The Path to the Guru: The Science of Self-Realization by Scott Teitsworth

By Scott Teitsworth

A verse-by-verse exam of the advisor to self-transformation provided within the Bhagavad Gita

• finds the clinical method of own improvement and religious enlightenment specified by Krishna’s recommendation to Arjuna

• indicates how the Gita prepares you to paintings with a guru, advocating authenticity and skepticism instead of blind devotion and obedience

• Explores Krishna’s recommendation on which societal obstacles to reject to beat your fears and reconnect with the suppressed elements of your internal being

Drawing on his greater than forty years of in-depth learn of Indian Philosophy lower than the tutelage of his guru, Nitya Chaitanya Yati, writer Scott Teitsworth explores the clinical method of self-transformation and religious enlightenment encoded in Krishna’s suggestion to Arjuna within the Bhagavad Gita. supplying a verse-by-verse exam of the 1st chapters, he unearths the Gita’s classes to organize the seeker to satisfy and effectively paintings with a guru--whether an outdoor instructor or the intuitive wisdom that arises from overcoming the psyche’s discovered obstacles.

The writer indicates that the Gita doesn't suggest blind devotion to a guru or god yet relatively own improvement, victory over your fears, and liberation of the psyche. He demonstrates how Krishna’s recommendation offers instruments to steer us out of our fear-based reports to reconnect with the suppressed elements of our internal being. He explains how Arjuna’s doubts and confusions characterize the plight of each person--we are born unfastened yet progressively turn into slowed down by means of the calls for of our society, constantly depending on outdoor authority for solutions and disconnected from our actual internal nature. He unearths how Krishna’s suggestion deals counsel for facing life’s conflicts, which societal obstacles to reject, and the way to determine during the polarizing idea of excellent as opposed to evil to shape a balanced frame of mind more desirable to either.

Restoring the fearless imaginative and prescient of the traditional rishis, who, like today’s scientists, prized skepticism as a huge procedure for getting access to fact, Teitsworth unearths the Gita as a advisor to an real guru-disciple dating in addition to to developing a lifetime of importance, freedom, and actual sovereign adulthood.

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