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Here is a translation which seems to meet every test of literature and learning. I have been reading it with ease and unflagging delight. At last I seem to have found the Gita and to know why it is so great. Swami Nikhilananda is to be congratulated and thanked for his great achievement. Every student of religion and lover of the spirit stands in his debt. -- John Haynes Holmes, Unity
I have found your introduction and the translation of Sankara's preface extremely interesting and your synopsis of the story of the Mahabharata seems to me very useful in preparing the reader and setting him clear on the scene. I am convinced that this edition of yours will be valuable to all students of that extraordinary book. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I was deeply moved by the noble insistence upon spiritual inwardness that runs through the book. -- Samuel H. Goldenson, Rabbi, Congregation Emanu-El, New York
May this majestic poem find its way into the familiar literary friendship of many readers and contribute to the sense of spiritual kinship with the most gifted people of Asia, akin to us both in blood and in language. -- From the Foreword by William Ernest Hocking
Never in our time has this important work been made so accessible to the Western reader as in the present admirable translation by Swami Nikhilananda. -- Denver Lindley, Asia and the Americas
The Bhagavad Gita is one of the great documents of the human spirit. Insofar as an outsider can judge, this translation of Swami Nikhilananda and his introduction make it a more communicable and intelligible vehicle of the great Hindu tradition than to a Western reader it generally appears. -- Irwin Edman, Professor of Philosophy in Columbia University
The first really readable, authoritative English translation of one of the world's oldest and greatest religious classics. -- Time
This translation and commentary of the great Indian classic has the same brilliant ease and almost incredible sense of rightness and, as it were, natural clarity that characterized Swami Nikhilananda's volume The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. -- Stark Young, The New Republic
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The Bhagavad Gita, an important Hindu scripture, is one of the outstanding religious classics in the world, and this translation by Swami Nikhilananda has been called "the first really readable, authoritative translation".
Here is a translation which seems to meet every test of literature and learning. I have been reading it with ease and unflagging delight. At last I seem to have found the Gita and to know why it is so great. Swami Nikhilananda is to be congratulated and thanked for his great achievement. Every student of religion and lover of the spirit stands in his debt. -- John Haynes Holmes, Unity
I have found your introduction and the translation of Sankara's preface extremely interesting and your synopsis of the story of the Mahabharata seems to me very useful in preparing the reader and setting him clear on the scene. I am convinced that this edition of yours will be valuable to all students of that extraordinary book. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I was deeply moved by the noble insistence upon spiritual inwardness that runs through the book. -- Samuel H. Goldenson, Rabbi, Congregation Emanu-El, New York
May this majestic poem find its way into the familiar literary friendship of many readers and contribute to the sense of spiritual kinship with the most gifted people of Asia, akin to us both in blood and in language. -- From the Foreword by William Ernest Hocking
Never in our time has this important work been made so accessible to the Western reader as in the present admirable translation by Swami Nikhilananda. -- Denver Lindley, Asia and the Americas
The Bhagavad Gita is one of the great documents of the human spirit. Insofar as an outsider can judge, this translation of Swami Nikhilananda and his introduction make it a more communicable and intelligible vehicle of the great Hindu tradition than to a Western reader it generally appears. -- Irwin Edman, Professor of Philosophy in Columbia University
The first really readable, authoritative English translation of one of the world's oldest and greatest religious classics. -- Time
This translation and commentary of the great Indian classic has the same brilliant ease and almost incredible sense of rightness and, as it were, natural clarity that characterized Swami Nikhilananda's volume The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. -- Stark Young, The New Republic
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The Bhagavad Gita, an important Hindu scripture, is one of the outstanding religious classics in the world, and this translation by Swami Nikhilananda has been called "the first really readable, authoritative translation".
The Bhagavad Gita is unique among religious texts in its emphasis on the discharge of everyday duties, irrespective of their nature, as an effective discipline for the realization of God. The Gita teaches that if a man performs his duties, surrendering the fruit to God and discarding all selfish motives, he gains purity of heart and achieves ultimate liberation. It is knowledge of God that gives man the strength to face calmly and cheerfully the duties of life. The Gita shows the way to spiritualize life and illumine even its drab and gray phases with the radiance of the Spirit. It lays down practical spiritual disciplines that can be followed by all, irrespective of faith and creed.
This 256 page pocket edition, with only a few necessary notes, is especially designed for devotional reading. It's small size makes it convenient to carry. The text is identical to that of the annotated edition (ISBN 0-911206-09-4) and contains an introduction with a brief background and philosophy of The Gita.
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