Book VI Religion by SelfRestraint | 37 |
Book VII Religion by Discernment | 43 |
Book XI The Manifesting of the One and Manifold | 61 |
Book XII Religion of Faith | 74 |
Book XIII Religion by Separation of Matter and Spirit | 77 |
Book XIV Religion by Separation from the Qualities | 82 |
Book XV Religion by Attaining the Supreme | 86 |
Book XVI The Separateness of the Divine and Undivine | 90 |
Book XVII Religion by the Threefold Faith | 94 |
Book XVIII Religion by Deliverance and Renunciation | 98 |
Book VIII Religion by Service of the Supreme | 47 |
Book IX Religion by the Kingly Knowledge and the Kingly Mystery | 51 |
Book X Religion by the Heavenly Perfections | 56 |
Endnotes | 109 |
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