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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