The Bhagavad Gita is one of the great religious classics of the world and the most translated next to the Bible.
The story concerns the plight of Arjuna who has come to fight a war. After seeing his friends on the opposing side, Arjuna tells Krishna he will not fight, even though it is his duty as king and commander of an army.
Krishna's reply deals not only with Arjuna's problem of whether he should fight, but with the nature of action and the purpose of life
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translated by Swami Nikhilananda
by Swami Prabhavananda
8 lectures by Swami Sridharananda
In 2006, Swami Sridharananda visited the Hollywood center of the Vedanta Society for an 8-lecture series of classes on the Bhagavad-Gita.
translated by Swami Tapasyananda
Read by Christopher Isherwood
British novelist Christopher Isherwood (and co-translator of the Bhagavad Gita) reads lectures of Swami Vivekananda on the Bhagavad Gita.