I am pleased to announce the publication of a major work. This has been my dream project for several years.
The Bhagavad Gita shows humanity the way to live a peaceful, enthusiastic, cheerful, beneficial, and noble life. It helps us to face the ups and downs of life with resilience. This is done by presenting a model of the Individual Being, the Insentient World, and the Universal Being – Jiva, Jagat, and Ishvara. Based on the model, it shows how we can attain the state of complete freedom from all sorrow, which is our intrinsic natural state.
This book presents this wisdom using modern idioms and illustrations that are relatable to modern minds. This book is based on a 24-session paid course on Bhagavad Gita for students and professionals of Science, Engineering, Medicine, Management, Law, and Psychology, taught online by the author that has successfully run more than 15 batches.
Every course on Vedānta starts with the study of a Prakarana Grantha (Primer) like Tattvabodha to introduce the topics in a structured sequence. In this book, we have picked up a sequence of verses of the Gita to serve as a Prakarana Grantha.
After a detailed coverage of the important topics of Vedānta using nine selected verses, running commentaries of chapter 15 (Concepts of Vedānta) and chapter 12 (Practice of Vedānta) are presented for a deeper study into the Gita. Then some important verses related to the four Yogas are presented.
This book is intended to be a textbook for a one semester course with about 24 to 30 lectures on “Essence of Vedānta” or “Essence of the Bhagavad Gita”. The presentation is tuned to resonate with the thinking pattern of students of science. So, modern students and professionals with some familiarity with science, engineering, psychology, management, etc. will find it easy to understand and appreciate the concepts.
It can also be used as the resource book for study circles on Vedānta, and as a book for self-study of Vedānta. After reading the contents from this book, if you have any questions about the topics covered here, please feel free to contact me over email. I will be more than happy to answer your questions.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Why Should We Study The Gita?
- Top-Down Approach to Study The Gita
- Essence of the Bhagavad Gita
- Salutation
- Prayer
- Essence
- Goal
- Path
- Individual
- Impersonal Truth
- Personal God
- Review
- Gita’s Way
- Karma Yoga
- Dhyāna Yoga
- Gist of Vedānta
- Starting Spiritual Practice
- Bhagavad Gita – Chapter 15
- Bhagavad Gita – Chapter 12
- Ten Selected Verses on Karma Yoga
- Ten Selected Verses on Dhyāna Yoga
- Ten Selected Verses on Bhakti Yoga
- Five Selected Verses on Jnāna Yoga
- Five Verses on Jnāna Yoga Sādhana
- Deciding between Right and Wrong
- About the Author
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If you want more than 20 copies of the book at discounted price, please contact me over email.