The Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita

by Eknath Easwaran
The Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita

by Eknath Easwaran

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Overview

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 clarify 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.

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, as Easwaran points out, 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.

“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 The World’s Religions

Updated to be more accessible to readers with vision impairment (July, 2022)


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781586380236
Publisher: Nilgiri Press
Publication date: 06/01/2009
Series: Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
Sales rank: 166,215
File size: 835 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction7
1.The War Within47
2.The Illumined Man57
3.Selfless Service71
4.Wisdom in Action81
5.Renounce & Rejoice91
6.The Practice of Meditation99
7.Wisdom from Realization111
8.The Eternal Godhead119
9.The Royal Path129
10.Divine Splendor137
11.The Cosmic Vision147
12.The Way of Love159
13.The Field & the Knower165
14.The Forces of Evolution175
15.The Supreme Self181
16.Two Paths187
17.The Power of Faith193
18.Freedom & Renunciation201
Notes7
Glossary225
Index239
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