[Advaita-l] ADMIN: bhagavad gItA bhAShya focus

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

It is a week into the pArthiva year (by the lunar calendar), during we which 
we have decided to focus on the bhagavad gItA commentary.

First off, I would like to emphasize that our focus is not only on the gItA, 
but also on the bhAShya on it by SankarAchArya.

Secondly, although we agreed that I would lead the discussion, I think list 
members can start discussions based on the gItA bhAShya without waiting for 
me to start a topic.

Thirdly, I would like discussions to be of general scope, i.e. we do not 
have to go verse by verse, but we could put together various references 
within the text based on topic and take the discussion from there.

To this end, I will start, in my next post, a discussion on the limbs of 
yoga as found in the gItA commentary. I have chosen this for two reasons - 
one, over the last few months, there has been an appreciable level of 
general interest in yoga as it relates to advaita; and two, I have already 
compiled references from the gItA bhAShya on this topic. I have made an 
effort to identify all references within the gItA bhAShya for each topic, 
but it is quite probable that I will have missed something or other. I hope 
this series of posts will spark a broad discussion and I would welcome 
additional references if readers notice that I have missed them.

Regards,
Vidyasankar

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