Fixed in yoga, perform actions
Bhagavad Gita, II.48
What is bound as the
Bhagavad Gita today is extracted from a larger context, the great Sanskrit epic, the
Mahabharata, said to be the longest epic in human history. It is highly symbolic; while a dramatic historical study of a kingdom, it is also an allegory of human morality, psychology, and a transformative theology. Wendy Doniger characterizes two readings of the text: as the martial
Gita and the philosophical
Gita. The tension between these readings has persisted for centuries, engendered by the
Gita’s transformative theology itself. In a sense, part of the
Gita’s importance as pertains to
yoga practice (or varieties of practice), rests in the binding of war and peace in this uneasy tension. As we shall see, it is the synthesis of many yogas in devotional concert that become salvific practice for the attainment of
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