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In these talks delivered in 2010 and 2011, the author examines Chapters Eleven to Eighteen of Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita. The first three chapters on “Works and Sacrifice”, “The Significance of Sacrifice” and “The Lord of Sacrifice” explore the concepts of yagna, karma, and Brahman (sacrifice, work, and the Absolute). The remaining chapters examine the principle of divine works to be done not for the sake of the world but for a spiritual unity with the Divine; the Gita’s introduction of the concept of the Avatar through Sri Krishna, giving rise to the devotional aspect of yoga; and the process of avatarhood representing the divine descent into a human vessel for the work of overseeing the dual process of inner individual progress and outer collective advancement in the spiritual evolution of consciousness here on earth. Last is the injunction for the divine worker to live in a state of equality, free of any attachment to works, free from the egoism of the doer, free from even the desire to serve.