Essays on the Gita

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Essays on the Gita

FIRST SERIES

I	Our Demand and Need from the Gita	3
II	The Divine Teacher	12
III	The Human Disciple	20
IV	The Core of the Teaching	29
V	Kurukshetra	39
VI	Man and the Battle of Life	47
VII	The Creed of the Aryan Fighter	57
VIII	Sankhya and Yoga	68
IX	Sankhya, Yoga and Vedanta	81
X	The Yoga of the Intelligent Will	94
XI	Works and Sacrifice	105
XII	The Significance of Sacrifice	114
XIII	The Lord of the Sacrifice	124
XIV	The Principle of Divine Works	134
XV	The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood	145
XVI	The Process of Avatarhood	158
XVII	The Divine Birth and Divine Works	168
XVIII	The Divine Worker	177
XIX	Equality	188
XX	Equality and Knowledge	200
XXI	The Determinism of Nature	212
XXII	Beyond the Modes of Nature	224
XXIII	Nirvana and Works in the World	234
XXIV	The Gist of the Karmayoga	247

SECOND SERIES

Part I – The Synthesis of Works, Love and Knowledge

I	The Two Natures	263
II	The Synthesis of Devotion and Knowledge	278
III	The Supreme Divine	289
IV	The Secret of Secrets	301
V	The Divine Truth and Way	311
VI	Works, Devotion and Knowledge	322
VII	The Supreme Word of the Gita	337
VIII	God in Power of Becoming	355
IX	The Theory of the Vibhuti	366
X	The Vision of the World-Spirit – Time the Destroyer	377
XI	The Vision of the World-Spirit – The Double Aspect	388
XII	The Way and the Bhakta	396

Part II – The Supreme Secret

XIII	The Field and its Knower	409
XIV	Above the Gunas	421
XV	The Three Purushas	435
XVI	The Fullness of Spiritual Action	450
XVII	Deva and Asura	463
XVIII	The Gunas, Faith and Works	477
XIX	The Gunas, Mind and Works	493
XX	Swabhava and Swadharma	507
XXI	Towards the Supreme Secret	526
XXII	The Supreme Secret	540
XXIII	The Core of the Gita's Meaning	562
XXIV	The Message of the Gita	572

Notes are paraphrased from the “Publisher's Note” and “Note on the Texts”.

See also

• Bhagavad Gita