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The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David...(more) Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the Mahabharata.(less)
Paradox is the way non-duality looks at the mental level
I will always be grateful to Barbara Miller for her translation of the Bhagavad Gita for one overarching reason: her translation of Chapter 15, “The True Spirit of Man” pointed out the non-duality at the heart of the Gita, something that I had missed in other translations. Here's an excerpt:
15:16 “There is a double spirit of man in the world, transient and eternal- transient in all creatures, eternal at the summit of existence.
….
15:18 Since I transcend what is transient and I am higher than the eternal, I am known as the supreme spirit of man in the world and in sacred lore.”
This was very useful to me since it pointed out that Krishna - or the Supreme Spirit - is more significant and more fundamental than both the transient and the eternal. In other words, this is a non-dual insight which goes beyond polytheism, monotheism, henotheism and kathenotheism. There is only Spirit - there is only Ati - and Miller captures the heart of this wisdom teaching in 15:16 and 15:18.
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I will always be grateful to Barbara Miller for her translation of the Bhagavad Gita for one overarching reason: her translation of Chapter 15, “The True Spirit of Man” pointed out the non-duality at the heart of the Gita, something that I had missed in other translations. Here's an excerpt:
15:16
“There is a double spirit of man
in the world, transient and eternal-
transient in all creatures,
eternal at the summit of existence.
….
15:18
Since I transcend what is transient
and I am higher than the eternal,
I am known as the supreme spirit of man
in the world and in sacred lore.”
This was very useful to me since it pointed out that Krishna - or the Supreme Spirit - is more significant and more fundamental than both the transient and the eternal. In other words, this is a non-dual insight which goes beyond polytheism, monotheism, henotheism and kathenotheism. There is only Spirit - there is only Ati - and Miller captures the heart of this wisdom teaching in 15:16 and 15:18.