The Ideas of Body in the Bhagavadgītā

Abstract

Abstract: By contemplating the question whether Arjuna should fight in the war, the Bhagavadgītā tries to mediate the conflict between the demands of secular life, the supramundane spirit of religion. Under the premise of redefining the body with the Sā?khya theory, the Bhagavadgītā advocates the idea of Yoga, aims to make the natural corporeal sanskritized through the movement of the sanctified body. Therefore, the Kurukshetra War can be viewed as a metaphor of the sanskritized body killing the natural flesh. Also, it is an example of the Yoga concept. By advocating the Yoga concept as a way of sanskritizing the body, the Bhagavadgītā tries to pursue a subtle integration between the supramundane spirit of religion, the practice of real life. Its purpose is standardizing the needs of people’s real life, maximizing the practical power of the body, consequently accomplishing a perfect balance between satisfying the needs of secular life, practicing the supramundane faith of religion

Key words: Bhagavadgītā, Sā?khya, Yoga, sanskritized, body

Ouyang Cancan. The Ideas of Body in the Bhagavadgītā[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2020, 42(6): 51-61.

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