The Bhagavad Gita Comes Alive: A Radical Translation - Jeffrey Armstrong - #IndicTalks

About Book : THE BHAGAVAD GITA COMES ALIVE is a brilliant new translation of India’s most enlightening sacred text. After 10 years of etymological and linguistic research, Jeffrey Armstrong Kavindra Rishi's The Bhagavad Gita Comes Alive: A Radical Translation gets to the root of the Sanskrit-English translation conundrum and delivers the clearest, most universal and enlivening version of the Gita’s deep and profound wisdom ever written in the English language. It is essential reading for all seekers of wisdom. Speaker: Jeffrey Armstrong (Kavindra Rishi). He has degrees in Psychology, History & Comparative Religions, and Literature, and has deeply immersed himself in the study and teaching of Vedic philosophy, yoga and astrology for the past 45 years.  He is also the founder of VASA – Vedic Academy of Sciences & Arts in Vancouver, Canada. He Prior to his 10-year career as an executive in Silicon Valley, he spent five years in an ashram as a brahmacharya (monk). He is an award-winning poet and best-selling author of numerous books   The dialogues between Krishna and Arjuna are a rare ancient treasure recorded in the name of Bhagavat Gita for understanding of who we are and our purpose to be here. However, the foreign or Christian or colonial translations of it has seriously suffered due to poor standard of translations and intentionally simplistic paraphrases. In this talk, Kavindra Rishi introduces his new book- “The Bhagavad Gita Comes Alive” that is brought into life after a decade of deep understanding, where the author has removed the mistranslated words and reintroduces accurate Sanskrit terms to remain true to the original meaning. Here, he refers this to be a decolonizing step and builds up concepts orderly and sequentially that reflects in the glossary section. Thus, this etymological and linguistic research is beneficial not only for spiritual seekers and revitalizing Dharma but also every English-speaking Hindus around the globe. For related Indic Talks and Indic Courses, see Website - https://www.cisindus.org/ Facebook -   / cisindusuniversity   Twitter -   / cis_indus   Indic Talks : https://www.cisindus.org/videos/ Indic Courses : https://www.cisindus.org/courses/ Indic Varta : https://www.cisindus.org/indic-varta/