Name: The Bhagavad Gita
ISBN: 9781577317821

Jack Hawley

A Walkthrough for Westerners

The Bhagavad Gita

Paraphrases the great Hindu scripture concerning divine knowledge and devotion into modern expository prose.

Matthew Royal

I'd prefer a more direct translation, I think.

Anish Ravipati

I've always had an itch to read the ancient Hindu texts, but always figured that they were too complex and out of reach for me. This translation was exactly what I was looking for. The entire book is predicated with a large amount of important context for the Bhagavad Gita, and each chapter is also predicated with context specific to the chapter before going into the literal translation. 

With that amount of context, there's bound to be a bit of repetition between the context and the literal translation, but nonetheless it's a great read. I like to think of it as one of the original self-help books. Although it's more focused on Hinduism, there's tenets that anyone can take away from this.

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.

The Bhagavad Gita A Walkthrough for Westerners

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