Bhagavad-Gita
The Beloved Lord's Secret Love Song

by Graham M. Schweig (translator)

Graham M. Schweig has produced a readable and enjoyable version of Bhagavad-Gita and still included enough information for the serious student.

The Gita is a dialogue between the famous warrior Arjuna who is having doubts about engaging in violent warfare against his own kin and the god Krishna who is cleverly disguised as Arjuna’s charioteer. When Arjuna asks if he should fight, what follows is the dialogue between the two that covers eighteen chapters on the personal, social, and philosophical aspects of Hinduism.

The introduction is very helpful for the casual reader as well as for a serious student of epics or Hinduism.

Each page is made up of four poetic stanzas of the epic and they read very quickly.

A warning for the reader who awaits the battle that Arjuna is to wage: it doesn’t happen in the Gita.

For the serious student there is a complete Sanskrit text and an extensive index.

I enjoyed it simply as a discussion of Hinduism and its principles.