The Bhagavadgita
Publisher: Lotus Press
Published: December 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 634
ISBN-13: 9788186510018
Subjects: Religion: general; Religion; Ethnic & Tribal
First sentence: The peculiarity of the Gita among the great religious books of the world is that it does not stand apart as a work by itself, the fruit of the spiritual life of a creative personality like Christ, Mahomed or Buddha or of an epoch of pure spiritual searching like the Veda or Upanishads, but is given as an episode in an epic history of nations and their wars and men and their deeds and arises out of a critical moment in the soul of one of its leading personages face to face with the crowning action of his life, a work terrible, violent and sanguinary, at the point when he must either recoil from it altogether or carry it through to its inexorable completion.