Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita by Edwin Arnold

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1885. Being a Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the Form of Krishna.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #1460994 in Books
Published on: 1942-05-31
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
186 pages
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Read this version! Its the best ...
This version of the Bhagavad-Gita is - in my oppinion - the most beautiful excisting version in English. I have read many others, and eventhough the basic content is the same, this version is much more poetic, much more interesting to read, - and it makes much more sense! It is (my personal oppinion) most likely written by a person of great faith. Highly recommended.

Reverential celebration of morality.
This poem contains many lines of ineffable beauty and wisdom rendered understandable to western minds by Arnold's heroic efforts.

Mahatma Gandhi's[1869 - 1948] reflections on this title.
Source: Gandhi an Autobiography - The story of my experiments with truth. Part I, Chapter XX - Acquaintance with Religions. The book struck me as one of priceless worth. The impression has ever since been growing on me with the result that I regard it today as the book par excellence for the knowledge of Truth. It has afforded me invaluable help in moments of gloom. I have read almost all the English translations of it(THE BHAGAVAD GITA), and I regard Sir Edwin Arnold's as the best. He has been faithful to the test, and yet it does not read like a translation.