Gita: A Spiritual Truth Applied to the External Life and Action

But note that the Gita was not meant by the writer to be an allegory-you can say, if you like, that now we should dismiss the ancient war element by interpreting it as if it were an allegory. The Gita is yoga, spiritual truth applied to the external life and action-but it may be any action and not necessarily an action resembling that of the Gita. The principle of the spiritual consciousness applied to action has to be kept-the particular example used by the Gita may be treated as a thing belonging to a past world.