The Bhagavad Gita : A Sublime Hymn of Dialectics: Composed by the Antique
Sage-Bard Vyasa: With General and Introductory Essays, Verse Commentary, Word
Notes, Sanskrit Text and English Translation/Nataraja Guru. Reprint. First
Published in 1961. New Delhi, D.K. Printworld, 2008, xx, 784 p., ISBN 81-246-0450-9.
Contents: Introduction to the second edition. Preface. Note on Sanskrit Transliteration. Introduction. 1. The dialectical conflict of Arjuna. 2. Unitive reasoning. 3. The Unitive way of action. 4. Unitive wisdom. 5. Unitive action and renunciation. 6. Unitive contemplation. 7. The unitive way of wisdom-synthesis. 8. The unitive way in (General) spiritual progress. 9. Unitive contemplation as a royal science and crowning secret. 10. The unitive recognition of positive values. 11. The unitive vision of the absolute. 12. Unitive devotion and contemplation. 13. Unitive understanding of the distinction between the actual and the perceptual. 14. The unitive way of transcending the three nature modalities. 15. The unitive approach to the paramount person. 16. The unitive way of discriminating between higher and lower values. 17. The unitive recognition of the three patterns of faith. 18. The unitive way in behaviour patterns. Gita-Dhyanam (Meditation on the Gita). Sanskrit word index. General index.
"The book you hold in your hands stands by itself in the field of Bhagavad Gita commentary. Nataraja Guru has extricated the work from its historical and cultural setting to present it as it was always intended to be appreciated: as a universally applicable psychology and philosophy of life and living. This is very much in keeping with the Guru's lifelong task of revaluing and restating India's ancient wisdom heritage in terms acceptable and comprehensible to intelligent modern human beings anywhere and at any time.
Nataraja Guru's insights remain unique and essential. When both science and religion have become mature enough to surrender their turf wars to something akin to the unifying vision of the ancient rishis of India, the human race will have made its greatest conscious stride toward a substantive peace evincing universal justice and happiness. The doors of this type of perception are wide open, thanks in part to the Guru's revolutionary treatment of this ancient masterwork of the human race."