Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. “God”
2.Historical Retrospect
The Unique Individual Creates Scripture
Complex Origins
History of the Gita Connection
3. The Case for Shared Absolutes
4. Life Symbols That Essentialize
Ax/Axis/Axes
The Upside-Down Tree
The Field (kshetra)/“The Bean-Field”
Eye and Light
5. Social and Ethical Absolutes
Courage/Cowardice
Sincerity/Hypocrisy
Egalitarianism/Elitism
6. Purity
7. Reality and Being
Body (Self/Spirit)
Matter and the Levels of Spirit
Essence and Tropology: Synecdoche and the Punch of Cumulative, Climactic, Terminal Metaphor
Denial of Opposites (dvandva-moha-nir-mukta)
Liberation from Delusion
The Infinitudes, Especially of Time
8. Three Ways to God
Preamble: Yoga
Work (karma)
Knowledge
Faith (s´raddaha)/Loving Devotion (bhakti)
9. The Gita within Walden Expanded: A Poetics for Activism
Gita, Gandhi, Walden, King: The Making of a Political Classic
Conclusions
References
Index