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the OG bollywood

I was going through my goodreads and I noticed the overwhelming majority of the books I've read are from the 1880s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

Have you noticed any trends like this in your library? If so, what decades?

>>20019890
fpbp

>>20020340
lol nice mispost

>>20019872

"When doubts haunt me when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity."
- Aldous Huxley

"From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-Gita, all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-Gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures."
- Adi Shankara

"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."
- Herman Hesse

"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial…"
- Henry David Thoreau

(The Bhagavad Gita is) "The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show."
- Wilhelm von Humboldt

It's short

>>20019872
Which translations does everyone enjoy?

>>20019872
All my friends who read it keep being propagandists about it. Guess it's good.

>>20019872
>>20021094

Only two types of people in history have read this and liked it

> g*rms
> American Transcendentalists

Besides that, I don’t anyone else who has praised it. The British, French and other Europeans have never paid it any attention.

>>20020955
Bump

>>20019872
Because it's unbelievably based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIxB93VfcOo

I'm going to read it from here https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/1

Not too bad

Not a philosopher or religious, anyway here is my recommendation

Upanishads

Bhagavad Gita 3.26
>The wise should not create discord in the intellects of ignorant people, who are attached to fruitive actions, by inducing them to stop work. Rather, by performing their duties in an enlightened manner, they should inspire the ignorant also to do their prescribed duties.

Communists btfo

WHAT TRANSLATION

>>20020468
>midwit
>midwit
>midwit
>maybe?
>absolute midwit
>absolute midwit
>midwit
Why should I read

>>20023097
Penguin seems fine, it has a version that alternates between English and Sanskrit ad has a lot of footnotes. It's on b-ok.cc

>>20023113
I thought you were shitposting, but then I took a look at the list of names you were quoting. Damn, that's damning for this book if it attracted so many idiots.

>>20019872
Is this better or worse than the Rig Veda Hymns? Which should I read first?

>>20023336
read Gita first

>>20020468
Literally every sacred text past a certain age is praised like this by ‘intellectuals’ though. Which one is actually the most edifying, from an objective standpoint?

>>20023447
The Upanishads

>>20023489
Qrd?

>>20023557
>QRD?

The Upanishads ... are among the noblest and most inspired books in the world; in them, the whole of the Indian wisdom is already contained; later teachers could but expand and comment on them, but in no way departed from this original treasure of wisdom." ... "The Upanishads teach the wisdom of Atma, the Supreme Self of all beings; the same divine Life which Philo of Alexandria later called the Logos, the Divine Mind, the collective spiritual consciousness of our universe. They tell us that, while each of us may seem to be a wanderer and exile, lonely, desolate in our world of shadow and of sorrow, we are in reality neither alone nor desolate, but undivided, unseparated rays of the Universal Self, the Logos. What is needed to secure our immortality—an immortality which is still conditional, until this victory is won—is the realization of our oneness with the Supreme Self.

The Upanishads show how, step by step, we may mount the golden stairs; they tell us what we must leave behind; what we must gain, as we tread the small, old path; what we must achieve; with the promise that we shall in the fullness of time be initiated into the fullness of that eternal, universal Supreme Self of all beings. "The whole aim of their teachings is this: to point the path by which the personal self may win immortality and divinity, by becoming united with the Higher Self, which always possessed immortality and divinity.

- Charles Johnston

>>20023097
>>20020955
See

>>20023559

>>20019872
I won't convince you because the bible is infinitely better and more useful. Reading this is a waste of time in comparison to God's Word.

>>20023564
Thanks anon. I intend to read all of the major religious texts eventually. I’ve read 1/2 of the Bible so far.

>>20023624
>t. hasn't read it

Bump

>>20021421
>The French [...] have never paid it any attention.
Jokes on you, my friends are frenchoïds and love this shit.