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Introduction |
ix |
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1 A Preamble to the Bhagavad Gita: Man Is Meant to Be Thoughtful |
1 |
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2 Who Are You? |
5 |
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3 An Overview |
11 |
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4 Fight or Flight: Violence in the Saga of the Pandavas |
21 |
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5 Krishna's Jewel Box |
39 |
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6 The Bhagavad Gita in Black and White |
45 |
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7 Guru Tattva: Transparent Medium to the Divine |
49 |
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8 The Demigods: Exalted Servants of Krishna |
55 |
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9 A Banyan Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
61 |
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10 Nothing Personal, Part I: The Gita's Refutation of Advaita Vedanta |
67 |
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11 Nothing Personal, Part II: God Is True to Form |
73 |
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12 Explosive Devotion: Robert Oppenheimer and the Universal Form |
83 |
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13 Dante's Song: Was the Famous Italian Epic Influenced by the Bhagavad Gita? |
89 |
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14 Grandfather Bhishma and the Vegetarian Alternative |
93 |
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15 Kierkegaard and the Three Modes of Material Nature |
99 |
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16 Social Classification in Gandhi, Plato, and the Vaishnava Masters |
103 |
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17 Spirituality in the Workplace |
109 |
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18 The Mystery of Madhusudana |
115 |
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19 Arjuna's Yogic Preference |
121 |
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20 Bagger Vance: The Mystical Underpinnings of a Contemporary Golf Tale |
127 |
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21 Yoda and Yoga: Star Wars and the Hindu tradition |
135 |
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22 Krishna's Divine Appearance |
139 |
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23 From Ear to Eternity: The Spiritual Dimensions of Sound |
143 |
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24 From the Transcendentalists to Transcendental Love of God |
149 |
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Afterword |
157 |
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Bibliography |
161 |
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Index |
165 |