Ravi Ranganathan Podcast

This episode covers the final recap of chapters four (Cont.), five and six. Essentially this covers karma sannyAsa yogam and dhyAna yogam.

Episode 89 has the summary of the first two chapters - arjuna vishAda yoga and sankhya yoga. The first chapter sets the background and the reasoning for Gita teaching.

In Episode 86, this podcast has reached the final concluding teaching. This covers the final advice for peace. BhagavAn who was all along talking in first person suddenly switches to third person. Why so? This is a very subtle and at the same time very important transition in BG. Listen to the episode to understand what is going on. This episode also covers the very popular verse "sarva dharmAn parityaja ...".

In the final summary chapter, after completing His summary about the three guNAs and varna division, and attaining the state of perfection, Bhagavan reaches the final stretch. In this episode He talks about a Jeevan mukta, devotion, surrender and grace of God. 

After covering all aspects of the three guNAs, Bhagavan now moves on to wrap up His teachings. In chapter three He mentioned about the naishkarmyam state, the actionlessness state. In this summary chapter next he brings that topic about attaining the state of perfection. 

Episode 83 covers the final summary of varna division and varna duties and its purpose.