By Andrew J. Nicholson
While the Bhagavad Gītā is an stated treasure of global religious literature, few humans be aware of a parallel textual content, the Īśvara Gītā. This lesser-known paintings is additionally devoted to a god, yet for that reason it really is Śiva, instead of Kṛṣṇa, who's depicted because the omniscient writer of the realm. Andrew J. Nicholson’s Lord Śiva’s Song makes this article on hand in English in an available new translation. a piece of either poetry and philosophy, the Īśvara Gītā builds at the insights of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra and foreshadows later advancements in tantric yoga. It bargains with the pluralistic non secular surroundings of early medieval India via an exploration of the connection among the gods Śiva and Viṣṇu. The paintings condemns sectarianism and violence and gives a method for accommodating conflicting non secular claims in its personal day and in our own.
“…an very important paintings … guaranteed to be obtainable to many yogis today.” — San Francisco e-book Review
“This is a superb advent to, and a valid scholarly translation of, a foundational textual content. Andrew J. Nicholson is a main scholar.” — Andrew O. citadel, writer of Jīvanmukti in Transformation: Embodied Liberation in Advaita and Neo-Vedanta
Andrew J. Nicholson is affiliate Professor of Asian and Asian American reports at Stony Brook collage, country collage of recent York. he's the writer of Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and id in Indian highbrow History.
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