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Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is suggests a way of life for the contemporary Western world, and is derived from the Manu Smriti and other books of Hindu religious and social law. In this way of life, ideal human society is described as being divided into four varnas (brahmana – intellectuals, kshatriya – administrators, vaishya – merchants, shudra – workers).
The Bhagavad Gita (/ ˈ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː /; [1] Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], romanized: bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's song'), [a] often referred to as the Gita (IAST: gītā), is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, [7] which forms part of the epic Mahabharata.
Two foundational Swamis of the Ramakrishna Order had this advice: Swami Brahmananda, Prabhavananda's guru, said, "Let your first reading of the Gita be without commentary." [19] And Swami Saradananda says in his book The Essence of the Gita, "It is not necessary for you to study all those commentaries… It is enough to understand the meaning ...
The Bhagavad Gita. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-2841-3. (739 pages) A related book, containing only the English rendering of each verse (and not the Sanskrit text, grammatical information, or footnotes) is the "pocket edition": Sargeant, Winthrop (1994). The Bhagavad Gita. Albany, NY: State University of New ...
Bhagavad Gita, Srimad translated by Paramananda ISBN 0-911564-32-2; Book of Daily Thoughts and Prayers by Paramananda ISBN 0-911564-32-2; Christ and Oriental Ideals by Paramananda, Vedanta Centre Publishers; Concentration and Meditation By Paramananda, Vedanta Centre Publishers; Emerson and Vedanta by Paramananda, Vedanta Centre Publishers
Gita Makarandam was his most notable work. This is a commentary on Bhagavad Gita which he first wrote in Telugu. Later this book is translated into Tamil, English, Kannada, Hindi etc. [2] [6] He co-authored Vasishta Rama Samvadam (Dialogue between Vasishta and Rama) with Swami Nirvikalpananda which is published by Sri Ramakrishna Math ...
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The most important was his version of the Gita, published in 1785 as 'Bhagvat-geeta', or Dialogues of Krishna and Arjun (London: Nourse, 1785). In his preface Wilkins argued that the Gita was written to encourage a form of monotheist "unitarianism" and to draw Hinduism away from the polytheism he ascribed to the Vedas. [10]