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| The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Eknath Easwaran
Publisher: Nilgiri Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 9843
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 296
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 1586380192
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.5924
EAN: 9781586380199
ASIN: 1586380192
Publication Date: May 17, 2007
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 A Jewel of Spiritual Wisdom January 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the second book in Easwaran's series, Classics of Indian Spirituality, that I have read. This work is one of the most important spiritual writings ever created. Easwaran's translation is easily readable, and his introduction to the Bhagavad Gita is priceless. Easwaran had such a pleasant, inviting, and passionate way of describing the mystical experience of Self-realiztion that one is overly eager to delve into the work he is introducing in just a few pages.
Each chapter includes an introduction that is helpful. Notes on key verses are contained in the back as well as an extremely useful glossary of important terms.
I cannot aptly describe the beauty that is contained in these scriptures, so I will just highly recommend you purchase this book and experience the Gita for yourself. After being impressed by Easwaran's translations of the Dhammapada and this work, I read his book Meditation, and I'm now reading his translation of the Upanishads. I have found that this man was a true teacher of the spiritual path to Self-realization/enlightenment/God-realization (call it what you will). I recommend his works and his Eight-Point Program (found in the book, Meditation) as a genuine way for regular people with regular lives (jobs, families, bills, etc.) who have no intention of selling all their possessions and moving to the Himalayas to truly live a practical, spiritual life.
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 The translation has some good features. October 19, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Easwaran's translation has some good features. There is a good introduction, and each chapter has an introduction. At the end is a glossary of important Sanskrit terms, and a good index. But the translation itself is sometimes faulty. It is not literal enough, sometimes it's too much a paraphrase, which sometimes changes the meaning. One important example is in 13:28, where he has "he does not harm himself or others". The Sanskrit text does not have "others" at all. It seems that Easwaran was influenced by his pacifism. The Bhagavad Gita is in reality not pacifistic.
Very insightful and readable October 13, 2007
I have no previous experience with this faith or their literature, and I thought that Easwaran did a wonderful job of providing the necessary background information to the text so that the layperson could understand what was going on. Those in-between chapters, along with the introduction, were indispensable, and unfortunately, all too forgotten in most holy literature and translations these days.
The story itself is legendary, and I can see why. Great job.
An invaluable religious studies and reference text September 2, 2007
Expertly and accessibly translated into English by teacher Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999), The Bhagavad Gita, or "The Song of the Lord" is the classic East Indian Hindu scripture, which begins on a battlefield upon which the anguished warrior Arjuna questions his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, about the most crucial matters of life and death. Easwaran's translation of The Bhagavad Gita retains a lyrical, poetic flow, and is supplemented by a foreword, an introduction, and notes on the meanings of the original Sanskrit terms, and a glossary. An invaluable religious studies and reference text, which belongs side by side on religious studies shelves along with annotated copies of the Bible, the Koran, and other core spiritual scripture.
An Accessible Key to Liberation June 24, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The beauty of Eknath Eswaran's eloquent translation lies in its easy accessibility. It is not necessary that the reader be conversant in Eastern spiritually to benefit from this fine volume. Easwaran offers clear and understandable explanations for terms that may be unfamiliar to the novice Western reader and supplements those explanations with an extensive glossary. Eswaran's introduction and chapter summaries aid the reader to move their focus from the external battlefield where Arjuna and Krishna carry on their conversation, to the inner battle for self-mastery each of us faces. Under Eswaran's expert tutelage, Arjuna's quest for liberation quickly becomes our own. Easwaran's chapter introductions go beyond a mere summary of the chapter contents and include information that will aid the reader in putting the information to use in their life. The primary theme of the Gita is renunciation. But as Easwaran points out, it is not a renunciation of material things or of pleasure that is required, but the attachments and aversions we have constructed that enslave us to them. Every spiritual seeker would be benefited by adding Eknath Easwaran's translations of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Upanishads to their bookshelf.
Lee & Steven Hager are the authors of Quantum Prodigal Son: Revisiting Jesus' Parable of the Prodigal Son from the Perspective of Quantum Mechanics
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