The Bhagavad Gita: A Guide to Navigating the Battle of Life

A new translation of the great classic–with wide-ranging, multitraditional commentary that emphasizes its practical advice for living with integrity.

The Bhagavad Gita is undeniably one of the world’s greatest spiritual classics. A small section of the much larger epic Mahabharata, it takes the form of a dialogue between the warrior Arjuna and his charioteer, Krishna, an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, on the meaning of life. It has often been understood as a key to understanding life by anyone, regardless of religious persuasion. This new translation and extensive commentary emphasizes the universality of the text by drawing on mulitcutlural and multireligious sources for understanding it. Not only Hindu sources, but Christian and Buddhist ones, as well as literary and mythological sources, and the Work of G. I. Gurdjieff.