The Bhagavad Gita

'I have heard the supreme mystery, yoga, from Krishna, from the lord of yoga himself.' Thus ends the Bhagavad Gita, the most famous episode from the great Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata. In its eighteen short chapters Krishna's teaching leads the warrior Arjuna from perplexity to understanding and correct action, in the process raising and developing many key themes from the history of Indian religions. The Bhagavad Gita is the best known and most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world. It considers social and religious duty, the nature of sacrifice, the nature of action, the means to liberation, and the relationship of human beings to God. It culminates in an awe-inspiring vision of Krishna as God omnipotent, disposer and destroyer of the universe.

ISBN 0199538123   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780199538126 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 101 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192835819 Publication date 14 Aug 2008   Height (mm) 195 Translator W.J. Johnson   Width (mm) 128 DEWEY 294.5924   Spine width (mm) 8 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General Pages 128

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