Tyaga

Renunciation — the essence of the Gita, according to Sri Ramakrishna.

Overview

Tyaga means renunciation: giving up worldliness for spirituality. Sri Ramakrishna’s compressed summary of the Bhagavad Gita turns on a Bengali wordplay — if you repeat “Gita, Gita, Gita, Gita” quickly, the sound collapses into tagi (त्यागी), the renouncer. That, Ramakrishna said, is the essence of the whole book.

Related concepts

• Associated teacher: ramakrishna
• Orientation toward moksha
• Summary of bhagavad-gita

Lecture evidence

• Ep. 1 [17:34]: Repeat “Gita” ten times and it becomes tagi — renunciation is the essence of the Gita.