Bhagavad Gita The Beloved Lord's Secret Love Song

Name: Bhagavad Gita The Beloved Lord's Secret Love Song
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ISBN: 9780060754259

ISBN-10: 0060754257

ISBN-13: 9780060754259

Edition: 2006

Authors: Graham M. Schweig

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The Bhagavad Gita is often regarded as the Bible of India. With a gripping story and deeply compelling message, it is unquestionably one of the most popular sacred texts of Asia and, along with the Bible and the Qur'an, one of the most important holy scriptures in the world. Part of an ancient Hindu epic poem, the dialogue of the Bhagavad Gita takes place on a battlefield, where a war for the possession of a North Indian kingdom is about to ensue between two noble families related by blood. The epic's hero, young Prince Arjuna, is torn between his duty as a warrior and his revulsion at the thought of his brothers and cousins killing each other over control of the realm. Frozen by this…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/24/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.38" wide x 9.25" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



The meaning of Bhagavad Gita


The Bhagavad Gita in context


Outer and inner conflict


Literary dimensions


Bhagavad Gita


Dramatis personae


The setting


Epithets



Arjuna's conflict and despair



The way of discernment



The way of action



The way of knowledge



The way of renunciation



The way of meditation



The way of realized knowledge



The transcendent brahman



The king of secrets



The sublime presence of divinity



Vision of the universal form



The way of love



Primordial nature and the person



The qualities of nature



The ultimate person



The divine and ungodly natures



The three types of faith



The supreme secret of yoga


Textual illuminations


The yoga of the Bhagavad Gita


Sanjaya : minister and visionary


Arjuna : warrior and softhearted soul


Krishna : intimate and infinite divinity


The secret love song


Sanskrit text


On the English transliteration


Recitation of Sanskrit verse


The complete Sanskrit text