Living the Gita: Swami Prabhavananda's Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita

This long-awaited Bhagavad Gita commentary is based on the
highly acclaimed Song of God, translated by Swami Prabhavananda
and Christopher Isherwood. It was culled from over 200 of the
swami’s classes, delivered from 1942–1962 at the Vedanta Society
of Southern California.

Swami Prabhavananda was a charismatic speaker, and his Gita
classes used to fill the Vedanta centers’ halls wherever he spoke. A
disciple of Swami Brahmananda, the spiritual son of Ramakrishna,
the swami had associated with Sarada Devi and many of the other
direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna. Therefore, his Gita commentary
incorporates some of their firsthand teachings or personal life
incidents that help to illustrate the deep philosophical truths of the
Gita—and thus draw us deeper into our own personal study of this
spiritual classic.

The swami’s Gita commentary is both scholarly (and well-
footnoted) and personal, as though the swami is talking directly to
us, the reader. Therefore, Living the Gita is a practical handbook of
spiritual wisdom that inspires us to apply Sri Krishna’s age-old
teachings directly to our own spiritual life, here and now.
Living the Gita contains both a Glossary and Index.