Mon, 2007-09-10 02:46
Reno (Nevada, USA) 10 September, (Asiantribune.com): Bhagavad-Gita, the best known Hindu scripture worldwide, will be taught in the prestigious institution of Nevada, Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC), in November next.
Besides being the cornerstone of Hindu faith, Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord) is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry in which Lord Krishna gives spiritual enlightenment to the warrior Arjuna, who realizes that the true battle is for his own soul. Traditional date of Mahabharata war is given as 3102 BCE but some scholars say Mahabharata epic (which included Bhagavad-Gita) was complied between 500 BCE—500 CE. It was first translated into English by Charles Wilkins in 1785.
Its seven hundred verses in eighteen chapters consider the nature of action, the religious and social duty, the human relationship to God, the means of liberation, and the nature of sacrifice, etc.
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