The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita

The Bhagavad Gita is a world classic often considered to be not just the ''Hindu Bible'' but sometimes the ''Indian Bible'' as well. Over the last two centuries it has attracted much scholarly attention from Indologists. Ithamar Theodor''s bold and revisionist monograph aspires to further develop their scholarship by treating the Gita as a discrete philosophy and by offering a systematic survey of its main topics and doctrines in so doing emphasising their philosophical potential. A major innovation here is the articulation of the Gita''s structure extracted from Vedantic and Yogic pattens of thought presented in a modern fashion. This centres on the Gita''s Vedantic concept of hierarchical reality and its Yogic concept of a ladder. Beyond its overarching philosophical and holistic approach to the Bhagavad Gita the book addresses major themes such as dharma rebirth Yoga and Sankhya bhakti the Upanishadic nature of the text and concepts of divinity.