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ANCIENT RISHIS
ARJUNA
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BHAGAVAD GITA
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GURU DISCIPLE RELATIONSHIP
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
INNER BEING
INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE
KRISHNA
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PSYCHE
SELF-TRANSFORMATION
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SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT
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- ISBN 9781620553213
- Weight: 574g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Aug 2014
- Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Drawing on his more than 40 years of in-depth study of the Bhagavad Gita under the tutelage of his guru, Nitya Chaitanya Yati, author Scott Teitsworth explores the scientific approach to self-transformation and spiritual enlightenment encoded within Krishna's advice to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. Providing a verse-by-verse examination of the first two chapters, he reveals the Gita's lessons to prepare the seeker to meet and successfully work with a guru-whether an outside teacher or the intuitive knowledge that arises from overcoming the psyche's limitations.
The author shows that the Gita advocates not blind devotion to a guru or god but rather personal development, victory over your fears and liberation of the psyche. He demonstrates how Krishna's advice provides tools to guide us out of our fear-based experiences to reconnect with the suppressed parts of our inner being. He explains how Arjuna's doubts and confusions represent the plight of every person-we are born free but gradually become enslaved by the demands of our society, continuously dependent on outside authority for answers and disconnected from our true inner nature. He reveals how Krishna's advice offers guidance for dealing with life's conflicts, which societal limitations to reject and how to see through the polarising notion of good versus evil to form a balanced state of mind superior to both.
Restoring the fearless vision of the ancient rishis, who, like today's scientists, prized skepticism as an important technique for accessing truth, Teitsworth reveals the Gita as a guide to an authentic guru-disciple relationship as well as to constructing a life of significance, freedom and true scovereign adulthood.
· Reveals the scientific approach to personal development and spiritual enlightenment laid out in Krishna's advice to Arjuna
· Shows how the Gita prepares you to work with a guru, advocating authenticity and scepticism rather than blind devotion and obedience
· Explores Krishna's advice on which societal limitations to reject to overcome your fears and reconnect with the suppressed parts of your inner being
Scott Teitsworth is a lifelong student of Indian philosophy and modern science under the guidance of Nitya Chaitanya Yati, himself a disciple of Nataraja Guru. He hosts the Portland branch of the Narayana Gurukula along with his wife, where they have taught classes on the Bhagavad Gita and Indian philosophy since the 1970s. The author of Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds, he lives in Portland, Oregon.
