New PDF release: The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation

By Anonymous

ISBN-10: 0393083853

ISBN-13: 9780393083859

The Bhagavad Gita, the tune of the Lord, is an historical Hindu scripture approximately advantage, awarded as a discussion among Krishna, an incarnation of God, and the warrior Arjuna at the eve of a superb conflict over succession to the throne.

This new verse translation of the vintage Sanskrit textual content combines the abilities of prime Hinduist Gavin Flood with the stylistic verve of award-winning poet and translator Charles Martin. the result's a residing, brilliant paintings that avoids uninteresting pedantry and is still precise to the terribly influential unique. A devotional, literary, and philosophical masterpiece of unsurpassed attractiveness and imaginitive relevance, The Bhagavad Gita has encouraged, between others, Mahatma Gandhi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, and Aldous Huxley. Its common themes—life and demise, struggle and peace, sacrifice—resonate in a West more and more attracted to japanese non secular stories and the Hindu diaspora.

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The idea is to present the reader with the most cutting-edge social theories about globalization and resurgence of religion, backed with the best available facts and figures about everyday Hindu religiosity from the ground up. It is an attempt to breach the walls between the Ivory Tower of academic social sciences and the home, the street, the café, and wherever else non-academic intelligent readers live, work, and read. In short, this is a work of honest and rigorous scholarship meant to enlighten the reader and to make her think.

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When The New York Times talked to him in December 2007, one of his daughters was on assignment in New Jersey for Infosys, India’s leading software company. When the Times journalist graciously offered to carry a letter from the father in Mumbai to his daughter in New Jersey, Mr Sawant, the professional letter-writer, was puzzled: ‘Why would I send her a letter? I’ll just call her on the phone,’ he said. Raju, a teenager in Pondicherry, works in a restaurant in his summer break to save money to go to ‘computer classes’.

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