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Tell me which version of the Bhagavad-Gita I should read

>> No.15012211

>>15012203
... and I.

>> No.15012218

>>15012203
>>15012211
I too would like the answer.
Stop holding out and tell us now, please.

>> No.15012265
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>>15012203
I recommend the Bhavartha Deepika, a sublime 13 century commentary by the poet-saint Jnanadeva on the Bhavagad-Gita which is a considered to be a foundational work of Marathi literature and which is renowned for both its aesthetic and scholarly value. Shankara's, Ramanuja's and Abhinavagupta's commentaries on it are all great too, all 4 of these commentaries are incomparably better than any commentary or translation by a modern acad*micuck

"The Jnaneshvari is so exquisite, so beautiful, so highly poetic in its metaphors and similes, so lucid in style, so rich in fantasy, so delightful in its imagery, so sublime in tone, and so pure in taste that, not withstanding the profundity and the inevitable limitations forced upon the author whose object was to make The Bhagavad Gita intelligible rather than to add anything new, the reader is simply fascinated and floats rapturously on the crest of flow until all is thanksgiving and there is no thought." -- Professor W.B. Patwarden

https://estudantedavedanta.net/Sri-Jnandevas-Bhvartha-Dipika-Jnaneswari_smaller.pdf

>> No.15012280

>>15012203
Don't read it Don't read it Don't read it Don't read it Don't read it Don't read it Don't read it Don't read it Don't read it

>> No.15012287

>>15012265
Here are Shankara's, Ramanuja's and Abhinavagupta's commentaries also. Shankara's commentary is the earliest commentary on the Gita that survives to the present day.

>Shankara's commentary (Advaita Vedanta; starts at Bh.Gita 2.10)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qkk3zgssc0pntp6/Bhagavad_Gita_Shankara_Bhashya_%2528AM_Sastry%2529.pdf/file

>Ramanuja's commentary (Vishishtadvaita Vedanta)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/t21gt434d7z9g5q/Bhagavad_Gita_Ramanuja_Bhashya_%2528Adidevananda%2529.pdf/file

>Abhinavagupta's commentary (Kashmir Shaivite)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/5ydfuxohdtms7um/Bhagavad_Gita_Abhinavagupta_Bhashya_%2528B_Marjanovic%2529.pdf/file

>> No.15012294

>>15012280
t. hylic

>> No.15012502

>>15012280
why not?