Product Details:
Paperback Edition
- Paperback; 48 pages; 10.2 x 17.8 (centimeters); 4 x 7 (inches)
- no index
- Publisher: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust; First issue: 1968; Reissue: 2003
- ISBN: 0-89213-293-0
- Suggested Audience: Advanced
- Original Language: Sanskrit; Date: 3,000 B.C.E.
Edition specific:
In 1968 Srila Prabhupada did not have the funds to print his full Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Therefore he printed the Introduction as a pamphlet. This is the reprint of the original pamphlet.This is the Introduction from the front matter of Bhagavad-gita As It Is.
Bhagavad-gita is knowledge of five basic truths and the relationship of each truth to the other: These five truths are Krishna, or God, the individual soul, the material world, action in this world, and time. The Gita lucidly explains the nature of consciousness, the self, and the universe. It is the essence of India’s spiritual wisdom, the answers to questions posed by philosophers for centuries.
From the back cover:
Bhagavad-gita was originally spoken to liberate one from the bodily conception of life, and Arjuna put himself in this position in order to receive this information from the Lord. One must become free from the bodily conception of life; that is the preliminary activity for the transcendentalist. One who wants to become free, who wants to become liberated, must first of all learn that he is not this material body. Mukti, or liberation, means freedom from material consciousness.
