The Bhagavad Gita

Name: The Bhagavad Gita
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.67 (23 reviews)
Author: Jack Hawley
ISBN: 9781608681310

Author: Jack Hawley

Narrator: Jack Hawley

Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 01/01/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help

Synopsis

The Bhagavad Gita has been called India's greatest contribution to the world. For more than five thousand years, this great scripture has shown millions in the East how to fill their lives with serenity and love. In these pages, Jack Hawley brings these ancient secrets to Western seekers in a beautiful prose version that makes the story of the Gita clear and exciting, and makes its truths understandable and easy to apply to our busy lives. The Gita is a universal love song sung by God to His friend man. It can't be confined by any creed. It is a statement of the truths at the core of what we all already believe, only it makes those truths clearer, so they become immediately useful in our daily lives. These truths are for our hearts, not just our heads. The Gita is more than just a book, more than mere words or concepts. There is an accumulated potency in it. To read the Gita is to be inspired in the true sense of the term: to be “inspirited,” to inhale the ancient and ever-new breath of spiritual energy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tami on April 15, 2012

I first time I read The Bhagavad Gita was in university. Although interesting, my interpretation was very academic, somewhat clinical like an anthropological exercise. Not surprising, being as I was an archaeology major looking for a humanities credit. Needless to say, I got very little personally o......more

Goodreads review by Lenin on October 07, 2012

This is indeed 'magical' as someone called it. I have tried reading the Bhagavad Gita (Roman Catholic here) from age 16 but failed because of how complicated the translations seemed to be. Mostly it was not the language itself but the good knowledge of the background precepts and terms that those tr......more

Goodreads review by Debra on October 22, 2011

There is so much wisdom in Jack's book. He brings a deep integrated understanding of spiritual practice to the table and uses it to fill the heart of the reader. I keep this book as one to return to for inspiration again and again.......more

Goodreads review by Mahiro on January 17, 2023

Been reading this book for awhile through out here and there. The concept of complete devotion to God(Krishna) sounds like a lot of commitment not gonna lie. The plot is basically Arjuna, the Prince, fighting in a war with greedy king. But Arjuna, the mighty warrior does not wanna fight because he s......more

Goodreads review by Chui Ying on June 29, 2015

Hawley makes the ancient scripture very palatable indeed! I read it side by side with another translation by Barbara Stoler Miller. The Gita is a classic to be read many times over, in order to digest and internalize its teachings.......more