Bhagvad gita Chapter- 2 ,Summary.(Revised 2021): Samkhya Yoga (The yoga of knowledge)flowcharts (2)

Revised and Updated (2021)
Chapter 2: Samkhya Yoga (The yoga of knowledge) - 72 verses. Concluding his reasoning and yet confused, Arjuna turns to Lord Krishna for discernment (2:7). Krishna begins countering Arjuna's objections. Krishna tells Arjuna that the eternal self is immortal and the body is designed to pass away (2:12-30). Explaining the three principles dharma, (right action) atman (individual self) and sarira (body), Krishna reminds Arjuna that, as a warrior, his duty is to uphold the path of dharma through warfare (2:31-38).

1. the analytical study of the nature of spirit and matter
CHAPTER 2 (72 Slokas) FLOWCHARTS
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2-Bhagvad_Gita_Notes_Complete_Gauranga_priyarabhu
2-Gita Makarandam by Vidya Prakashananda Giri
3-Other references are listed at the bottom of the each slide.
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2. If one should get the GITA-wisdom, one should go through some important phases in one’s life.
The entire first chapter and
the first part of the second chapter
are devoted to show these developments.)
The problem of SAMSARA
as shown in the first chapter,
can be said to be the problem of
Firstly, one should
discover
the problem of
samsara
Asincere longing
(tivra-mumukshi)
for freedom from
samsara
This problem
cannot solved
independently.
One should
surrender to a
guru seeking his
guidance.
GITA happens to be
a solution
GRIEF (SHOKA or VISHADA)
DELUSION (MOHA)
ATTACHMENT (RAGA)
This alone can lead to
committed and fruitful
pursuit.
Paramathananda’s Bhagavad Gita http://spiritualsathya.blogspot.com
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3. 5principles
You have to periodically renounce and you have to get back in touch with who you are
through knowledge. This is the means by which the soul continues to disassociate from
its habit of identification with matter.
All of these are necessary even after you have become grounded in who you are,
because when you reenter into matter the world tries to coat you again.
dejection, Chapter 1
discrimination, Chapter 2
action, Chapter 3
knowledge Chapter 4
renunciation Chapter 5
are the preparatory process which we will cycle through forever
http://www.satshree.org/teachings/gita-study/gita-study-transcriptions/ 1.2
95% of seekers are in this process of becoming stable in the self. Of that 95% there is
probably another 20% that have glimpses of the next stages; they come and they go
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4. The first six chapters are a cycle
Dejection is the experience of your bondage,
not knowing that is what you are experiencing.
It is when the being comes forward and
the outer personality doesn't know what is happening.
Let's talk about the outer personality.
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5. RAGA
ATTCHMENT
SHOKA or
VISHADA or
SORROW
MOHA
DELUSION
A VICIOUS CYCLE
Once vision is clouded; actions
will be wrong and because of
that the situation will be worse
and again because he will be
worried and will take wrong
decisions
A person never gets out of dependence. He
will be shuffling the dependence from one
object to other. Instead of working for
freedom, he will be only changing from one
dependence to other
This cycle of shuffling the diseases and
going form suffering to suffering is the
human problem, which is known as
SAMSARA
A PERSON
THE
HUMAN DISEASE
A PLACE
AN OBJECT
p 50 Swami Paramathananda’s Bhagavad Gita Lectures in Chennai
BONDAGE
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6. Our dependences or expectations are for three things alone:
CH 1-6 CH 7-12 CH 13-18
The first six chapters is the
movement of ego to the Self;
WITH EFFORT
the second six chapters is the
movement of the Self to God;
BY GRACE
the third six chapters is the
movement from God to
Truth and Truth to
manifestation.
the effort part.
KARMA YOGA
This is where we break down our
identification with our separate
egoic existence and shift in our
identification to that which lives
us, to the being. This is an
individual realization. It is a
realization of the individual Self.
BHAKTI YOGA JNANA YOGA
http://www.satshree.org/teachings/gita-study/gita-study-transcriptions 6.2
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7. The Yoga of Knowledge is the revelation that
comes when we begin
to align our life with the purpose of life;
OUR LIFE PURPOSE OF LIFE
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8. when we move out of our little individual expression of
needs and wants and start expanding and connecting to
something larger than ourselves.
The
Cha
Chapt
http://www.satshree.org/teachings/gita-study/gita-study-transcriptions 6.1http://explorevedanta.com/vbc-atma-the-self/
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9. Gita -“who you are”“Tvam” (Soul).in the first six chapters
3-The third chaptertakes up Karma-Yoga which deals with duties of
all of us towards our “Tvam” (Soul). Indirectly, they are duties of our
universe and our society.
4-In the fourth chapter, he takes up Jnana-Yoga. By performing right
action how one could get real knowledge and by real knowledge how
one should act, is taken up in this chapter.
1-The first chapteris an introduction to the discourse.
It brings out the state of distress in Arjuna
When one performs
nishkäma karma yoga
on the level of
knowledge of the soul
only, then he tends to
remain impersonal,
6-The sixth chapter is Dhyana-Yoga which gives a detailed
description of how to meditate and realise the “REAL YOU”
inside the “FALSE YOU”.
5-The fifth chapter is Karmasamnyasa-Yoga wherein he talks about
renunciation of fruits of action which will help us to realise
the Atman in us and I am not the doer
there is a higher controller,as seen in the fifth chapter,
then he develops a consciousness of the Supersoul
2 -Chaptera detailed description of the “Real Arjuna”, the Atman (Tvam) and ends up in a
wonderful description of a Sthitaprajna (man of steady wisdom). to do Karma-Yoga,
Jnana-Yoga etc.,
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
http://gitaglobal.com/bhagavad-gita-tat-tvam-asi-2/
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10. It is when consciousness begins to shift
from its investment in its identification with
matter
to its investment with identification with
itself.
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11. 5principles
You have to periodically renounce and you have to get back in touch with who you are
through knowledge. This is the means by which the soul continues to disassociate from
its habit of identification with matter.
All of these are necessary even after you have become grounded in who you are,
because when you reenter into matter the world tries to coat you again.
dejection, Chapter 1
discrimination, Chapter 2
action, Chapter 3
knowledge Chapter 4
renunciation Chapter 5
are the preparatory process which we will cycle through forever
http://www.satshree.org/teachings/gita-study/gita-study-transcriptions/ 1.2
95% of seekers are in this process of becoming stable in the self. Of that 95% there is
probably another 20% that have glimpses of the next stages; they come and they go
11

12. The first six chapters are a cycle
Dejection is the experience of your bondage,
not knowing that is what you are experiencing.
It is when the being comes forward and
the outer personality doesn't know what is happening.
Let's talk about the outer personality.
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13. Dejection,
Chapter 1
causing suffering
Leads to
Discrimination,
Chapter 2
Action,
Chapter 3
we start behaving
differently
knowledge
Chapter 4
renunciation
Chapter 5
Dejection is always
suffering.
There is a path to truth that
is based on suffering.
knowledge that comes
when you start behaving
differently .
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we begin to redesign our lives and
redesign our relationship with
ourselves and our lives.
The first six chapters
are a cycle.
Then sooner or later another
dejection comes
These first six chapters will
cycle with you
throughout the entire
spiritual journey
until there is no journey.
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14. There is a disturbance and you don't know why,
and you don't know how to fix it, and
the old things don't seem to work.
That is the clue.-
shaking your fish bowl dejection is an emerging of
consciousness from this complete bodily identification
and it is not known at first.-(Present to many lifetimes)
We don't even know that we are in the
cage because we don't know anything
else. The analogy of a fish in water.-
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We have spent so many years training our minds to navigate
through this outer and inner world, trying to come to some happy
sense of self, some harmony, some balance. So it has become a
cage that we were born into.
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15. So the Yoga of Dejection is a yoga;
it is a means of union to the truth of who you are
At the end of the first chapter he is still in dejection. The symptoms might quiet: the
burning of his skin, the weakness, the inability to hold the sword and fight, the
tiredness, the fatigue, the inability to be comfortable or to rest or to find some peace.
So he rationalized and justified because what he thought
was stirring was what was before him, this battle.
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the end of Chapter 1 we saw
that Arjuna was in a rigorous
process of trying to reestablish
his equilibrium. His fish bowl
had been stirred and he was
trying to make it stop.
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16. We are trying to find out what is real, what lasts, what it is that lives this life, what it is
that has a body.
So the yoga of discrimination takes us to a place where we begin to understand the
distinction between who we are as a personality, and
who we are as that which has a personality.
Arjuna felt like
fish that has been taken out of the water,
what it is experiencing when it is out of the water
http://www.satshree.org/teachings/gita-study/gita-study-transcriptions/ .2.1
this outer personality came with an expiration date.
no matter what body you got, it is going to get old and die.
Finding ways of making a distinction between this outer
personality and the inner being.
next stage is in the next chapter of the Gita: the Yoga of
Action. You start applying it, you start practicing it, you start
finding ways of repeating the experience of being out of the
water
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17. This is the first surrender in the Bhagavad Gita.
This surrender, just like dejection,
is a constant companion because
it is only through surrender that we come out of dejection.
You just know the old doesn't work any more.
Prior to that we resist, we fight, and
the outer personality still rules.
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The critical transition point that takes us out of dejection.
Prior to that we resist, we fight, and the outer personality still rules.
(a) First you don't know
you don't know,
(b the second stage
you think you know but
you don't know—
where Arjuna is
(c) The 3rd
higher stage you
know you don't
know.
“I don't know what to do.”
This is a moment of
awakening. This is a moment
of humility. He is not being
arrogant as he was
This is the critical
transition point that takes
us out of dejection.
discrimination as the moment
of awakening and recognizing
you don't know.
the second key concept
is the principle of the
soul.
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18. BODY MIND INTELLECT CHART BY SWAMI CHINMAYA
PHYSICAL personality
MENTAL personality
INTELLECTUAL personality
SPIRITUAL personality
WE HAVE 4 PERSONALITIES
World of s
THOUGHTS AS EMOTIONS & AS IDEAS OR DECISIONS
Carried in your DNA
from previous births
EGOLESS
(NO AHAMKARA)
DESIRELESS
VASANALESS
PURPOSE
SALVATION
MADHAVA (GOD)
MANAVA (HUMAN)
TO
PHYSICAL personalityMENTAL personality
INTELLECTUAL personality
SPIRITUAL personality
! EGO (AHAMKARA
Gunas influence
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19. Chapter 2 :
SANKHYA YOGA
{72 Slokas / Verses}
IMPORTANT VERSES FROM CHAPTER 1 AND 2:
1.1, 2.7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 40, 41,
44, 45, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64.
Particularly: 12, 13, 14, 20, 22, 40, 41, 44, 59, 62, 63.
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20. CHAPTERS
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21. Connection to chapter 1
It is when you are in a desperate situation
that you call upon the Lord,
forgetting your pride and your egoism. .
Griefs a friendly reminder,
better teacher than joy.
Krishna had two jobs on His hands -
Firstly to destroy
Arjuna s delusion.
Secondly to make him
get up and fight. ..
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22. Bhagvad gita Study by Bhakti Caitanya
Swami
So Sānkhya means the “complete analytical knowledge of something.”
Sāṅ, meaning
“complete,”
khyā, meaning
“to know.”
+
So Sānkhya means Atma jnana (samyak khyayate)
It believes that jnana or right knowledge is the only means of liberation.
the “The knowledge related to ATMA or SOUL is SANKHYA .”
It teaches the discriminative knowledge which enables
to distinguish between sprit and matter
Sāṅ, meaning
“GOOD,”
khyā, meaning
“INTELLIGENCE.”+
Sankhya derives its name from Sankhya which means number, it mentions 25 ultimate
principles in creation which justifies its name. It has been applied to Sankhya
philosophy because it tries to find the right knowledge of reality by specifying the final
objects of knowledge..
Gita Makarandam Page 149
1
2
3
What is SANKHYA YOGA ?
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23. 23

24. CHAPTER 2
TEACHING
starts here
In chapter 6Lord Krishna reveals
astanga yoga, and the exact process of
practicing such yoga
CHAPTER 14
GUNAS
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
GUNAS
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25. chapter 2,3
Attitude of mind by cultivating it.
Dscrimination,
Wisdom
Karma Yoga
(Yoga of Disinterested Action
Attitude of mind
view point of Karma Yoga.
Disinterested Action
Sankhya Yoga
(Path of wisdom)
When a man has a right for engaging in Karma, he has a right also for the fruit;
no one can deny this or refuse his right. But the doer can, out of his
own free will and determination, refuse to be affected by the
result, whether favourable or unfavourable.
» there is nothing immoral in aspiring for the rewards of one's actions or effort,
If you have an eye on the fruits of your actions, you are liable to be affected by
vorry, anxiety and restlessness.
Action alone is your province
and not the fruits thereof
not driven by petty desires
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26. ONE DESIRE BECOMES MANY
GITA-Ch14/12
VASANAS FROM PREVIOUS BIRTHS
MIND
Single essential power, an inward urge,
which we may call the longing for freedom
Sensory desires,
Mental desires,
Intellectual desires,
Social desires, etc
ACTIVITIES OF SENSES
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM ?
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27. His only option is to
follow the ATMA
He needs constant
reminder to stay tuned
to ATMA.
The message of GITA
The man is the conglomerate of BODY( Including senses) + Mind + ATMA (SOUL)
MAN
He will descend to the
level of an ANIMAL
IF HE FOLLOWS ONLY THE
BODY
He is in danger of
being transformed in
to a DEMON
IF HE FOLLOWS ONLY THE
BODY + MIND
IF HE FOLLOWS ONLY THE
ATMA
DEHATMA BUDDHI DAIVATMA BUDDHI
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28. http://livingthebhagavadgita.blogspot.com/2012/04/anger-management-part-i.html
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29. Arjuna arguing at this level
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30. https://www.slideshare.net/medikumar7/overview-of-chapter-1
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31. Gita -Chapter 2-Basically everything that is described in BG -but briefly.Outline of sections:
A -More
doubts, but
Arjuna starts
to surrender.
(2.1-10)
B -
Jnana
(2.11-30)
The
Indestructibility
of Atma (Soul)
C -Karma-
Yoga
(2.31-37)
The Dharma
of a Warrior
D -Buddhi yoga
(niskama karma
yoga)
(2.38-53)
Karma-Yog, the
Yog of Action
E -Samadhi
(2.54-72)
Sthita-prajna,
Illumined
Soul
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This chapter is a summary of the whole text.
It mentions:
Vedas -----------2.42-43, 45, 53
Soul --------------2.11-30
transmigration(Rebirth)-2.13, 22, 27
Modes (Gunas)-----------2.45
karma kanda ---2.31-37
karma yoga-----2.38-53
Jnana yoga------2.11-30
Bhakti yoga-------2.49-51, 61, 64
Sense control-----2.54-72
Intelligence--------2.41, 44
Chapter 2----Basically everything that is described in BG -but briefly
IMPORTANT VERSES FROM
CHAPTER 2:
1.1, 2.7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20,
22, 23, 24, 40, 41, 44, 45, 59, 60, 62, 63,
64.
Particularly: 12, 13, 14, 20, 22, 40, 41,
44, 59, 62, 63.
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32. Gita -Chapter 2-Basically everything that is described in BG -but briefly.Outline of sections:
A -More doubts, but
Arjuna starts to
surrender. (2.10)
Five main reasons for not fighting
B -Jnana
(2.11-30)
C -Karma-Yoga
(2.31-37)
D -Buddhi yoga
(niskama karma yoga)
(2.38-53)
E -Samadhi
(2.54-72)
Sthita-prajna,
Illumined Soul
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5 ARGUMENTS OF ARJUNA
1.
Compassion
(1.27-28)
2.
Enjoyment-Arjuna
feels he won't be able
to enjoy if relatives
dead
(1.31-35 & 2.7-8)
3.
Destruction of family
-proper religious
functions will be
stopped
(1.37-43)
4.
Saintliness and fear of
sinfulreactions -royal
enjoyment not worth the
karma for killing
(1.36, 44-45 & 2.5)
5.
Indecision -
which is better-
conquering or
being conquered?
(2.6)
C E D F
I
SHREYA-PREYA-
PRAPATTI(SURRENDER)
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33. Arjuna's doubts (1.27-46)
(Some relate to Chapter 2 -nos. 2,4,5)
5 ARGUMENTS OF ARJUNA
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1.
Compassion
Arjuna's change
of mind leading to
attachment (Raga)
(1.27-28)
2.
Loss of Enjoyment -
Arjuna feels he won't
be able to enjoy if
relatives dead
(1.31-35 & 2.7-8)
Grief (shoka)
3.
Destruction of family
-proper religious
functions will be
stopped
(1.37-43)
4.
Saintliness and fear of
sinful reactions -royal
enjoyment not worth the
karma for killing
(1.36, 44-45 & 2.5)
5.
Indecision -
which is better-
conquering or
being conquered?
(2.6)
Attachment
(Raga)
Grief
(shoka)
Delusion (Moha) Indecision
Krishna's answers
http://www.theosophical.org/files/resources/selfstudy/Gita.pdf
2.11-2.30 2.31-2.32 2.33 -2.37
2.45-46
3.24
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34. The three levels represent internal mental states or attitudes
3
RD
MOKSHA
(SALVATION) LEVEL
2
ND
YOGA
(INTERMEDIATE LEVEL)
1
ST
DHARMIC LEVEL
(FINITE LEVEL}
GITA offers a model for a three-story house as a metaphor in which the whole
world can reside. Each story contains unlimited opportunities and paths.
Moreover, the residents of each floor have their own language, terms, and
assumptions.
In a sense, the Bhagavad-gitaspeaks in three languages and constantly moves
between the three levels. Once we recognise which level a particular text or
section is on, that text or section becomes intelligible and we can see how it is
consistent with the rest of the treatise..
http://btg.krishna.com/looking-structure-bhagavad-gita
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35. The Self is immortal (11–
25)
The Self is not a thing, but
a process (26–30)
Heavenly reward,
reputation, and earthly
reward (31–37)
Dispassionate action (38)
KRISHN'S ARGUMENT AT 3 LEVELS
Theory and practice (39–41)
Vedic action (42–46)
Nishkama karma (47–53)
The Sage of Stable Mind
(54–72)
B -Jnana
The philosophical
argument:
(2.11-30)
C -Karma-Yoga
The argument from
dharma point
(2.31-37)
D -Buddhi yoga/samadhi
The argument from Yoga:
(niskama karma yoga)
(2.38-53)
http://www.theosophical.org/files/resources/selfstudy/Gita.pdf
Gita Chapter 2-
A -More doubts, but
Arjuna starts to
surrender. (2.1-10)
B -Jnana
(2.11-30)
C -Karma-Yoga
(2.31-37)
D -Buddhi yoga
(niskama karma yoga)
(2.38-53)
E -Samadhi
(2.54-72)Sthita-
prajna, Illumined Soul
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36. Gita Chapter 2-
A -More doubts, but
Arjuna starts to
surrender. (2.1-10)
B -Jnana
(2.11-30)
C -Karma-Yoga
(2.31-37)
D -Buddhi yoga
(niskama karma yoga)
(2.38-53)
E -Samadhi
(2.54-72)Sthita-
prajna, Illumined Soul
2. 14-15
2.14. Krishna
says, "so you
have to be
tolerant. These
things happen
anyway."
2.15.This is the
basic principle of
yoga —
detachment.
Essential in all
yogas.
2. 11-13
2.11. Krishna again shows
He doesn't appreciate
Arjuna's ideas -calls him a
fool. "The wise don't do
what you are doing, so you
are not wise."
2.12. Establishes personal
nature of spiritual life right
at beginning of BG.
2..13. Arjuna was so
worried about killing
Bhisma, Drona etc., but
Krishna is saying "you
won't be killing them."
Arjuna might say that that
is ok, but my relationship
with them is while they're in
these bodies. If they leave
these bodies and go away
then I'll miss their
association, even if they are
eternal.
1. Death is just a matter of the soul changing
bodies, so it's not a big thing.
(2.11-13, & 2.16-25)
2. Performance of duty must not be
affected by sense perceptions(2.14-15)
(Includes the basic principle of yoga -
detachment)
3. Soul can't be killed and body can't be
saved, so fight! (2.26-30)
2. 16-25
2.16.Another slap -you are not seer of the truth.
Actually "eternal" as nature of soul, and "non-existent" as
nature of body are explained in the next two verses.
2.17.Soul is eternal.
2.18. Body is temporary (has no real standing, changes
when it is 'existing,' so is called "non-existent.")
2.19.Soul is neither the doer, nor is action done to him.
2.20. Krishna gives very clear definition of the soul.
na jayate na mriyate —no birth or death
nayam bhutva —never came into being
bhavita —will come into being
bhuyah —will again come into being
aja —unborn
nityah —eternal
sasvatah —permanent
puranah —oldest
2.21. Arjuna agrees that soul is eternal etc., but says "I
don't want to be the cause of them changing bodies."
Krishna replies that "you are not going to able to stop
them changing bodies by not fighting."
2.22-25 Continues basic definition of the soul. krishna
says: “The body can be taken to be like cloth. Bhima’s
body is like old cloth, and we are talking only of
exchanging it for new cloth. So there’s no fault.” there is
some repetition here to remove doubts
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2. 26-30
A change of subject to make the same
point from a different point of view.
2.26.This is a type of "checkmate" by
Krishna -"if you think there is a soul
you should fight. And if you think there
is no soul, that we are only bodies, you
should also fight."
Krishna is bringing this up because
there is always a class of philosopher
who is like the Buddhist -don't believe
in soul, but can't deny "symptoms of
life."
In BG we find Krishna is defeating all
opposing philosophies -all the other
opinions found in the Vedas, plus even
non-Vedic viewpoints.)
2.27.From point of view of those who
accept soul.
2.28. From point of view of those who
don't accept soul.
2.29. "Amazing" verse.
2.30Summarizes basic points of this
section.
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37. The
Chapt
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38. We have become identified with the vehicle that we are
occupying, and all the aspects that come with the vehicle:
all the aspects that come with the vehicle:
sensations,
emotions,
drives,
wants, and
mental stories.
We have been overtaken and
have lost who we are.
This movement of identification is the crux of where we have lost ourselves.
The error is in the identification.
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39. Without Energy (soul)----Matter (body) is useless;
Without matter (body)----energy (soul) is helpless-( it cannot express
itself )
•I = soul (self) (eternal,
non-material, self-
luminous point of light
energy)
•I = Soul = Driver
•I = Soul = Actor
•I = Soul = Musician
•I = Soul =The
personality (psyche)
•I = Soul = Possessor
•My or Mine = Body. (IDAM---this)
•(skeleton + flesh + organs.—made of 5
elements water, earth, fire, air and
ether)
•Body = my vehicle
•Body = my costume
•Body = my instrument
•Body = physique (soma)
•Body = possession
I ATTACHES TO BODY THINKS HE IS THE BODY IDAM
13/22. Purusha (Spirit) involved with Prakriti (Matter)
experiences the gunas (qualities) born of Nature

40. Identification with our bondage towards our
truth that is a difficult transition
When you start stepping out of ego it can
become very unstable because you have
grown comfortable with your beliefs and
opinions and habits and routines and they
no longer work as well.
The ego believes in a fixed identity
https://upliftconnect.com/five-ego-traps/
Meditation is not about
escaping from reality
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41. It is this movement away from this identification with our bondage
towards our truth that is a difficult transition
The human ego is likely to return to what is
familiar, to stay in being anxious or irritable or
uncomfortable. These come and go
http://www.satshree.org/teachings/gita-study/gita-study-transcriptions 5
41

42. Bhagvad gita Study by Bhakti Caitanya
Swami
KARMA YOGA 2.31 TO 37
2.31.Vedic system is that one performs one's duties in varnasrama one gets
higher birth.
2.32.This the goal of karma-kanda.
2.33.Verse 32 showed gains coming from following Vedic duties. Verse 33
shows losses coming from not following -he'll incur sin.
He'll also lose his reputation.
Next 4 verses stress the same thing.
2.34.Honour very important to a ksatriya.
2.35.You say you don't want to fight out of compassion, because you don't
want to cause them pain, but a ksatriya looks for opportunities to fight. He's
happy if such an opportunity comes unsought. So they'll think you're just a
sissy.
2.36. Your enemies scorn your prowess
2.37. Arjuna had said that I don't want to fight and win because there'll be no-
one to enjoy the kingdom with, and I don't want to figt and lose because then
I'll be dead. So if I win I lose, and if I lose I'll lose.
But here Krishna is saying that if you win you win, and if you lose you win.
Brilliant logic on Krishna's part.
Gita Chapter 2-
A -More doubts, but
Arjuna starts to
surrender. (2.1-10)
B -Jnana
(2.11-30)
C -Karma-Yoga
(2.31-37)
D -Buddhi yoga
(niskama karma yoga)
(2.38-53)
E -Samadhi
(2.54-72)Sthita-
prajna, Illumined Soul
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43. Gita Chapter 2-
A -More doubts, but
Arjuna starts to
surrender. (2.1-10)
B -Jnana
(2.11-30)
C -Karma-Yoga
(2.31-37)
D -Buddhi yoga
(niskama karma yoga)
(2.38-53)
E -Samadhi
(2.54-72)Sthita-
prajna, Illumined Soul
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44. BUDDHI YOGA
1-Buddhiyoga is the practice of
uniting the mind with the
higher consciousness through
the proper use of buddhi, the
power of discretion and
understanding.
2-Use the faculties
of our minds
effectively for
self-
realization.
learn to control
the senses
and quite the
mind.
We learn to
A-discriminate the right
from the wrong and
B-nature of the the three
gunas and
3-the movement of the
breath and other energies
in our physical and mental
bodies
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45. +
1. Selfless and
sacrifycing acts
dedicated to GOD
JANA YOGA
CHAPTER
4 & 5
DIVINE LOVE
4 th nd step
Step A Step B Step C Step D
KARMA YOGA
CHAPTER 3
BHAKTI YOGA
YOGA OF DEVOTION
CHAPTER 7 to 12
+ +
+
1. Selfless and
sacrifycing acts
dedicated to GOD
Selfless and
sacrifycing acts
dedicated to GOD
Selfless and
sacrifycing acts
dedicated to GOD
3. DIVINE
COMMUNION
3 rd step
2. Knowledge and
Dispassion
2nd step
2.Knowledge and
Dispassion
2.Knowledge and
Dispassion
ATMA SAYAMA
YOGA
CHAPTER 6
++
3. DIVINE
COMMUNION
GITA Chapter SummaryA + B + C + D =
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46. SAKAMA KARMA
Verses 42–46:Those who interpreted
the Vedas that way were kamatmana (43:
“with desire for self”), that is persons
who identified themselves (atma) with
their desires (kama). So the Vedas were
associated with performing ritual
sacrifices, with the aim of influencing the
gods to get something from them.
Thus, Vedic action becomes a synonym
for acting with the expectation of getting
something for ourselves.
http://www.theosophical.org/files/resources/selfstudy/Gita.pdf
we do something because of what we expect
to get out of it.
2.42-46
There are two kinds of conscious action.
we do something because it is the thing to do, not because
of what we get from it.
2.47-53
NISHKAMA KARMA
2.47-53
In verse 47, he gives Arjuna a neat summary statement
of Karma Yoga and the solution to the third aspect of
Arjuna’s dilemma about how to act successfully, that is,
without being bound by the results of one’s action:
It doesn’t make any difference whether you
succeed or fail. Yoga is equanimity” (48)
Action has to be guided by the insight that leads to
union(49).We must act out of an understanding of
who we truly are. Yoga is skill in action(50),which
comes from the insight of buddhi.
46

47. Gita Chapter 2-
A -More doubts, but
Arjuna starts to
surrender. (2.1-10)
B -Jnana
(2.11-30)
C -Karma-Yoga
(2.31-37)
D -Buddhi yoga
(niskama karma yoga)
(2.38-53)
E -Samadhi
(2.54-72)Sthita-
prajna, Illumined Soul
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48. 2, v 55-58
The first step Yatamana samgya in 58th sloka was our efforts
to withdraw from objects creating inferior desires.
The second step Vyatireka samgya in 57th sloka
explained diversion of our organs from those objects
and remain detached.
The third step was Yekendriya samgya in 56th sloka
where we were told to train our mind also detached
from pleasures and sorrow.
the fourth step of Vaseekara samgya in the 55th
sloka. Here we will be told that we have to get rid of
all traces of all attachments and hatred, and ensure a
sparkling pure mind.
By training mind to engage in atman we can perform all our duties
efficiently. This will be perfected if the mind is further trained to
engage in God, Who is the atman of all atman.
48

49. desire
The movement from desire to
destruction can be illustrated as under:
Brooding on the objects of senses
attachment
delusion
anger
loss of memory
utter ruin
loss of reason
GITA 2.62 & 63
49

50. Detachment isfreedom
GITA 2.71
Attachment is
bondage
Ignorance -->
confused understanding
sorrow and delusion
(shoka and moha)
feeling of "I"and "Mine"
(ahamkara and mamakara)
overpowering of
discriminative faculty
GITA 2.62 & 63
perform work disinterestedly without asking
for results thereof because desire for the
result of works is the chain that binds men and
drags them into the den of delusion or maya.
With
discriminative faculty
50

51. http://kirtimukha.com/Chinmaya_Gita/gita/topic_4.h
tm
2. How can one control
one's mind?
4. What to do if
mind is very
fickle and
unsteady?
1.Why should one
control one's mind?
3. How can one
practice
'concentration of
mind'?
5. What is the
ultimate in mind-
control?
HOW TO CONTROL THE RESTLESS MIND ?
By practice and by
renunciation.6.35 Start now and
strengthen it by
practice.6.26
The mind uncontrolled,
is one's worst enemy
causing great sorrow
and bondage. So, one
must control one's mind.
One can gain single
pointedness by
dropping all one's
agitation-causing
desires and then, with
an extra strength in
one's mind, withdraw
one's attention to the
Self.
6.25
To rest in
knowledge of
Brahman
5.19
"Undoubtedly, O
mighty-armed, the
mind is difficult to
control and is
restless; but, by
practice, O Son of
Kunti, and by
dispassion it is
restrained
6.26"From
whatever cause
the restless and
the unsteady
mind wanders
away, from that
let him restrain
it, and bring it
back to be under
the control of the
Self alone."
6.25
"Abandoning without
reserve all desires
born of SANKALPA,
and completely
restraining the whole
group of senses by the
mind from all sides,
Little by little, let him
attain quietude by his
intellect, held firm;
having made the mind
established in the self,
let him not think of
anything."
5.19 "Even
here (in this
world) birth
(everything) is
overcome by
those whose
minds rest in
equality.
Brahman is
spotless
indeed, and
equal,
therefore they
are
established in
Brahman."
BG 2.67:
Just as a strong wind
sweeps a boat off its
chartered course on the
water, even one of the
senses on which the
mind focuses can lead
the intellect
(discrimination)
astray.
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52. http://livingthebhagavadgita.blogspot.com/2012/04/anger-management-part-i.html
52

53. This part of the Gita –from 54 to 72 versesdescribingthe
qualities of the sthltaprajna is very important.
1. Desireless, Satisfied in the Self.-----2.55
2. Situational Stability --------------------2.56
3. Emotional Stability --------------------2.57
4. Perfect Self Control ------------------2.58-61
(58-61 Sense & mind control)
5. In state of Tranquility -----------------2.64,65,68
( 66 Importance of meditation)
(2.67, what happens if not meditated)
6. Established in fullness of ego -----2.69
7. Oneness with Brahman.2.71-72
The next two verses, 2.62 & 2.63 tells how a person falls down from the ideal
by having or developing attached to the sensory system.
MANASTHITI
PARISTHITI
4 Questions asked by Arjuna in2 ,v 54
53

54. http://www.narayanashramatapovanam.org/spirituality/2.html
54

55. So virāga or vairāgya is being “apart from emotional coloration.” It is seeing
the world as it is, not as our emotions make it appear to us. We are back to
good old tattvatah, the way things really are. If we make a continued
effort to see things as they are, not as our emotions color them, we
can learn to control our mind. That is what Krishna tells Arjuna.
http://www.theosophical.org/files/resources/selfstudy/Gita.pdf
“ VAIRAGYA"
" VI “
is “apart from.”
" RAGA "
“COLOR,”
+
"SAM “
comes from a root
meaning
“join together.”
And colors are always associated with emotions.
We are in the pink when we are happy and
see red when angry.
We are in a blue mood when sad, or
a black mood when despairing, or
a gray mood when depressed.
We are in a brown study when distracted.
We are green with envy or yellow when cowardly,
or purple with rage.
Clairvoyants tell us that when we are overpowered by an emotion, our auras are
flushed with a color corresponding to that emotion.
So then we perceive and respond to the world through that emotional coloration.
Then we are not seeing the world as it is, but as we have colored it with our
emotion.
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56. OM SHANTI
OM SHANTI
OM SHANTI
Om-let all the deficiencies of this PPTgo away
Tat-let this give Bhagavan great happiness
Sat-let this give true lasting benefits
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