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The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it... read more
First Sentence
Sanjaya, tell me what my sons and the sons of Pandu did when they met, wanting to battle on the field of Kuru, on the field of sacred duty?
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Bhagavad-Gita: Context and Text
Translator's Note
I. The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War
1. The First Teaching: Arjuna's Dejection
2. The Second Teaching: Philosophy and Spiritual Discipline
3. The Third Teaching: Discipline of Action
4. The Fourth Teaching: Knowledge
5. The Fifth Teaching: Renunciation of Action
6. The Sixth Teaching: The Man of Discipline
7. The Seventh Teaching: Knowledge and Judgment
8. The Eighth Teaching: The Infinite Spirit
9. The Ninth Teaching: The Sublime Mystery
10. The Tenth Teaching: Fragments of Divine Power
11. The Eleventh Teaching: The Vision of Krishna's Totality
12. The Twelfth Teaching: Devotion
13. The Thirteenth Teaching: Knowing the Field
14. The Fourteenth Teaching: The Triad of Nature's Qualities
15. The Fifteenth Teaching: The True Spirit of Man
16. The Sixteenth Teaching: The Divine and the Demonic in Man
17. The Seventeenth Teaching: Three Aspects of Faith
18. The Eighteenth Teaching: The Wondrous Dialogue Concludes
Afterword: Why Did Henry David Thoreau Take the Bhagavad-Gita to Walden Pond?
Key Words in the Bhagavad-Gita
Authors & Contributors
- Barbara Stoller Miller (Translator)
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