Bhagavad Gita Discourses
The Song Celestial unfolds a dialogue of the advice given by an avatar or God incarnate. The recipient of the message is Arjuna, the prototype of the struggling human soul who is ready to receive the great knowledge by his close companionship and inc
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The Song Celestial unfolds a dialogue of the advice given by an
avatar or God incarnate. The recipient of the message is Arjuna,
the prototype of the struggling human soul who is ready to receive
the great knowledge by his close companionship and increasing
nearness to the divine Self within himself.
This symbolic companionship of Krishna and Arjuna, the divine and
the human soul is further dramatized by the fact that their
dialogue takes place amidst the din and clamor of a battlefield.
The teacher in the Gita is therefore not only the God who is
transcendent but also the God in man who unveils Himself through an
increasing knowledge...
Vanamali, Nitya Yoga.
Aldous Huxley, asserts that ‘The Bhagavad Gita occupies an
intermediate position between scripture and theology; for it
combines the poetical qualities of the first with the clear-cut
methodicalness of the second. ‘The book may be described’ writes
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his admirable Hinduism and Buddhism, ‘as
a compendium of the whole doctrine to be found in the earlier
Vedas, Brahmanas and Upanishads, and being therefore the basis of
all the The later developments, it can be regarded as the focus of
all Indian religion...
...But this focus of Indian religion is also one of the clearest
and most comprehensive summaries of the perennial philosophy ever
to have been made. Hence its enduring value, not only for Indians,
but for all mankind’.
The Bhagavad Gita (Song Celestial) offers an understanding of The
Great Mystery, which has inspired many of the giants of the Western
intellectual tradition. The transcendentalist poets Emerson,
Thoreau, and Whitman were students of The Bhagavad Gita. Thoreau
wrote: ‘In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous
cosmological philosophy of The Bhagavad Gita, in comparison with
which our modern world and its literature seem puny and
trivial.’
Emerson, referring to the Gita, wrote: ‘It was the first of books.
It was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but
large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which
in another age . . . had pondered and thus disposed of the same
questions which exercise us.’
This is a series of discourses on the liberating teachings of the
Srimad Bhagavad Gita (Song Celestial) by Mataji (Mother) Vanamali,
Vanamali Gita Yogasram, Rishikesh, North India.
Vanamali Mataji is the author of The Lila Hindu World Heritage
Library. Her books include: a translation of the Srimad Bhagavad
Gita, Nitya Yoga, a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna
Lila, Sri Rama Lila, Sri Shiva Lila, Sri Devi Lila, Sri Hanuman
Lila, Lilas of the Sons of Shiva, Gurudeva and The Taste Divine.
Sri Devi Lila is published in the U.S. as Shakti: Realm of The
Divine Mother , Sri Hanuman Lila as Hanuman: The Devotion and Power
of The Monkey God.
Each talk is introduced with the Sanskrit invocations and chanting
of the Gita chapter. Then Mataji Vanamali offers a line-by-line
illumination of Shri Krishna's liberating teachings.
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