Publisher name:
TrottaYear of publication:
2017Pages:
328 Book size:
15x23cm
Weight: 544.3 g
Binding:
Hard coverEl Canto (Gita) is the best known and most enduring Hindu classical text. In the seven hundred verses of this didactic poem, integrated into the vast epic of the Mahabharata, the main philosophies and religious doctrines born of the Vedas are synthesized. In the course of this dialogue, the wise Krishna, personification of the divinity, addresses Arjuna, who hesitates before entering battle, to show him the principles of right action, of just and liberating action. Bhagavad Gita is edited here accompanied by the Advaita commentaries of Šankara, which reveal the teaching of Krishna from the path of wisdom and clarify the unity of meaning of the Song, a complex and multifaceted work.