An Enlightened Person
( Bhagavad Gita Ch2 v54-72 )
Monday 28 April at 8am UK time online
The Nature of an Enlightened Being
A Person of Perfection
( Stitaprajña – a person of steady wisdom )
What is the nature of a self-realised person? What is she like? How does he express himself in the world? What happens within her? And how does she contact the external world?
Join us as we begin our exploration of the final 18 verses of Chapter 2 of the Bhagavad Gita. These timeless verses are considered to be the text's masterpiece describing the nature and characteristics of a self-realised human being.
An enlightened person who attains perfection is freed from the entanglements of all egocentric attachments & desires and finds absolute peace & bliss eternally. She is like a drop of water that has merged with an ocean and attains unity with all existence.
We are following the edition of the Gita by A. Parthasarathy.
Course material will be provided initially until you obtain a copy for your own study. Please be in touch if you would like acquire a copy from Vedanta Eternal.
Our teacher
The class will be led by Parulji who has been researching and studying the Gita for over 3 decades under the guidance of Swami Parthasarathy, the founder of the Vedanta Academy in India. Her approach is to encourage questions and to welcome debate – all within a framework of openness and camaraderie.
The essence of the Bhagavad Gita in 3 short courses
The Story …
A princely leader is frozen with indecision on a battlefield, like each of us are frozen at times in our lives. The wisdom of the Gita refines us into purpose, action & Self mastery.
( 1 Session starts Mon 7 October )
The Yoga of Knowledge
The wisdom of the Gita refines us into a life of purpose, action and Self mastery. It enables us to understand our existence and cultivate our freedom.
( 18 Sessions starts Mon 14 October )
Who is a person of perfection?
How do we manifest our character within and express it to the world? Why is this path to freedom the goal of human existence? Who is an Enlightened person?
( 6 Sessions starts 28 April 2025 )
All the classes take place at 8am - a time when the mind is clear and the working day has yet to begin.
The tradition in the teaching of the Gita is for the classes to be supported through donations.
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.
Henry David Thoreau
