A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 8 - 1. Swami Krishnananda
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, November 7, 2021. 8:00 PM. Chapter 8 : The Stages of Yoga -1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have almost entirely covered the fundamentals of the Gita teaching. Whatever follows is in the form of an exposition in greater detail of what has already been very pithily and briefly stated in the preceding chapters. I already mentioned to you that many of the commentators of the Gita believe that the Second Chapter is the seed of the whole of the Gita. Every chapter from the Third onwards till the end is an exposition of one or two of the verses already occurring in the Second Chapter. Especially Madhusudhana Saraswati, in his classic commentary, explici...