The Path in Brief
Shankara on the Teacher/Pupil relationship, Bhagavad Gita verses IV. 34-39 Shankara’s text-frames and summarizing comments. The Gita, like many other divinely-inspired texts, gives its teachings in groups of verses, which have to be read together as a unity. Then another subject may be taken up abruptly, not closely related to the first one. If a…