Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita

Keya Maitra is Chair and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA.

• AcknowledgementsHow to Use This BookIntroduction1. Arjuna’s Sorrow2. The Yoga of Knowledge (And Philosophy)3. The Yoga of Action4. The Yoga of Renunciation of Action Through Knowledge5. The Yoga of Renunciation6. The Yoga of Meditation7. The Yoga of Knowledge and Judgment8. The Yoga of the Imperishable Brahman9. The Yoga of Sovereign Science and Sovereign Secret10. The Yoga of Divine Manifestations11. The Yoga of the Vision of the Cosmic Form12. The Yoga of Devotion13. The Yoga of Difference between the Field and the Field-Knower14. The Yoga of the Division of Three Gunas15. The Yoga of the Supreme Purusha16. The Yoga of the Division between the Divine and the Demoniacal17. The Yoga of the Threefold Faith18. The Yoga of Liberation and RenunciationGlossaryBibliographyIndex

In her lucid and student-friendly translation of the Bhagavad Gita, Maitra has uniquely and cogently reclaimed the centrality of the yoga of knowledge alongside karma and devotion through her astute philosophical eye. The introduction exemplifies Maitra’s sharply refined ability to tack gracefully between South Asian and Eurocentric philosophical and ethical concepts in a finely woven integrative approach that allows students to engage this transglobal text with clarity. The “philosopher’s corner” feature at the end of each chapter challenges students to query culturally diverse interpretations of agency, logic, ethics, and epistemology, making this translation my new top choice for pedagogical use.