Bhagavad Gita

Several thousand years ago in north-central India, two people sat in a chariot in the midpoint of a great battlefield. One of them, the yogi Arjuna, knew that it would not be long before the conflict would begin.

So he asked Krishna, the Master of Yoga, what should be his attitude and perspective in this moment. And above all: What should he do?

There was no time to spare in empty words. In a brief discourse, later turned into seven-hundred Sanskrit verses by the sage Vyasa, Krishna outlined to Arjuna the way to live an entire life so as to gain perfect self-knowledge and self-mastery: The Bhagavad Gita. 

The Bhagavad Gita tells us that we can attain a Knowing beyond even what it tells us. And it shows us the way.

In The Bhagavad Gita for Awakening, Abbot George Burke offers a practical commentary for leading a successful spiritual life. With penetrating insight, he illumines the Bhagavad Gita’s practical value for spiritual seekers, and the timelessness of India’s most beloved scripture.