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The Bhagavad Gītā: Yoga, Resistance, Violence

August 26th at 03:00 PM UTC

Join Dr. Shyam Ranganathan for a 4 part live series exploring The Bhagavad Gītā. The modern student of yoga is frequently conflicted about how they are supposed to practice yoga and contend with the political problems of the day. What we think of as modern yoga was developed in the medieval period in India after the rise of colonization. It is characterized by a concern to retreat to quiet spaces, to avoid conflict, and to invest in practices that promise future peace. But these practices exemplify Arjuna's inclinations in the Bhagavad Gītā. In paying attention to the lessons of this discussion on ethics on an actual battlefield before the commencement of a war, we stand the chance to clarify our practice and understand how we generate balance and peace not by avoiding conflict, but by learning how to fight the good fight: by practicing yoga.

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Dr Shyam Ranganathan

Dr. Ranganathan , founder of the Yoga Philosophy Institute, is a field-changing researcher, scholar, author and teacher of philosophy, and an expert in the neglected traditions of Indian moral philosophy, which cover practical questions of how to live, what to aim for, and what we should value—including Yoga. Unlike many gurus of yoga and the Indian tradition, and unlike most western academics writing on the Indian intellectual tradition, Dr. Ranganathan is a trained scholar and researcher of philosophy and is author, editor, and translator of numerous peer-reviewed scholarly works. He is author of five books, including Yoga—Anticolonial Phil...

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