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Hints on the Study of the Bhagvad-Gita

1906

He who can understand the complexity of the GO can understand likewise the complexity of the world in which the author of the Old is the upholding and the sustaining life and complex as the world is the G6d both worthy of the prfoundest study. [...] None save the wise can read the page of history with eyes that see ; none save the wise can trace in their own unfolding the mighty unfolding of the system in which a future Logos Himself is the Jivatma and that ruling LOGOS is tie Supreme Self; and inasmuch as the lesser is the reflection of the greater inasmuch as the history of the evolving individual is but a poor faint copy of the evolv [...] As the history as we shall see was the preparation for the India of the present and the preparation for the India of the future so also is that true which is elswhere written in the Mandbhdrata: I am the Teacher and the mind is my pupil." From that standpoint we shall see Shri KriOrta as the Jagat Guru the World Guru and Arjuna as the mind "I 0 THE BHAGAVAD-GITA. [...] But the Avatara is also the ishvara of the human Spirit the Logos of the Spirit the Supreme Self the Self of whom the individual Spirit is a portion—an amsha. [...] Then comes the vision of the Supreme that which alone takes away the taste for the pleasures yielded by the objects around us ; only when the Supreme is seen when the fuller life suffuses the lesser does the attractiveness of the life of the senses depart (ii.
philosophy religion
Pages
135
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144971
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv Annie Besant view
First Lecture The Great Unveiling
1-34 Annie Besant view
Second Lecture As Yoga Shastra
35-62 Annie Besant view
Third Lecture Methods of Yoga Bhakti
63-96 Annie Besant view
Fourth Lecture Discriminination and Sacrifice
97-131 Annie Besant view

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