BGV 4

Gita 04.42 – Win the inner war with spiritual knowledge and fight the outer war

Gita 04.41 – Knowledge and faith can be symbiotic

Gita 04.40 – Don’t let doubts deprive you of happiness

Gita 04.39 – Faith is the pre-condition for knowledge

Gita 04.38 – Don’t reduce jnana to jnana-yoga

Gita 04.37 – The fire of knowledge reduces karma to ashes

Gita 04.36 – The subjunctive case underscores the redemptive power of spiritual knowledge

Gita 04.35 – Knowledge takes us beyond illusion and reveals connection of everything with Krishna

Gita 04.34 – Learn from guru how to do karma as yajna and attain jnana

Gita 04.33 – Let action be permeated by knowledge and culminate in knowledge

Gita 04.32 – Knowing the unity among various yajnas grants liberation

Gita 04.31 – Happiness in this world and the next don’t have to be mutually exclusive

Gita 04.30 – The knowers of yajna attain purification, satisfaction and liberation

Gita 04.29 – Infuse pranayama with the imagery of yajna

Gita 04.28 – Apply the yajna priniciple to a broad spectrum of religious activities

Gita 04.27 – Ceassation of all sensory and respiratory activity is a yajna

Gita 04.26 – The mood of sacrifice spiritualizes both the householder and the renounced orders

Gita 04.25 – Re-envision both karma-kanda and jnana-kanda as yajna

Gita 04.24 – When our vision becomes spiritual, our action and destination also become spiritual

Gita 04.23 – Sacrifice is not just an activity, but a mood that pervades all activity

Gita 04.22 – See scriptural principle in the light of its social context to find its practicability

Gita 04.21 – Nirasha is not disappointment in fulfilling desire, but detachment from the fever to fulfill desire

Gita 04.20 – The more we give up material shelters, the more we seek spiritual shelter

Gita 04.19 – Discern the path of liberation with the vision of the enlightened, not the ignorant

Gita 04.18 – Comprehend inaction in action and action in inaction through contextualization

Gita 04.17 – Action-reaction correlation is incomprehensible, but right action is discernible

Gita 04.16 – Don’t simplistically equate dictionary meaning with scriptural meaning

Gita 04.15 – Follow the successful to be successful

Gita 04.14 – Knowledge of Krishna’s position protects us from karmic subjugation

Gita 04.13 – Krishna is the non-doer because he is non-discriminating

Gita 04.12 – Demigod worship is quick fix in the world of religion

Gita 04.11 – Appreciate the profundity of Krishna’s reciprocity and universality

Gita 04.10 – Overcome 3 obstructive attitudes for taking shelter of Krishna

Gita 04.09 – Attainment of Krishna is not rebirth, but release from rebirth

Gita 04.08 – Let Krishna establish dharma within

Gita 04.07 – Universality of opportunity defines and distinguishes dharma

Gita 04.06 – Don’t presume familiarity with concepts due to familiarity with terms

Gita 04.05 – Krishna spiritual position is not affected by his material location

Gita 04.04 – Accept responsibility for clear communication – don’t affix blame for unclear communication

Gita 04.03 – Krishna reveals his glory to those who delight in that glory

Gita 04.02 – The Gita lives through those who live the Gita

Gita 04.01 – Yogic knowledge comes from transcendental source through extra-terrestrial route to terrestrial recipient