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Srimad Bhagavadgita

A Treatise on Counselling by: K. Ramakrishna Rao

This book is a modest attempt to bring into focus the psychological implications and some of the lessons we could learn from the Bhagavad Gita that are as relevant to the troubled world today as they were then.

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ISBN: 9788124609682
Year Of Publication: 2019
Edition: 1st
Pages : xii, 116p.
Bibliographic Details : Index
Language : English
Binding : Paperback
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 22
Weight: 220

Overview

The Srimad Bhagavad Gita is an epic story of the battle between good and evil, and the psychological hurdles one faces in such a battle, in addition to the physical hardships one has to endure. The former are more difficult to handle. The Gita is a treatise on celestial counselling that Arjuna needed in the midst of his battle with the evil forces that happened to be a part of his larger family. It is an illustration that man is a composite of good and evil. His goal is to overcome evil and promote the divine within. There is much in the Gita that counsellors in various fields could learn for their benefit.
The Gita was a constant companion of Mahatma Gandhi who developed his concept of nonviolence and the strategy of satyagraha as effective instruments for conflict resolutions. Satyagraha was his way of resolving the manifest conflict between good and evil by synthesizing the two opposite by a dialectical process.
This book is a modest attempt to bring into focus the psychological implications and some of the lessons we could learn from this epic narrative that are as relevant to the troubled world today as they were then.

Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. The Existential Anguish
2. Yoga Theory : Practice and Outcome
3. Yoga of Action
4. Jnana-Yoga
5. Yoga of Renunciation
6. Yoga and Meditation
7. Yoga for Self-Actualization
8. Yoga of Concentration
9. Raja-Yoga : The Royal Way to Self-Actualization
10. Limitless Manifestations of the Divine Spirit
11. Vision of Lord’s Cosmic Form
12. Bhakti-Yoga : Devotional Path Toward Self-Actualization
13. Karma-Yoga and Nature of the Subject and The Object
14. The Three Gunas and Beyond
15. The Spirit Supreme
16. The Attributes of Divine, Daring and Devilish States
17. Three Ways of Becoming a Self-Actualized Person
18. Renunciation and Self-Actualization
Index

Meet the Author
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Prof. Koneru Ramakrishna Rao is currently Chancellor of GITAM University. His previous assignments include Chairman, ICPR (2006-12); President, Institute for Human Science & Service (1998- ), Executive Director, Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, USA (1988-94); Vice-Chancellor, Andhra University (1984-87); Director, Institute for Parapsychology, Durham, NC (1976-84) and Professor of Psychology, Andhra University (1968-82). Prof. Rao was thrice President of Parapsychological Association, the US-based international society of scientists involved in parapsychological research and twice President of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology. He is currently President of the Asian Congress of Philosophy. Prof. Rao received numerous academic and civic honours, including Padmasri, D.Lit (Honoris Causa) by Andhra University and Kakatiya University and honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Acharya Nagarjuna University. Prof. Rao published twenty books and over 200 research papers. His major books include Cognitive Anomalies, Consciousness and Yoga, Gandhi and Applied Spirituality, Consciousness Studies: Cross-cultural Perspectives, Gandhi and Pragmatism, and Experimental Parapsychology.