Books : Bhagavad Gita (Spanish Edition)
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9788483061916
ISBN: 8483061910
Label: Debate
Manufacturer: Debate
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1999-06
Publisher: Debate
Sales Rank: 3007275
Studio: Debate
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A vivid new translation of the jewel of Hindu spirituality
ONE OF THE GLORIES of Sanskrit poetry, The Bhagavad Gita is the ancient spiritual text that forms a sublime synthesis of the many strands of Hindu belief. Taken from the Mahabharata epic, it details a dialogue between the divine Krishna and the human warrior Arjuna before a mighty battle in which Arjuna must decide whether to wage war against his own family. Krishna imparts spiritual enlightenment to Arjuna, teaching him the paths of knowledge, devotion, action, and meditation, and helping him to see beyond the temporal to the eternal. This new translation captures both the clarity of Hindu philosophy and the beauty of Sanskrit poetry.
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Juan Mascaro's masterful translation is the most moving and the most fulfilling of them all.
The Gita provides the subtle soul medicine to enable you to aspire to the moral heights invoked by the Sermon on the Mount. You read the wonderful, infinitely compassionate words of Christ, and you think, "Yes - but how can I live like that?" The Gita tells you how.
The Gita is a song, and a philosophy, and a spiritual tract; it is all of these and far more than these: it is the fundamental substance, the absolute bedrock of all true spirituality which is crystalised in our language at the highest pitch by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Keats. These poetic geniuses, though indisputably sublime at their heights, were relatively haphazard in their spiritual effects: whereas the steady, quietly relentless focus of the Gita is simply overwhelming. It is the deepest and richest of all mines: and its ore is the most perfect ore.
To read the Gita with a will, and to reflect on it continually, is to change your life forever. When the mind beholds truth, the heart leaps....
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in writing this review, i realise that the Ghita is from the Mahabarata and is seen as a great classic of hinduism. however it does not have detailed advice on how to practice the life transforming yoga of hinduism. you would learn far more from a guru than from reading this. though i am sure there is much merit in reading the Ghita, which no doubt transcends concept and logic.
i have not read this book for about six months and so am going from memory. it is a jewel in the sense that it points towards mystical experience... the primary experience aimed for in hinduism would seem to be blissful union.
each element has corresponding experiences. bliss is beautiful and highly stable, as is gold. however at heart bliss is cold, or numb. it has its role, it plays its function.
water is matched with balance and peace... the water of life, the cleansing water of truth. water soothes and levels, like air it is empty. empty of taste, flavour or colour, it is clear, but has a zing to it.
air is matched with freedom and as is water is a state of clarity and empty. mental freedom, awareness and perception.
water is penetrated by gold, air is penetrated by fire. fire is the highest of the immanent spiritual elements representing the emotion of love... warmth and burning.
one should not focus too much on the emptiness of air and water to the exclusion of the passions of love and beauty of gold.
each of ... Read More
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This religious work from Hindu culture is translated with clarity and grace. It is poetic but simple. the introduction by the translator is a must read. He not only presents the Bhagavad Gita, but places it in context with other spiritual Hindu and Christian literature. The best part is you do not have to be a scholar or a genius to understand the introduction or the book.
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full of mistranslations of key concepts..
there is just so much of this that it forms an underlying structural
orientation of the translation, starting with the [long] introduction
with bible quotes to justify translation choices..
the last words of krishna are changed to "thy will be done"
lifted straight from mathew, luke and the lords prayer..
a translation by an academic bible scholar, shows its origins..
and ruins the subtleties of this timeless discourse..
carl
namaste
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This book contains a very excellent introduction that helps a novice such as myself understand the historical and theological context of this great work. Perhaps an individual more well-acquainted with the subject would find the lengthy introduction unhelpful, but then such a person would probably not be in need of the material in this book at all. If one is just looking for a copy of the conversation between Arjuna and Krishna (that is, the Bhagavad Gita itself), this book contains far more than is necessary.
I found the entire work to be wonderful, and maybe even a learned student in the subject would find some of the comments in the introduction thought-provoking.
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