Bhagavad Gita - A Walkthrough - Chapter 15 - Purushottama –Yoga: Devotion to The Supreme Self

Bhagavad Gita - A Walkthrough - Chapter 15 - Purushottama –Yoga: Devotion to The Supreme Self
This series serves as a beginners guide to the Bhagavad Gita, India's greatest spiritual contribution to the world. This version is heavily influenced by the audiobook The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners by Jack A. Hawley as well as the books Bhagavad-gita As It Is A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami and The Bhagavad Gita Translation by Shri-Purohit-Swami. The chapters in this series are heavily condensed and subject to personal interpretation.

Links to:
Chapter 1 - THE DESPONDENCY OF ARJUNA

Chapter 2 - Sankhya Yoga – The Path of Knowledge

Chapter 3 - Karma-Yoga – The Path Of Action

Chapter 4: Jñāna–Karma-Sanyasa yoga, Integrating Knowledge, Action and Renunciation

Chapter 5: Sanyasa yoga, Renunciation in Action

Chapter 6: Dhyana Yoga, Controlling the Mind and Senses

Chapter 7 - Jnana-Vijnana Yoga: Knowing and Experiencing Divinity

Chapter 8 - Aksara–Brahma Yoga: The Eternal Godhead

Chapter 9 - Raja–Vidya–Raja–Guhya Yoga: Royal Knowledge and the King of Secrets

Chapter 10 - Vibhuti–Vistara–Yoga: Divine Splendor

Chapter 11 - Vishvarupa–Darshana –Yoga: The Cosmic Vision

Chapter 12 - Bhakti–Yoga: The Path of Love

Chapter 13 - Ksetra–Ksetrajna Vibhaga –Yoga: The Field and its Knower

Bhagavad Gita - A Walkthrough - Chapter 14 - Going beyond the 3 forces of Nature

Bhagavad Gita - A Walkthrough - Chapter 15 - Purushottama –Yoga: Devotion to The Supreme Self

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Jīvātmā is the individual, and Ātmā and Paramātmā are Universal.

PARAMĀTMĀ is the Supreme Principle, whatever we call it: God, Supreme Self, Divine Self, Love, Truth or Reality.

ĀTMĀ may be described as God’s ray of light, which exists as the “light of life” in every living being. It is part of PARAMĀTMĀ and is therefore identical in nature with it. Just as the seed of a tree contains all the qualities of the tree, the Ātmā also carries the qualities of the Supreme Self.

JĪVĀTMĀ, the individual soul, is the reflection of the Ātmā within an individual; a “wave” that emerges from the ocean of existence and wanders from embodiment to embodiment, and after a long process of development and experience again returns to the unity of the Ātmā. The soul that has manifested itself in a form, however, does not identify with its divine essence but rather with its attributes, the physical body, the mind, the thoughts, etc. The aim of the path of Yoga is to dispel this illusion.

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According to Hindu mythology, ashvattha (Sanskrit: अश्वत्थ, IAST: aśvattha) (or Assattha) that is, the Sacred Fig, is a sacred tree for the Hindus and has been extensively mentioned in texts pertaining to Hinduism. Buddhist texts term the tree as Bodhi Tree, a tree under which Gautam Buddha meditated and gained enlightenment.

Hindu mythology states that the ashvatha tree has its roots in heavens, and it is a tree of eternal life. The fire sticks used in Hindu sacrificial fire like agnihotra also contain dried wood of ashvatha tree.

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In Hinduism, the jiva (Sanskrit: जीव, IAST: jīva) is a living being or any entity imbued with a life force. The word itself originates from the Sanskrit verb-root jīv, which translates as 'to breathe or to live'.