Gita Glossary

A persistent, LLM-maintained knowledge base for Vedantic philosophy, built from Swami Sarvapriyananda's Bhagavad Gita lecture series. Each Sanskrit term, each Gita character, each philosophical idea has its own page — interlinked and tied back to the lectures that taught it.

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Atman

आत्मन् · ātman

The true self — unchanging witness-consciousness, identical with brahman.

Brahman

ब्रह्मन् · brahman

The absolute reality — identical with the true self (atman), named as sat-chit-ananda.

Ashvattha Tree

अश्वत्थ · aśvattha

The "upside-down tree" — Gita 15.1's image of *samsara* with roots above (in Brahman) and branches below (the world of beings); leaves are the Vedas; nourished by the gunas; chained downward by karma. The tree is to be cut, with the *axe of non-attachment*, by anyone who would reach the goal *from which one does not return*.

Sat Chit Ananda

सच्चिदानन्द · saccidānanda

Existence-Consciousness-Bliss — the classical Advaita definition of brahman.

Dharma

धर्म · dharma

A multivalent term meaning righteousness, duty, moral order, and the good that one does.

Karma Yoga

कर्मयोग · karma-yoga

The path of action — how to live in the world while pursuing moksha.

Bhakti Yoga

भक्तियोग · bhakti-yoga

The yoga of love and devotion — turning one's entire being toward God as the beloved. The fourth of the four yogas; Chapter 12's subject; the path that, developed fully, is indistinguishable from jnana-yoga at the summit.

Gunatita

गुणातीत · guṇātīta

"One who has transcended the three gunas." Chapter 14's specific name for the realized being — equivalent referent to sthitaprajna (Ch 2), the mature bhakta (Ch 12), and the kshetrajna-knower (Ch 13), but profiled in the specific register of *guna-transcendence*. Arjuna asks for the gunatita's marks at 14.21; Krishna gives the portrait in 14.22–14.25.

101 Concepts Sanskrit and Vedantic terms — the substance of the glossary. 33 Entities People, characters, texts, places. 83 Verses Ch 1–15.4 (lecture corpus).

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