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The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living #3
To Love Is to Know Me
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living is Easwaran's verse-by-verse commentary on the Bhagavad Gita.
Easwaran’s translation of the Bhagavad Gita is the best-selling English edition in the US. In this verse-by-verse commentary, Easwaran brings the Gita’s teachings into our own lives. Full of insights, stories, and practical spiritual exercises, each volume of this set covers six chapters of the Gita, and can be read on its own. The three volumes together form a comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life.
Easwaran was a professor of English literature and taught meditation and spiritual living for 40 years. He is an authority on world mysticism, and lived what he taught, giving him lasting appeal as a spiritual teacher and an author of deep insight and warmth.
This third volume in a three-volume set, To Love Is to Know Me , covers chapters 13–18 of the Gita, and concentrates on the relationship between the Self within and the supreme reality which underlies all creation. Global in scope, the emphasis is on what you can do to make a difference in the world.
Easwaran’s translation of the Bhagavad Gita is the best-selling English edition in the US. In this verse-by-verse commentary, Easwaran brings the Gita’s teachings into our own lives. Full of insights, stories, and practical spiritual exercises, each volume of this set covers six chapters of the Gita, and can be read on its own. The three volumes together form a comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life.
Easwaran was a professor of English literature and taught meditation and spiritual living for 40 years. He is an authority on world mysticism, and lived what he taught, giving him lasting appeal as a spiritual teacher and an author of deep insight and warmth.
This third volume in a three-volume set, To Love Is to Know Me , covers chapters 13–18 of the Gita, and concentrates on the relationship between the Self within and the supreme reality which underlies all creation. Global in scope, the emphasis is on what you can do to make a difference in the world.
520 pages, Paperback
First published January 29, 1993
About the author
Eknath Easwaran
165 books580 followersEknath Easwaran (1910–1999) is the originator of passage meditation and the author of more than 30 books on spiritual living.
Easwaran is a recognized authority on the Indian spiritual classics. His translations of The Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads, and The Dhammapada are the best-selling editions in the USA, and over 1.5 million copies of his books are in print.
Easwaran was a professor of English literature and well known in India as a writer and speaker before coming to the United States in 1959 on the Fulbright exchange program. In 1961, he founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, based in Tomales, California, which continues his work today through publications and retreats.
His 1968 class on the theory and practice of meditation at UC Berkeley is believed to be the first accredited course on meditation at any Western university. For those who seek him as a personal spiritual guide, Easwaran assured us that he lives on through his eight-point program of passage meditation.
"I am with you always”, he said. “It does not require my physical presence; it requires your open heart."
Please visit bmcm.org for a fuller biography.
Easwaran is a recognized authority on the Indian spiritual classics. His translations of The Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads, and The Dhammapada are the best-selling editions in the USA, and over 1.5 million copies of his books are in print.
Easwaran was a professor of English literature and well known in India as a writer and speaker before coming to the United States in 1959 on the Fulbright exchange program. In 1961, he founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, based in Tomales, California, which continues his work today through publications and retreats.
His 1968 class on the theory and practice of meditation at UC Berkeley is believed to be the first accredited course on meditation at any Western university. For those who seek him as a personal spiritual guide, Easwaran assured us that he lives on through his eight-point program of passage meditation.
"I am with you always”, he said. “It does not require my physical presence; it requires your open heart."
Please visit bmcm.org for a fuller biography.
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November 2, 2013
Easwaran has the uncanny ability of translating Eastern spiritual principles into language and practice that is contextually applicable to the Westerners experience. People from different places are different, and it's nice when someone understands that, and is effective at translating it into another cultures experience. This book can be tedious- sometimes it is very slow and very trying to get through. But much like the spiritual path itself, it tends to take it's time to drive home the lessons it intends the reader to learn. This book was very important to me at a certain point in my personal journey. I think it's a good book to read for anyone looking for more answers of a spiritual nature and for anyone wanting to be more open on their spiritual journey.
July 1, 2020
It took me several months to read this, interrupted by Lilikoi and Wayne and car trips and other books and work, but this is such a fantastic book. This is a must for the lover of the Gita who wants to spend time re-interpretting and thinking and pondering and relating to the different sections in a very practical-apply-it-to-my-life-kinda-way. Typical Easwaran tone, love it.
October 8, 2023
Best Books I Have ever read
Eknath Easwaren is so gifted. Read this series and change your life. Don't let the boring cover fool you.... Start with The End of Sorrow.
Eknath Easwaren is so gifted. Read this series and change your life. Don't let the boring cover fool you.... Start with The End of Sorrow.
April 30, 2012
Book 3 of a series. Lovely interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita for the modern age.
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