Please Note: This is part of a series of related topics. Use the quick menu above to navigate within this section.In this lesson, we introduce The Bhagavad Gita.
Objective
Understand The Bhagavad Gita’s prominent role in yoga philosophy, and establish a foundation for exploring its teachings.
Description
Become familiar with The Bhagavad Gita, a foundational yoga text that features a dialogue between the incarnate god Krishna and the warrior-prince Arjuna. Tell how the Gita is structured. Provide an overview of its contents. Summarize Arjuna’s “impossible task” and consider some of the concepts that are central to the Gita, including detachment and renunciation. Review how the Gita describes yoga.
Vocabulary
Arjuna, The Bhagavad Gita, detachment, Gita, renunciation
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