Original 1972 Macmillan Edition
Invitation for studying the Bhagavad-gita
with study guide and with guidance by devotees
Would you like to study Srila Prabhupada’s original 1972 Macmillan Gita under the guidance of experienced devotees? For guided reading, a Bhagavad-gita study guide with guided explanations, questions & answers is available below.
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Study Guide Bhagavad-gita
This work is intended as a companion guide to the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, by His Divine Grace, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. The purpose of this guide is to assist the professor in helping the student better understand and appreciate the profound concepts and interlocking structure of Bhagavad-Gita. It is designed as a supplement to the text of the Gita, not as a substitute for it. The philosophical sublimeness and literary eloquence of this jewel of Indian wisdom are apparent to anyone who gives it a careful and sympathetic reading. That sublimeness and that eloquence, needless to say, do not survive in the summaries and comments of this handbook. But by focusing the reader’s attention on key verses by diagramming the Gita’s natural flow from one idea to the next, and by providing relevant background and historical information, this work may help make the reading of the Gita more gratifying and instructive. Although most teachers will prefer to use the guide themselves as a teaching aid, some may wish to make it directly available to the students as a helpful study guide. The main body of this guide consists of brief but thorough summaries for each of the Gita’s eighteen chapters, followed by a section of questions and answers covering the major elements of each chapter.
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Bhagavad-gita Lectures
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 4.12 by Tattvavit dāsa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 4.10 by Tattvavit dāsa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 4.9 by Tattvavit dāsa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 4.4-6 by Tattvavit dāsa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 4.3 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 4.2 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 4.1 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.43 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.42 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.41 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.40 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.39 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.35 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.34 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.29 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.28 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.27 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.22-25 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.17-19 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.15 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.14] by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.11-12 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.9 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 3.4 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 2.70 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 2.67 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 2.66 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 2.64-65 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 2.62-63 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 2.60 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 2.58 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 2.55-57 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 2.47 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 2.45 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 2.16 by Tattvavit dasa
Lecture on Bhagavad-Gita 2.8 by Tattvavit dasa
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Notes From The Bhagavad Gita As It Is 1972
Edition of the pocket sized Gita
Page xi Preface
Our Krsna consciousness movement is genuine, historically authorized, natural and transcendental due to its being based on Bhagavad-gita As It Is. It is gradually becoming the most popular movement in the entire world, especially amongst the younger generation. It is becoming more and more interesting to the older generation also. Older gentlemen are becoming interested, so much so that the fathers and grandfathers of my disciples are encouraging us by becoming life members of our great society, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. In Los Angeles many fathers and mothers used to come to see me to express their feelings of gratitude for my leading the Krsna consciousness movement throughout the entire world. Some of them said that it is greatly fortunate for the Americans that I have started the Krsna consciousness movement in America. But actually the original father of this movement is Lord Krsna Himself, since it was started a very long time ago but is coming down to human society by disciplic succession. If I have any credit in this connection, it does not belong to me personally, but it is due to my eternal spiritual master, His Divine Grace Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya 108 Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja Prabhupada.
Page xii Preface
Our only purpose is to present this Bhagavad-gita As It Is in order to guide the conditioned student to the same purpose for which Krsna descends to this planet once in a day of Brahma, or every 8,600,000,000 years. This purpose is stated in Bhagavad-gita, and we have to accept it as it is; otherwise there is no point in trying to understand the Bhagavad-gita and its speaker, Lord Krsna. Lord Krsna first spoke Bhagavad-gita to the sun-god some hundreds of millions of years ago. We have to accept this fact and thus understand the historical significance of Bhagavad-gita, without misinterpretation, on the authority of Krsna. To interpret Bhagavad-gita without any reference to the will of Krsna is the greatest offense. In order to save oneself from this offense, one has to understand the Lord as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as He was directly understood by Arjuna, Lord Krsna’s first disciple.
Such understanding of Bhagavad-gita is really profitable and authorized for the welfare of human society in fulfilling the mission of life.
By the spell of illusion one tries to be happy by serving his personal sense gratification in different forms which will never make him happy. Instead of satisfying his own personal material senses, he has to satisfy the senses of the Lord. That is the highest perfection of life. The Lord wants this, and He demands it. One has to understand this central point of Bhagavad-gita.
The right to keep and bear the original Bhagavad Gita
Pranams
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
The natural right of free peoples world wide.
The original Bhagavad Gita As It Is being necessary to the security of a free world, the right of the people to keep and bear the original Bhagavad Gita As It Is including all the original publications of His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada shall not be infringed.
Ys Hasti Gopala dasa
Hasti Gopala dasa,
What is your PLAN of Action to implement for the promotion of this fine and decent work ?
Hare Krishna. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Amari Puri dasa
The plan is for everyone to share the link and follow the instructions in the guide while reading the Gita and keeping personal notes. That’s all. Everyone can lead by following Srila Prabhupada. Everything is there.
It is all Srila Prabhupada’s plan.