--- product_id: 345170582 title: "The Bhagavad Gita" brand: "eknath easwaran" price: "€ 57.93" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/345170582-the-bhagavad-gita store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # 4.8/5 from 5,643 reviews English language for global reach 2nd edition paperback The Bhagavad Gita **Brand:** eknath easwaran **Price:** € 57.93 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Unlock timeless wisdom with the Gita everyone’s talking about! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Bhagavad Gita by eknath easwaran - **How much does it cost?** € 57.93 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/345170582-the-bhagavad-gita) ## Best For - eknath easwaran enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted eknath easwaran brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Ideal First-Time Gita:** Recommended as the perfect introduction before exploring deeper, more complex translations. - • **Portable Paperback Edition:** Lightweight and easy to carry, perfect for daily reflection anytime, anywhere. - • **Accessible Spiritual Wisdom:** Eknath Easwaran’s clear, simple English makes the profound Bhagavad Gita approachable for modern readers. - • **Highly Acclaimed Bestseller:** Ranked top 100 in Theology and Hinduism with thousands of glowing reviews—join a global community of seekers. - • **Rich Cross-Cultural Commentary:** Includes diverse insights and comparisons from saints worldwide, enriching your spiritual journey. ## Overview The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran is a bestselling 2nd edition paperback that offers a clear, accessible English translation enriched with global commentaries. Highly rated by over 5,600 readers, it serves as an ideal entry point into this foundational spiritual text, blending tradition with modern readability. ## Description The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound. Easwaran''s 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions clarify key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms. Easwaran grew up in the Hindu tradition in India, and learned Sanskrit from a young age. He was a professor of English literature before coming to the West on a Fulbright scholarship. A gifted teacher, he is recognized as an authority on the Indian classics and world mysticism. The Bhagavad Gita opens, dramatically, on a battlefield, as the warrior Arjuna turns in anguish to his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, for answers to the fundamental questions of life. Yet, as Easwaran points out, the Gita is not what it seems – it’s not a dialogue between two mythical figures at the dawn of Indian history. “The battlefield is a perfect backdrop, but the Gita’s subject is the war within, the struggle for self-mastery that every human being must wage if he or she is to emerge from life victorious.” Arjuna’s struggle in the Bhagavad Gita is acutely modern. He has lost his way on the battlefield of life and turns to find the path again by asking direct, uncompromising questions of his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, the Lord himself. Krishna replies in 700 verses of sublime instruction on living and dying, loving and working, and the nature of the soul. Easwaran shows the Gita’s relevance to us today as we strive, like Arjuna, to do what is right. “No one in modern times is more qualified – no, make that ‘as qualified’ – to translate the epochal Classics of Indian Spirituality than Eknath Easwaran. And the reason is clear. It is impossible to get to the heart of those classics unless you live them, and he did live them. My admiration of the man and his works is boundless.” – Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Dimensions | 13.16 x 2.06 x 20.55 cm | | Edition | Second | | Isbn 10 | 1586380192 | | Isbn 13 | 978-1586380199 | | Item Weight | 1.05 Kilograms | | Language | English | | Print Length | 296 pages | | Publication Date | 28 June 2007 | | Publisher | Nilgiri Press | ## Images ![The Bhagavad Gita - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71nDBHiOzIL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Must read !! One of the best Gitas *by on Reviewed in Germany 9 February 2018* I started with this Gita and I truly adored it. Not always so "precise", meaning not very much sticking to the source (sanskrit), which is anyway missing in it (this being the biggest drawback in my opinion), still it's a wonderful reading. Especially I liked the commentaries of different other people, enriching the Bhagavad Gita itself. So interesting to see cross references and comparisons with various other Saints writings, in all corners of the world and in different times.I recommend this book for a first reading of the Gita. It's written in quite simple English and thus easy to grasp. After that you may dig more and buy some other versions. There are many which illuminate the Gita from different perspectives and philosophical angles. There is no right and wrong I believe. There are just various interpretations and any sincere spiritual practitioner will have to find the answer deep in himself I believe. But for those interested to dig more, here are a few other editions which I bought and which I also mostly read. I added a few comments which are of course eminently subjective:* The Bhagavad Gita translated by Winthrop Sargeant (This is the Gita I would highly recommend for someone wanting to dig close to the source. It's not so smooth to read, not poetic but it's presenting for every verse Sanskrit in Devanagari and transliterated in Latin alphabet, a word by word translation of the Sanskrit and 2 more stages to bring it to a full sentence in English. No extras, no fancies, just the crude Gita!)* The Bhagavad Gita and it's message with text, translations and commentaries form Sri Aurobindo. (Personally I did not like it so much. I find the commentaries difficult to understand and rather confusing. It's containing the Sanskrit verses in Devanagari but below is immediately the full interpretation in English. Thus it's impossible to analyse anything actually. Then you like or not to be lead by Sri Aurobindo. I did not presently.)* Bhagavad Gita as it is from HDG Swami Prabhupada (I like to call it "Bhagavad Gita as it is NOT". That again is just my personal opinion. But I came to this very conclusion, once I started to compare it with other commentaries. The feel the many "purports" as being just a totally biased approach leading to Bhakti Yoga, as being the only practicable way in our present times. I am happy I got it for free because I would not even want to pay a cent for it!)I hope this short presentation, albeit I emphasize again, being totally subjective, may help the readers here.I would simply like to conclude by saying that there is not only one Yoga. There are four, like clearly presented in by Krishna himself. And these are just like four threads building a solid rope!OM shanti ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love this book - simple and easy to understand *by on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 10 May 2026* Good book, very easy to understand. Love it ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Truly great! *by on Reviewed in Brazil 4 July 2020* I believe that philosophy, beauty and truth are the very best things in life. And the experience of this book for me was a combination of all. For every person, this book is different I believe. For me, the greatest lesson was that singleness of purpose, or focus in our talent and duty, brings peace of mind and spirit once we understand we are part of the whole. I became aware of so many things that is hard to put in words the joy and calmness I experienced with the book. A life experience worth having, not magical, but the clarity and beauty of the text makes us see the world more maturely and objectively, and yet more tolerant and patient with its unpredictable continuous change. Just loved it! ## Frequently Bought Together - The Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality) - The Upanishads (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality, 2) - The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/345170582-the-bhagavad-gita](https://www.desertcart.be/products/345170582-the-bhagavad-gita) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-10-12*