Sukha: Perspectives on Bliss from the Gita

 

Sukha: 

Perspectives on Bliss from the Gita 

Course Overview

The Bhagavad Gītā offers profound and practical insights into the nature of happiness (sukha) and suffering (duḥkha). Rather than treating happiness as a fleeting emotional state, the Gītā presents it as an outcome of right understanding, inner discipline, and equanimity.

This course explores the Gītā’s vision of happiness by examining sorrow, suffering, their causes, and the means to transcend them. It also studies different dimensions of sukha, the dangers of attachment to pleasure, and the possibility of abiding peace that arises from transcending the duality of sukha and duḥkha.

The course also serves as the concluding part of the Pañcakośa series, focusing on Ānanda as experienced through sukha and duḥkha, and the Gītā’s guidance on going beyond this dual experience.

 

Course Content

1. Understanding Suffering (Duḥkha)

  • Great sorrow and human suffering
  • Causes of suffering
  • Suffering as an outcome
  • Disconnecting the connection with suffering
  • Overcoming all suffering

2. Understanding Happiness (Sukha)

  • Endless sukha and noble sukha
  • Increasing sukha: is it possible?
  • Types of sukha described in the Gītā
  • Attachment to sukha

3. Sukha–Duḥkha Duality

  • Duality of sukha and duḥkha
  • Sukha and duḥkha as part of the kṣetra (field of experience)
  • Common source of both sukha and duḥkha
  • Equanimity in sukha and duḥkha and its outcome

4. Pañcakośa Perspective (Conclusion)

  • Review of Anna, Prāṇa, Manas, and Vijñāna-maya Kośas
  • Ānanda as experienced through sukha and duḥkha
  • Transcending the duality of sukha and duḥkha
  • Gītā’s vision of abiding happiness

Methodology

  • Selected Bhagavad Gītā ślokas will be chanted
  • Word-by-word splitting and meaning
  • Explanation based on traditional commentaries of
    • Ācārya Śaṅkara
    • Ācārya Rāmānuja
  • Simple illustrations and contemplative reflections
  • Suitable for both beginners and serious students of the Gītā

Course Structure

  • Number of Classes: 14
  • Frequency: Weekly
  • Day & Time: Every Wednesday, 7:00 – 8:00 PM
  • Start Date: 7th January 2026

Fees

  • Course Fee: ₹5,000

Registration & Access

  • Write to express desire to join: mantrartha@gmail.com  
  • Register by: Dec 31, 2025  
  • Get the payment details through  email response
  • Kindly pay the fees and intimate after payment
  • A WhatsApp group link will be shared for enrolled participants
  • Live class links, handouts, and recordings will be shared through the group
  • Class recordings will be uploaded on YouTube and shared the next day after processing

Intended Outcome

By the end of the course, participants will gain a clear understanding of the Gītā’s strategies for happiness, learn to relate wisely to pleasure and pain, and cultivate inner balance and peace in everyday life.

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