The blue glow of Arjun’s e-reader felt like a modern-day campfire in his darkened apartment. He had just downloaded Eknath Easwaran’s translation of the Bhagavad Gita in EPUB format, seeking a way to quiet the digital noise of a stressful work week.
Arjuna sees his relatives on the opposing side and drops his bow, overwhelmed by grief. Easwaran reframes this not as a war story, but as the moment we all face when our duties conflict with our emotions. The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran EPUB
Pros:
Easwaran’s prose translation (he does not use strict meter, unlike Sir Edwin Arnold’s The Song Celestial) is deceptively simple. Consider his rendering of the famous verse 2.47: The blue glow of Arjun’s e-reader felt like
The blue glow of Arjun’s e-reader felt like a modern-day campfire in his darkened apartment. He had just downloaded Eknath Easwaran’s translation of the Bhagavad Gita in EPUB format, seeking a way to quiet the digital noise of a stressful work week.
Arjuna sees his relatives on the opposing side and drops his bow, overwhelmed by grief. Easwaran reframes this not as a war story, but as the moment we all face when our duties conflict with our emotions.
Pros:
Easwaran’s prose translation (he does not use strict meter, unlike Sir Edwin Arnold’s The Song Celestial) is deceptively simple. Consider his rendering of the famous verse 2.47: