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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) |
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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) |
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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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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) |
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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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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) |
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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) |
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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
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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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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
Edited by LunarEclipse (06/08/10 08:27 PM)
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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."
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