ABSTRACT
The Bhagavad-gītā which may be considered a Vaiṣṇava text, has enjoyed wide currency in India for two millennia or so. The chapter looks into how the Chaitanya Vaiṣṇavas have understood the Bhagavad-gītā and confines its attention to two mainline early Chaitanya theologians: Krsnadasa Kaviraja and Vishvanatha Chakravartin. It focuses on karma, i.e. work or action understood as a religious category, and raises the question of the Chaitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition’s understanding of the relationships between religious faith (devotion to Krishna) and sociopolitical life (dharma).
