Centenary Year Celebrations – Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2B, Screening of Video Lectures of Swami A. Parthasarathy, New Delhi, 5–9 October 2026

Chapter 2 of the Bhagavad Gita opens on the battlefield of Kurukshetra with Arjuna paralysed by his own emotions. In its closing verses he puts a direct question to Sri Krishna: what is the mark of a person of steady wisdom — how does such a one speak, sit and walk in the world?

Krishna’s answer forms Chapter 2B, the Sthitaprajna portion. It draws the portrait of a human being whose intellect governs the mind, who meets gain and loss with the same poise, and who remains anchored within while remaining fully engaged in the world. Krishna also traces the reverse path — the exact sequence by which brooding on objects becomes attachment, attachment becomes desire, and desire ends in the ruin of the intellect.

Across five evenings these verses are unfolded in the recorded lectures of Swami A. Parthasarathy, in his own words, with the rigour that six decades of study and exposition of Vedanta brought to the text.