वेदान्तसारम् · श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता
The Essence of Vedanta — Bhagavadgeeta
- 32 lectures
- One a week
- No Sanskrit needed
- English or Marathi
Seven hundred shlokas in eighteen adhyayas, explained word by word, with inputs from the commentaries of Adi Shankaracharya, Sant Jnaneshwar, Lokamanya Tilak and Vinoba Bhave. The Geeta synthesises jnana, karma, yoga and bhakti into a sound base of righteousness for a purposeful life.
What the course covers
- 01Arjuna’s despondence, and the question the Geeta answers
- 02Samkhya and the nature of the self
- 03Karmayoga — action without attachment
- 04Jnanayoga and renunciation
- 05Dhyanayoga — the discipline of meditation
- 06Vibhutiyoga and the eleventh adhyaya
- 07Bhaktiyoga and the three gunas
- 08Shankaracharya, Jnaneshwar, Tilak and Vinoba compared
Who it's for
Anyone who wants the Geeta itself rather than a summary of it. No Sanskrit is needed — every word is explained as it comes.
By the end
A first-hand reading of the whole text, and a sense of how four very different commentators understood it.