Gītā Sādhana Sopāna Steps to Self-Realization as Taught in the Bhagavad Gītā
Swāmiji, Sri Sri Ātmānandendra Saraswati
pp 1 - 239 | 2017
Preface
Part I: Background and General Considerations
- 1.1 A common understanding regarding the teaching of the Gītā
- 1.2 Doubts regarding terms used in the Gītā
- 1.3 Examination of various views
- 1.4 Gītā and other systems
- 1.5 Conclusion regarding the other systems of philosophy
- 1.6 Only one Yoga taught in the Gītā
- 1.7 Necessity of discrimination (buddhi) and devotion (bhakti) in the perfection of Yoga (Yoga siddhi)
- 1.8 Conclusion regarding Yoga
- 1.9 Examination of karma Yoga
- 1.10 The import of the Gītā
- 1.11 Re-examination of the one Yoga taught in the Gītā
- 1.12 The import of verse 2.47 of the Gītā
- 1.13 Graded spiritual practices (sādhana) of the Gītā
- 1.14 The Method of Superimposition and Negation (Adhyāropa-Apavāda)
- Part II: Steps to Self-Realization
- 2.1 Fearlessness (Abhaya) (The final Aim)
- 2.2 Purification (Sattvasaṃśuddhiḥ)(The precondition to reach the Final Aim)
- 2.3 Establishment in the Yoga of Knowledge (Jñāna Yoga Vyavasthitiḥ)(The Final Means to Self-Realization)
- 2.4.1 Complementary qualities for Self-Realization
- 2.4.2 Guṇas
- 2.5 Karma
- 2.6 Karma Yoga
- 2.7.1 Meditation on the Lord’s Glories (Vibhuūti Upāsanā)
- 2.7.2 Meditation on the Lord’s Cosmic Form (Viśvarūpa Upāsanā)
- 2.7.3 Meditation on the Imperishable Brahman (Akṣara Brahma Upāsanā)
- 2.8 Devotion (Bhakti Yoga)
- 2.9 Contemplation (Dhyāna)
- 2.10.1 Liberation
- 2.10.2 Different types of Liberation (Mukti)
- 2.11 The nature of Transcendental Reality
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