Widely read, The Bhagavad Gita is a classic of world spirituality while The essential companion to The Bhagavad Gita, The Uddhava Gita has remained overlooked. This new accessible and only English translation in print of The Uddhava Gita offers a previously unexplored path to understanding Hinduism and Krishna’s wisdom. Written centuries apart, the ideas of the two dialogues are similar although their approach and contexts differ. The Bhagavad Gita is filled with the urgency of battle while The Uddhava Gita takes place on the eve of Krishna’s departure from the world. The Uddhava Gita offers the reader philosophy, sublime poetry, practical guidance, and, ultimately, hope for a more complete consciousness in which the life of the body better reflects the life of the spirit.

Students of religion and Eastern thought will welcome this readable translation and practical commentary on the Uddhava Gita, a Hindu text in which Krishna's teachings introduced in the Bhagavad Gita are extended and nuanced. Krishna's Other Song: A New Look at the Uddhava Gita examines the entire Uddhava Gita in relation to other Hindu scriptures, especially the Bhagavad Gita, and shares its teachings in light of interreligious understanding and nonsectarian spirituality. This edition's elaborate commentary, written by a prominent American scholar of Hindu studies, who is also a practitioner, opens up the text's esoteric teaching to a Western audience for the first time, adding context and relevance that make the book accessible and its teachings practicable for a Western readership. A foreword, written by prominent Hinduism scholar Charles S. J. White joins the author's own introduction to lay out the Uddhava Gita's background, philosophical dimensions, and religious significance. This edition does not include the original Sanskrit, nor does it labor to translate each word verbatim. Rather, it gives the reader all 1,030 verses in plain English, offering accessible commentary that allows the meaning and relevance of the Uddhava Gita to unfold to one and all.

Portion of Bhāgavatpurāṇa illuminating the Bhagavadgītā's central teaching of devotion to Krishna, Hindu deity.

19th Akshauhini answers all the questions about the Gita that are plaguing minds. The illustrative list of questions answered in this book are : • How can Krishna who himself ran away from battle & earned the sobriquet “RANCHOR”(meaning one who ran away from battle) advise Arjuna to fight his enemies? • How can a forty minute discourse of the Gita be complete knowledge? • How can a 5300-year-old dialog be relevant to modern times? • If the Gita is unchanging, isn’t it too rigid and unsuitable for modern times? • How can one discourse cater to the needs of diverse types of people? • Does the Gita encourage violence? • Isn’t the Gita sectarian and meant for Hindus? Read on to get a new perspective on the Gita and its teachings.

THE COMPLETE TEACHINGS OF LORD KRISHNA This book is about Lord Krishna's divine teachings- the Bhagavad Gita and the Uddhava Gita. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna explains to his cousin Arjuna his duties as a warrior and prince and elaborates on different Yogic and Vedantic philosophies. The Bhagavad Gita teaches us how to face and solve the eternal problems facing mankind- birth, death, pain, suffering, fear, bondage, love and hate. It explains how to reach a state of perfect mental peace, inner stability and complete freedom from grief, fear and anxiety. In the Uddhava Gita, Lord Krishna explains to his friend and devotee, Uddhava, about spirituality, religion, code of conduct for various classes of society and stages of life, supremacy of devotion, different paths to enlightenment, mind as a root cause of all miseries and many other similar topics. You will gain a lot of spiritual wisdom after reading this book. This book will blow your mind!

Two messenger poems with text & translation.