Articles tagged with Bhagavad Gītā

1. Service as a Spiritual Practice

   Service is a potent spiritual practice on the path to liberation. The Bhagavad Gītā is the spiritual manual par excellence among the texts of Sanatana Dharma on the subject of action. The specific guidelines for transforming any action into an act of worship, as set out in the Bhagavad Gītā are outlined in this blog. The lived experience of Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati, founder of the Divine Life Society, is recounted as an ideal example of the fruition of service as a spiritual practice.

2. Same Action: Four Castes

   This blog was originally penned on 24 October 2008. It is one among many dozen blogs that have not been previously released publicly on the Web. I will be gradually refreshing and releasing all those unpublished blogs on this website. They are generally short and tightly focused pieces of writing, readable in a few minutes. Where possible, I have retained the original contextual immediacy and topical relevance. I have used the IAST transliteration scheme for the Sanskrit terms; consult the link for the correct pronunciation. The upshot of this blog is that caste is spiritual in nature, and that all individuals may exhibit all four castes at different times—according to attitude to action—regardless of birth or occupation.