
The fate of all Historic personalities in interpretation of Bhagavad Gita, comes to miserable forefront, only when we start understanding Bhagvad Gita under the Beacon ” Srimad Bhagavad GitaBhashya ” Expounded by him. We are dumbstruck, at the mastery of the vast resources and the ease with which, He aptly quotes to vouch the correctness of his interpretations. His sincerity in gathering these evidences are really astounding. On reading the same, we are extremely convinced at his interpretations, as he is extracting numerous Quotations and references from the vast expanse of Vedas, Puranas, Agamas, to substantiate the same. This Magnanimous Work of Acharya Madhwa is the most Authenticated one, in the world of works interpreting Srimad Bhaghavad Gita.
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I use the term God because I was raised as a Christian.Srimad Bhaghavad Gita Bhashya of Acharya Madhwa in Kannada & Sanskrit Script is published in PDF format. I use God in the sense of whatever is that Universal from which the whole of Creation most surely pours and into which, eventually it must return. For anyone interested in the Vedantic philosophy a very practical philosophy that enables us to live in the world and know God this is an excellent and easily understood translation. Advaita most simply put is the proposition that God is not different from us and in comprehending our own personal divinity we do, because the world is a unity, realize that I am no different from the substance in which I reside. Most of this version is the commentary of Shri Sankaracharya, an Indian teacher who brought the philosophy of 'advaita' to India and by it's practical and easily understood nature eventually over many centuries through its advocates, to the world. The Bhahagavad Gita itself is very short. And this has been what this little book has been to me for over half a life time. I have always been a lover of Dylan's music and this particular song with on the one hand it's 'wildernesses' and 'sea of mud' and 'steel-eyed men' tell of the pain and isolation of living in the world compared with the promise of 'shelter from the storm'.

The learned translator has added in the form of foot-notes(marked A)explanations mostly extracted from Anandagiri's Tika which always is the clearest and most to the point and is almost indispensable for a proper understanding of some important portions of the Bhashya.īeing a child of the 60's, using the title of one of Bob Dylan's more gentle refrains is apt.


This Book contains the original Sanskrit text of the Gita in Devanagari followed by its translation as also the translation of Sanakara's Gita Bhashya by Alladi Mahadeva Sastri.The translation has stood the test of the time since its first publication in 1897,being the best available English translation of Sankaracharya's commentary. Adi Sankara's is the earliest extant commentary on the Bhagavad Gita.The text of the Gita as cited by him has come down to the centuries as the authentic text and this commentary of his proved to be of seminal value ever since.Later commentators may differ from him on textual and even metaphysical interpretation but the spiritual well being flowing into us on reading the Gita-Bhashya of Sankaracharya is universally acknoledged.One has only to read it to feel it.
