Sri Gitamrita Bhasya

One hundred and eight verses, each yielding a nectar of its own.

Where the Śrī Gītā Yoga Saṁhitā surveys the whole of the Gītā's wisdom, the Śrī Gītāmṛta Bhāṣya dwells on its parts. It gathers 108 key ślokas of the Bhagavad Gītā and offers a commentary on each, meant not only to be understood but to be carried into the day and lived.

Each śloka is given in Devanāgarī, with transliteration, a fresh English translation and a commentary.

The verses are arranged by the four aims of human life:

• Dharma: right living. What is real, and who we are within the whole. Forty verses, following the Gītā from its first chapter to its fifteenth.
• Artha: livelihood. Work that sustains life without binding the soul.
• Kāma: desire. Enjoying the world without losing the way to freedom.
• Mokṣa: freedom. The end toward which the other three are ordered.

Read straight through, the book is a guided journey through the Gītā. Read one verse a day, it is a companion for 108 days of reflection and practice.

About the author: Mahā Viṣṇu Mahāśaya studied for fifteen years in a Vedic gurukula in India and was ordained a Vaiṣṇava priest in the Brahma-Madhva-Gauḍīya Sampradāya. He teaches the Bhagavad Gītā as a yoga for daily life at the Radha Krishna Mandir in Northboro, Massachusetts.

Companion volumes: Śrī Gītā Yoga Saṁhitā, Śrī Gītā Tattva Mālā: 108 Bhagavad Gītā Ślokas for Recitation, and Śrī Gītā Yoga Sūtra.