The Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran’s Classics of Indian Spirituality Guide 1)

Easwaran’s best-selling translation of the Bhagavad Gita is dependable, readable, and profound. His 55-page introduction locations the Gita in its historic context, presents key ideas, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. This version contains chapter introductions, notes and a Sanskrit glossary.

Easwaran grew up within the Hindu custom in India, discovered Sanskrit from a younger age, and have become a professor of English literature earlier than coming to the West. He’s a gifted trainer and an authority on the Indian classics and world mysticism.

The Gita opens, dramatically, on a battlefield, because the warrior Arjuna turns in anguish to his non secular information, Sri Krishna, for solutions to the basic questions of life. But the Gita shouldn’t be what it appears – it’s not a dialogue between two legendary figures on the daybreak of Indian historical past. “The battlefield is an ideal backdrop, however the Gita’s topic is the warfare inside, the battle for self-mastery that each human being should wage if she or he is to emerge from life victorious.”