The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

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Buddha, 123–24, 126, 137, 203, 212
buddhi, 39
castes, 253
Catherine of Genoa, St., 56–57
Catherine of Siena, St., 62
cause and effect, see karma
chakras, 160
Chandogya Upanishad, 161
Chesterton, G. K., 60
Christ, 56, 203
Christian mystics, 205; St. Augustine,
18, 37, 60; St. Catherine of Genoa,
56–57; St. Francis of Assisi, 51, 60,
62; St. John of the Cross, 64, 126, 135,
205; St. Paul, 205; St. Teresa of Avila,
62, 126, 192
The Cloud of Unknowing, 205
consciousness: as divine ground of
existence, 213; dreaming as state of,
28; dreamless sleep as state of, 28;
human exploration, 8, 10; impact
of selfless work on, 59; Krishna as,
181; in meditation, 26; at moment of
death, 159–61; natural state, 47; and
Sankhya, 39–41; and self-will, 53; as
setting for Bhagavad Gita, 21–22;
and sleep, 28, 35; states of, 28; testing
levels of awareness, 26; unitary, 47;
waking as state of, 28; withdrawing
from hold on senses, 42; see also
mind
cosmology, 44, 164
Cousins, Norman, 63
creation: and Brahman, 229; cycles of
regeneration and decay, 112, 163; and
Day of Brahma, 44; and dharma,
24; indivisible, 32; and Krishna, 112,
148, 169; and union of prakriti and
Purusha, 148
cyclical universe, 157, 163–64
Day of Brahma, 44, 163, 164
death: Arjuna’s questions, 158; and
Brahman, 160; consciousness at
moment of death, 159–61; and
karma, 163; Krishna’s instructions,
36; and rebirth, 158; role of yogis,
159–60, 161; Upanishad account, 36,
159–60, 161
dehavat, 204
Desai, Mahadev, 50
desire, 52
detachment, 54–55, 60–61, 84, 85, 114,
125, 134, 138
devas, 23, 237, 244
devotion, 112, 193, 203–6, 254; see also
bhakti yoga
Dhammapada, 9
dharma, 24, 31–32, 75, 112
dharmakshetra, 67
Dhritarashtra, 72, 73, 255
Dionysius, 204
Donne, John, 32
Drona, 15, 73–74
Duryodhana, 73
dvandva, 181
Dvaraka, 15
Eckhart, Meister, 18, 56, 58, 65, 126
Eddington, Arthur, 25
ego, 26, 36, 39, 52–53, 57, 87
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 212
evolution, 47, 65
faith, see shraddha
field of forces, 25, 35, 37, 43, 46, 212
fields, 211, 212, 213
fig tree, 229
forest academies, 17
Francis of Assisi, St., 51, 60, 62
gambling, 182
Gandhi, Mahatma: and Bhagavad
Gita, 10, 14, 20, 60, 75, 86; and
detachment, 54–55; as fully human,
62; and selfless action, 51
Ganges, 180
gayatri, 181
gunas: defined, 43, 44; as fabric
of existence, 44–45; and faith,
243, 244–45; and maya, 150;
and personality, 46–47; as
qualities of prakriti, 221–23; and
Sankhya philosophy, 102–3, 253;
transcending, 222–23
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