Bhagavad Gita

aliases (en): Gita; Bhagavadgita; Sublime Song.

aliases (de): Gita; Bhagavadgita; Erhabener Sang.

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selection principle. The headings are this index's own. Rudolf Steiner's two lecture cycles on the poem, GA 142 (Cologne, 1912 to 1913) and GA 146 (Helsinki, 1913), are listed lecture by lecture. Elsewhere a text is listed where it says something about the poem, not where it names it in a list of scriptures or books to read. What the poem shows of Krishna himself is listed under the entry on Krishna.

usage. This entry lists where Rudolf Steiner's collected works (the Gesamtausgabe, GA) treat the subject. It contains no quotations: the headings, scope lines and notes are this index's wording, not Steiner's. Under each heading Steiner's own books (GA 1 to 28) come first, then articles and notes (GA 29 to 46), then lectures in date order. A text is listed when it treats the subject or the point its heading names, not when the word merely occurs. A paragraph number marks the passage that is the point, and a range of paragraphs (at most twelve) the passages that are; a reference marked whole is a chapter or lecture that treats the subject throughout. A reference with neither a paragraph nor the mark whole was listed before this rule and names the chapter or lecture without saying where in it the subject is treated; such references are being read and pinned or marked. A book's defining paragraph is also listed in German where the German edition numbers or names it differently, and so is a lecture's paragraph whose German word the translation renders loosely; the two references are one passage. A lecture with more than one English translation is listed once. Texts with no English translation are listed in German, and so are the esoteric lessons (GA 266), whose German is the original record; each reference's witnesses name every language the site serves it in. A reference marked as listeners' notes was written down by others (a listener, a newspaper, the minutes), one marked report by others is another person's account of a meeting or event, one marked mixed sources comes from a volume that holds both listeners' records and texts in Steiner's own hand, one marked stenogram rests on a shorthand transcript, and one marked record unknown is a lecture for which no evidence of how it was taken down is on record, which is not an assurance of a stenogram. One marked may be abridged is a translation shorter than the German. A lecture names the place its own heading gives, and an English reference names its translator from that lecture's own source (never another lecture's or the volume's credit) or says that no translator is on record. Read a passage before saying what it contains.

What the Bhagavad Gita is

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Where Rudolf Steiner says what kind of work the Bhagavad Gita is: a philosophic poem, its place in the Indian epic, the streams it unites.

Lectures

  1. GA 88 The Astral World and Devachan: 12. The Bhagavad Gita28 June 1903Berlinp003en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture I28 December 1912Colognep018en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture II29 December 1912Colognep003en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey

The setting: the battle between blood relatives

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Where the poem's setting is treated: the battle of the Kurus and Pandus within the Mahabharata, and the end of the ties of blood.

Lectures

  1. GA 88 The Astral World and Devachan: 12. The Bhagavad Gita28 June 1903Berlinp005en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture I28 December 1912Colognep018 to p019en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture II29 December 1912Colognep016 to p017en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture IV31 December 1912Colognep023en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  5. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture I28 May 1913Helsinkiwholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George Adams and Mary Adams
  6. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture II29 May 1913Helsinkip012 to p014en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  7. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture III30 May 1913Helsinkip023en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  8. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture IV31 May 1913Helsinkip012en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  9. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture V1 June 1913Helsinkip020en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  10. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture VII3 June 1913Helsinkip019en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  11. GA 157 Human Destinies and the Destinies of Nations: 1. The Destiny of Individuals and of Nations1 September 1914Berlinp011en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Anna R. Meuss
  12. GA 174a Central Europe between East and West: First lecture13 September 1914Munichp022en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library

The Vedas, the Sankhya philosophy and Yoga

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Where the three streams of ancient Indian thought are described and shown as brought together in the Gita.

Lectures

  1. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture I28 December 1912Colognewholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture II29 December 1912Colognewholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture III30 December 1912Colognep015 to p018en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey

Sattva, rajas and tamas

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Where the three gunas of the Sankhya teaching are explained as the Gita uses them, and applied to the soul of today.

Lectures

  1. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture II29 December 1912Colognep011 to p014en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture III30 December 1912Colognep018en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture IV31 December 1912Colognewholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  4. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture VIII4 June 1913Helsinkip021 to p032en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  5. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture IX5 June 1913Helsinkiwholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby

Action without attachment to its fruits

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Where the teaching on deeds is treated: acting without desire for the fruits, duty and caste, the soul set apart from its deeds.

Articles

  1. GA 46 Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: 49. Path of Knowledgep021en:Englishtranslated by Steiner Online Library

Lectures

  1. GA 88 The Astral World and Devachan: 12. The Bhagavad Gita28 June 1903Berlinp006 to p012en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 266b From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons II 1910–1912: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1912-11-2828 November 1912Munichp003de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture II29 December 1912Colognep017en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture III30 December 1912Colognep017en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  5. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture IV31 December 1912Colognep026en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  6. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture V1 January 1913Colognep009en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey

The ascent of the soul through Yoga

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Where the Gita's path of the soul is treated: Yoga and devotion, the steps by which the pupil rises to the vision of Krishna.

Lectures

  1. GA 94 Cosmology: Lecture XIII10 July 1906Leipzigp004en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture II29 December 1912Colognep015 to p018en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture III30 December 1912Colognep016 to p023en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture IV31 December 1912Colognep026 to p031en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  5. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture V1 January 1913Colognep007 to p009en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  6. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture II29 May 1913Helsinkiwholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  7. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture VI2 June 1913Helsinkip012 to p017en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  8. GA 80a The Essence of Anthroposophy: Anthroposophy and the Knowledge of the Spirit15 May 1922Munichp020en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  9. GA 80a The Essence of Anthroposophy: Anthroposophy and Knowledge of the Spirit16 May 1922Mannheimp017 to p018en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  10. GA 80a The Essence of Anthroposophy: Anthroposophy and Knowledge of the Spirit18 May 1922Colognep025en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  11. GA 212 Human Soul-Life and Spiritual Striving: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises27 May 1922Dornachp017 to p019en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  12. GA 83 Contrasts Between Western and Eastern Cultures: 1. Anthroposophy and Natural Science1 June 1922Viennap030en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by B. A. Rowley
  13. GA 80c Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and the Big Questions of Contemporary Civilization: 7. Knowledge of the Spiritual Nature of Man31 October 1922The Haguep028en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library

The Gita and the Epistles of Paul

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Where the Gita is set beside the Epistles of Paul: the individual and the community, the form of each, the revelations they carry.

Lectures

  1. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture I28 December 1912Colognep021 to p022en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  2. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture III30 December 1912Colognep007 to p009en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture IV31 December 1912Colognewholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture V1 January 1913Colognewholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey

The mood and artistic form of the poem

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Where the mood the poem awakens and its artistic composition are described: its calm, its perfection, the order of its discourses.

Lectures

  1. GA 138 Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment: Lecture V29 August 1912Munichp015en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Gilbert Church
  2. GA 139 The Gospel of Mark: Lecture V19 September 1912Baselp013en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Conrad Mainzer
  3. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture III30 December 1912Colognep009en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture IV31 December 1912Colognep020 to p022en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  5. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture I28 May 1913Helsinkip005 to p007en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George Adams and Mary Adams
  6. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture II29 May 1913Helsinkiwholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  7. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture VI2 June 1913Helsinkip009 to p015en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  8. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture IX5 June 1913Helsinkip010en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  9. GA 231 An Anthroposophical Understanding of the Psychic Human Being: Lecture V18 November 1923The Haguep010en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Mary Adams
  10. GA 233 World History in an Anthroposophical Light: Evolution of the Soul and of Memory24 December 1923Dornachp031en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George Adams, Mary Adams and Dorothy S. Osmond

The Gita in Europe and in modern thought

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Where the poem's reception in the West is treated: its translators and admirers, and its relation to modern Western thinking.

Books

  1. GA 7 Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Introductionp015en:RSP1960translated by Karl E. Zimmer

Articles

  1. GA 32 Collected Essays on Literature 1884-1902: 34. Theosophistsp001en:Englishtranslated by Steiner Online Library

Lectures

  1. GA 88 The Astral World and Devachan: 12. The Bhagavad Gita28 June 1903Berlinp005en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 53 The Origin and Goal of the Human Being: Goethe's Secret Revelation III2 March 1905Berlinp074en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  3. GA 57 Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?: III. The Riddle in Faust: Exoteric11 March 1909Berlinp063en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  4. GA 139 The Gospel of Mark: Lecture I15 September 1912Baselp011en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Conrad Mainzer
  5. GA 139 The Gospel of Mark: Lecture V19 September 1912Baselp006 to p007en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Conrad Mainzer
  6. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture I28 December 1912Colognep008en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  7. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture I28 May 1913Helsinkip015 to p020en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George Adams and Mary Adams
  8. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture VI2 June 1913Helsinkip003 to p005en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  9. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture VIII4 June 1913Helsinkiwholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  10. GA 138 Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment: The Theosophical Movement Is the Answer to the Spiritual Longing of Our Time30 August 1913Munichp013en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library

Passages of the Gita explained by the hierarchies

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Where single verses of the Gita are explained by the spiritual hierarchies: the verses on dying as the fate of elemental beings, the fight in heaven.

Lectures

  1. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 14. Evolution and the Hierarchies11 August 1905Haubindap019en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 15. Forms of Consciousness12 August 1905Haubindap011en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  3. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XXIII25 October 1905Berlinp034en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett
  4. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Lecture I12 April 1909Düsseldorfp016en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  5. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Lecture II12 April 1909Düsseldorfp014 to p018en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  6. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Lecture V14 April 1909Düsseldorfp027en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  7. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Lecture VI15 April 1909Düsseldorfp003en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record

The Gita and inner development today

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Where the Gita is related to the path of knowledge and self-development of the present, and what a reader of today can take from it.

Books

  1. GA 7 Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Introductionp015en:RSP1960translated by Karl E. Zimmer
  2. GA 10 How to Know Higher Worlds (The Way of Initiation): Some Practical Aspectsp012en:RSPC1947no translator on record

Articles

  1. GA 46 Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: 46. Exegesis on the Path Illuminated by Mabel Collinsp012en:Englishtranslated by Steiner Online Library

Lectures

  1. GA 53 The Origin and Goal of the Human Being: The Inner Development of Man15 December 1904Berlinp018en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Maria St. Goar
  2. GA 53 The Origin and Goal of the Human Being: VII. The Great Initiates16 March 1905Berlinp012en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  3. GA 139 The Gospel of Mark: Lecture V19 September 1912Baselp015 to p016en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Conrad Mainzer
  4. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture I28 December 1912Colognep017en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  5. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture V1 January 1913Colognep003en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey
  6. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture I28 May 1913Helsinkip021en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George Adams and Mary Adams
  7. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture II29 May 1913Helsinkiwholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  8. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture III30 May 1913Helsinkip023en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  9. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture IV31 May 1913Helsinkiwholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  10. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture VIII4 June 1913Helsinkip016 to p020en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  11. GA 146 The Occult Foundations of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture IX5 June 1913Helsinkip017 to p021en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. Bugby
  12. GA 167 The Present and the Past in the Human Spirit: XII. Luciferic Dangers from the East30 May 1916Berlinp004 to p005en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by E. H. Goddard
  13. GA 203 Human Responsibility for Global Development: Dangers Threatening the Spiritual Life of Today9 January 1921Stuttgartp021en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record

distinguish from. the Mahabharata, the Indian epic of the great war, of which the Bhagavad Gita is one episode (GA 142 of 28 December 1912); the Vedas, the oldest revealed wisdom of India, one of the three streams that Steiner shows brought together in the Gita (GA 142 of 28 December 1912); the Sankhya philosophy of Kapila, the teaching of the forms and of sattva, rajas and tamas, a stream of its own on which the Gita's teaching rests (GA 142 of 29 December 1912); Yoga, the path of the soul to the spirit taught by Patanjali, a stream of its own that the Gita takes up (GA 142 of 28 December 1912).

see also. Krishna; Arjuna; the spiritual hierarchies.

external. AnthroWiki (anthrowiki.at).

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