Guest guest Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Namaste! Within the past few weeks, someone mentioned that his favorite translation was either by Swami Chinmayanada or Swami Gambhirananda. If anyone remembers the comment, please lead me to that post ... or repost the comment. I searched the archive but couldn't come up with the information. Thanks, Bob Freedman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Namaste: I believe that your reference (not exactly) can be found in the following post: (message # 23631) advaitin/message/23631 advaitin, ken knight <anirvacaniya> wrote: > ........ > Swami Chidbhavananda gives some explanations that I > like in his commentary on this verse: > jnAna: knowledge through tuition, mediate, sight > vijnAna: direct knowledge through intuition, immediate > and through insight. > > ..... > > Ken Knight advaitin, Bob Freedman <rlfreed@p...> wrote: > Namaste! > > Within the past few weeks, someone mentioned that his favorite > translation was either by Swami Chinmayanada or Swami Gambhirananda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Thanks, Ram! Perhaps that was the reference. Bob Ram Chandran wrote: > Namaste: > > I believe that your reference (not exactly) can be found in the > following post: (message # 23631) > > advaitin/message/23631 > > > advaitin, ken knight <anirvacaniya> > wrote: > >>........ > > > >>Swami Chidbhavananda gives some explanations that I >>like in his commentary on this verse: >>jnAna: knowledge through tuition, mediate, sight >>vijnAna: direct knowledge through intuition, immediate >>and through insight. >> >>..... >> >>Ken Knight > > > advaitin, Bob Freedman <rlfreed@p...> wrote: > >>Namaste! >> >>Within the past few weeks, someone mentioned that his favorite >>translation was either by Swami Chinmayanada or Swami > > Gambhirananda. > > > > > Discussion of Shankara's Advaita Vedanta Philosophy of nonseparablity of Atman and Brahman. > Advaitin List Archives available at: http://www.eScribe.com/culture/advaitin/ > To Post a message send an email to : advaitin > Messages Archived at: advaitin/messages > > > Links > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 --- Bob Freedman <rlfreed wrote: > Thanks, Ram! Perhaps that was the reference. Bob, I am not certain about the background to your question but if you are looking at different commentaries on the Gita for your use, from my own experience from study with some friends as well as my own personal study, I would suggest: Swami Chidbhavananda's commentary is excellent for those of us with a limited background to the whole philosophical context of the Bhagavad Gita. Unless you really know the tradition, Swami Gambhirananda's translation of Shankara's commentary is hard work and I have found it impossible to use with groups, they just stop listening. I have two translations of Shankara's commentary, both with his Sanskrit, that are much better: one by V. Panoli and another by Dr Krishna Warrier. There is a straight translation of the Bhagavad Gita itself, without commentary but with the meaning of the individual Sanskrit words, by Winthrop Sargeant. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi wrote a wonderful commentary on the first six chapters that is excellent for the Westerner. Strongly biased towards meditation of course. And although I am not a devotee, there is an excellent publication of Sathya Sai Baba's talks on themes from the Gita which I use to promote discussion with young.....graduates....people. There are many many others. A few years ago I listed about 50 publications of translations of the Bhagavad Gita known to me at that time and added comments for whom it would be suitable. I would send this to you off-list if it is of interest: eg. Egerton is suitable for a Christian reader as many Christians find themselves drawn to the Bhagavad Gita. ===== ‘From this Supreme Self are all these, indeed, breathed forth.’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 advaitin, ken knight <anirvacaniya> wrote: > --- Bob Freedman <rlfreed@p...> wrote: > > Thanks, Ram! Perhaps that was the reference. > Namaste, This brings to my mind the question. Can you learn good things from a bad guru? Does the transferring of knowledge through an impure mind effect the purport? Does the mind of the translator look at it through its own prism?. I see no complication in the fact that all is illusion, but at the same time a projection of Saguna Brahman. This projection disappearing on 'realisation', as never having happened. So the idea of separate consciousness from the material world is wrong for it is all one. Are you separate from your dream?..........ONS..Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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