Monthly Archives: May 2009

Chapter 14: Discrimination of the Three Gunas

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

In the Chapter Fourteen of the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna and Arjuna discuss the importance of the three gunas.  These gunas, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas can be most easily described as three different types of characteristics a person can have. According to Swami Nikhilananda’s translation of the Bhagavad Gita, Sattva is defined as ‘being stainless… [...]

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Question of the Week: Is Hinduism a religion?

Monday, May 4, 2009

At one of our weekly discussions a while back, we touched on the idea that Hinduism may not be a religion. We seem to lack a specific set of instructions, a central text, and a central teacher figure that seem to ground most other religions — if this is the case, can we really call [...]

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Divine Presence

Monday, May 4, 2009

We had our final Gita Study group meeting of this semester last Friday at the Kennedy School.
Verses 8, 9, and 10 of Chapter 7 so beautifully and forcefully express the idea of divine presence:

Verse 8: “I am the sapidity in water….I , the radiance in the moon and the sun; I am the Om in [...]

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