PACS 164A Lecture 6: The Vedanta as Old/New Paradigm - The Gita on Human Action and Life’s Purpose

In this lecture, Professor Michael Nagler begins to outline the history of nonviolence and discusses how to extract meaningful information and lessons on nonviolence from that history. Professor Nagler covers topics such as “action, devotion, and wisdom,“ and ancient Indian epics such as the Mahabharata, as they are each presented in Gandhi’s works “Satyagraha in South Africa,” and “My Experiments with Truth” and the “Bhagavad Gita.“ Lecture Transcript: 0:00:47 Theory of Action and the Three Guṇas 0:02:30 Clash of Civilizations 0:04:40 Satyagraha in South Africa “ “ 0:07:24 Gandhi and the Gita 0:11:10 Three Modes of Realization 0:14:51 Karma Yoga 0:19:09 Detach from