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सांख्य योगThe Yoga of Analysis

Krishna answers — and lays out the entire framework in a single chapter. · 72 verses · 0 wired

ABOUT THIS CHAPTER

Sankhya Yoga, the Yoga of Analysis, is Krishna's first reply to Arjun's collapse. It is the longest chapter of the Bhagavad Gita — 72 verses — and contains some of the text's most-cited verses (2.47, 2.48, 2.50). Krishna does not begin with reassurance. He begins with diagnosis. He tells Arjun, in effect: your problem is that you don't know who you are.

[Pillar content drafts as Chapter 2 publishes; this is a placeholder essay that will expand when verses 2.1–2.72 ship.]

THEMES

the self that doesn't dieknowledge as the foundation of actionequipoise as the goalskill in action

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