The Bhagavad Gita of Inner Courage

COURAGE IN ADVERSITY

The whole focus of the Bhagavad-Gita is on teaching you a single, all-important, lesson: What is important for true joy in life is not that painful events, results or thoughts must not happen – or that only pleasurable events, results or thoughts must happen. What is important is this: No matter how painful or pleasurable the events, results and thoughts that happen appear to be, you must have the courage and determination to stay anchored to this understanding – and to do your duty calmly, holding your mind still, undeterred by them all.

All other lessons in the Gita, however fundamental they are otherwise, are only sub-lessons that are the building blocks of this core lesson. And this single, all-important lesson of courage and determination is the key to true joy in life.

Prof. Kev Nair’s Bhagavad-Gita of Inner Courage is the world’s first work that lets you see the Gita as a single whole in this way – unified by this singleness of focus – rather than as a mixture of several teachings. By helping you to understand the Gita in its true wholeness, Prof. Nair’s English translation helps you to integrate your personality traits into a harmonious whole and to transform yourself into a person of great character who cannot be overwhelmed by adversity or pressures of life.

RAVE REVIEWS

• “This is one of the rare publications on the Bhagavad Gita, wherein the stamp of assiduous research is evident... In sum, an excellent publication, which throws a lot of light on the inner meanings of the scriptural verses... A very useful addition to the literature facilitating study of the Bhagavad Gita.” – THE HINDU.

• “The book has been annotated profusely with verse notes and footnotes and has been cross-referenced thoroughly... The book aims to bring out the singleness of focus of the Gita by underlining the fact that the whole focus of the Gita is to teach mankind the lesson of inner courage.” – The New Indian Express.

• “There is nothing archaic about this version of the Bhagawad-Gita. KEV Nair has been at it for more than ten years. Extensive research on the content, language used in translations and the interpretations gave shape to this version... The words used are simple so that everybody can understand the contents... It is easy on the reader and does not put you off... For the message to be clear while making the language as simple as possible, Nair slogged for years, rewriting and discarding many versions... Years of hard work... LAUDABLE EFFORT...” – THE HINDU.

• “A product of 10 years of the professor’s intense research... all the 700 verses have a consistent metrical scheme. As you read them, the lines develop a swing of their own... Kev Nair... has made every effort to make his Gita suited for reading aloud, to be enjoyed to the fullest... faithful to the original... On the whole, the translation does not force you to see the Gita from a particular angle and then make you think that the partial picture is the complete picture...” – The New Indian Express.

• “A scholarly and fluid translation... easy to read and easy to understand...” – THE HINDU Business Line.

• “While other translations and commentaries have presented the Gita mainly from a particular angle alone (like jnana, karma or bhakti), Prof. Nair’s work is the first ever translation that presents the Gita in its true wholeness... Prof. Nair has been able to throw, for the first time in the history of Gita-related studies, a flood of new light on the verses and key terms in the original and to fill his work full of new insights. All this makes Prof. Nair’s work the definitive English translation of the Gita... First-of-its-kind book.” – The Competition Success Review.