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TWELVE  The Significance of Sacrifice   THE GITA’S theory of sacrifice is stated in two separate passages; one we find in the third chapter, another…

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-17_The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood.htm

FIFTEEN  The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood   IN SPEAKING of this Yoga in which action and knowledge become one, the Yoga of the sacrifice…

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-16_The Principle of Divine Works.htm

FOURTEEN  The Principle of Divine Works   THIS then is the sense of the Gita’s doctrine of sacrifice. Its full significance depends on the idea…

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-25_Nirvana and Works in the World.htm

TWENTY THREE  Nirvana and Works in the World   THE union of the soul with the Purushottama by a Yoga of the whole being is…

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-10_Sankhya and Yoga.htm

EIGHT  Sankhya and Yoga   IN THE moment of his turning from this first and summary answer to Arjuna’s difficulties and in the very first…

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-11_Sankhya, Yoga and Vedanta.htm

NINE  Sankhya, Yoga and Vedanta   THE whole object of the first six chapters of the Gita is to synthetise in a large frame of…

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-51_Bibliographical Note.htm

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE   ESSAYS ON THE GITA first appeared in the Arya in two series — from August 1916 to July 1918 and from August…

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-12_The Yoga of the Intelligent Will.htm

TEN  The Yoga of the Intelligent Will   I HAVE had to deviate in the last two essays and to drag the reader with me…

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-03_Our Demand and Need from the Gita.htm

ONE  Our Demand and Need from the Gita    THE world abounds with scriptures sacred and profane, with revelations and half-revelations, with religions and philosophies,…

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-45_The Gunas, Mind and Works.htm

NINETEEN  The Gunas, Mind and Works*   THE Gita has not yet completed its analysis of action in the light of this fundamental idea of…

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