Bhagavad Gita

Vyasa (tradition)

Give your all without living for the outcome. The dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna on the battlefield: duty, non-attached action and a mind that stays steady.

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About the book

A work to return to, not to consume.

The Bhagavad Gita begins with a man frozen in place. Arjuna, a warrior, looks at the enemy army, sees kinsmen and teachers in it, and lets his bow fall. Krishna, driving his chariot, answers him across eighteen cantos on how to act in a world where every choice has a cost. The idea running through the book is to do your work wholeheartedly and let go of attachment to its fruit. Around it come meditation, compared to a lamp that does not flicker where no wind blows, simple devotion, an overwhelming vision of the divine and the qualities that steady or cloud the mind. It is part of the Mahābhārata, India's great epic. This edition follows Edwin Arnold's poetic English version, grouped into eight reading chapters.

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Chapters

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Chapters I–II13 min read
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Chapters III–IV10 min read
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Chapters V–VI9 min read
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Chapters VII–IX11 min read
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Chapters X–XI14 min read
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Chapters XII–XIV9 min read
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Chapters XV–XVII9 min read
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Chapter XVIII9 min read
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Vyasa (tradition)

Tradition attributes the Bhagavad Gita to the sage Vyasa, legendary author of the Mahābhārata, the epic it belongs to. Its date is debated and usually placed between the 5th and 2nd centuries BCE. Edwin Arnold (1832–1904), an English poet and journalist, published the verse version this edition follows in 1885, under the title The Song Celestial, and helped bring the text to Western readers.

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