Jeaneane Fowler provides a text and detailed commentary on this
important Hindu scripture, which is a dialogue between Arjuna the
man and Krishna the God. Major Hindu concepts are examined in
depth, and the background to the Gita is presented in a
comprehensive introduction. Yoga is the key feature of the Gita but
it has its own interpretation of what that yoga should be: thus,
yoga features not only in each of the pathways of knowledge,
desireless action and devotion, but in the way in which the divine
is understood. The chapters of the Bhagavad Gita therefore describe
Arjunas despondency followed by The Yoga of Sankhya, Action,
Knowledge, Renunciation, Meditation, Knowledge and Realization, the
Imperishable Brahman, Royal Knowledge and Royal Mystery,
Manifestation, the Vision of the Universal Form, Devotion, the
Differentiation of the Kshetra and Kshetrajna, the Differentiation
of the Three Gunas, the Supreme Purusha, the Differentiation of the
Divine and the Demonic, the Differentiation of the Threefold
Shraddha and, finally, The Yoga of Liberation and Renunciation. The
book also contains detailed notes to the Gita chapters, a Further
Reading section, a combined Glossary and Index of Sanskrit Terms,
and an Index of English words. The cover of the book is replete
with symbolism. Krishna is always represented as blue in colour,
hence the colour of the hands in the cover design. The chariot of
Krishna and Arjuna is to be seen in the motif at the base, while
the triple motif symbolizes the triple paths of the Gita action
without desire for results, knowledge and devotion. There are also
three strands that make up all phenomena light and radiance,
energy, and inertia, as well as three aspects of the divine in the
Gita the totally transcendent Absolute, the manifest deity that is
also the essence of all things, and the personal God to whom
devotion can be given. The main image of Krishna is superimposed on
the roots of the ashvattha tree that features in chapter 15: its
branches reach down into the earth and its roots ascend upwards and
it represents phenomenal existence.
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