The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

Wisdom from Realization ╯
has been warning against. Moha, which means confusion or
delusion, is something like dreaming while awake, “living in
a dream.” The duality of attachment and aversion (love and
hate) beguiles the mind into this moha -swoon right at birth
(7:27). Knowing Krishna, and devotion to him, is the way
beyond this delusion. Thus chapter 7 contrasts wisdom ( jnana
and vijnana ) with the delusion ( moha ) of spiritual ignorance.
We find here many seminal ideas that are elaborated in the
later philosophies of Sankhya and Vedanta. These concepts of
prakriti, Purusha, and maya do not originate with the Gita,
however. The word maya appears in the Rig Veda, the most
ancient of the Vedas, and Purusha is a recurring theme in the
Upanishads. The Gita is a halfway point between the spontaneous
insights of the Upanishads and the later, highly formalized
philosophical systems. In the Gita we find an organized
presentation of these and other key concepts without a cumbersome
technical explanation.
– d.m.
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