Bhagavad Gita

aliases (en): Gita; Bhagavadgita; Sublime Song.

aliases (de): Gita; Bhagavadgita; Erhabener Sang.

How this entry was madesections 11 · references 94 · books 3 · articles 3 · lectures 88 · generated

selection principle. The headings are this index's own. Rudolf Steiner's two lecture cycles on the poem, GA 142 (Cologne, 1912 to 1913) and GA 146 (Helsinki, 1913), are listed lecture by lecture. Elsewhere a text is listed where it says something about the poem, not where it names it in a list of scriptures or books to read. What the poem shows of Krishna himself is listed under the entry on Krishna.

usage. This entry lists where Rudolf Steiner's collected works (the Gesamtausgabe, GA) treat the subject. It contains no quotations: the headings, scope lines and notes are this index's wording, not Steiner's. Under each heading Steiner's own books (GA 1 to 28) come first, then articles and notes (GA 29 to 46), then lectures in date order. A text is listed when it treats the subject or the point its heading names, not when the word merely occurs. A paragraph number marks the one passage that is the point; otherwise the reference is the whole chapter or lecture. A book's defining paragraph is also listed in German where the German edition numbers it differently. A lecture with more than one English translation is listed once. Texts with no English translation are listed in German, and so are the esoteric lessons (GA 266), whose German is the original record; each reference's witnesses name every language the site serves it in. A reference marked as listeners' notes was written down by others (a listener, a newspaper, the minutes), one marked report by others is another person's account of a meeting or event, one marked mixed sources comes from a volume that holds both listeners' records and texts in Steiner's own hand, and one marked may be abridged is a translation shorter than the German. Read a passage before saying what it contains.

What the Bhagavad Gita is

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Where Rudolf Steiner says what kind of work the Bhagavad Gita is: a philosophic poem, its place in the Indian epic, the streams it unites.

Lectures

  1. GA 88 The Astral World and Devachan: 12. The Bhagavad Gita28 June 1903p003en:Englishlisteners notes
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Eastern Wisdom and Christian Revelation: Three Spiritual Streams28 December 1912p018en:English
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Sankhya Philosophy and the Three Gunas of Being29 December 1912p003en:English

The setting: the battle between blood relatives

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Where the poem's setting is treated: the battle of the Kurus and Pandus within the Mahabharata, and the end of the ties of blood.

Lectures

  1. GA 88 The Astral World and Devachan: 12. The Bhagavad Gita28 June 1903p005en:Englishlisteners notes
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Eastern Wisdom and Christian Revelation: Three Spiritual Streams28 December 1912en:English
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Sankhya Philosophy and the Three Gunas of Being29 December 1912en:English
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna's Cosmic Mystery and Human Destiny in the Gita30 December 1912en:English
  5. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna and Christ: Transforming Human Evolution's Spiritual Foundation31 December 1912p023en:English
  6. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Ancient Clairvoyance and the Birth of Individual Ego28 May 1913en:English
  7. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Soul Upheaval and the Birth of Abstract Thought29 May 1913en:English
  8. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Dream Consciousness and the Path to Higher Worlds30 May 1913p023en:English
  9. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Ascending to Krishna's Realm: Three Worlds of Consciousness31 May 1913p012en:English
  10. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Cyclic Laws and the Birth of Self-Consciousness1 June 1913p020en:English
  11. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Krishna, the Luke Jesus Child, and Human Creative Forces3 June 1913p019en:English
  12. GA 157 Human Destinies and the Destinies of Nations: 1. The Destiny of Individuals and of Nations1 September 1914p011en:English
  13. GA 174a Central Europe between East and West: Spirit's Victory Through Sacrifice and Christ-Consciousness13 September 1914p022en:English

The Vedas, the Sankhya philosophy and Yoga

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Where the three streams of ancient Indian thought are described and shown as brought together in the Gita.

Lectures

  1. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Eastern Wisdom and Christian Revelation: Three Spiritual Streams28 December 1912en:English
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Sankhya Philosophy and the Three Gunas of Being29 December 1912en:English
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna's Cosmic Mystery and Human Destiny in the Gita30 December 1912en:English

Sattva, rajas and tamas

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Where the three gunas of the Sankhya teaching are explained as the Gita uses them, and applied to the soul of today.

Lectures

  1. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Sankhya Philosophy and the Three Gunas of Being29 December 1912en:English
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna's Cosmic Mystery and Human Destiny in the Gita30 December 1912p018en:English
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna and Christ: Transforming Human Evolution's Spiritual Foundation31 December 1912en:English
  4. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Understanding the Bhagavad Gita's Living Concepts and Consciousness4 June 1913en:English
  5. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Sattwa, Rajas, Tamas: Krishna's Path to Self-Consciousness5 June 1913en:English

Action without attachment to its fruits

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Where the teaching on deeds is treated: acting without desire for the fruits, duty and caste, the soul set apart from its deeds.

Articles

  1. GA 46 Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: 49. Path of Knowledgep021en:English

Lectures

  1. GA 88 The Astral World and Devachan: 12. The Bhagavad Gita28 June 1903en:Englishlisteners notes
  2. GA 266b From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons II 1910–1912: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1912-11-2828 November 1912p003de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Sankhya Philosophy and the Three Gunas of Being29 December 1912p017en:English
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna's Cosmic Mystery and Human Destiny in the Gita30 December 1912p017en:English
  5. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna and Christ: Transforming Human Evolution's Spiritual Foundation31 December 1912p026en:English
  6. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna and Christ: Individual versus Community Spiritual Paths1 January 1913p009en:English

The ascent of the soul through Yoga

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Where the Gita's path of the soul is treated: Yoga and devotion, the steps by which the pupil rises to the vision of Krishna.

Lectures

  1. GA 94 Cosmology: Breathing, Meditation, and Three Paths of Initiation10 July 1906p004en:Englishlisteners notes
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Sankhya Philosophy and the Three Gunas of Being29 December 1912en:English
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna's Cosmic Mystery and Human Destiny in the Gita30 December 1912p016en:English
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna and Christ: Transforming Human Evolution's Spiritual Foundation31 December 1912en:English
  5. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna and Christ: Individual versus Community Spiritual Paths1 January 1913en:English
  6. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Soul Upheaval and the Birth of Abstract Thought29 May 1913en:English
  7. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Krishna and Christ: Two Impulses in Human Evolution2 June 1913en:English
  8. GA 80a The Essence of Anthroposophy: Anthroposophy and the Knowledge of the Spirit15 May 1922p020en:English
  9. GA 80a The Essence of Anthroposophy: Anthroposophy and Knowledge of the Spirit16 May 1922en:English
  10. GA 80a The Essence of Anthroposophy: Anthroposophy and Knowledge of the Spirit18 May 1922p025en:English
  11. GA 83 Contrasts Between Western and Eastern Cultures: 1. Anthroposophy and Natural Science1 June 1922p030en:English
  12. GA 80c Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and the Big Questions of Contemporary Civilization: 7. Knowledge of the Spiritual Nature of Man31 October 1922p028en:English

The Gita and the Epistles of Paul

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Where the Gita is set beside the Epistles of Paul: the individual and the community, the form of each, the revelations they carry.

Lectures

  1. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Eastern Wisdom and Christian Revelation: Three Spiritual Streams28 December 1912en:English
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna's Cosmic Mystery and Human Destiny in the Gita30 December 1912en:English
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna and Christ: Transforming Human Evolution's Spiritual Foundation31 December 1912en:English
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna and Christ: Individual versus Community Spiritual Paths1 January 1913en:English

The mood and artistic form of the poem

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Where the mood the poem awakens and its artistic composition are described: its calm, its perfection, the order of its discourses.

Lectures

  1. GA 138 Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment: Experiencing the Spiritual World: Consciousness Beyond the Physical Body29 August 1912p015en:English
  2. GA 139 The Gospel of Mark: Krishna and Buddha: Ancient Clairvoyance's Dual Conclusion19 September 1912p013en:English
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna's Cosmic Mystery and Human Destiny in the Gita30 December 1912en:English
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna and Christ: Transforming Human Evolution's Spiritual Foundation31 December 1912en:English
  5. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Ancient Clairvoyance and the Birth of Individual Ego28 May 1913en:English
  6. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Soul Upheaval and the Birth of Abstract Thought29 May 1913en:English
  7. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Krishna and Christ: Two Impulses in Human Evolution2 June 1913en:English
  8. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Understanding the Bhagavad Gita's Living Concepts and Consciousness4 June 1913en:English
  9. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Sattwa, Rajas, Tamas: Krishna's Path to Self-Consciousness5 June 1913p010en:English
  10. GA 212 Human Soul-Life and Spiritual Striving: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises27 May 1922en:English
  11. GA 231 An Anthroposophical Understanding of the Psychic Human Being: Supersensible Man: Earth's Cosmic Memories and Human Destiny18 November 1923p010en:English
  12. GA 233 World History in an Anthroposophical Light: Evolution of Human Memory: From Earth to Cosmos24 December 1923p031en:English

The Gita in Europe and in modern thought

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Where the poem's reception in the West is treated: its translators and admirers, and its relation to modern Western thinking.

Books

  1. GA 7 Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Introductionp015en:RSP1960

Articles

  1. GA 32 Collected Essays on Literature 1884-1902: 34. Theosophistsp001en:English

Lectures

  1. GA 88 The Astral World and Devachan: 12. The Bhagavad Gita28 June 1903p005en:Englishlisteners notes
  2. GA 53 The Origin and Goal of the Human Being: Goethe's Secret Revelation III2 March 1905p074en:English
  3. GA 57 Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?: III. The Riddle in Faust: Exoteric11 March 1909p063en:English
  4. GA 139 The Gospel of Mark: The Mystery of Golgotha and Human Evolution's New Beginning15 September 1912p011en:English
  5. GA 139 The Gospel of Mark: Krishna and Buddha: Ancient Clairvoyance's Dual Conclusion19 September 1912en:English
  6. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Eastern Wisdom and Christian Revelation: Three Spiritual Streams28 December 1912en:English
  7. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Ancient Clairvoyance and the Birth of Individual Ego28 May 1913en:English
  8. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Krishna and Christ: Two Impulses in Human Evolution2 June 1913en:English
  9. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Understanding the Bhagavad Gita's Living Concepts and Consciousness4 June 1913en:English
  10. GA 138 Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment: The Theosophical Movement Is the Answer to the Spiritual Longing of Our Time30 August 1913p013en:English

Passages of the Gita explained by the hierarchies

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Where single verses of the Gita are explained by the spiritual hierarchies: the verses on dying as the fate of elemental beings, the fight in heaven.

Lectures

  1. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 14. Evolution and the Hierarchies11 August 1905p019en:English
  2. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 15. Forms of Consciousness12 August 1905p011en:English
  3. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Cosmic Evolution: From Moon Pitris to Earthly Incarnation25 October 1905p034en:Englishlisteners notes
  4. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Primeval Wisdom and the Spiritual Hierarchies12 April 1909p016en:English
  5. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Fire, Spirit, and Elemental Redemption in Ancient Wisdom12 April 1909en:English
  6. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Cosmic Evolution Through Spiritual Hierarchies and Planetary Formation14 April 1909p027en:English
  7. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Spiritual Hierarchies and Their Cosmic Spheres of Influence15 April 1909p003en:English

The Gita and inner development today

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Where the Gita is related to the path of knowledge and self-development of the present, and what a reader of today can take from it.

Books

  1. GA 7 Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Introductionp015en:RSP1960
  2. GA 10 How to Know Higher Worlds (The Way of Initiation): Some Practical Aspectsp012en:RSPC1947

Articles

  1. GA 46 Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: 46. Exegesis on the Path Illuminated by Mabel Collinsp012en:English

Lectures

  1. GA 53 The Origin and Goal of the Human Being: The Inner Development of Man15 December 1904p018en:English
  2. GA 53 The Origin and Goal of the Human Being: VII. The Great Initiates16 March 1905p012en:English
  3. GA 139 The Gospel of Mark: Krishna and Buddha: Ancient Clairvoyance's Dual Conclusion19 September 1912en:English
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Eastern Wisdom and Christian Revelation: Three Spiritual Streams28 December 1912p017en:English
  5. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna and Christ: Individual versus Community Spiritual Paths1 January 1913p003en:English
  6. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Ancient Clairvoyance and the Birth of Individual Ego28 May 1913p021en:English
  7. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Soul Upheaval and the Birth of Abstract Thought29 May 1913en:English
  8. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Dream Consciousness and the Path to Higher Worlds30 May 1913p023en:English
  9. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Ascending to Krishna's Realm: Three Worlds of Consciousness31 May 1913en:English
  10. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Understanding the Bhagavad Gita's Living Concepts and Consciousness4 June 1913en:English
  11. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Sattwa, Rajas, Tamas: Krishna's Path to Self-Consciousness5 June 1913en:English
  12. GA 167 The Present and the Past in the Human Spirit: XII. Luciferic Dangers from the East30 May 1916en:English
  13. GA 203 Human Responsibility for Global Development: Dangers Threatening the Spiritual Life of Today9 January 1921p021en:English

distinguish from. the Mahabharata, the Indian epic of the great war, of which the Bhagavad Gita is one episode (GA 142 of 28 December 1912); the Vedas, the oldest revealed wisdom of India, one of the three streams that Steiner shows brought together in the Gita (GA 142 of 28 December 1912); the Sankhya philosophy of Kapila, the teaching of the forms and of sattva, rajas and tamas, a stream of its own on which the Gita's teaching rests (GA 142 of 29 December 1912); Yoga, the path of the soul to the spirit taught by Patanjali, a stream of its own that the Gita takes up (GA 142 of 28 December 1912).

see also. Krishna; Arjuna; the spiritual hierarchies.

external. AnthroWiki (anthrowiki.at).

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