Srimad-Bhagvat-Gita or the Blessed Lord’s Song. Translated from the Original Sanskrit Text

If without sacrificing the rightful interests of the Pandavas I can secure the peace of the Kurus I shall have discharged a sacred duty and the Kurus will be liberated from the cords of death.""INTRODUCTION IX Thus standing in the counc;1 chamber of the blind king before all the Kuru princes and their allies: He of the Vrishni race (Sri Krishna) conversant with the essential truths of all re [...] The Bhagavad-Gita indeed stands as a summary of all Scritural teaching the "Essence of the Vedas"; as a great saint has described it: "All the Upanishads are the cows the Lord Himself is the Milker Arjuna the calf and those of purified understanding are the drinkers of the milk the supreme nectar of the Gita.""INTRODUCTION XV The present translation has beel rendered with great care to ma [...] [p] This intermingling of castes leads the destroyers of the family to hell as also the family itself; for their ancestors fall being deprived of the offerings of rice ball and water.' [42] By these misdeeds of the slayers of the family bringing about confusion of caste the immemorial religious rites of family and caste are destroyed. [...] [28] Yet others offer as sacrifice the outgoing breath in the incoming and the incoming breath in the outgoing stopping the courses of the outgoing and incoming breaths; thus they constantly practise PranfiYama.1 Certain breathing exercises for the control of Prana vital force.40 SRIMAD-BIIAGAVAD-GITA Whereas others regulating their food offer the functions of the vital forces in the Prfina it [...] [II] Closing all the gates of the senses cofiling the mind in the heart and fixing the Prana in the head (between the eybrows) thus engaged in the practice of concentration (Yoga); [12] 'Self-controlled renouncers.