Find Your Highest Fulfillment
The Gita is a treasure trove of practical tools for the spiritual life. In Keys to the Bhagavad Gita, Nayaswami Gyandev and Nayaswami Diksha will help you apply those tools to your own life, aided by Paramhansa Yogananda’s powerful Gita insights.
Keys to the Bhagavad Gita is an inspiring blend of specific methods, deep insights, and personal support.
Online Self-Paced Course with Lifetime Enrollment
- 7 hours of on-demand video
- 7 recorded webinars, available for watching anytime
- Extensive written resources
- Personal feedback from faculty
- Lifetime access to course materials
“The Bhagavad Gita is the greatest metaphysical, psychological treatise that was ever given to the world. It describes definitely, in detail, all the experiences of the spiritual traveler in the path of emancipation.”
— Paramhansa Yogananda, Inner Culture, May 1934
You Will Learn How To:
- Live in harmony with the law of karma
- Bring your heart more dynamically into your spiritual quest
- Avoid the mental and emotional traps that can block your growth
- Live your outer life in a way that feeds your inner life—and vice versa
- Use the mind as a powerful tool for inner growth
- Vitalize your spiritual life through the practice of yagya
- Transform the habits and tendencies that hold you back
- Deepen your practice of meditation
- Strengthen your relationship with God
- Draw divine grace into all areas of your life
“A new scripture has been born! Millions will find God through this book. Not just thousands. Millions! I have seen it. I know.”
— Paramhansa Yogananda on his Gita commentaries, The New Path
Course Activities
- Deepen your understanding via mini-class videos with Gyandev & Diksha
- Connect with faculty and classmates through bi-weekly “live” webinars (recorded for those who cannot attend)
- Solidify your understanding of each lesson via review exercises
- Further explore key topics through supplemental materials, including mini-class videos and audios by Swami Kriyananda
- Opportunities for a private meeting with faculty
Additional Benefit
You can use $80 of your course tuition toward The Bhagavad Gita: Bring its Power into Daily Living, which is a six-week online course with more content and a broader range of activities, including guided practice sessions, small-team activities among the participants, and more “live” opportunities with Gyandev and Diksha. The Bhagavad Gita: Bring its Power into Daily Living is required for Level 2 Certification for Meditation® teachers and Ananda Yoga® teachers.
Keys to the Bhagavad Gita is an excellent way to prepare for the six-week, in-depth The Bhagavad Gita: Bring its Power into Daily Living course.
“One extraordinary aspect of the Bhagavad Gita is its universality. Whatever the needs of any particular time or people, this great scripture addresses them all from the highest point of view.”
— Swami Kriyananda, The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita
Course Materials
Main Textbook
The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita, Explained by Paramhansa Yogananda is clear, practical, and deep. It gives you fresh insights into the universal truths that underlie all spiritual traditions. It also gives you fresh insights into yourself, and how to experience them through the nonsectarian tools of Yoga. Swami Kriyananda, Ananda’s founder and one of Yogananda’s closest disciples, based this book on his years of working closely with the Master and his Gita teachings.
We recommend that you buy the book well before the course begins (it is not included in the course tuition), and read as much of it in advance as time allows. You can get the ebook on Amazon, or receive a 30% discount through Ananda’s publisher, Crystal Clarity for paperback, ebook or audiobook (use the discount code OWAESSBG30%OFF).
Additional Resources
(Included in the course fee)
Digital version of A Concise Bhagavad Gita, by Nayaswami Gyandev. This short book will make it much easier for you to follow the overall flow of the Gita.
Gyandev’s new, 2-hour storytelling audio of The Mahabharata brings to life important teachings in the Gita, for this captivating tale is a metaphor for your own spiritual growth.
The course videos and webinars will often refer to this story, so we recommend that students purchase it.
“The Bhagavad Gita teaches that no one can escape action—karma, in other words—by refraining
from action.
But the Gita also teaches an invaluable method for escaping karma.”
— Paramhansa Yogananda, The Essence of Self-Realization
Meet Your Instructors
Nayaswami Gyandev, PhD, E-RYT 500
Gyandev is director of the Ananda School of Yoga & Meditation. A Certified Online Instructor, he has been teaching online for more than 12 years. He is also director of Ananda Yoga worldwide and co-directs the Ananda Meditation Teacher Training programs (online and in person). He has been training teachers of yoga and meditation for more than 25 years.
Gyandev is a Kriyacharya (teacher of Kriya Yoga), and he is known for his clarity of presentation, deep insights, high energy, kindness, and humor. He has shared the yoga teachings for more than 35 years with people from all walks of life, and from all over the world. In addition to one of your course texts—A Concise Bhagavad Gita—Gyandev has written Guide to the Mahabharata and Life of Sri Krishna, available at WaysToFreedom.com.
A co-founder of Yoga Alliance, Gyandev has authored four books (including Spiritual Yoga: Awakening to Higher Awareness) as well as numerous video and audio products. From his base at The Expanding Light Retreat in Northern California, he also teaches across the U.S., and in Canada, India, and Europe.
Nayaswami Diksha, E-RYT 500
Diksha is a senior faculty member of the Ananda School of Yoga & Meditation and E-RYT 500. An experienced online instructor, she directs both the online and the in-person versions of Ananda Spiritual Counseling Training, and she co-direct Ananda Meditation Teacher Training.
Diksha has been practicing and sharing the yoga teachings for more than 30 years, and training meditation and yoga teachers for more than 20 years. A powerful and dynamic woman of great warmth and humor, she is gifted in both intelligence and intuition. In addition to teaching online and at The Expanding Light Retreat in Northern California, she has shared yogic teachings across the U.S., and in Canada, India, and Europe.
A native Israeli, Diksha moved to the U.S. in 1990. She brings a broad background to her teaching—from physical wellness to Ayurveda to profound spiritual understanding. Above all, she awakens in her students their own inner wisdom and the will and clarity to make positive changes in their lives.
“The Gita says, ‘This is the way you are all seeking! Nothing sought in any other direction will ever give you what you yourself so ardently desire!’”
— Swami Kriyananda, The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita
FAQs
This course is open to everyone; no prior familiarity with the Bhagavad Gita is needed. Some meditation background will be useful, because it’s a frequent Gita topic, and basic instruction is provided within the course.
Everyone can participate at any pace or level that they prefer.
All course activities are optional. The basic activities will take about 2 hours per week, and additional activities are available.
No, the course web page is always open, and you can participate at any time that you wish.
You can enjoy interaction during the live webinars, and there is a Q&A forum where you can ask questions. You can also have a one-to-one meeting with faculty.
Yes, and we recommend it! The course website will open two weeks before the official start of the course. You can also buy your textbook, The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita (see “Course materials” above). It’s a substantial book, so read as much of it as you can before the course begins. It will be especially helpful if you read chapters 5–16 of this textbook. Pre-course reading is not required, but you’ll be happy if you’ve done it.
All participants get lifetime access to all of the recorded audios and videos, as well as any supplemental materials that are included in the course tuition.
The course website is easy to use, plus it offers “how to” instructions to help you.
No, a free Zoom account is all you’ll need.
Yes, up to 30 hours of CE credit for Yoga Alliance RYTs. Email us in advance (see “More questions?” below) for more information.
More Questions? Please email us.
“This course is the one of the most valuables I had taken in a very long time. It should be a requirement for all of us in the early years of our life. To understand who we are and what we are not. To understand the divine creation and that even though God loves us deeply, we still need to do our work. This knowledge helps us to realized that we actually can kill, kill our pains, angers, frustrations, expectations and reach freedom and the kingdom of God here on earth.” – Aracelli R.-L.
“A study of the Bhagavad Gita is of little use unless it is applied in practical life. The vastness of the inner import can only be understood when we know how to apply it in various phases of life.”
— Paramhansa Yogananda, East-West, August 1932
Take Your Spiritual Life to the Next Level
Your own direct experience will help you discover the power of the Bhagavad Gita’s wisdom—and your own high spiritual potential.
A Deeper Way to Explore the Gita
For those who would like to explore the Gita in more depth, with many more activities and resources, plus more interaction with faculty and classmates, The Bhagavad Gita: Bring Its Power into Daily Living will be offered in Oct–Nov, 2024.
Keys to the Bhagavad Gita
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