BHAGAVAD-GITA AS IT IS

THE LARGEST SELLING, MOST WIDELY USED EDITION OF THE GITA IN THE WESTERN WORLD.

Bhagavad-gita is universally renowned as the jewel of India's spiritual wisdom. Spoken by Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to His intimate devotee Arjuna, the Gita's 700 concise verses provide a definitive guide to the science of self-realization.

Indeed, there is no work even comparable in its revelations of mn's essential nature, his environment and, ultimately, his relationship with God.

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is uniquely qualified to present this English translation and commentary on Bhagavad-gita.

He is the world's foremost Vedic scholar and teacher, and he is also the current representative of an unbroken chain of fully self-realized spiritual masters beginning with Lord Krsna Himself.

Thus, unlike other editions of the Gita, this one is presented as it is - without the slightest taint of adulteration or personal motivation. Replete with sixteen full-color plates, this new edition is certain to stimulate and enlighten any reader with its ancient yet thoroughly timely message.

"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita, in comparison with which our mordern world and its literature seem puny and trivial." -HENRY DEVID THOREAU

"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-gita. It was the first books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which excercise us." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"When doubts haunt me, when disappointment stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon. I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day." - M. K Gandhi