Wilhelm von Humboldt: Über die unter dem Namen Bhagavad-Gita bekannte Episode des Maha-bharata

By Stacey B. Day MD

Subjects: Literature, Commentaries, Sanskrit, Bhagavadgītā, Hinduism

Description: Black board cover with yellow parchment style title on front. Back shows classical Hindu Trinity.Illustrations include "Battle Line at Kurekshetra" from a sequence of sculptures in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India.Also a portrait of Wilhelm von Humboldt, and a portrait of the author Professor Stacey B. Day with Professor Ctibor Votrubec of Prague, together in a garden in South Bohemia, discussing Meister Eckhardt and Gottesfreunde. On his excommunication in 1329, Eckhart remarked: "if the ignorant are not taught they will never learn". In a prefatory note the author says" "In fact the Gita, I think, brings to mind "la phrase de Mozart enfant - je cherche les notes qui s'aiment' , and therein is the joy that reverberates within the spiritual inside of the reader. As for its "interpretation", the Gita in its essence very much resembles the mysterious depths and aura of La Gioconde. Find within it what will best bring you to peace".