Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation

by Steven Mitchell

Stephen Mitchell is widely known for his ability to make ancient masterpieces thrillingly new. His celebrated version of the Tao Te Ching is the most popular edition in print, and his translations of Jesus, Rilke, Genesis, and Job have won the hearts of readers and critics alike.

The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged as one of the world's literary and spiritual masterpieces. There have been more than two hundred English translations of the Gita, including many competent literal versions, but not one of them is a superlative literary text in its own right.

Now all that has changed. Stephen Mitchell's Bhagavad Gita sings with the clarity, the vigor, and the intensity of the original Sanskrit. It will, as William Arrowsmith said of Mitchell's translation of The Sonnets to Orpheus, "instantly make every other rendering obsolete."

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