By Catherine A. Robinson
The Bhagavad-Gita is among the most well liked - and definitely the main often quoted and broadly studied - paintings of the Hindu scriptures. This booklet investigates the connection among many of the interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Hindu tradition.
Taking under consideration various influential Indian and western thinkers to demonstrate tendencies in writing in regards to the Bhagavad-Gita together with Western educational; Indian activist; Christian theological; Hindu universalist; perennialist mystical and modern experiental money owed. studying the guidelines of such influential figures as F Max Muller, M okay Ghandi, Bede Griffiths, Swami Vivekananda, Aldous Huxley and Swami Bhakivedanta, this ebook demonstrates the inextricable hyperlink among various interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and pictures of the Hindu tradition.
This available ebook aptly demonstrates the relevance of the Bhagavad-Gita for an knowing of Hinduism as a contemporary phenomenon.
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