The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback) | Released: 30 Mar 2010

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Review Here is a translation which seems to meet every test of literature and learning. I have been reading it with ease and unflagging delight. At last I seem to have found the Gita and to know why it is so great. Swami Nikhilananda is to be congratulated and thanked for his great achievement. Every student of religion and lover of the spirit stands in his debt. --John Haynes Holmes, Unity

I have found your introduction and the translation of Sankara's preface extremely interesting and your synopsis of the story of the Mahabharata seems to me very useful in preparing the reader and setting him clear on the scene. I am convinced that this edition of yours will be valuable to all students of that extraordinary book. --W. Somerset Maugham

I was deeply moved by the noble insistence upon spiritual inwardness that runs through the book. --Samuel H. Goldenson, Rabbi, Congregation Emanu-El, New York

May this majestic poem find its way into the familiar literary friendship of many readers and contribute to the sense of spiritual kinship with the most gifted people of Asia, akin to us both in blood and in language. --From the Foreword by William Ernest Hocking

Never in our time has this important work been made so accessible to the Western reader as in the present admirable translation by Swami Nikhilananda. --Denver Lindley, Asia and the Americas

The Bhagavad Gita is one of the great documents of the human spirit. Insofar as an outsider can judge, this translation of Swami Nikhilananda and his introduction make it a more communicable and intelligible vehicle of the great Hindu tradition than to a Western reader it generally appears. --Irwin Edman, Professor of Philosophy in Columbia UniversityThe first really readable, authoritative English translation of one of the world's oldest and greatest religious classics. --TimeThis translation and commentary of the great Indian classic has the same brilliant ease and almost incredible sense of rightness and, as it were, natural clarity that characterized Swami Nikhilananda's volume The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. --Stark Young, The New Republic