Students of religion and Eastern thought will welcome this readable translation and practical commentary on the Uddhava Gita, a Hindu text in which Krishna's teachings introduced in the Bhagavad Gita are extended and nuanced.
Krishna's Other Song: A New Look at the Uddhava Gita examines the entire Uddhava Gita in relation to other Hindu scriptures, especially the Bhagavad Gita, and shares its teachings in light of interreligious understanding and nonsectarian spirituality. This edition's elaborate commentary, written by a prominent American scholar of Hindu studies, who is also a practitioner, opens up the text's esoteric teaching to a Western audience for the first time, adding context and relevance that make the book accessible and its teachings practicable for a Western readership.
A foreword, written by prominent Hinduism scholar Charles S. J. White joins the author's own introduction to lay out the Uddhava Gita's background, philosophical dimensions, and religious significance. This edition does not include the original Sanskrit, nor does it labor to translate each word verbatim. Rather, it gives the reader all 1,030 verses in plain English, offering accessible commentary that allows the meaning and relevance of the Uddhava Gita to unfold to one and all.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. Krishna’s Instructions to Uddhava
- 2. The Lesson of Pingala
- 3. Detachment from All Things Material
- 4. The Nature of Self-Centered Acts
- 5. How to Know Whether One is Conditioned or Liberated
- 6. What Lies beyond Renunciation and Knowledge?
- 7. The Swan Incarnation (Hamsa Avatara) and the Sons of Brahma
- 8. Lord Krishna’s Explanation of Yoga: An Introduction
- 9. The Limitations of Yogic Perfection
- 10. The Qualities of the Lord
- 11. The Varnashram System
- 12. Varnashram Continued
- 13. Perfect Spiritual Knowledge
- 14. Loving Devotion Surpasses Karma-yoga and Jnana-yoga
- 15. The Vedic Path
- 16. The Elements of Material Creation
- 17. The Avanti Brahmin
- 18. Sankhya Philosophy
- 19. Beyond the Three Modes of Material Nature
- 20. The Aila Gita
- 21. The Process of Deity Worship
- 22. Jnana-yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
- 23. Bhakti-yoga: The Yoga of Devotion
- Index
- About the Author
- eCopyright
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