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hierarchy: Rāja-vidyā: The King of Knowledge
hierarchy: CHAPTER FIVE
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“The Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, said: I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun god, Vivasvān, …
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Many ages ago Kṛṣṇa imparted the divine knowledge of the Bhagavad-gītā to Vivasvān, the god of the sun. To the …
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The living entities on these various planets acquire bodies composed of elements in accordance with the predominating element on the …
Rāja-vidyā: the king of knowledge 5
From this first verse of the fourth chapter we learn that millions of years ago Śrī Kṛṣṇa imparted the knowledge …
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“This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that …
Rāja-vidyā: the king of knowledge 5
In the Bhagavad-gītā a number of yoga systems are delineated – bhakti-yoga, karma-yoga, jñāna-yoga, haṭha-yoga – and therefore it is …
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Of all people, why did Śrī Kṛṣṇa select Arjuna as a recipient of this knowledge? Arjuna was not a great …
Rāja-vidyā: the king of knowledge 5
By scholarship we may be able to manufacture some theory of Bhagavad-gītā, just as Mahatma Gandhi did when he interpreted …
Rāja-vidyā: the king of knowledge 5
In India, there are disciplic successions coming from Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Nimbārka, Viṣṇu Svāmī, and other great sages. The Vedic literatures …
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It is not difficult to understand the necessity of going through the disciplic succession to understand the Bhagavad-gītā. If we …
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There are two processes for attaining knowledge – one is inductive and the other is deductive. The deductive method is …
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Although the authority is acknowledged, there are many passages in the Bhagavad-gītā that appear to be dogmatic. For instance, in …