News on the Gītā course and a preview of the second volume

We just completed chapter two of the Bhagavad-gītā course. Catch up from lesson one, download volume one, and preview volume two, now including the completed chapters seven and eight.

We just completed the second chapter in the course of the Bhagavad-gītā. If you are following the lessons, by now you know in detail the difference between the soul and the body, how bodily identification distorts our understanding of reality, the process for obtaining transcendental knowledge, how attachment develops into the lust and anger that keep us conditioned, why renunciation by itself does not free us from karma, how buddhi-yoga transforms action into a process of self-realization, why sense control requires higher spiritual realization, what characterizes a person in transcendental consciousness, and so on.

If you are not following, it’s not too late. You can start from the first lesson and try to catch up. If you keep following the lessons, in a few months you will have studied the entire Gītā in detail and gained a clear understanding of its conclusions. The Bhagavad-gītā is one of the most important books we can study, and properly understanding it can have a profound transformative effect on our spiritual lives. The course is open to everyone.

If you want to go ahead, there is also a PDF of the completed first volume available for subscribers on the upcoming books page. You can download your copy there.

Another piece of news: I just uploaded the current manuscript of the second volume, including the completed chapters seven and eight. Subscribers can also check the current manuscript and see how the second volume is progressing.

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If you prefer, you can also get the printed book. Same material, but in a convenient format. The first part of the trilogy is already available on Amazon:
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Here is everything we have in the course up to now:

+ Why would one want to study the Bhagavad-gītā?

+ How to use this book

+ Introduction: The conclusions of the Bhagavad-gītā

• The essential qualification to understand the Gītā

• Understanding the Absolute Truth

• The 21 essential conclusions of the Bhagavad-gītā

• The Gītā-māhātmya

• The disciplic succession: the key to understanding the scriptures

+ CHAPTER ONE: Observing the armies on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra (Arjuna-viṣāda yoga)

• Setting the scene of the Gītā (Bg 1.1)

• Duryodhana speaks to Droṇācārya (Bg 1.2 to 1.9)

• The political game before the battle (Bg 1.10 and 1.11)

• Signs of victory: the sounding of the conchshells (Bg 1.12 to 1.19)

• Arjuna orders Kṛṣṇa (Bg 1.20 to 1.23)

• Arjuna sees the armies, and his heart shatters (Bg 1.24 to 1.27)

• Arjuna feels compassion and fear (Bg 1.28 to 1.29)

• The result of material attachment (Bg 1.30)

• Arjuna’s reasons for not fighting (Bg 1.31 to 1.39)

• How unwanted progeny destroys society (Bg 1.40 to 1.43)

• Arjuna decides not to fight (Bg 1.44 and 1.45)

• The perfect opportunity (Bg 1.46)

• Summary of the first chapter of the Gītā

+ CHAPTER TWO: Contents of the Gītā Summarized (Sānkhya-yoga)

• Kṛṣṇa speaks to Arjuna as a friend (Bg 2.1 to 2.3)

• Arjuna’s doubts persist (Bg 2.4 to 2.6)

• The moment of surrender (Bg 2.7 to 2.9)

• Descendant of Bharata (Bg 2.10)

• Kṛṣṇa assumes a new role and chastises Arjuna (Bg 2.11)

• Knowledge about the soul (Bg 2.12 and 2.13)

• Beyond temporary happiness and distress (Bg 2.14 and 2.15)

• The eternal and the temporary (Bg 2.16)

• The true nature of the soul (Bg 2.17 to 2.21)

• More about the qualities of the soul (Bg 2.22 to 2.25)

• Kṛṣṇa argues from the atheistic perspective (Bg 2.26 to 2.28)

• The amazing people who can see the amazing soul (Bg 2.29 and 2.30)

• Do thou fight for the sake of fighting (Bg 2.31 to 2.38)

• Kṛṣṇa explains the path of buddhi-yoga (Bg 2.39 to 2.41)

• Rejecting aparā-vidyā (Bg 2.42 to 2.46)

• You have a right to perform your duty, but not to enjoy the fruits (Bg 2.47 to 2.53)

• Four questions: The characteristics of a pure devotee (Bg 2.54)

• Q1: What are his symptoms? (Bg 2.55)

• Q2: How does he speak? (Bg 2.56 and 2.57)

• Q3: How does he sit? (Bg 2.58 to 2.63)

• Q4: How does he walk? (Bg 2.64 to 2.72)

• Wrapping it all up

• Summary of the second chapter of the Gītā

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