The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

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Sanjaya, 74, 255
Sankhya philosophy: about, 37–38;
categories of gunas in, 102–3, 253;
defined, 37; and mango analogy, 40;
mind and matter, 38–43; prakriti
and Purusha in, 37–38, 148; vs. yoga,
37, 124
sannyasa, 123, 124, 251; see also
renunciation
Sanskrit language, 16
sat, 245
sattva: defined, 44, 45; harnessing energy
of rajas into, 47; as one of three
gunas, 44, 46, 102, 243, 244; as quality
of prakriti, 221, 222; and spiritual
disciplines, 244; and work, 253
savikalpa samadhi, 192
Self: Atman as, 30; at climax of
meditation, 26, 48; at conception,
231; and gunas, 46; and Krishna,
22, 58, 180, 181, 229; relationship to
action, 56, 113; see also Atman
self-discipline, 135, 244
Self-knowledge, 60, 125
Self-realization, 58–59, 83–87, 134
self-will, 52–53
selfishness, 51, 102; see also renunciation
selfless action, 51–52, 53, 99, 124–25; see
also karma yoga
selfless love (bhakti), 170
selfless service, 57–58, 99–103, 114, 124,
244
senses: as “gates” of body, 160; and sense
objects, 41–43; training, 87
Sermon on the Mount, 14, 20, 60
Shakti, 213–14
shama, 134
Shankara, 18, 37, 59, 126, 181
Shaw, Bernard, 62
Shiva, 16, 22, 181, 213, 214
shraddha, 63–65, 243–44
shruti, 18
siddhi, 253–54
soul, see jiva
sudurachara, 172
tamas: defined, 44, 45; as one of three
gunas, 44, 46, 102, 103, 243, 244,
245; as quality of prakriti, 221–22;
transforming into rajas, 47; and
work, 253
tanha, 52
tanmatras, 41
tapas, 244–45
Tat, 230, 245
tattvas, 38–43
Teresa of Avila, St., 62, 126, 192
Troy, 15
turiya, 28, 29–30
tyaga, 206, 251–52
unity: in climax of meditation, 26;
discovering, 42; glimpsing, 126; as
goal of evolution, 47; as multiplicity,
29–30; as state of consciousness, 28;
unitive state, 27, 28
universe, cyclical, 157, 163–64
Upanishads: about, 8–9, 23–24; account
of death process, 36, 159–60, 161;
as background for Bhagavad Gita,
22–36; discoveries of brahmavidya
in, 17–18; as minimum sources
of Hinduism, 18; and Perennial
Philosophy, 18; and pranas,
231; Purusha in, 151; states of
consciousness in, 28; in Vedas, 18;
vs. Bhagavad Gita, 22, 203–4
Varuna, 23, 181
Vasudeva, 182
Vedanta, 150
Vedas, 18, 169–70, 181, 203, 230
vibhutis, 179, 182
vijnana, 147, 148, 150
Vishnu: as Creator, 149; defined, 112;
Krishna as, 71, 112, 113, 180, 192;
measuring cosmos, 230; role of
Brahma in, 149; Shiva and Shakti,
214
Vrishni, 182
Vyasa, 19, 21, 74, 182, 255
wheel of time, 254
wisdom, see jnana; vijnana
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