A classical interpretation for the modern mind.
For centuries the Bhagavad Gita has remained the single most influential
philosophical text shaping Indian thought and life. It addresses itself
foursquare to the universal limitations each human being is confronted with:
ignorance, sorrow and death.
The
teaching of the Bhagavad Gita opens with the audacious statement that all these
are illegitimate problems caused by ignorance about the real nature of the self.
Drawing upon the essence of all Upanishads, Gita explains how the self, the
atman ,
is limitless, indestructible, unborn. This knowledge, Brahmavidya , frees
one from all sense