Religious Studies
- Religious Studies / Volume 15 / Issue 03 / September 1979, pp 327-342
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500011483 (About DOI), Published online: 24 October 2008
Articles
The Dimensions of the Self: Buddhi in the Bhagavad-G¯tā and Psyché in Plotinus
A. H. Armstronga1 and R. Ravindraa2
a1 Departments of Classics and Philosophy
a2 Departments of Physics and Religion, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Bhagavad-Gītā is the most important text in the smrti (what is remembered) literature of India, as distinct from the śruti (what is heard) literature which is traditionally regarded as ultimately authoritative. The Bhagavad-Gītā has been assigned a date ranging from the fifth century B.C. to the second century B.C. The Indian religious tradition places the Gītā at the end of the third age of the present cycle of the universe and the beginning of the fourth, namely the Kali Yuga to which we belong.
