Easwaran's best-selling translation of the Bhagavad Gita is reliable, readable, and profound.
His 55-page introduction places the Gita in its historical context, presents key concepts, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings.
This edition includes chapter introductions, notes and a Sanskrit glossary.
Easwaran grew up in the Hindu tradition in India, learned Sanskrit from a young age, and became a professor of English literature before coming to the West.
He is a gifted teacher and an authority on the Indian classics and world mysticism.
The 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 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.
Nilgiri Press The bhagavad gita, paperback/eknath easwaran
