An extensive resources guide has been compiled to help you get started with practices that have been introduced in this book. The guide is too long to include here, but it is available online at www.RamDassTapes.org. It is a compendium of information about books, tapes, CDs, videos, and websites, relating not only to the teachers and teachings that have been mentioned, but to Hinduism and Hindu philosophy in general. Please visit the site and make use of the wealth of information it offers.
Here are a few of the more important resources directly related to the Gita.
Books
The Bhagavad Gita. Introduction and translation by Juan Mascaro, Penguin Group, 1962.
Bhagavad Gita. Translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, Barnes & Noble Books, 1995.
The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation. Stephen Mitchell, Three Rivers Press, 2002.
The Bhagavad Gita. Translation and introduction by Eliot Deutsch, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
Jnaneshwari. Interpretation and commentary of the Bhagavad Gita by the thirteenth-century poet-saint Jnaneshwar, George Allen and Unwin Publishers.
Illuminations from the Bhagavad Gita. Kim and Chris Murray, Mandala Publishing Group, 1998.
Ethics of the Bhagavad Gita. Swami Sivananda. Why the Gita was taught on a battlefield and more, Divine Life Society, 1995.
The Gita Vision. Swami Chidananda. Pithy exposition on the first three chapters of the Bhagavad Gita, Divine Life Society.
The Song Celestial. Ramana Maharshi’s selected verses from the Bhagavad Gita. Sri Niranjanananda Swami, 1951.
Spiritual Heritage of India. Swami Prabhavananda. Comprehensive history of India’s philosophy and religions; discusses the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gita, the six systems of Indian philosophy. Sri Ramakrishna Math.
Electronic
http://eawc.evansville.edu/inpage.htm. A wealth of information on the historical context of the Gita and the Gita’s relation to Indian religious thought.
www.geocities.com/somsram. A valuable site on the Gita, with discourses, interpretation, and verses and chanting of slokas in audio.
www.onlinedarshan.com. Entire text can be read online: Ramayana, Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, and the Bhagavad Gita. Also, Goswami Tulsidas’s life story and teachings.
Organizations
International/American Gita Society. Offers free distribution of the Gita to hospitals, libraries, and other public entities; entire Gita for online reading; support and guidance in establishing Gita discussion groups; free correspondence courses. www.gitasociety.com, or 511 Lowell Place, Fremont, CA 94536.
NOTE: CDs and cassette tape recordings of the “Yogas of the Bhagavad Gita” lectures from which this book was drawn are available from the Ram Dass Tape Library Foundation (www.RamDassTapes.org).