The Bhagavad-gita: The Sacred Song

ISBN: 0962109924

Author: Prasad, Ramananda

Condition: New

Henry David Thoreau said:

"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."

Mahatma Gandhi said:

"When disappoint stares me in the face and all alone I see not one ray of light, I go back to the Bhagavad-Gita. I find a verse here and a verse there, and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming tragedies."

ABOUT THIS RENDITION

This lucid rendition allows the average person and the scholar an easy entry into a vast ocean of transcendental knowledge. The important verses are printed in red for the convenience of the first time readers and concise commentaries are made only on key verses that enables a reader to get directly to the point. Simultaneously, this work is intended for advanced readers, presenting the original Sanskrit text in an easy to read format along with the Roman transliteration. The sayings of saints and sages of major religious denominations as well as world leaders and scholars are included.

Quotations from the Vedas, Upanishads, BrahmaSutra, YogaSutra, BhaktiSutras, Puranas, ManuSmriti, Ramayanas, Mahabharata, as well as other major scriptures of the world such as the Bible, Dhammapada, and Koran have been incorporated to highlight the basic unity of all religious views and help propagate the Universal Fellowship of humankind. Several mantras, a guide to meditation, and forty verses of the Holy Gita (Gita Chalisa) are included for daily reading and contemplation.