The Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita, the “Song of the Lord,” is India’s best-known scripture, and Eknath Easwaran’s reliable, readable version is the best-selling translation in the US. In a heroic age, on the vast plains of North India, a timeless spiritual classic was born - the message of Sri Krishna to Prince Arjuna, on the brink of a war he doesn't want to fight. Arjuna's struggle in the Bhagvad Gita is acutely modern. He has lost his way on the battlefield of life and turns to find the path again by asking direct, uncompromising questions of his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, the Lord himself. Krishna replies in 700 verses of sublime instruction on living and dying, loving and working, and the nature of the soul. About the Bhagavad Gita The Bhagavad GitaIntroduced and Translated by Eknath Easwaran The Bhagavad Gita opens, dramatically, on a battlefield. Prince Arjuna is on the brink of an apocalyptic war that he doesn’t want to fight – and he turns in anguish to his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, fo