Eastern Philosophy · India
The Bhagavad Gita
Seven hundred verses on a battlefield: Arjuna's despair, Krishna's answer about duty and action without attachment, the three yogas, and why Gandhi, Thoreau and Oppenheimer all read it.
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Prereqs: The Upanishads & Vedanta. Next: The Stoics (compare); Schopenhauer. Sources: *The Bhagavad Gita*, trans. Laurie Patton (Penguin, 2008); Richard H. Davis, *The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography* (2015).Next: 1. The setting