The Heart of the Uddhava Gita

by Sajohn Daverly

Overview

The Heart of the Uddhava Gita is a concise abridgement of the final teachings which the noble avatar-king Sri Krishna shared with His dear friend Uddhava before departing from this Earth, and countless spiritual students down through the ages have found His communication of timeless universal wisdom capable of evoking profound awakenings in consciousness and transformations of perception which continued to evolve on an ongoing basis. This edition contains word-for-word transliteration, English translation, and notes on the Uddhava Gita, and presents the same in regard to other inspirational selections from the Srimad Bhagavata Purana as well as from the Gopala-tapani Upanishad.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780985615529
Publisher:	Alan Dulfon
Publication date:	12/01/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	332
Sales rank:	973,576
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sajohn Daverly has over the past 45 years been both a student and teacher of Eastern wisdom as well as an assisting writer, editor, and proofreader of books and magazines presenting it to audiences the world over. Previously ordained into one of the traditional branches of the Swami order during his years living in India, he has been sharing his spiritual insights with individuals and groups since 1996, and his translation with commentary on ancient India's classic scripture the Bhagavad-Gita was published in 2012.

Table of Contents

A Few Words From Mooji ... v

Preface ... vii

Part One: Introductory Verses ... 1

Part Two: Selected Verses From the Uddhava Gita ... 5

Chapter One: Sri Krishna Begins His Instruction on the Eve of His Ascension ... 7

Chapter Two: Sri Dattatreya's Twenty-Four Teachers ... 17

Chapter Three: The Value of Satsang and Self-Enquiry / Bondage and Liberation ... 51

Chapter Four: The Hamsa Gita (Song of the Swan) ... 75

Chapter Five: Meditation On The Beloved ... 97

Chapter Six: Mystic Powers / Universal Manifestations ... 113

Chapter Seven: Enlightened Living As a Sannyasin Sage ... 121

Chapter Eight: From Knowing to Loving and Serving ... 133

Chapter Nine: Virtues and Faults ... 147

Chapter Ten: Spirit, Nature, and the Self ... 165

Chapter Eleven: The Song of the Avanti Brahmin ... 185

Chapter Twelve: Creation and Dissolution / The Three Components of Nature ... 195

Chapter Thirteen: Emperor Pururava / Vedic and Tantric Ritual Worship ... 209

Chapter Fourteen: Realisation of Truth ... 223

Chapter Fifteen: Sri Krishna's Concluding Instruction ... 255

Part Three: Selected Verses From the Other Books of the Srimad Bhagavata Purana ... 271

Part Four: Selected Verses From the Gopala-tapani Upanishad ... 297

Acknowledgements ... 317

Illustrations / Further Reading ... 319