LoginThe Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War
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On the list of the greatest spiritual books of all time, the Bhagavad Gita resides permanently in the top echelon. This poem of patently Indian genius sprouted an immense tree of devotional, artistic, and philosophical elaboration in the subcontinent. As one of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the Mahabharata.
The scene is a battlefield with the prince Arjuna pitted against his own family, but no sooner does the poem begin than the action reverts inwar
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Manufacturer: Quality Paperback Book Club
Release date: 20 December 1998
ISBN-10 : B000UD7OQK |
Release date: 20 December 1998
ISBN-10 : B000UD7OQK |
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