Bhagavad Gita - Volume 3 (Bhagavad Gita Series (English))

I am very happy that the 'Bhagavad Gita Home Study Course' will now be available in nine compact volumes so that one can carry a given volume while travelling. As I said in my foreword for the last edition, I want the readers to be aware that these books do not constitute another set of books on the Bhagavadgita. They are differentin that they are edited transcript-pages of classroom discussions; they are presented to the reader as a program for self-study. If this is born in mind, while reading, one enjoy the same attitude of a student in the classroom, making oneself available to the whole process of unfoldment of the content of the words of Bhagavan. The study will then prove to be as rewarding as directly listening to the teacher. This attitude would prove to be atmakrpa. Once this krpa is there, the other two, sastra-krpa and isvara-krpa would follow.The enormous job of patient editing of the pages, thousands of them, and presenting them, ertaining the original words and content without any compromise, was done by Dr. Martha Doherty. These books have created a number of committed students of the Bhagavadgita, thanks to Martha's invaluable contribution to the teaching tradition of Vadanta. I also congratulate the staff of our Publication division ably led by Ms. K. Chandra, a dedicated student of Vedanta.