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The Bhagavad GitaBy: Swami Nikhilananda 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 of The World's Religions.
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