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Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → In his essay on action, B.K.S. Iyengar turns to a pair of Sanskrit words from the Bhagavad Gītā that describe the human being in three parts: “What human beings need is a
Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → Chapter 6 of the Bhagavad Gītā describes a practice that Arjuna performs while he remains a warrior. His bow stays in the story, and his duty stays with him. Kṛṣṇa asks for
Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → A student can misread pratyāhāra as dissociation, as though the practitioner leaves the body or the situation. The Bhagavad Gītā describes the reverse. In chapter 6, Kṛṣṇa compares the restrained mind to
Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → The Bhagavad Gītā describes a mind that is restless, turbulent, and hard to restrain. In chapter 6, Arjuna puts the problem to Kṛṣṇa and compares the mind to the wind. How can
Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → Contemporary yoga culture often translates svadharma as “my unique path.” The phrase flatters us, and it carries a modern meaning that the Bhagavad Gītā and its commentators handle with greater precision. In
Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → Contemporary yoga culture often translates svadharma as “my unique path.” The phrase flatters us, and it carries a modern meaning that the Bhagavad Gītā and its commentators handle with greater precision. In
Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → Most of us have stood at a decision that felt wrong while something deeper insisted that we make it. Arjuna meets this collision on the field of Kurukṣetra. His duty as a
Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → B.K.S. Iyengar describes his practice as meditative, and a reader can ask what that means for a teacher in front of a class. The answer in his own words rewards a close
Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → Kṛṣṇa continues past the instruction to act without attachment. King Janaka and others reached perfection through action, he says, and a person should act with the maintenance of the world in view,
Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → The Bhagavad Gītā leaves no room for non-action. In chapter 3, Kṛṣṇa teaches that freedom from action, naiṣkarmya, comes through action itself, and that renunciation alone brings no one to perfection (3.4).
Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → Barbara Stoler Miller described Kṛṣṇa’s method as improvisation: “Krishna’s teaching is not a fixed doctrine delivered once and for all. It is an improvisation that returns to the same truths in response
Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → Readers can approach the Bhagavad Gītā as a psychological text, a philosophical text, or a religious text. Richard H. Davis notes that the text has historically supported all three readings: “The Gītā
