Bhagavad Gita As It Is (1968) Collier-Macmillan Abridged Edition

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - 1968 Collier Books Abridged Edition

CONTENTS

Preface: Setting the Scene

Swami Bhaktivedanta Chanting God's Song in America, BY ALLEN GINSBERG

A Note of Appreciation for This Volume, FROM DENISE LEVERTOV

The Significance of The Bhagavad Gita, BY THOMAS MERTON

Introduction

I		Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kurukshetra
II		Contents of the Gita Summarized
III		Karmayoga
IV		Transcendental Knowledge
V		Karmayoga—Action in Krishna Consciousness
VI		Samkhyayoga
VII		Knowledge of the Absolute
VIII		Attaining the Supreme
IX		The Most Confidential Knowledge
X		The Opulence of the Absolute
XI		The Universal Form
XII		Devotional Service
XIII		Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness
XIV		The Three Modes of Material Nature
XV		The Yoga of the Supreme Person
XVI		The Divine and Demoniac Natures
XVII		The Divisions of Faith
XVIII		Conclusion—The Perfection of Renunciation

Bhagavad Gita As It Is - 1968 Collier Books Abridged Edition
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Allen Ginsberg

on
The Bhagavad Gita As It Is:

"The Text is awesome. The vision of the Universal Form is equal to any Sublime poesy of the West, superior in detailed image to Dante's final Cantos' Paradise vision....The explanations of Swami Bhaktivedanta are transparent and exquisitely detailed—expositions presented here for the first time to common public Western mind—a storehouse of old age, experience, devotion, learning, scholarship, Hindu granny-wisdom, sincerity, gaiety & sweet transcendental insight."

Denise Levertov

on
The Bhagavad Gita As It Is:

"The Bhagavad Gita....one of the great spiritual texts....is not as yet, I think one can agree, a common part of our cultural milieu....this is probably less because it is alien per se than because we have lacked just the kind of close interpretive commentary upon it that Swami Bhaktivedanta has here provided, a commentary written from not only a scholar's but a practitioner's, a dedicated lifelong devotee's, point of view.

Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta, one of the most distinguished teachers of Vedic religion and thought, is the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, which now has center is every major city in the United States and Canada.

Records (33⅓ rpm) of devotional chants are available from The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, 26 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003