"[A] monk, entering the room where Guruji was working [on God Talks with Arjuna], remembers: 'The vibration in that room was unbelievable; it was like walking into God.'"

"'I dictate scriptural interpretations and letters all day,' Paramahansaji wrote to a student during this period, 'with eyes closed to the world, but open always to heaven.'"

Yogananda says that reading this book or any spiritual book so directly inspired by God actually will raise the consciousness of the reader while one is reading (though doing so is obviously no substitute for meditation: Self-Realization cannot be attained by reading alone). This is no surprise as you will find in this book an unparalleled clarity, even among Yogananda's own works (I would not say it is better than his other works, as each book of his has its time and place, but this book has a unique style of language that may be most accuratly described as pure wisdom).

However, this book is not for the merely curious, as it is a huge work and may take lifetimes to understand, although the curious may find themselves committed for life to truth and yoga meditation after reading a few passages from this holy scripture.


One should read it always.   February 17, 2001
 7 out of 9 found this review helpful

I am now reading this book written by my Gurudeva. I am really impressed with the interpretation of Verses of Bhagabat Gita. When I start to read this book everytime I feel that it is writeen just to uplif my soul. One should read and understand it to understand spirituality, life and matter of deciding right and wrong


An inspired commentary by a spiritual master   December 27, 2000
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Those who have read Autobiography of a Yogi will probably be at least curious re. this version of the Gita, translated by the Autobiography's author, Paramahansa Yogananda. In the forward it says that this was Yogananda's last great work--he spend a long time in solitutde to leave this translation and his massive commentary on it to the world. The book is a Gita for Gita lovers. It goes as deeply as possibgle inbot each verse. If you are new to the Gita you might want to ease into it with another great three volume commentary by Eknath Easwaran. The first volume is entitled "The End of Sorrow," and it makes the Gita very accessible to the western reader with all sorts of anecdotes from everyday experience to help illuminate the passages. Paramahansa Yogananda's Gita is, to me, for those firmly on the spiritual path. For them it is manna from heaven.


Spiritual warriors on the battelfield of daily life   September 5, 2000
 9 out of 12 found this review helpful

Yoganandas purports are great insights in the souls struggel for enlightenment. He takes the Bhagavad Gita as a symbolic description of inner forces of human life: the field of Kurukshetra is the human body, the Pandavas are representing the functions of the different chakras and Krishna is the divine aspect of the soul. Yoganandas explanations are generally based on Kriya Yoga.


Superb and Most Inspiring   August 31, 2000
 15 out of 18 found this review helpful

This is one single book which is pouring out the heart and mind of the author who has submerged himself in the Realisation of God. I started doing meditation by reading this book and as most of the procedure is given in this book started actually looking at spirtual eye and the pole star. Sometimes automatically get something rising up my spine in the early hours when I meditate and all these have been achieved by reading and meditating. The hearing of cosmic sound 'om' even after closing the ears is another benefit I started getting after reading this book and practicing meditation. This book never talks of any religion and gives in depth the meaning of this great epic in simple terms. It should be termed as a treatise on Yoga.