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The Bhagavad Gita and Swami

VivekanandaA discourse

The discourse put into action

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1.Vishada yoga - The despondency ofArjuna

Doubt and despair

Conflict

Kurukshetra -External

Dharmakshetra -Internal

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This world is not for cowards. Do not try tofly.. Live in the midst of the battle oflifeIf you have found the centre, you

cannot be moved.

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2. The Sankya yoga

Right action

Duties of a human being

The immortality of the soul

Great work requires great and persistent

effort for a long timeEach work has to pass through thesestages- ridicule, opposition, and then

acceptance.

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3. Karma yoga

Right action

Duty without desire

the action one has done cannot be

destroyed until it has borne its fruit; nopower in nature can stop it from yielding

its results

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4. Gnana yoga - Realisation of theUltimate truth

Individual consciousness- Universalconsciousness- Ultimate Reality

Action ---- Knowledge --- Wisdom

one idea that I see clear as daylight is

that misery is caused by ignorance andnothing else

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5. Karma sanyasa yoga

Material, intellectual and spiritualEgo I, me and mine

He works best who works without anymotive, neither for money ,nor for fame,nor for anything else; and when a man cando that, he will be a Buddha, and out ofhim will come the power to work in such amanner as will transform the world.

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6. Aatma samyama yoga

Body and the Universe

All pervading oneness

Be good, do good

The book from which to learn religion isyour own mind and heart

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7. Gnana Vigyana yoga

Types of people

Earth, water,fire,air,ether,mind,spiritualintelligence, false ego

External energy, marginal energy,comprising all souls

I am all pervasive

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8. Akshara Parabrahma yoga

Passion, one idea, longing, end of life,

fulfilment,bliss

Man is an infinite circle

You have to grow from inside out.None

can teach you, none can make youspiritual. There is no other teacher butyour own soul.

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9. Rajavidya- Raja guhya yoga

Confidential knowledge of the ultimatetruth

Belief

Whatever you do, devote your whole

mind, heart, and soul to it

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10. Vibhuti yoga Vibhuti vistara yoga

Infinite glories of the Ultimate Truth

No beginning, no end

No delusion

-- the way is very difficult, like walking onthe edge of a razor; yet despair not, ariseawake, and find the ideal, the goal.

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11. Viswaroopa darsana yoga

Vision of the Universal Form

Opulence and splendour

Divine grace

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12. Bhakti yogathe path of devotion

Total surrender

Total immersion

Oblivion and Ecstasy

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13 Kshetra kshetragna Vibhava yoga

The individual soul- Ultimate soul

Physical body-immortal soul

The world is not a childs play- and greatmen are those who build highways forothers with their hearts blood.

Who serves Jiva serves God indeed

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14. Guna triya vibhava yoga

Three qualities

1 material nature

2 ignorance

3 passion

Goodness

The self-seeking man who is looking

after his personal comforts and leading

a lazy life- there is no room for him

even in hell.

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15 Purushotama prapti yoga

Realisation of the ultimate truth

Action and reaction

Where is fate, and who is fate? We

reap what we sow. We are the makers of

our own fate.The world can be good and pure, only

if our lives are good and pure.

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16 DaivasuraSampard vibhava yoga

The inherent duality

The divine and the demonic

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal isto manifest this divinity within bycontrolling nature, external and internal.

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17. Shradhatraiya vibhaga yoga

The three divisions of material existenceGoodnessPassionatenescience

The three Ds

Man is made up of three qualities-brutal, human andgodly. That which tends to increase the divinity inyou is virtue, and that which tends to increasebrutality in you is vice. You must kill the brutalnature and become human you must transcend that

too and become pure bliss, Sachidananda, firewithout burning---

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18 Moksha sanyasa yoga

Complete renunciationNo desires, no wants

Absence of all emotions good or bad

Sacrifice, charity and austerity

The watchword of all well-being,of allmoral good is not I, but Thou

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Arise Awake and stop not till the goal isreached.