Javier Centellas’s Reviews > Bhagavad Gita > Status Update

Read an appendix by Mohandas Ghandi. Talks about the timeless nature of the text, and how its main lesson is the renunciation of the fruits of action. I liked the afterword, even though I'm not a huge fan of Ghandi. Exam on this text tomorrow.

Read tbe final chapter. Decent read i guess.

Read Chapter 15: The Perfect Person. Why the hell is everyone glazing this text so hard?

Read Chapter 14: The Three gunas. Surprised how late in the text these get brought up, Doctor Green was explaining them at length in seemingly every other lecture. I like Kristna’s explanation of them better but I’m glad I have the lecture notes going into this chapter.

Read Chapter 13: The Field & its Knower. Not a huge fan of this one, but basically just about the oneness of everything and how to clear your mind again.

Read Chapter 12: The Yoga of Devotion. Very similar to Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius.

Read Chapter 11: The Cosmic Vision. Theophany of Kristna before Arjuna. Kinda pissed I only read this after lecture, this is pretty awesome. Then again I wouldn’t really know what was going on if I hadn’t gone before. Also it’s a shame that the metric shift in this chapter isn’t preserved in the translation.

Read chapter 10: Divine Manifestations. Forgot to read this before lecture today. Oh well. Relatively boring chapter of Kristna just listing what he is and isn't. I feel like I'm not reading into this book enough when I sit in lecture then again everything Doctor Greene talks about is random historical/background knowledge I wouldn't know.

Read Chapter 9: The Secret of Life. How to worship Krisna, piety, etc. I’m unapologetically looking at this through a Catholic lens.

Read chapter 8: Absolute Freedom. Kinda fw this section, about how to break out of samsara and kinda how to meditate properly