Bhagavad-Gita - As It Is

Full-sized hardback edition

Bhagavad-Gita is one of the supreme works of Sanskrit and indeed of all world literature. It is also one of the oldest. This unabridged hardback version is accepted in both academic circles and the ancient spiritual tradition it represents as the most authentic translation.

Meditation and yoga are everywhere now, but most of their current forms have lost their soul, being cut off from their root. That root is Bhagavad-Gita, the essence of India's vast storehouse of spiritual wisdom and the answer to the questions the modern world deem unknowable.

"When doubts haunt me when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day." Mahatma Gandhi.

"The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the clearest and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity." Aldous Huxley.

"In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding, it is necessary to attune our soul to it." Rudolph Steiner

"The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged monotheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute." Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial." Henry David Thoreau.