The Bhagavad-Gîtâ

  The Song of the Awakened   The Bhagavad-Gîtâ   PDF             This book, "The Song of the Awakened" (or Blessed), is a new translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, minus two chapters that were not in the original book, that is, the first and eleventh. The first is the genealogy and presentation of the characters of the «Mahabharata», a book of Hindu war adventures, having nothing to do with the teaching of the awakened. Chapter eleven is only a series of praises to God.   The Bhagavad-Gita, or “The Song of the Awakened”, is a collection of a Buddha’s teachings, as Sri Gautama was. No one knows the name or the history of this awakened person; he has been completely forgotten. All that remains of him is the traces of his teaching, compiled in the book.   The Bhagavad-Gita is thought to date from an era between the fifth and the first century BCE and was originally a Upanishad. It would have been the “Bhagavadgîtopanishad”. The Sanskrit wor