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The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita
Explained by Paramhansa Yogananda

As Remembered by His Disciple Swami Kriyananda

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. What Is the Bhagavad Gita?
2. What Is Sanaatan Dharma?
3. The Allegory of the Gita
4. Allegory in Scripture
5. The Genesis of the Story
6. Why Cousins? Why Enemies?
7. The Spine: Pathway to Salvation
8. The Scripture Begins
9. Sanjaya Speaks
10. The Nature of Death­Allegorical and Literal
11. Krishna’s Consolation
12. The Nature of Right Action
13. Why Fight?
14. Directional Development
15. Freedom Through Action
16. The Supreme Science of Knowing God
17. Freedom Through Inner Renunciation
18. The True Yoga
19. Knowledge and Wisdom
20. The Outer and the Inner Universe
21. Final Liberation
22. The Sovereign Lord of All
23. From the Unmanifested to the Manifest
24. The Divine Vision
25. The Path of Bhakti Yoga
26. The Field of Battle
27. Transcending the Three Gunas
28. The Yoga of the Supreme Person
29. The Nature of the Godly and the Demonic
30. The Three Levels of Spiritual Practice
31. You Shall Attain Me

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