The Bhagavad Gita (as translated by Sri Aurobindo)

The Bhagavad Gita
as translated by Sri Aurobindo

Publisher's Note

The translation of the Gita presented here was compiled mainly from Sri Aurobindo's "Essays on the Gita". It first appeared in "The Message of the Gita", edited by Anilbaran Roy, in 1938. Sri Aurobindo approved this book for publication; however, he made it clear in one of his letters that the translations in the Essays were "more explanatory than textually precise or cast in a literary style". Many of them are paraphrases rather than strict translations.

Sri Aurobindo also wrote that he did not wish extracts from the Essays "to go out as my translation of the Gita". This should be borne in mind by the reader as he makes use of this translation, which has been provided as a bridge between the Gita and Sri Aurobindo's Essays.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I - The Dejection of Arjuna
CHAPTER II - Sankhyayoga
CHAPTER III - Karmayoga
CHAPTER IV - Towards the Yoga of Knowledge
CHAPTER V - The Yoga of Renunciation
CHAPTER VI - The Yoga of the Supreme Spirit
CHAPTER VII - The Yoga of Knowledge
CHAPTER VIII - The Immutable Brahman
CHAPTER IX - The King-Knowledge or The King-Secret
CHAPTER X - God in Power of Becoming
CHAPTER XI - The Vision of the World-Spirit
CHAPTER XII - Bhaktiyoga
CHAPTER XIII - The Field and Its Knower
CHAPTER XIV - The Three Gunas
CHAPTER XV - The Supreme Divine
CHAPTER XVI - Deva and Asura
CHAPTER XVII - Faith and the Three Gunas
CHAPTER XVIII - Renunciation and Moksha