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What is the best translation of the Bhagavad-Gita?

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Anonymous 2016-12-07 01:14:48 Post No. 8809568 [Report]

What is the best translation of the Bhagavad-Gita?

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Anonymous 2016-12-07 01:16:05 Post No.8809572
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Anonymous 2016-12-07 01:16:05 Post No.8809572 [Report]

>>8809568
There's like three thousand versions in its original language

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Anonymous 2016-12-07 01:17:20 Post No.8809575
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Anonymous 2016-12-07 01:17:20 Post No.8809575 [Report]

>>8809572
I don't know Sanskrit though

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Anonymous 2016-12-07 01:20:46 Post No.8809584
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Anonymous 2016-12-07 01:20:46 Post No.8809584 [Report]

>>8809575
Pleb

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Anonymous 2016-12-07 01:59:32 Post No.8809667
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Anonymous 2016-12-07 01:59:32 Post No.8809667 [Report]

>>8809568
Swami Prabhavananda & Christopher Isherwood
Winthrop Sargeant
Gavin Flood & Charles Martin
George Thompson
William J. Johnson

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Anonymous 2016-12-07 02:12:29 Post No.8809703
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Anonymous 2016-12-07 02:12:29 Post No.8809703 [Report]

>>8809667
Which one of these would you recommend for a first-time reader?

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Anonymous 2016-12-07 02:21:37 Post No.8809723
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Anonymous 2016-12-07 02:21:37 Post No.8809723 [Report]

>>8809703
Probably Gavin Flood. Good translation, intro & notes.

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Anonymous 2016-12-07 02:22:40 Post No.8809725
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Anonymous 2016-12-07 02:22:40 Post No.8809725 [Report]

>>8809723
thanks

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Anonymous 2016-12-07 02:41:10 Post No.8809780
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Anonymous 2016-12-07 02:41:10 Post No.8809780 [Report]

>>8809568
I read the Ekanth Easwaran one and it was brilliant, life-changing.

Honestly the Gita is by far and away the greatest spiritual/philosophical text ever written.

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