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On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, as two great armies of kinsmen face each other, the warrior prince Arjuna loses heart at the thought of killing his own…
Catalogue details
Author
Edwin Arnold
Category
Psychology & Society
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg
About this book
On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, as two great armies of kinsmen face each other, the warrior prince Arjuna loses heart at the thought of killing his own teachers and relatives, and lays down his bow. His charioteer, the god Krishna, answers him in a long dialogue about duty, the immortality of the soul, action without attachment to its rewards, devotion and the nature of the divine, and finally reveals himself in an overwhelming vision of his universal form.
Context and significance
The Bhagavad Gita, a section of the vast Indian epic the Mahabharata, probably took shape in the last centuries BC, and it is one of the most important scriptures of Hinduism. This is the 1885 verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904), in which Mahatma Gandhi first read it as a student in London. Compare the Buddhist Dhammapada.