The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata)
Being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna
The Song Celestial is Sir Edwin Arnold's English verse rendering of the Bhagavad Gita, published in 1885. The poem, a part of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, is a dialogue on the battlefield of Kurukshetra between the warrior prince Arjuna, who cannot bring himself to fight his own kinsmen, and his charioteer Krishna, who reveals himself as the Supreme Being and teaches him about duty, action without attachment, the nature of the self, devotion and the paths to liberation. Arnold wrote in blank verse for Victorian readers and his translation became the one through which many in the West first met the text; Gandhi read it in London and kept returning to it. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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