हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्णकृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरेहरे राम हरे रामराम राम हरे हरेहरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्णकृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरेहरे राम हरे रामराम राम हरे हरे

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The Bhagavad Gita, rendered in English verse

The Song Celestial

A celebrated English blank-verse rendering of the Bhagavad-gītā — the timeless dialogue between Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna on the field of Kurukṣetra. Read all eighteen chapters here, or download the Hindi edition (Gītā Press, Gorakhpur) with the original Sanskrit and commentary.

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The Bhagavad Gita, rendered in English verse

Table of Contents

Preface — The Song Celestial

Chapter I — The Distress of Arjuna

Chapter II — The Book of Doctrines

Chapter III — Virtue in Work

Chapter IV — The Religion of Knowledge

Chapter V — The Religion of Renouncing Works

Chapter VI — Religion by Self-Restraint

Chapter VII — Religion by Discernment

Chapter VIII — Religion by Service of the Supreme

Chapter IX — Religion by the Kingly Knowledge and the Kingly Mystery

Chapter X — Religion by the Heavenly Perfections

Chapter XI — The Manifesting of the One and Manifold

Chapter XII — The Religion of Faith

Chapter XIII — Religion by Separation of Matter and Spirit

Chapter XIV — Religion by Separation from the Qualities

Chapter XV — Religion by Attaining the Supreme

Chapter XVI — The Separateness of the Divine and Undivine

Chapter XVII — Religion by the Threefold Faith

Chapter XVIII — Religion by Deliverance and Renunciation