Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita, or the Blessed Lord's Song Translated from the Original Sanskrit Text (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita, or the Blessed Lord's Song: Translated From the Original Sanskrit Text

The present translation was undertaken as a labor of love for a small group of ear nest students gathered in the quiet garden of a Tuscan hill-side near Florence, Italy. Begun in September, it was completed on the last Thursday of October - a tour de force well-nigh impossible for the mere scholar, who not infrequently devotes long years to the same task, but quite possible for the true devotee, whose whole life is but God's Word lived out.

To translate a Scripture three things are essential, - a thorough knowledge of the two languages, a profound understanding of the thought, and a realization of the thought through the life. The letter must be illumined by the spirit; and none can read the translation contained in these pages without feeling convinced that head.

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