BKS Iyengar

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

Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → The first essay in this series ended with Arjuna collapsed on his chariot seat, and with a first glimpse of steady wisdom. Once Kṛṣṇa begins to answer, Arjuna asks a further question

Bhagavad Gītā live course begins April 2027 → The Bhagavad Gītā opens with action. The Yoga Sūtras open with a definition: yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ, “yoga is the stilling of the movements of the mind” (1.2). The Gītā opens on a battlefield.