About the Book: Song of the Lord Gita in Yoga-Vasishtha
Arjuna s predicament of fighting and killing his own kinsmen and gurus in the
Mahabharata War, and Lord Krishna s advice and thus the former s enlightenment
are well known. Moving away from the traditional Mahabharata narration,
Yoga-Vasishtha presents a different narrative approach by the Vedic seer,
Vasishtha about the Krishna Arjuna dialogue to his pupil Rama as if it would
happen eventually in the remote future.
While the Bhagavad-Gita accounts for Krishna s teaching of eighteen forms of
yoga in 700 verses, Vasishtha narrates sixty stories in more than 28,000 verses,
making Yoga-Vasishtha as one of