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  AHYMSIN Newsletter, Issue - October 2013  
 
   
 
   

“Song of the Lord, Gita in Yoga-Vasishtha”

by AHYMSIN Publishers

Gita in Yoga-Vashishtha (Book Cover)“Song of the Lord, Gita in Yoga-Vasishtha” by Swami Veda Bharati has just been released.

Arjuna’s predicament of fighting and killing his own kinsmen and gurus in the Mahabharata war and Lord Krishna’s advice and thus the former’s enlightenment are well known. Moving away from the traditional Mahābhārata narration, Yoga-Vasishtha presents a different narrative approach by the Vedic seer Vāsiṣṭha – about the Krishna-Arjuna dialogue – to his pupil Rama as if it would happen eventually in the remote future.

While the Bhagavad-Gita accounts for Krishna’s teaching of eighteen forms of yoga in 700 verses, Vasishtha narrates sixty stories in more than 28,000 verses, making Yoga-Vasishtha as one of the lengthier and most lyrical philosophical discourses in the world. In the course of the narrative, Vasishtha summarizes how to attain liberation, the essence of the Bhagavad-Gita, in seven chapters.

Song of the Lord Pamphlet CoverThis lucid translation of Mokṣopāya, a section of the Yoga-Vasishtha, encapsulates the message of Krishna, through the poetic narration of Vasishtha. Arjuna experiences the dissipation of his ignorance, overcomes his attachments and arrives at a point of freedom. The author, by choosing to highlight the story of Arjuna from two sources, has melded together the wisdom of two great epics - Bhagavad-Gita and Yoga-Vasishtha – providing the reader with unparalleled access to the great truths and insights of yoga and liberation.

Mahamandaleshwar Swami Veda Bharati (D.Litt), Chancellor, HIHT University, Dehra Dun, is a world visionary, having been known to recite and teach the systems of Indian philosophy, language, literature, and scriptures from the age of nine. A graduate from the London University, Swamiji is a D.Litt from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. In one of his sojourns in the US, as professor of Sanskrit at the University of Minnesota, Swamiji met Sri Swami Rama of the Himalayas, his Gurudeva. Swami Rama, recognizing the potential of Swamiji, initiated him to the highest path of dhyana-yoga.

For the last sixty-eight years, Swamiji has been lecturing on meditation and yoga worldwide and establishing meditation centers across the globe. He has taken a 5 year vow of silence on 10th March 2013 and is currently in residence at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in Rishikesh, India.

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Book Details:

  • Hardcover and Paperback: 183 pages
  • Publisher: D.K. Printworld (July 18, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 8124606900
  • ISBN-13: 978-8124606902

Song of the Lord, Gita in Yoga-Vasishtha by Swami Veda Bharati is now available at (click on title):

 

    
       
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