Seemingly a dialog, Arjuna/Krishna on a battlefield, distilling India's Upaniṣads, the wisdom in the Vedas, exploring identity, decision making, and freedom with Karma Yoga and Ātma Vicāra, enquiry into Self-Awareness.

This first volume offers a welcoming introduction and study companion, arranged by topic with context on key verses. Readers are able to explore the field and the knower of the field [kṣetra and kṣetrajña], discrimination [viveka] of the real from the apparent, the equanimity that steadies a life, the three guṇas that compose all experience, the sacred art of offering, and the freedom [mokṣa] which the teaching points toward.

Practical skills for discernment for any sincere seeker interested in deep meditation in the context of Yoga and great mahāvākyas like That You Are.

Original Sanskrit with transliteration and clear word-for-word meanings, following in the tradition of classic Vedāntans including Ramji (James Swartz), Sri Swami Chinmayananda and Swami Dayānanda Sarasvatī.

Volume 2 in the study companion series explores īśvara and bhakti, the individual and the world [jīva and jagat], action offered rather than owned [karma yoga], how Brahman is inquired into by essence and by attribute [svarūpa- and taṭastha-lakṣaṇa], the creative power that makes one appear as many [māyā], sustained dwelling in what has been understood [nididhyāsana], the syllable that holds the three states that is all this [oṁ], as well as the honest doubting [praśna] without which no teaching lands.

Practical skills for discernment for any sincere seeker interested in deep meditation in the context of Yoga and great mahāvākyas like That You Are (tat tvam asi), as the Gītā teaches us about tat - That, Brahman, whole, Real.

Original Sanskrit with clear word-for-word meanings for over 200 verses, with approx. 100 more selections from the Māṇḍūkya and other Upaniṣads, sūtras with commentary, prakaraṇa texts, and more.