Bhagavad Gita - God talks with Arjuna - Vol. 2 - Chapters 6 - 18

CONTENTS Volume II Illustrations Volume II Permanent Shelter in Spirit Through Yoga Meditation True Renunciation and True Yoga Depend on Meditation How the Sage of Self-realization Views the World Krishna’s Advice for Successful Practice of Yoga Attaining Self-mastery and Control of the Mind Mergence of the Self in Spirit, Pervading All Beings The Lord’s Promise: The Persevering Yogi Ultimately Is Victorious The Nature of Spirit and the Spirit of Nature “Hear How Thou Shalt Realize Me” Prakriti: The Dual Nature of Spirit in Creation How the Creator Sustains the Manifested Creation Cosmic Hypnosis (Maya) and the Way to Transcend it Which “God” Should Be Worshiped? The Right Method of Worshiping God The Infinite Manifestations of the Unmanifest Spirit The Unborn and Beginningless, Beyond Form and Conception The Diverse Modifications of God’s Nature The Devotee Prays to Hear From the Lips of the Lord Himself: “What Are Thy Many Aspects and Forms?” “I Will Tell Thee of My Phenomenal Expressions” Vision of Visions! The Lord Reveals His Cosmic Form The Vision of Visions Bhakti Yoga: Union Through Devotion Should the Yogi Worship the Unmanifest, or a Personal God? Qualities of the Devotee, Endearing to God The Field and the Knower of the Field The Divine Forces That Create the Body, the Field Where Good and Evil Are Sown and Reaped The True Nature of Matter and Spirit, Body and Soul Characteristics of Wisdom Purusha and Prakriti (Spirit and Nature) Three Approaches to Self-realization Liberation: Differentiating Between the Field and Its Knower Transcending the Gunas The Three Qualities (Gunas) Inherent in Cosmic Nature Mixture of Good and Evil in Human Nature The Fruits of the Sattvic, Rajasic, and Tamasic Life The Nature of the Jivanmukta— One Who Rises Above Nature’s Qualities Purushottama: The Uttermost Being Eternal Ashvattha: The Tree of Life How Spirit Manifests as the Soul The Supreme Spirit: Beyond the Perishable and the Imperishable Embracing the Divine and Shunning the Demonic The Soul Qualities That Make Man God-like The Nature and Fate of Souls Who Shun the Divine That by which a stupid man does not forsake over-sleep, fear, sor- row, despair, and wanton conceit, O Partha (Arjuna), is tamasic- dhriti. Discerning One’s Divinely Ordained Duty in Life Summary of the Gita’s Message: How God-realization Is Attained The Dialogue Between Spirit and Soul Concludes Conclusion Afterword “A New Scripture Is Born” Ode to the Bhagavad Gita Transliteration and Pronunciation of Sanskrit Terms Lord Krishna: Sanskrit Epithets of Lord Krishna and Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita Arjuna: About the Author Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda: A Yogi in Life and Death Aims and Ideals of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India Autobiography of a Yogi Yogoda Satsanga Lessons Index 120 888 A–78