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Bhagavadgītā --- Gita (Bhagavadgītā) --- Bhagavad Gītā --- Bhagvad Gita --- Bagvat Gītā --- Mahābhārata. --- Bagawad Gita --- Bkhagavadgita --- Bhagavada Gita --- Bhagavat Gītā --- Po-chia-fan ko --- Bogafan ge --- Bagabadŭ gitʻa --- Thespesion melos --- Almi Krishnae et Arjunae --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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The Bhagavad Gita, perhaps the most famous of all Indian scriptures, is universally regarded as one of the world's spiritual and literary masterpieces. Richard Davis tells the story of this venerable and enduring book, from its origins in ancient India to its reception today as a spiritual classic that has been translated into more than seventy-five languages. The Gita opens on the eve of a mighty battle, when the warrior Arjuna is overwhelmed by despair and refuses to fight. He turns to his charioteer, Krishna, who counsels him on why he must. In the dialogue that follows, Arjuna comes to realize that the true battle is for his own soul. Davis highlights the place of this legendary dialogue in classical Indian culture, and then examines how it has lived on in diverse settings and contexts. He looks at the medieval devotional traditions surrounding the divine character of Krishna and traces how the Gita traveled from India to the West, where it found admirers in such figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Aldous Huxley. Davis explores how Indian nationalists like Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda used the Gita in their fight against colonial rule, and how contemporary interpreters reanimate and perform this classical work for audiences today. An essential biography of a timeless masterpiece, this book is an ideal introduction to the Gita and its insights into the struggle for self-mastery that we all must wage.

RELIGION / Hinduism / History. --- RELIGION / History. --- RELIGION / Hinduism / General. --- Bhagavadgītā --- Gita (Bhagavadgītā) --- Bhagavad Gītā --- Bhagvad Gita --- Bagvat Gītā --- Mahābhārata. --- Bagawad Gita --- Bkhagavadgita --- Bhagavada Gita --- Bhagavat Gītā --- Po-chia-fan ko --- Bogafan ge --- Bagabadŭ gitʻa --- Thespesion melos --- Almi Krishnae et Arjunae --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History.

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This work enables scholars to analyze more deeply the meanings of these foundational verses of ancient Hindu wisdom. The text allows readers not only to utilize the author's adept translation and interpretation, but affords them the tools necessary to form independent conclusions.

Bhagavadg ̄it ̄a -- Commentaries. --- Bhagavadgītā --- Gita (Bhagavadgītā) --- Bhagavad Gītā --- Bhagvad Gita --- Bagvat Gītā --- Mahābhārata. --- Bagawad Gita --- Bkhagavadgita --- Bhagavada Gita --- Bhagavat Gītā --- Po-chia-fan ko --- Bogafan ge --- Bagabadŭ gitʻa --- Thespesion melos --- Almi Krishnae et Arjunae

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The Bhagavad Gita's philosophical and political significance remains forever contemporary. In this volume a group of leading historians reflect on the significance of the Bhagavad Gita for political and ethical thinking in modern India and beyond. These essays contribute new perspectives to historical, contemporary and global political ideas. Violence and nonviolence, war, sacrifice, justice, fraternity and political community were constitutive of India's political modernity, and it was to these questions that Indian public figures turned their attention in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Oriented towards the future, these commentaries and interpretations of a text that locates war as the central problem of human life have detached the Gita from antiquity and made it foundational for India's modernity. The book would be of interest to academic researchers as well as general readers interested in South Asian history, Indian philosophy and religion.

Bhagavadgita -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bhagavadgita -- History. --- Gandhi. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Hinduism --- Bhagavadgītā --- Gita (Bhagavadgītā) --- Bhagavad Gītā --- Bhagvad Gita --- Bagvat Gītā --- Mahābhārata. --- Bagawad Gita --- Bkhagavadgita --- Bhagavada Gita --- Bhagavat Gītā --- Po-chia-fan ko --- Bogafan ge --- Bagabadŭ gitʻa --- Thespesion melos --- Almi Krishnae et Arjunae --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bhagavadgīt

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Philosophy, Hindu --- Bhagavadgītā --- Bhagavadgītā. --- 294.58 --- 294.58 Heilige boeken uit het Hindoeïsme: Mahabharata; Bhagavatgita; Dharma Sutra; Sutra's; Purana's --- Heilige boeken uit het Hindoeïsme: Mahabharata; Bhagavatgita; Dharma Sutra; Sutra's; Purana's --- Bhagavadgītā --- Gita (Bhagavadgītā) --- Bhagavad Gītā --- Bhagvad Gita --- Bagvat Gītā --- Mahābhārata. --- Bagawad Gita --- Bkhagavadgita --- Bhagavada Gita --- Bhagavat Gītā --- Po-chia-fan ko --- Bogafan ge --- Bagabadŭ gitʻa --- Thespesion melos --- Almi Krishnae et Arjunae