The Essential Gita
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAG603 |
| Author: | Sri Aurobindo |
| Publisher: | Sri Aurobindo Ashram |
| Language: | Sanskrit Text with English Translation |
| Edition: | 2010 |
| ISBN: | 818651015X |
| Pages: | 276 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.5 inch X 5.5 inch |
| Weight | 390 gm |
Book Description
About the Book
Then he placed the Gita in my hands. His strength entered into me and I was able to do the Sadhana of the Gita. I was not only to understand intellectually but to realise what Sri Krishna demanded of Arjuna and what He demands of those who aspire to do His work, to be free from repulsion and desire, to do and become a passive and faithful instrument in His hands, to have an equal heart for high and low, friend and opponent, success and failure, yet not to do His work negligently.
Contents
| 1 | The Spirit of Approach | 9 |
| 2 | The Core of the Teaching | 15 |
| 3 | The Dejection of Arjuna | 22 |
| 4 | Kurukshetra | 28 |
| 5 | The Creed of the Aryan Fighter | 31 |
| The Stoical Spirituality | 33 | |
| The Heroic Appeal-The Svadharma of the Kshatriya | 35 | |
| The Creed of the Aryan Fighter | 36 | |
| 6 | Sankhya and Yoga in the Gita | 38 |
| 7 | The First Words of the Gita’s Yoga | 41 |
| 8 | The Yoga of the Intelligent Will | 44 |
| The Vedavada and the Letter of the Scriptures | 45 | |
| The Institution of Desireless Works | 46 | |
| Sthitiprajna or the Man of Stable Intelligence | 49 | |
| The Control of Mind and Senses and the Attainment of Brahmi-Sthiti | 50 | |
| 9 | The Synthesis of Knowledge and Works | 53 |
| 10 | The Gita’s Doctrine of Sacrifice | 61 |
| The Law of Sacrifice | 61 | |
| The Reconciliation of Vedism and Vedantism | 64 | |
| The Significance of Sacrifice | 70 | |
| 11 | The Principle of Divine Works | 75 |
| 12 | The Action of Desire | 80 |
| Desire and Will | 82 | |
| 13 | The Gita’s Doctrine of Avatarhood and Its Process, Purpose and Method | 85 |
| The Purpose of Avatarhood | 87 | |
| The Method or the Process of Avatarhood | 90 | |
| The Modern Mind and the Doctrine of Avatarhood | 95 | |
| The Secret of Divine Birth and Work | 97 | |
| 14 | Faith, Equality and the Gist of the Karmayoga | 103 |
| Equality and Yoga of Works | 104 | |
| The Gist of the Karma Yoga | 112 | |
| 15 | The Two Natures | 119 |
| The Para Prakriti | 122 | |
| Swabhava - the Link Between the Supreme (Para) and the Phenomenal or Lower (Apara) Nature (Prakriti) | 124 | |
| 16 | The Synthesis of Devotion and Knowledge | 127 |
| 17 | Works, Devotion and Knowledge | 133 |
| 18 | The Supreme Word of the Gita | 149 |
| 19 | The Vibhuti Yoga | 157 |
| 20 | The Vision of the World-Spirit | 167 |
| 21 | The Way and the Bhakta | 177 |
| 22 | The Field and its Knower | 181 |
| 23 | The Yoga of the Division of the Three Gunas | 190 |
| 24 | The Three Purushas - The Yoga of the Purushott.ama | 200 |
| 25 | Deva and Asura | 208 |
| 26 | Action Done According to the Shastra and the Three-fold Faith | 220 |
| 27 | Sannyasa and Tyaga | 229 |
| 28 | Swabhava and Swadharma | 232 |
| 29 | The Supreme Secret | 244 |
