Bhagavad Gita Concepts, Atman, OM, Brahman

This subject contains a small glossary with some of the most important concepts of the Bhagavad Gita that can serve the students of the Gita Institute when they immerse themselves in the deep wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita. It would be impossible to make a glossary with all the terms related to the Bhagavad Gita.

1. What is Yoga according to the Bhagavad Gita?
2. Ahimsa: Nonviolence
3. Akshara Parabrahma (Imperishable Parabrahman)
4. Atman: Higher Self, spiritual soul
5. Bhagavad Gita
   1. Introduction
   2. Bhagavad Gita according to Swami Vivekananda
   3. Gita Makaranadam
   4. Why is Patanjali more talked about than the Bhagavad Gita to the West?
   5. Spiritual leaders, ignorance and Gita
6. Bhakti Yoga (Devotional Path)
   1. Sri Ramakrishna (Bhakti) Swami Vivekananda (Jnana)
   2. Para-Bhakti (Supreme Devotion)
   3. Dangers of Bhakti or Jnana Yoga
7. Brahman: the Absolute Reality (the Supreme, the Imperishable)
8. Brahmacharya: observance of the fundamental vows (Yamas of Patanjali) reach Brahman
9. Castes (Varnas): Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras
10. Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga (Divine Inheritance)
11. Detachment for the fruits of actions: Only the action is your obligation, never its fruits
12. Dharma: religion or justice. The term “Hinduism” is Western, Hindus speak of Sanatana Dharma (the eternal religion)
13. Dhyana (Meditation-Concentration)
    1. Dhyana Yoga (Path of Meditation)
14. Yoga Philosophy
15. Gunas: Sattva, Rajas and Tamas; intelligence, energy and mass,
    1. Union between Gunas Rajas and Sattwa
    2. Sattvic Knowledge (wisdom)
    3. Gunatrayavibhaga
16. Hinduism and Bhagavad Gita
17. Ishvara: Creator God, Supreme Being or personal God
18. Jnana (Knowledge)
    1. Jnana Yoga (Path of Knowledge)
    2. Jananvijnana (Knowledge of Brahman)
    3. Jnana-Karma-Sannyasa
    4. Jnana: Unity in diversity (Vivekananda)
    5. Knowledge leads to Unity
    6. Only Knowledge destroys Ignorance
    7. Jnana Yoga and Vedanta
19. Karma Yoga (Path of Selfless Action)
    1. Karma (Action, Work)
    2. Doctrine of Karma Yoga
    3. Karma Yoga (Swami Vivekananda)
    4. Karma Sannyasa Yoga
    5. Liberation through Karma Yoga
    6. Free will and Nishkama Karma
    7. Two characteristics of the Karma Yogi
20. Kshetra Kshetrajnavibhaga
21. Mahabharata: The great epic of the Bharata dynasty, the Bhagavad Gita is the central part
22. Mahasamadhi
23. Moksha Sannyasa (Liberation by Renunciation)
24. Nirvikalpa Samadhi (highest spiritual experience)
25. OM TAT SAT: "The infinite is the Truth", the Supreme Absolute Truth or Brahman
26. Opposite pairs (dualities): being able to free ourselves from extremes, being equanimous
27. Paths of Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita
28. Prakriti: basic matter of the universe
29. Pranayama: control of vital energy (Puraka, Rechaka and Kumbhaka)
30. Purusha: Eternal Universal Principle, indestructible, formless and omnipresent
31. Purushottama: Supreme Being, Lord of all beings, God of Gods
32. Purushottama Yoga
33. Rajavidya-rajaguhya (Royal and Discriminatory Knowledge)
34. Raja Yoga (based on Patanjali)
35. Sadhana: spiritual exercises that facilitate detachment
36. Shraddha Traya Vibhaga (Threefold Faith)
37. Sannyasa: giving up attachments to action
38. Sankhya (Philosophy, Kapila),
    1. Sankhya Yoga
39. Shastra: rules, Path of Self-control
40. Vedanta: Hindu school of philosophy
    1. Universality of Vedanta

Vibhuti (Divine Manifestations)

Vishwarupa Sandarshana (Universal Form of the Lord)

1. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
2. Yogi
   1. Yogi: Self-control, equanimity, universal love

Key topics for each chapter of the Bhagavad Gita

Paths of Yoga

1. The Yoga of Knowledge
   1. Course: Jnana Yoga
2. The Yoga of Action
3. The Yoga of Meditation
   1. Course: Dhyana Yoga
4. The Yoga of Devotion
   1. Course: Bhakti Yoga

Subject taught in Spanish.

Conceptos Bhagavad Gita Conceitos Bagavadeguitá.

Concepts of the Bhagavad Gita

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