Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
By AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Reviews by Contemporary Scholars.
"There is little question that this edition is one of the best books available on the Gita and on devotion. Prabhupada's translation is an ideal blend of literal accuracy and religious insight". --- Dr. Thomas J. Hopkins, Chairman, Dept. Religious Studies, Franklin and Marshall College.
"The Gita can be seen as the main literary support for the great religious civilisation of India, the oldest surviving culture in the world....The present translation and commentary is another manifestation of the permanent living importance of the Gita. Swami Bhaktivedanta brings to the West a salutary reminder that our highly activistic and one-sided culture is faced with a crisis that may end in self-destruction, because it lacks the inner depth of an authentic metaphysical consciousness. Without such depth, our moral and political protestations are just so much verbiage". --- Thomas Merton, Catholic theologian, monk and author.
"In this beautiful translation, Srila Prabhupada has caught the deep devotional spirit of the Gita and has supplied the text with an elaborate commentary in the truly authentic tradition of Sri Krishna Chaitanya." --- Dr. Stillson Judah, Emeritus Professor of the History of Religions and Director of the Library Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.
"Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, is a deeply felt, powerfully conceived and beautifully explained work....I have never seen any other work on the Gita, with such an important voice and style. It is a work of undoubted integrity....It will occupy a significant place in the intellectual and ethical life of modern man for a long time to come". --- Dr. S. Shukla, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University.