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Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's Bhagavad-Gita As It Is is the edition that carried the Gita into the English-speaking world through the Krishna consciousness movement, here in the complete format the author considered authoritative. Each of the seven hundred verses is given in devanagari Sanskrit, with roman transliteration, word-for-word synonyms, a plain English translation and the swami's purport, the commentary that reads the poem through the Gaudiya Vaishnava disciplic succession he received from Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. The preface explains the book's own history, the first edition's truncation and the restoration of the original manuscript; a long introduction sets out the argument that the Gita must be received through the parampara rather than speculative interpretation, and traces the chain of teachers. The eighteen chapters follow Krishna's instruction to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, from the opening survey through karma-yoga, jnana, the vision of the universal form, the divine and demoniac natures, to the culmination in bhakti, surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Massive, devotional and exhaustive, it is one of the most influential renderings of the world's most translated poem.

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