- Title : The Bhagavad-Gita
- Author : Annie Besant
- Rating : 4.93 (680 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-3-11
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 394 Pages
- Asin : 1443752932
- Language : English
Krishna instructs Arjuna to fulfil his Katriya duty as a warrior and kill his relatives, and what follows is a dialogue of diverging attitudes concerning the attainment of liberation. Annie Besant (1847 –1933) was a British socialist, women's rights activist, theosophist, orator and writer. This timeless an
Krishna instructs Arjuna to fulfil his Katriya duty as a warrior and kill his relatives, and what follows is a dialogue of diverging attitudes concerning the attainment of liberation. Annie Besant (1847 –1933) was a British socialist, women's rights activist, theosophist, orator and writer. This timeless ancient book is a must-have for any discerning collector or student of Hinduism, providing a richly informative and engaging text accessible to all. This text has been chosen for digitisation because of its cultural value and is proudly republished here with an introductory biography of the author.. The Gita essentially narrates the dialogue between the prince Arjuna and his guide, Lord Krishna. After its translation by western scholars in the early 18th century, the Gita began to grow in popularity and is considered one of the most culturally influential texts ever written. The Bhagavad Gita, often referred to as simply the Gita, literally means The Song of the BhagavaBecause Pop music is set up as the enemy in the book this kind of clarity and specificity is needed, but as it stands we just have a mushy straw man critique that may or may not apply to huge swaths of music, both trivial and timeless.Johnson constantly accuses pop music, and it's listeners, of a huge host of things that upon examination don't really hold up to scrutiny: If pop music is all about fads and fashions why do pop acts from the Beatles to David Bowie continue to capture the imagination of new generations? If listening to music for a sustained period of time is so foreign to pop music how come groups from the Dave Matthews Band to Tool continue to have devoted audiences who will sit for hours enraptured not by the show so much as the music, if pop music is supposed to lack discursive movement and complexity then what does one make of King Crimson or Radiohead? The list of exceptions to Johnson's trite dismissals is too long to be overlooked and it's what makes a book that could have been a positive affirmation of Classical Music a mostly useless and shallow rehashing of th
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