The Bhagavad Gita The Bhagavad Gita
Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality

The Bhagavad Gita

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Publisher Description

The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.

Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions give clear explanations of key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.

Easwaran grew up in the Hindu tradition in India and learned Sanskrit from a young age. He was a professor of English literature before coming to the West on a Fulbright scholarship. A gifted teacher, he is recognized as an authority on the Indian classics and world mysticism.

“No one in modern times is more qualified – no, make that ‘as qualified’ – to translate the epochal Classics of Indian Spirituality than Eknath Easwaran. And the reason is clear. It is impossible to get to the heart of those classics unless you live them, and he did live them. My admiration of the man and his works is boundless.” – Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions.

The Bhagavad Gita opens, dramatically, on a battlefield, as the warrior Arjuna turns in anguish to his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, for answers to the fundamental questions of life. Yet the Gita is not what it seems – it’s not a dialogue between two mythical figures at the dawn of Indian history. “The battlefield is a perfect backdrop, but the Gita’s subject is the war within, the struggle for self-mastery that every human being must wage if he or she is to emerge from life victorious.”


Arjuna’s struggle in the Bhagavad Gita is acutely modern. He has lost his way on the battlefield of life and turns to find the path again by asking direct, uncompromising questions of his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, the Lord himself. Krishna replies in 700 verses of sublime instruction on living and dying, loving and working, and the nature of the soul.


Easwaran shows the Gita’s relevance to us today as we strive, like Arjuna, to do what is right.

GENRE
Religion & Spirituality
RELEASED
2007
May 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
296
Pages
PUBLISHER
Nilgiri Press
SELLER
The Blue Mountain Center of Meditation
SIZE
1.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Tinymuciscian5 ,

amazing!

What I like about this book is that it is comforting.

bffm89 ,

Insightful, warm, & accessible!

This is my favorite translation of the Bhagavad-Gita. It’s easy to read and highly accessible while still being deeply profound. I highly recommend this translation for both newcomers to the Bhagavad-Gita and seasoned philosophers alike.

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