/lit/ - Literature

Edwin Arnold version is the best. Attempts rhyme scheme in the parts a where the original Sanskrit does and is overall beautifully written.

>>10285238
This tbqfh

Bhagavad fuckin Gita.

>>10155944
I disagree completely. There are universal messages in there, on the importance of duty, work for work's sake, and finding bliss in one's self rather than in the outside world, the last bit ringing true to me because I already understood and partially subscribe to it. Yes, there is an immense context, and a finer, religious point, and a lot to do with upholding methods of control like the caste system, but I think it's totally realistic for somebody who knows nothing of Hinduism to read it and take something away, because I did.

>>9951100
Look at your situaton not as a participant, but as a spectator celestial.

Sir Edwin Arnold translation of the Gita is my preferred translation, Prince.

Do not become too overjoyed with good times, and do not become too despondent with bad times, take both equally.

People who read traditional literature on their computer screens are not true readers.