This document summarizes some key concepts from the Bhagavad Gita. It discusses how the Gita deals with living and dying, and how its principles are meant for living rather than poetic imaginations. It outlines 5 truths of life according to the Gita: 1) Ishvara (God), 2) Prakriti (nature), 3) Kala (time), 4) Jiva (the soul), and 5) Karma (action and reaction). It also lists and briefly describes 9 extended principles from the Gita: 1) Dvandva (duality), 2) Vividhatha (diversity), 3) Sva-dharma (duty), 4) Loka-sang

1. BhagavadGita - Basics
By HG Govinda Das

2. Living-Dying
• Gita is for Living – How to Live.
• Bhagavatam for Dying – How to Love.
• Dying and Living is a Continuous Flow.
• Live – Externally
• Leave – Internally.

3. • Unchangeable
principles of
Surroundings
• Gita deals
with Reality,
than Poetic
Imaginations
Gita deals with Reality

4. BG 2.27
jätasya hi dhruvo måtyur
dhruvaà janma måtasya ca
tasmäd aparihärye 'rthe
na tvaà çocitum arhasi
TRANSLATION
One who has taken his birth is sure to die, and after
death one is sure to take birth again. Therefore, in
the unavoidable discharge of your duty, you should
not lament.

5. BG 2.28
avyaktädéni bhütäni
vyakta-madhyäni bhärata
avyakta-nidhanäny eva
tatra kä paridevanä
TRANSLATION
All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning,
manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again
when annihilated. So what need is there for
lamentation?

7. Extended Principles
Dvandva
Vividhatha
Sva-Dharma
Loka-
Saìgraha
Yoga
Daiva
Purushartha

8. BG 2.28
avyaktädéni bhütäni
vyakta-madhyäni bhärata
avyakta-nidhanäny eva
tatra kä paridevanä
TRANSLATION
All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning,
manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again
when annihilated. So what need is there for
lamentation?
5 Truths of Life

9. 1. Éçvara
ÉçvaraÉçvara
Person Experience Principles

10. 1.Éçvara
• 2.15, 2.55, 2.58, 2.72 – Liberation
• 4.7, 4.8, 5.20, – Lord Comes to Satisfy His
Unalloyed Devotees
• 6.7, 6.30, 7.8-12, 7.16, 7.18, 8.15, 8.16, 8.22 –
Kåñëa is the Essence of Everything
• 9.4-5,9.14-15,9.16-19,9.22,9.26-30,9.34 – No
hatred but Special Friendship
• 10.3 – Beginning is Knowing
• 10.4-5, 10.8 – All Qualities are His Creation
• 10.17 10.19 10.42 – Kåñëa Pervades & Supports
this entire universe

11. 2.Prakåti
Self
Generating
Eternal
Manifest
&
Unmanifest
Empowered
by
Éçvara
Land of
Opportunity

12. 2.Prakåti
BG 4.13
cätur-varëyaà mayä såñöaà
guëa-karma-vibhägaçaù
tasya kartäram api mäà
viddhy akartäram avyayam
According to the three modes of material nature and
the work associated with them, the four divisions of
human society are created by Me. And although I am
the creator of this system, you should know that I am
yet the nondoer, being unchangeable.

13. 3.Käla
Kala
Destructive
Constructive
Kala
Hope giving
Hope taking

14. 3.Käla
Right Timing has God
• One who does good, never overcome by evil:
• 6.40, 6.41, 6.42
• Living entities Manifest & Unmanifest in Brahmä's day &
Night:
• 8.17, 8.18, 8.19
• Passing body:
• 8.24, 8.25

15. 4.Jiva
Fullness is
Natural
Quality
Originally We
Aren’t
Sinful

16. KarmaNot binding but
empowering
Can be
terminated
5. Karma

17. Extended principles
1. Dvandva
2. Vividhatha
3. Sva-dharma
4. Loka-saìgraha
5. Yoga
6. Daiva
7. Purushartha
8. Gunas
9. Niñkäma- Karma

18. Karma1. Dvandva- Duality
• 2.14
• 2.27
• 7.27
• 7.28
• 15.5

19. 2.Vividhatha - Diversity
• 11.5, 11.6,
11.11
• 10th Chapter
Diversity of
Nature &
God’s
Involvement

20. Sva-dharma
- one's own religious principles
• 11.5 11.6 11.11
• 10th chapter diversity of nature and
gods involvement
3. Sva-dharma
- One's Own Religious Principles
• 2.27,2.31,2.32,2.33,2.37,2.38 ( no
assurance of victory but either way
fight)
• 3.5 (who decides)
• 3.9 sva dharma with purpose
• 3.30 (atma dharma and sva dharma
in unity)
• 3.33
• 4.13

21. 4. Loka Saìgraham —
the People in General
• 3.11(Cooperation)
• 3.16 (Selfish Life)
• 3.18
• 3.20
• 3.21
• 3.22
• 3.23

22. Kala
• Whole Cosmic
Order is under Me
• 9.7
• 9.8

23. 5. Yoga
• 2.48, 2.50 (Buddhi Yoga)
• 5.10
• 5.12
• 6.4
• 6.16, 6.17, 7.14
• 8.7, 8.10, 8.14

24. 6. Daiva – Providence

25. 7. Purushartha

26. 8. Gunas –
Modes of Material Nature
BG 3.27
prakåteù kriyamäëäni
guëaiù karmäëi sarvaçaù
ahaìkära-vimüòhätmä
kartäham iti manyate
The spirit soul bewildered by
the influence of false ego
thinks himself the doer of
activities that are in actuality
carried out by the three
modes of material nature.

27. 9. Niskama Karma –
Inaction in Action & Action in Inaction
• 2.47
• 4.18
• 4.19
• 4.20
• 4.21
• 4.22