01:840:211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dharma, Dukha People, Tyga
18 Feb 2017
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Chapters 7-12 develop an understanding of the nature of krishna as the supreme deity. They elaborate how devotion (bhakti) to krishna is done through the disinterested performance of dharma. Faithful devotion to krishna through dharmic action as sacrifice is the highest spiritual practice, leading to liberation (mok a) through krishna"s grace (pras da) Chapter 7: claims to be a teaching of the totality of knowledge necessary for liberation from sa s ra (v. 2). Knowledge of krishna: knowledge that krishna is in all things (7. 7-14, 19; cf. 9. 4: krishna as the desire that does not impede sacred duty (7. 11), knowledge of krishna"s nature as the cosmo-creator and his ultimate reality. He is the inner being, the inner divinity, and inner sacrifice of the infinite spirit (brahman). According to the bhg, to reach brahman is to reach krishna: krishna = the brahman of the upani ads, reaching krishna"s realm means escaping sa s ra, liberation from suffering (du kha).
