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InvisibleOlympus Mons
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I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50
    #12687172 - 06/04/10 06:36 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

at goodwill. im excited about reading from this. anyone got any experience?


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Re: I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50 [Re: Olympus Mons]
    #12687206 - 06/04/10 06:40 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

That's the Hare Krishna version of the Gita, translated by the founder of the movement.  I remember people trying to sell me a copy at a music festival a couple of summers ago.

I've never read that one, but the version I have is definitely worth reading - slowly and pensively.


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“Strengthened by contemplation and study,
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”


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Re: I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50 [Re: Lion]
    #12687266 - 06/04/10 06:48 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

yeah i posted about this krishna book i was reading, that's pretty interesting. i feel like i shouldve read from this first.


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I clench my fists and beat it
I light my torch and burn it
I am the beast I worship....


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Re: I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50 [Re: Olympus Mons]
    #12690159 - 06/05/10 07:31 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

a complete and perfect explanation of existence, true yoga, and paths towards realizations.

this is ghandiji's spiritual guide.

enjoy


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Re: I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50 [Re: stzacrack]
    #12705561 - 06/07/10 08:40 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

I read it a few years back, makes a lot of sense to me. One of the best religious books that I've read. Enjoy :smile:


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Re: I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50 [Re: Olympus Mons]
    #12705934 - 06/07/10 09:42 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Take it one verse at a time and do NOT take the "explanation" part as gospel truth.  The "explanation" part is the Hare Krsna interpretation of the sacred text, and more than a few times I found its resonance at odds with the actual text of the verse it interpreted.

Personally I dont read the explanations at all anymore, I pick a verse, meditate on the original text, trying to pronounce it, then I move on to the translation.

Watch out, the translation in thet version is not pure:

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Criticism

Because Prabhupada writes from the viewpoint of the Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya, some regard Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is as being a sectarian work, with the translation and commentary written as to present Gaudiya Vaishnavism as the correct path preached by Krishna in the Gita. Some of the verses are not so much translations as they are interpretations with a Gaudiya perspective, using English words not found in the original Sanskrit to convey a particular message.

Prabhupada often translates the Sanskrit word deva ("god") as "demigod," a translation many Hindus find objectionable. However, when the word deva refers to Krishna, he translates it as "Lord".




See the bias?


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Re: I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50 [Re: Asante]
    #12707304 - 06/08/10 04:24 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

If you are really interested in this, I would recommend "Talks On Sankara's Vivekachoodamani". It takes the best of the Upanishads and the BG, and provides very useful commentary whilst continually urging self-reflection and study.


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Re: I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50 [Re: Asante]
    #12707549 - 06/08/10 07:11 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

Wiccan_Seeker said:
Take it one verse at a time and do NOT take the "explanation" part as gospel truth.  The "explanation" part is the Hare Krsna interpretation of the sacred text, and more than a few times I found its resonance at odds with the actual text of the verse it interpreted.

Personally I dont read the explanations at all anymore, I pick a verse, meditate on the original text, trying to pronounce it, then I move on to the translation.

Watch out, the translation in thet version is not pure:

Quote:

Criticism

Because Prabhupada writes from the viewpoint of the Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya, some regard Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is as being a sectarian work, with the translation and commentary written as to present Gaudiya Vaishnavism as the correct path preached by Krishna in the Gita. Some of the verses are not so much translations as they are interpretations with a Gaudiya perspective, using English words not found in the original Sanskrit to convey a particular message.

Prabhupada often translates the Sanskrit word deva ("god") as "demigod," a translation many Hindus find objectionable. However, when the word deva refers to Krishna, he translates it as "Lord".




See the bias?



i find anything krishna based to be biased.


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I clench my fists and beat it
I light my torch and burn it
I am the beast I worship....


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Re: I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50 [Re: Olympus Mons]
    #12711567 - 06/08/10 08:18 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

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Olympus Mons said:
at goodwill. im excited about reading from this. anyone got any experience?





buy yourself a bhagavad-gita

todd r song

hello it's me pulleaze

but first you got to talk to the Man

that owns

the company

i won't

you have

got to

talk to him

he is the man



wow this is sad

maybe i think too much





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Re: I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50 [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #12712110 - 06/08/10 09:38 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Great story, though the western transcendentalists and mystics are much more accessible to western minds.


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Re: I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50 [Re: Middleman]
    #12714447 - 06/09/10 11:12 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

My grandparents just got back from India (they go there for up to 6 months every year cuz my grandpa says america is boring) and brought me a new copy of it. Not this version but I'll definitely be reading it again soon. I've seen this one laying around the house before though haha


Edited by luhem (06/09/10 11:13 AM)


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Re: I just found the bhagavad-gita for a $1.50 [Re: Olympus Mons]
    #12715330 - 06/09/10 02:22 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

According to that book, which I hunkered down with during the summer of 1974, I am an "Impersonalist" because instead of being a Bhakti Yogi, an [emotional] devotee of Lord Krsna, I contemplate the plenary expansion of Vishnu in the lotus of my heart." :wink:


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