Overview: Arnold. Bhagavad Gita.

Title: The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gita

Author: Edwin Arnold

Year: 1885

Comments: Arnold's English version is the first version of the Gita that Gandhi read! There is also a free audiobook available for this one.

Free Online: See all the links, including a free audiobook, at the Freebookapalooza. The links below go to the Sacred Texts version.

Bizzell: There is a copy available for checkout from the regular Bizzell stacks: BL 1138.64 .E5 1964 (click to see if it is checked out or not).

READING A

Chapter 1: Of the Distress of Arjuna

Chapter 2: Of Doctrines

Chapter 3: Virtue in Work.

Chapter 4: Of the Religion of Knowledge

Chapter 5: Of Religion by Renouncing Fruit of Works

Chapter 6: Of Religion of Self-Restraint

Chapter 7: Of Religion by Discernment

Chapter 8: Of Religion by Devotion to the One Supreme God

Chapter 9: Of Religion by the Kingly Knowledge and the Kingly Mystery

Chapter 10: Of Religion by the Heavenly Perfections

READING B

Chapter 11: Of the Manifesting of the One and Manifold

Chapter 12: Of the Religion of Faith

Chapter 13: Of Religion by Separation of Matter and Spirit

Chapter 14: Of Religion by Separation from the Qualities

Chapter 15: Of Religion by Attaining the Supreme

Chapter 16: Of the Separateness of the Divine and the Undivine

Chapter 17: Of Religion by the Threefold Kinds of Faith

Chapter 18: Of Religion by Deliverance and Renunciation