The Bhagavad Gita is the most famous of all Hindu texts. This translation is lucid and thoroughly explained by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Reviews: The Bhagavad-gita is the main source-book on yoga and a concise summary of India's Vedic wisdom. Yet remarkably, the setting for this best-known classic of spiritual literature is an ancient Indian battlefield.
At the last moment before entering battle, the great warrior Arjuna begins to wonder about the real meaning of his life. Why should he fight against his friends and relatives? Why does he exist? Where is he going after death? In the Bhagavad-gita, Lord Krsna, Arjuna's friend and spiritual master, brings His disciple from perplexity to spiritual enlightenment. In the course of doing so, Krsna concisely but definitively explains transcendental knowledge; karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga, and bhakti-yoga; knowledge of the Absolute; devotional service; the three modes of material nature; the divine and demoniac natures; and much more.
This translation is the largest-selling, most widely used edition of the Gita in the world. It has the English and original Sanskrit text with English equivalents for each Sanskrit word, elaborate commentary, glossary, verse index, subject index and profuse full-color illustrations
