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Summary: TRULY- A MASTERWORK OF MODERN LIVING SCRIPTURE.
Review: I have enjoyed many noteable works of great inspiration, but reading "God Talks With Arjuna", was literally a breathtaking experience. Not just another Gita commentary - this work contains many original spiritual insights and practical, balanced, religious approaches to life that are desparately needed in to-days world. But most of all, PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA was a Living Example of that ideal Christlike perfection as taught in the Gita and has inspired millions with his "Autobiography of a Yogi". A rewarding in depth revelation awaits any serious, sincere seeker of truth. Especially recommended for the serious religious scholar and devotee. If you have not yet found a satisfying answers to lifes most profound questions, this would be a good place to find clear, simple, practical, spiritual direction and understanding. A complete reference book for living the Spiritual Life and guiding your journey to Self-Realization.
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Summary: TRULY- A MASTERWORK OF MODERN LIVING SCRIPTURE.
Review: I have enjoyed many noteable works of great inspiration, but reading "God Talks With Arjuna", was literally a breathtaking experience. Not just another Gita commentary - this work contains many original spiritual insights and practical, balanced, religious approaches to life that are desparately needed in to-days world. But most of all, PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA was a Living Example of that ideal Christlike perfection as taught in the Gita and has inspired millions with his "Autobiography of a Yogi". A rewarding in depth revelation awaits any serious, sincere seeker of truth. Especially recommended for the serious religious scholar and devotee. If you have not yet found a satisfying answers to lifes most profound questions, this would be a good place to find clear, simple, practical, spiritual direction and understanding. A complete reference book for living the Spiritual Life and guiding your journey to Self-Realization.
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Summary: This is Gita coming from the mouth of Krishna Himself.
Review: I have just begun to read this book and it has given me a whole new and completely different meaning of Bhagwat Gita.It explains the real meaning of the famos battle of Kurukshetra which signifies the psychological battle going on inside every aspiring Yogi.So it shows that Mahabharta(of which Gita is a part) is just not a historical fact but has a much greater meaning which every sincere God seeker must know.Without saying much,it is Gita as Lord Krishna told it to Arjuna and it is coming from His mouth directly.
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Summary: Not my cup of tea
Review: I'm only half way through the first book but find this to be one of the very best spiritual books I've read. I place it on par with Vernon Howard and J. Krishnamurti. Every paragraph rings with Truth. Yogananda is a crystal clear writer. You'll find yourself reading with delight. I almost did not purchase this book because of the price, but am so so glad I did. You will be too. If you're a serious student, get this book!
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Summary: Tremendous Wisdom
Review: I'm only half way through the first book but find this to be one of the very best spiritual books I've read. I place it on par with Vernon Howard and J. Krishnamurti. Every paragraph rings with Truth. Yogananda is a crystal clear writer. You'll find yourself reading with delight. I almost did not purchase this book because of the price, but am so so glad I did. You will be too. If you're a serious student, get this book!
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Summary: A God-sent work
Review: It must be mentioned aforehand that I have barely begun reading this book. I have read some material from the middle aside from the first 25 pages or so. Yet I feel compelled to write this.I have never read a book so filled with wisdom. Paramahansaji's knowledge is plumbless.......and his style of writing unparalleled. The book is the most rational and scientific book on spirituality I have come across. The vibes emanating from this book are so incredible that I feel a certain sacredness toward it. He that is fortunate enough to read it and even more he that is clever enough to digest and implement it, is blessed. It is as if Lord Krishna himself wrote it.
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Summary: Beyond a Book
Review: It's been two and a half years since I was given Yogananda's Gita translation as a gift. I am just now finishing the first of the two books. I read it everyday, but unlike any book I've ever read, I often stop after just one sentence... and I'm transformed. On countless occasions, I've been driven into inspirational silence by its passages. This "book" is an excellent example of how language can fall well short of its goal of describing its object. This is not just a "book" and as such any review of it can not measure up but the closest word that I've found trying to do so is -- Love. If you want to feel and give Love beyond words, get this "book" and apply its timeless truths.
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Summary: Not my cup of tea
Review: Judging by all the positive reviews, I wonder if I'm not getting it. I was first exposed to the gita when I was a teenager and it spoke to my heart. The best analogy I could use to describe these books would be if you took a butterfly and looked at it under a microscope. You get to close to see the beauty. Instead I would recommend the translation's by Swami Prabhavananda, Eknath Easwaran, or even Juan Mascaro.
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Summary: Far more than a translation - an illumined commentary
Review: Just as Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi has established itself as peerless and eternal among the masses of spiritual biographies and surveys published each century, God Talks to Arjuna is becoming recognized as that singular presentation of the Bhagavad Gita which will be studied and restudied by sincere seekers and scholars for ages to come. The handsome and lavishly illustrated 1200-page, two-volume set is available in both a finely bound slipcased hardcover edition ... and a surprisingly inexpensive paperback printing ... For a volume that will likely be reconsulted, Bible-like, many times over the years, the hardcover edition is to be recommended if your budget can possibly permit. Each of the 700 Bhagavad Gita verses is presented in both Sanskrit and English. More importantly, each verse is followed by commentary and expansion that integrates your study of the Gita with the entire spiritual science of Raja (meditative) Yoga. Hundreds of thoughtful commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita have been published over the centuries; some have been finely crafted by brilliant intellects; only a handful have come from realized sages; in this long-awaited Self-Realization Fellowship edition we have the insights of a soul who has experienced and mastered all the spiritual heights extoled by this dearest of Indian scriptures. Yogananda dictated his commentaries to his most trusted students during retreats to the southern California desert during the late 1940s. Those disciples related how the yoga master would, from his state of samadhi (conscious communion with God), pour out this uninterrupted stream of spiritual erudition throughout the night, surpassing the endurance of his much younger scribes. One close disciple vividly recalls today how merely to enter the room during these divine dictations had the feel of being ''in the very presence of The Divine.'' In meditating lovingly upon his words in these volumes the modern reader may again dip into that Presence. READING RECOMMENDATION: These volumes are highly distilled spiritual liquor - unsuitable for casual guzzling. The extensive introduction alone provides a spiritual-eye-opening background to the Himalayan heights of India's most venerated scripture. Yogananda therein explains how he applied the special intuitive approach to scripture taught him by his guru, the Puri sage Sri Sri Swami Yukteswarji. From his ability to sustain the highest spiritual state of Nirbikalpa Samadhi, Yogananda would derive his Gita commentary by uniting his consciousness with that of the Gita's author, Vyasa, and of its principles, Bhagavan Krishna and disciple Arjuna. Your intellectual analysis of Yogananda's resulting masterpiece will immediately impress your mind with his ability to reveal multiple levels of meaning from the complexities of the Sanskrit verses; but it will require a gradual digestion of these meanings and quiet reflection (ideally: interspersed with periods of meditation) to begin to assimilate their spiritual potency. As an example of 'gradual' I will mention the approach our local study groups took: reading one page per day, then meeting weekly to meditate and share insights and questions. At this rate the two groups I facilitated each took three years to complete the two volumes - but provided us with our richest spiritual rewards ever. However you pace yourself, first of all SAVOR. Then, best of all, PRACTICE... the guidance offered by Krishna, Vyasa, Arjuna, Yogananda: meditate on The Divinity within and around you. Namaste. --rp
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Summary: Deeply Spiritual and Deeply Awakening
Review: Like the mystics of all ages, the ancients of India comprehended The Mysteries. They understood the inter-connectedness of all things both seen and unseen. They understood the path that leads beyond the realms of duality toward the Absolute. Yogananda presents the most beautiful, most breath-taking commentary of Yoga I have ever seen. It has been a while since I first read this book, but I have found myself coming back to it again and again. This book is truly one of the most prized and cherished books in my personal library. It has enriched my life in a way that goes far beyond mere words. This book is literally "a spiritual experience."
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