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Work #368 · Mid-late

Anasakti Yoga: The Gita According to Gandhi

Mohandas K. Gandhi
1929-32 (translations and commentaries; collected as Anasakti Yoga 1930) · Gujarati / English
Translation and commentary · Indian political-religious philosophy

Gandhi's commentary on the Bhagavad Gita — anasakti (non-attachment) as the central spiritual-political category

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Attribute Anasakti Yoga: The Gita According to Gandhi (Mid-late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Cosmic-ordering
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Anasakti Yoga: The Gita According to Gandhi

Time of satyagraha practice.

Space

Anasakti Yoga: The Gita According to Gandhi

India-political space.

Matter

Anasakti Yoga: The Gita According to Gandhi

Embodied satyagrahi.

Observer

Anasakti Yoga: The Gita According to Gandhi

The satyagrahi reading the Gita.

Energy

Anasakti Yoga: The Gita According to Gandhi

Energies of selfless action.

Information

Anasakti Yoga: The Gita According to Gandhi

Bhagavad Gita read through Gandhian framework.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Anasakti Yoga: The Gita According to Gandhi

Gandhi's pacifist reading of the Gita has been continuously debated.