Writings related to the Mahabharata, the great Indian Epic.
Daunted by its size and a misconception that an intimate understanding of Hinduism was needed, I never considered taking the Mahabharata off the shelf. By accident I… Read More »A Wonder of Ancient India: The Mahabharata
Contents The Doctrine of the Bhagavad-Gita Kshetra and Kshetrajna Mulaprakriti, Daiviprakriti and Ishwara Worship Me with All Bhavas Glossary The Doctrine of the Bhagavad-Gita In… Read More »The Doctrine of the Bhagavad Gita
Readers of the THEOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY who are acquainted with the Bhagavad Gita have been struck, again and again, with the likeness between the events portrayed… Read More »The Great War and the Great Initiation
[Note: the following was meant by Mr. Crosbie to be a continuation of the Notes on Chapters 1-7 by W. Q. Judge.] Contents Chapter 8… Read More »The Bhagavad-Gita [Notes, Chapters 8-18]
Contents Preface 1. The Place of Jnanayoga in the Gita 2. The Pedigree of Jnanayoga 3. The Doctrine of Avataras 4. Jnanayoga as the Means… Read More »Lectures on the Bhagavad Gita [Chapter 4]
General Introduction The Bhagavad Gita is one of the noblest scriptures of India, one of the deepest scriptures of the world. It is rich in… Read More »Bhagavad Gita (Songs of the Master)
In Vedic India there were two quite distinct beliefs as to death and the soul’s future destiny; the one belief belonging to the Vedic Hymns,… Read More »Arjuna’s Beliefs
[I.] Introductory Before all things remember that the Bhagavad Gita is a textbook of the Mysteries. It has seven keys, and holds seven meanings. But… Read More »Songs of the Master
Thereon Damayanti, seeing King Nala, ruler of men, thus distraught, his thoughts wrapped up in the play, herself not distraught though full of fear and… Read More »The Sorrows of Damayanti
And when the king of the Nishadhas had been chosen by the daughter of Bhima, the lords of the worlds in their brightness departing beheld… Read More »Nala and the Gods (Mahabharata)
Mahabharata, Book 14: Aswamedha Parva Section XVI Janamejaya said, “When the high-souled Kesava and Arjuna after slaying their enemies repaired to the assembly rooms, what… Read More »Anugita
I. In the Bhagavad Gita, first translated and best known of all the Sacred Books of the East, there is much of profound value for… Read More »The Songs of the Master
Antecedent Words The Bhagavad-Gita is an episode of the Mahabharata, which is said to have been written by Vyasa. Who this Vyasa is and when he lived is not… Read More »Bhagavad Gita (The Book of Devotion)
Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 [Chapter I] If the title of this sacred Hindu poem… Read More »The Bhagavad-Gita [Notes, Chapters 1-7]
Contents Introduction Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 [Introduction] (Notes of a lecture, delivered at the Convention of the Theosophical Society, 1885, by… Read More »Notes on the Bhagavad Gita
Article Selection from “Bhagavad-Gita,” by Babu Nobin K. Bannerji | Note by H.P.B. . . . many a sound scholar considers the Gita as quite a… Read More »[The Bhagavad Gita a Book of Initiation]
[Note: the following addresses the book “The Philosophy of Spirit,” by William Oxley.] The book bearing the above title, and professing to expound “the philosophy of… Read More »“The Philosophy of Spirit”